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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

  The conference covers the nuts and bolts small businesses need to know to get started and thrive in international markets.  The conference is being organized by Global Trade. The conference is being organized by Global Trade.

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MAY 24, 2018

Uber unveiled a flying taxi eVTOL (electric vertical take-off and landing) prototype at its recent  Elevate conference. The prototype (below) is a cross between a really big drone and a small airplane. Four drone/helicopter style rotors driven by electric motors provide vertical lift, bringing the vehicle to its cruising altitude.

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JUNE 4, 2019

It also inspired coworking pioneer Tony Bacigalupo to create The Gathering Summit , which is an online conference that brings together community builders from all over the world to learn from and support each other. It too is called How We Gather and it has become a very influential paper on this topic.

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AUGUST 31, 2021

." Facebook's first metaverse effort is a virtual conference room service called Horizon Workrooms. The application allows users to meet in virtual reality conference rooms and collaborate on shared whiteboards or documents while still sitting at their own physical desks.

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JUNE 17, 2014

The 1st Annual Local-Mobile Workspace-as-an-Industry conference was recently held in San Jose. The CloudVo site provides an excellent summary of the event, including links to the conference presentations.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

He's holding the Social Workplace Conference in October in London to explore the role of social interactions in work.  This theme is echoed by work being done by European coworking expert Jean-Yves Huwart.

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JULY 26, 2016

The Wall Street Journal's Job Satisfaction Hits a 10-Year High—But It’s Still Below 50%  covers the results from The Conference Board's annual job satisfaction survey.    As the chart on the left below from the WSJ article shows, just under half (49.6%) of U.S.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

We're in Berlin this week for the Coworking Europe Conference.   Berlin is an ideal place for the conference. The event is their large events space, where they hold a wide range of conferences, bar camps, etc.  Close to 300 people from all over the world are expected to be at the event.

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MAY 9, 2016

  Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC)  was held last week in Los Angeles.   Conference speaker   Jean-Yves Huwart  discussed how coworking is taking off in Africa and Middle East. The annual U.S.  Based on what we saw, heard and learned, coworking is entering the mainstream.

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MAY 4, 2015

The annual Global Coworking Unconference Conference  (GCUC) is this week in Berkeley, California. And it's good times for this industry. According to analysis by Deskmag, global interest in coworking is booming and at all time highs.

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

and international coworking conferences. .  We are projecting continued rapid growth over the next 5 years, although slower than the industry's recent dizzying pace. The forecast was done this year with help from our friends at GCUC. These are the folks that produce a series of U.S.

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OCTOBER 22, 2014

As you can see from this write up on the conference , large corporations are forecast to increase their use of contingent workers over the coming years.   It's not just the SIA forecasting this increase.

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JULY 7, 2014

The European Coworking Conference site's article The Number of Coworking Spaces Exceeds a Hundred in Some Cities i s fascinating. Regular readers know we follow and do forecasts on the coworking industry. But even we're stunned at how big coworking has become in some places around the world. 

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JULY 9, 2015

Our recent coworking survey, which was done in partnership with the Global Coworking Unconference Conference , also show most coworking facility members report being happier (89%) due to coworking. This comes as no surprise, since being a coworking member improves their social live and results in less loneliness.

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MAY 7, 2014

We released our 2014 to 2018 global coworking forecast last week at the Global Coworking Unconference Conference (GCUC) in Kansas City. The number of global coworking facilities has been growing quite rapidly over the last 5 years, basically doubling in number each year. 

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APRIL 14, 2015

  We're in the process of finishing up research project on this topic and we'll be releasing our results in May at the GCUC coworking conference. His slideshare presentation How We Measure Success of Our Coworking Space contains much information supporting this point of view. 

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Creative Conference Focuses on Southwest Virginia Assets  covers an event focused on artisans in Virginia. Artisans Spin Up a Good Time in Wren covers a fiber arts and spinning festival in Corvalis, Oregon.  The state's Round The Mountain artisan network has over 400 members.

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MAY 12, 2015

Last week the results from the spring coworking space member survey were released at the Global Coworking Conference Unconference (GCUC). Emergent  Emergent Research (that's us) partnered with GCUC and Jacob Sayles of Office Nomads on this study. They are places where members work, network, learn and socialize together. 

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DECEMBER 18, 2017

and international coworking conferences. .  We are projecting continued rapid growth over the next 5 years, although slower than the industry's recent dizzying pace. The forecast was done this year with help from our friends at GCUC. These are the folks that produce a series of U.S.

