It’s a proud day at Office Nomads, when we are able to share exciting publicity not only about ourselves, but one of our fantastic members! In TWO Seattle magazine articles this month, Office Nomads got a chance to shine.

Office Nomads was featured under the category “Laudable Leaders” in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine for their “14 Hottest Companies” feature. It was an honor to be compared to many local companies who are also doing great work (including Susan’s “other” job - Cascadia Consulting Group!).

Chris Haddad, our inaugural member, was on the COVER of Seattle Business Monthly! Congratulations, Chris! Office Nomads was also featured in the article, along side other coworking spaces such as My Day Office and Cafe Zoka.

We’re feeling pretty darned proud heading into the weekend!

I’ve been terribly remiss in posting this and for that, I’m sorry, but it’s worth the wait, I promise.

Awhile back, the Not An MBA blog started working on a book about coworking. The fodder for that book is a series on the blog called Your Story where they are collecting and posting the stories of many coworking pioneers (and coworkers). The first installment on the site was Susan’s story about the start of Office Nomads. It’s a really nice read because Susan’s writing sounds just like she is: authentic, excited and ready for the next thing that comes at her.

The second installment was Jacob’s story about the start of Office Nomads. Like Susan, his telling of the tale gives you a taste of what it’s like to know Jacob. He is excited, willing to try new things and also ready for the next thing to come at him.

Since I am posting about Not An MBA (a great site, by the way), they have a newer post up there right now about the impact of coworking spaces on the design of in-house offices. According to the original article on Business Week:

As part of the project, between 25% and 50% of Intel’s 1,150 lawyers, marketers, and engineers working in these buildings will give up their assigned cubes. Instead, they will store their personal belongings in lockers and grab desks, whiteboards, and overstuffed armchairs in more colorful, Starbucks-like common areas on a first-come-first-gets-the-space basis.

It’s really interesting to think that these disparate, independent coworking spaces are infiltrating the minds designing spaces for corporate behemoths. Who wants to bet it’s because those designers are probably contractors who work in coworking spaces?

So, yeah, it’s really nice that coworking is getting all the coverage it has been of late. In the past few months there’s been The Times article (both of them), Mother Jones, CNNMoney, The SF Chronicle… Am I missing anything?

But you know how I measure the success of a concept? If it makes it into the pages of The New Yorker, the world’s single best magazine. If they notice something, it’s worth noticing. In the March 10 issue, they noticed coworking. Well, the fiction writer, Hari Kunzru who wrote their short story noticed coworking:

Raj’s office wasn’t what I’d expected. I was imagining—I don’t know what I was imagining. A flashy loft. A life-style statement. It turned out to be a shared suite, a dreary place with grubby tube lights and contract carpeting, where freelancers rented desks, huddling together to make themselves feel less alone.

It’s not the prettiest picture of coworking, I’ll admit, but the whole story is dark like that, so it fits. Anyway, I thought it was neat!

<em> That’s Susan reading the New Yorker story on a Friday afternoon.</em>