Laís de Oliveira, the Community Architect at HackingCommunities.com, revealed the elements needed to attract, engage and retain a vibrant community, at the Day 1 of Coworking Unconference Asia - CUAsia 2018. The talk she gave was based on the insights she obtained from dozens of interviews, and she is also working on writing a book on the same topic. Oliveira started off by stating the obvious; a community is not only limited to coworking. Even if you are working on…
Ryan Chatterton, Marketing Director of Habu, provided an unbiased view of the landscape of technologies that one might use in a coworking space, at the Coworking Unconference Asia - CUAsia 2018 Academy. He started his career with marketing at ClearLink about seven years ago. Then he moved to San Francisco and worked at PARISOMA as the education and events manager. Ryan started Coworking Insights, a leading publisher of content and information for coworking space managers, teams, and founders, in 2015.…
Ashley Proctor, Executive Director of 312 Main, talked on ‘Community’ at the Coworking Unconference Asia – CUAsia 2018 Academy, taking place at Wawasan Open University in Penang, Malaysia. Before diving into her topic, she made herself more familiar with the audience by sharing her background information. She has been involved in building collaborative communities since 2003. Her hometown is Toronto, Canada; it is where she built her coworking spaces. Ashley designed and launched the Xpace (2004), Creative Blueprint (2006) and…
Daniela Milosheshka is the Founder of Coffice, a coworking space located in Skopje, Macedonia. The space is 90 square meters; it has 12 desks, a meeting room, a lounge and a kitchen. They opened two and a half years ago, and their members include people coming and going both from Macedonia and from outside the country. They're out of country clients who are looking to build new companies in Macedonia; they use the space for recruitment. After 5 pm, Coffice…
Ivan Brkljac, the founder of Mokrin House, lives in a coworking colony state located in a rural surrounding. It is a very modern type of estate and consists of a complex of several buildings, in which everything is available; where the coworking space is, where the dormitories are, it's just like a minicamp. Mokrin House is located on the border between Serbia, Romania, and Hungary. They have a mix of different languages and cultures, and have been in business since…
