This is the key note talk I did at Coworking European Conference in Berlin 2011. Great feedback from audiences!!!

1. Creating
Global
Coworksphere
Liu Yan, Co-founder, xindanwei

2. Xindanwei
-New Work Unit
Leading Coworking Community in China
Based in Shanghai
Start with One Space of 300sqm
With 6000 members
More than 60% members from abroad

3. From Made in China From Made in China
to Created in China, but how?
to Created in China, but how?

4. We are not
in lack of people with creativity and good idea’s

5. We are in great shortage of community that supports
and creates leads, channels, scale, impact and
resources

7. How do we cowork
- Awake
- Engage
- Link
- Empower
- Execute

8. MENTOR
Active Coworkers
Projects Events Users
friends
Start|Involve Start Time/
Membership

9. Global Network of Coworking
Communities: What value
does it bring to the
coworkers?

10. Chinese Young designer
wishes show product
globally

11. Spanish Open Healthcare
Provider wants to involve
practitioners globally

12. We are living in a world
where location no longer
matters

13. Technology allows us to
connect talents, leads,
channels, resources no
matter where they are.

14. But connectivity doesn’t
mean we are ready to
collaborate worldwide

15. It is the matter of
BUILDING TRUST with
someone you have never
met

16. Could you trust someone
without looking into his/her
eyes?

17. Yes, I could trust him because he is a good
friend of my friend and/or my friend
recommend him to me
Yes, I could trust her because he belongs
to the same coworking community
Yes, I could trust him because he contributes
a lot to his community, and has a very good
reputation

18. So this Trust is built on:
+Friend’s Recommendation
+Sense of Belonging
+Good Reputation

19. We need to build a
coworksphere to connect
and build trust among the
coworkers

20. Share(s): New social capital
powered by Sharism philosophy
Source: sharism.org
Lifetime accumulating
Activity driven
Cross Coworking
Community

21. MENTOR
Active Coworkers
Projects Events Users
friends
Start|Involve Start Time/
Membership

22. • A mentorship role is gained through the
election by the community mainly(but not
just) based on your reputation within.
• Being a mentor is for a period of time,
mentors will be re-elected on the regular
basis.

23. Wait, there is more...
• What about productivity control?
• What about financial and legal support?
• What about language issues?
• What about someone to answer the phone?
• What about ...?

24. We need the same tools and
services to support the
global collaboration among
our coworkers to ensure
efficiency, quality and
consistency.

25. Can we share them in the
way we share offices and
printers to reduce the cost
and consumption?

26. Coworking.us?

27. Coworking.us?
• Coworking platform implementing
Share(s)

28. Coworking.us?
• Coworking platform implementing
Share(s)
• Ordering and Payment system to
support on-demand shared space
and “coworkware” worldwide.

29. Coworking.us?
• Coworking platform implementing
Share(s)
• Ordering and Payment system to
support on-demand shared space
and “coworkware” worldwide.
• Open source global platform to share
lead, event and project

30. Coworking.us?
• Coworking platform implementing
Share(s)
• Ordering and Payment system to
support on-demand shared space
and “coworkware” worldwide.
• Open source global platform to share
lead, event and project
• Each need of community can be
served on referral and peer-to-peer
basis.

31. So, how can we work
together?

32. The Banyan Tree Model

33. Sharing benefits us all

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