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DECEMBER 3, 2012

LiquidSpace , which allows users to quickly, easily and affordable book office space, conference rooms and meeting spaces on an as needed basis. WeWork Labs , which owns a series of big coworking facilities in New York and San Francisco.   oDesk , which is one of the leading online job marketplaces.

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APRIL 11, 2012

We recently attended the Boomer Summit , a conference focused on the business opportunities being created by aging baby boomers.   One of the more interesting market opportunities we heard about was supporting aging boomers and seniors wanting to stay in their homes instead of moving to a retirement community or assisted care facility.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

500 conference.  The Kauffman Foundation did a poll of the attendees at the recent Inc.   One of the questions they asked is "What is the biggest impediments to the growth of your business?"  "  As the results below show, taxes barely registers as a concern.    job creators.

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MARCH 4, 2013

We're at the Global Coworking Unconference Conference this week in Austin, Texas. But even though we included it our Future of Small Business report in early 2007, at that time we didn't expect it to take off as fast as it has. It's clear at this point coworking is a trend and industry that will continue to grow.

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Small Business Labs

DECEMBER 2, 2010

  It was an excellent conference that continues today.  I was at HR.com's Contract Workforce and Talent Exchange event yesterday.    Not surprisingly, there was a lot of discussion on the changing nature of work.    I thought one of the best talks on this topic came from Gene Zaino, CEO of MBO Partners. 

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MARCH 21, 2012

The recent Global Coworking Unconference Conference left many with the same impression it did Shareable's Neil Gorenflo - that " coworking's all grow'd up "   GigaOm's Jessica Stillman echoes this view, writing in her article The conversion to coworking 2.0  Only 27% do not plan to expand in 2012.

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MARCH 26, 2013

I had the opportunity to moderate a panel on alternative financing methods at the Global Coworking Conference. While we covered a lot of topics, the audience was clearly most interested in crowdfunding. Crowdfunding, which is raising money by getting getting small donations of money from a large group of people, is hot.

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MARCH 6, 2012

  CNET has a good description of the van , which is designed to be a mobile office and conference room. .  But cars, vans and trucks are already widely used as mobile offices and as they become more connected their use as mobile offices will grow.   The picture below is from a concept van created by Mercedes.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

I had an interesting time this week at Solutions 13 , which is the Sleeter Group's annual accounting solutions conference.   Over 800 people attended the event which focused on improving business processes through the use of mobile, cloud and connected services and technologies.

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Small Business Labs

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The recent European Coworking Conference was hosted by two coworking spaces, Club Office and Betahaus.    Both of these are very large compared to most coworking facilities. Betahaus is housed in a 4 story building and has a cafe, several floors of open coworking space and a big events space on the top floor. 

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Small Business Labs

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

.   They describe their touchdown services as : Our Cloud Touchdown and Coworking plans provide mobile workers with unlimited walk-in access to touchdown office space and executive business lounges at any of our 14 California locations, and discounted access to conference rooms in over 200 partnering locations nationwide.

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Small Business Labs

AUGUST 27, 2010

TED immediately was a hit and their annual conference is one of - if not the - top business conference in the country.  .  The name comes from technology, entertainment and design and early on they brought together leaders and thinkers from those fields to discuss a wide a cross disciplinary issues.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 7, 2010

  We've attended a lot of camp events, and overall we like them better than traditional conferences.  .  Kudos to  NextSpace Coworking , who organized and hosted this camp.    They did a great job.  And we are always impressed by the content.

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AUGUST 12, 2010

The magazine also administers and hosts the annual CRM Evolution conference. There’s a saying that good things happen when you least expect it.CRM magazine is the leading publication of the customer relationship management industry, covering sales, marketing, customer service, and strategy.

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JUNE 18, 2010

  He actively participates in webinars, writes books, speaks at conferences, writes for traditional media, etc.,etc., This came as quite a surprise to me since from the outside it looks like he runs a media empire.    Tim has multiple blogs, a consulting practice and a software company. 

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JUNE 20, 2016

Together with beautifully designed boardrooms, executive suites, temporary showrooms and insulated conference call booths all spread over an entire floor of the building, Spring Place offers a forward-thinking selection of amenities in one very pretty package. Of course it’s no good to just focus on work.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

» November 08, 2010 Dandelion Marketing I moderated a marketing panel at the GrowSmartBiz conference last week.  Blog powered by TypePad Member since 01/2005 « Tablet Sales Forecasted to Explode | Main | Do Business Incubators Work?

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AUGUST 18, 2011

  Here's their quote on this: "The data are clear: a college degree is key to economic opportunity, conferring substantially higher earnings on those with credentials than those without."    But the overall message - education, on average, is good for lifetime earnings - is strong. 

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