We have been thinking a lot about the benefits of collaborative work spaces as we have been recently hunting for commercial office space in our home town of Victoria. Evidently it is a lot more difficult than you would think to find good commercial space at a good price - and it makes a lot of environmental and financial sense to share space with another company if you can make it work.
Earlier this week I came across a site which got me even more interested in finding collaborative workspace partners.
Jelly is casual coworking. We invite people to work from our home for the day. We provide chairs and sofas, wireless internet, and interesting people to talk to, collaborate with, and bounce ideas off of.
You bring a laptop (or whatever you need to get work done) and a friendly disposition.
What a novel idea! Though it wouldn’t really work well for us right now to have an open space in our homes to have people stop by, it might if we could find some good office space. We just love ideas like this that are forward thinking and innovative. Some great ideas have come from Jelly as well. CommandShift3 for starters was a product of these Jelly sessions. Finding interesting and diverse people to work with is all part of the process.