Saturday, December 16, 2006

USA gearing up for Cafe 2.0

Independent information architecture consultant Louis Rosenfeld at louisrosenfeld.com shares his concept of a ' Worker Friendly " cafe

The café I'd open would charge a fixed monthly "membership" rate (some number no greater than half what a local office would go for). In exchange it would provide some of the obvious shared business services, such as:

  • Wireless internet access (already available in most cafés)
  • Locked file cabinet drawers and other private storage space
  • A conference room, equipped with a projection system, that could be reserved in advance, and catered (for an additional fee) by the café, naturally
  • A copier
  • Plenty of low cost incidental supplies, such as dry erase markers, paper clips, Post-it notes, and so on
Lois is adding to the trend called ' Going Bedouin "



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