Jelly Austin at Cafe Caffeine
At Work
Over the past few months we've written extensively here about the cultural, community and architectural aspects of independent careers and coworking. Not that all who cowork are fully independent, but it is nonetheless a huge part of the scene we are all embracing.
With a few exceptions, where we have talked about the awesome stuff happening at CommandShift3, Conjunctured, and Round3Media (which is based at Indy Hall in Philly), the actual work being done in coworking communities has been largely implicit in our conversation. I think it is worth making some of that work explicit because, at the end of the day, some amazing work is also going down in coworking spaces and communities.
At Jelly Atlanta, we met a dude name Brian, who works in the semi-conductor group at IBM. He is 'based' in Burlington, Vermont, but lives (and works) in Atlanta. He takes advantage of his remote working status that he has at IBM, for whom he writes code (which, of course, can be done from anywhere). So on Fridays, you can find Brian coding at places like the Urban Grind in Atlanta.
Brian Massey, who specializes in online marketing, SEM, and conversion, writes about his company (Conversion Sciences) at his blog, Customer Chaos. And Dusty Reagan, ring leader of Austin Jelly, in addition to his involvement in the coworking company Conjunctured, has a new venture called Mile Trackr, which enables business travelers to easily manage travel miles for expensing trips. Dusty comes out of a social media and marketing background, but also can construct back ends, so he has constructed Mile Trackr from back to front!
During the first Birmingham Jelly, Greg Houston wrapped up and released Ramen, a Ruby gem that creates an object model from a database‘s metadata.
And Bandit. Wow! On top of all the work he does here at NotAnMBA, is also CEO of a healthcare start-up with several employees. If his 'day job' pops the rest of us may never hear from him again...
The point, simply, is that there is a whole lot of really kick ass work being done in coworking. While we are all comforted and made more whole by doing work of our own choosing and in spaces of our own choosing, we are also getting lots of stuff done. Really cool stuff.
At one of the coworking conversations at SXSW, someone suggested a gallery of some sort, where things that we are working on could be posted for others to check in on, comment on, and perhaps even contribute to some of those efforts. That might be really cool?
Just some thoughts for a Saturday morning.
Have a great weekend!
The Butcher.
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