The people of Denver are really starting to take advantage of collaborative consumption, and the effects can be seen on a daily basis. The red Denver B-cycles on the streets, the grey Toyota Yaris at stop lights, apartment dwellers planting in community city gardens, and coworkers filling seats at Creative Density are all signs of [...]

It seems like an avalanche has just hit Denver with over 18 inches of snow covering downtown. I’m unexpectedly stuck at home and I don’t want to be here all day (especially if I had kids home with a snow day) and looking for an excuse to leave the house. But, it’s cold out. If [...]

How to approach your space search: How are people going to use the space? What actions do you want to encourage and discourage? What is the community asking for? Ask. Study. Design. Coworking’s main emphasis has always been on the community and the relationships that form while coworking. Alex Hillman describes that IndyHall began before [...]

I orginally posted this article on the Creative Density blog. Since Regus claimed a few weeks ago to be the pioneers of coworking in the late 1980s a lot of coworking evangelist, myself included, were struck by their audacity to rewrite coworking’s origin story. The coworking community loves to share how coworking emerged from San [...]

Podcasts and blogs (see part 4) can be two very different beasts when researching marketing trends; instant snap shots of current events or long detailed reflections capturing slow steady changes of the last decades. They often focus on a niche category and vary in quality. As these two forms of media have matured there are [...]