Coworking in Salt Lake City
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
A few months ago I had a dream. In my dream I rode my bicycle to a small 5 story office building in my little suburb city 10 miles outside of Salt Lake. In the office there were open cubicles, general work areas, private desks and offices, meeting rooms, most of the general equipment that one would aspect to find in an professional office setting, but there were other amenities and an ambiance which gave it a relaxed feel. There were working professionals from all sorts of fields and different companies working there. Some were independent, some free lancers, some were work from home moms who just needed a place to meet with a client, others telecommuted (like myself) but they shared the office space and even collaborated and networked together. Some were only there a couple days a week, some came and went yet a few were always there. I enjoyed the fact that I could finally walk over to another graphic designer and get some feedback (as apposed to my current office were I am the sole creative professional) and he wasn’t trying to give me the line “but the boss said he wanted…” because he didn’t care what my boss thought. He cared about current trends in design, CMYK and DPI. I enjoyed socializing and finally getting some work down now that I wasn’t at home with 100 distractions, pretending to be busy in the closet i called my office. It was a beautiful dream, The exchange of ideas never flowed so freely. We even had events held in our space from time to time, topics from web development to business practices to fun community things like cinema, art and outdoor adventure.
It was a grand dream.
Last Thursday three individuals who had never met before came together and gave the Salt Lake Coworking ball a push. We shared stories and visions. We generated some good ideas and made basic plans. The smallest steps, continuing to put out feelers to see who is interested in joining us, getting a poll going online and keep spreading the good word.
If you are interested in knowing more check us out on our site my coworking page where you can take our poll or leave a shout out in the wiki or leave us a comment below.
Heres to dreams and thumbs ups,
