I really enjoy my life here in Denver.
Despite others telling me I shouldn’t attend a conference (“mini” one, at that) the night before finals, I went to the Coworking Space Ship, run by Deskmag and Deskwanted. Thankfully, the Denver stop was at Creative Density, a coworking space in town that I’ve been a loyal member to since the beginning of the year. I’ve begun to call a few of the other members my “CD fam” because I love spending time with them!!
Anyway, #CoWoSpaceShip was amazing. I love learning about new, emerging trends in the business world. Craig, the owner of Creative Density, was so animated and passionate about the industry (wouldn’t exactly call ‘coworking’ an industry…a sector?). Loved to meet the other cowork space owners from Denver & Boulder, too.
And of course, I was live-tweeting, which I have been doing for the DU Marketing Association on-campus just out of my own obsession with Twitter. Having the iPad has made me more enthusiastic about tweeting live from events. I just love sharing information. During my live-tweeting, I was discovered by a Brazilian coworking space, Pto de Contato. My my, the world is small!
The whole #CoWoSpaceShip night went “overtime” a bit as we continued asking questions to the local panelists and hearing insights from Carsten of Deskmag. I never knew that the coworking movement began in Europe, albeit it wasn’t coined “coworking” until 2005 in our very own City by the Bay (San Francisco). I never got a chance to visit a coworking space in San Francisco when I resided there, but perhaps next time I go visit.
I am happy that I attended the free event because I always enjoy learning new things. It was well worth the night off from studying. Besides, I think I did decently on my finals today. What’s done is done, right?
One reply on “Coworking Space Ship Lands in Denver”
Hi Helene,
Thanks for your blog post about the Coworking Space Ship yesterday!
Just one thing I would like to add: The coworking movement hasn’t started in Europe. There were already some European spaces which introduced a “coworking” concept ten years ago – without calling it “coworking”. Take a look at Schraubenfabrik (http://www.schraubenfabrik.at/Home/english.php), which was founded in Vienna in 2002. However, this is a phenomena which you also had in the U.S. at the same time in some cities with a bigger creative workforce – without calling it coworking as well.
The term “coworking” was introduced in 2005 in San Francisco by Brad Neuberg when he opened “Spiral Muse”. The coworking movement also grew up in the US much faster than in the EU (as union which has a lot of countries with different labor markets and rules).
Was great to meet and see you all in Denver! And thanks for sharing your post!