5 Reasons You Should Fire That Crappy Client
News Flash: You’re the boss! It’s time to find your balls and practice your best Donald impression, and here are 5 reasons why:
Google Calendar
By intern Betsy: Angel has suggested I have a theme for my blog posts pertaining to what I'm learning my last semester in college in addition to what I'm learning with my internship at Cohere. This week I'm going to share with you the tool that has helped me with...
Prospective Intern Cheat Sheet
Cohere’s hiring process for interns can be a bit unconventional. I’ve asked the most recent 2 applicants to attend our first annual chili cook-off as their introduction to the community. No interview questions allowed, no khaki slacks required. In fact, if you hand me a resume, I’ll show you the door. I sure hope you’re reading this.
You might be nervous to come to a social event for your first “interview.” Here are FOUR tidbits of advice to help you at a social event-interview…
Where (And Why) Do Communities Happen?
Featuring the best definition of community EVER and a discussion of the variety of reasons why humans become connected and form communities.
Who Is Coworking Now, And Who Will Be In The Future?
Many agree that as coworking becomes more prolific and mainstream, spaces will begin to “niche out” as a way to differentiate themselves from other spaces, and as a way to better serve the needs of the growing mobile workforce.
Do The Coworking Core Values Need To Evolve?
At the recent coworking unconference, there was a session dedicated to the Five Values of Coworking. Do you think the current five values are sufficient? Are they too vague? Read on to see what the global community thought and add your suggestions.
intern Lesson
Communication is important. Deadlines are important. Today, my blog assignment is to write about how I sucked at both this week. In addition to being a poor communicator and deadline meeter today, it turns out I'm not very good at making up excuses either. Allow me to...
Help Cohere Get a Grant
One of the key takeaways I got from South by Southwest is that Cohere needs to be profitable and pay me a wage if we're going to be financially sustainable. An important piece of that is hiring an employee who can attend to the paperwork and day to day operations so...
The coworkers I miss most
I'm coworking at Conjunctured today; a fine substitute in Austin, TX but this video is loaded with all the people I miss most (maybe with the exception of Julie-who I've seen every day since I've been here)! Enjoy this video snack while I work on uploading the big...
Coworking Unconference Archiving the Livestream
Just got this info on the archives that are coming from the coworking unconference I'm uploading video of yesterday's sessions from tape. You can watch it as it's being uploaded, streaming at http://livestream.com/theuptake2. Streaming right now: "Breakout 2:...