This past friday was the second JellyinAtlanta casual coworking event, and it was held at Octane!
This was actually my first coworking experience, and if I must say, it was everything I'd hoped and dreamt it would be!
In addition to meeting a bunch of cool people working on all sorts of stuff from Web design to microchip fabrication (Yeah. Seriously!), I definitely felt that the networking and feeling of camaraderie that came from this didn't detract from productivity. In fact, I found that talking about my projects with people helped with motivation! I'm sold.
Jbrotherlove wrote a great blog post summarizing JellyinAtlanta #2.
The next Jelly coworking session is tentatively scheduled for November 30, assuming a biweekly format. Stay tuned for more details.
Towards the end of the session, I noticed that The CoSpace, a group that had been thinking about opening their space up for coworking earlier this year had updated their web presence, so I sent them an email to see if they would respond.
I've received a response back, and they're definitely still interested in hosting, so I'll be talking to them in the coming days about the possibilities.
To conclude, I'd like to submit a link to an article that was on the front page on CNN today titled: Pitfalls of telecommuting.
This was submitted by Careerbuilder.com, and I'm guessing it's supposed to convince people that working from home is ok, but at some point you'll want to go back to the office? Or maybe that working from home may sound awesome, but it has negative points to it as well and get a job that let's you work at home (or not if you want) at Careerbuilder.com!
Regardless of the actual intent, this article makes a great argument for Coworking IMHO!
