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True Office Turns Compliance-Training into a Game

admin — Thu, 17 May 2012 22:00:52 +0000

True Office aims to turn compliance testing into a videogame-like experience. Will firms pay for their employees to play?

Adam Sodwick wants to make corporate compliance training, er, sexy — or at least make it more exciting than it is today. That may sound like an uphill battle, but the True Office CEO thinks he has a way to engage employees and make HR folks breathe easier.

Sodowick got his start in the corporate training business a decade ago peddling video lessons, so he knows that these tired techniques still are commonplace. But now that tablets offer a more interactive medium for testing, Sodowick’s new company has developed a compliance app that runs as a fast-paced game (usually a painless 20 minutes). The employee is immersed in a sleek interactive story and then takes a 10-minute quiz to confirm his understanding of the material.

Geek Offices Member Company Relay Rides Launches Nationally

admin — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 02:50:51 +0000

We knew Geek Offices member RelayRides had a big launch going on, but this is huge!

Peer-to-Peer Carsharing Goes National With RelayRides’ Big Launch

Starting today, carsharing startup RelayRides is getting the chance to prove its model on a national scale. The company launched in Boston and expanded to San Francisco, but rather than continuing a gradual roll out from city…

techcrunch.com

http://techcrunch.com/2012/03/05/relayrides-national-launch/

MIT Competition Participant Greenbean Recycle Provided Office Space in Geek Offices

admin — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:14:26 +0000

Geek Offices in Cambridge is pleased to provide space to Greenbean Recycle , a MIT 100K ACCELERATE semi-finalist. Four Greenbean members will be using Suite 1 for the month of January as they prepare for the finals of the ACCELERATE competition. http://mit100k.org/

Greenbean Recycle is a software technology company that aims to increase recycling by incorporating real time analytics, social media, and gaming into its groundbreaking reverse vending machine and web app process.

Within seconds of inputting your glass bottles, plastic bottles and aluminum cans into the Greenbean machine, you get a real time feedback on the numbers of Kwh of energy that you have saved, have a record of the number of containers you have prevented from entering the landfills and get your refund straight into you PayPal account, Student ID cash or as a donation to a charity.

Greenbean’s Beta version of its unique reverse vending machine and web app process has been on MIT’s campus since the beginning of August. Tufts students will be able to compete against MIT in real time with a Greenbean machine set to arrive on their campus by the end of 2011.

Welcome to the Geek Offices and we wish you good luck in the competition!

New Geek Offices Members in Newton

admin — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:36:53 +0000

Welcome to Matias Underwriters and Salesforce.com as new members in our Newton office. When working at home is no longer working, Geek Offices at 61 Chapel Street in the Nonantum neighborhood of Newton can be your answer. Join 25 members in 10 companies. Parking is free.

Boston Business Journal Article on Geek Offices

admin — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:27:28 +0000

Geek Offices is proud to offer flexible affordable arrangements for your startup. Here is what the Boston Business Journal had to say about our fast growing space. Members MoMelan, KMDM, CQuotient, and Relay Rides were highlighted in the article as well:

Geek Offices is not the Cambridge Innovation Center, in size, luster or proximity to the T. But it’s cheaper — especially for one-person startups — and it’s expanded in a big way this year.

That’s according to real estate investor Michael Grill, who runs the 14,000-square-foot co-working space in Cambridge’s Inman Square. Since its launching in fall 2009 [… Read More ]

Geek Offices on Facebook and LinkedIn

admin — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:46:08 +0000

Geek Offices is now posting updates on activities on our Facebook and LinkedIn Group pages. Please like us on Facebook and join our LinkedIn Group. Geek Offices provides affordable coworking office spaces in Cambridge and Newton for our companies to succeed and prosper!

New Resident Geeks in Cambridge and Newton

admin — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 23:55:52 +0000

Geek Offices welcomes Dom Manganelli in Cambridge and Eric Fleisch in Newton as Resident Geeks. Geek Offices, Cambridge’s second largest coworking space and Newton’s fastest growing shared office space, has 25,000 square feet of office space reserved for tech start-ups, remote sales or administrative offices, not-for profits or geeks just looking to find free coffee without spending time in Starbucks. Currently, Geek Offices has 35 companies with 60 employees in the two spaces. Dom is a online marketing specialist who is developing websites and Eric is a doctoral student at Brandeis. As Resident Geeks, Dom and Eric help our members with miscellaneous issues like networking or printer problems or signing in Geek Daily members. Only two offices are left in each location, but numerous cubicles and workstations are available for daily, weekly or monthly use. If you are looking for Boston coworking office space, contact info@geekoffices.com

Co-working Newton – The New Concept In Sharing Of Office Space

outlaw — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:31:28 +0000

In this modern work environment, the idea of shared workspace has become more of the norm than the exception. There are many co-working centers that will ensure that you get all you need out of an office space. A good co-working center should make sure that they understand your businesses’ key requirements, especially those that pertain to the organization’s structure and operation. Due to the cost saving nature of the shared work space concept, it is increasingly becoming an important element of modern office buildings.
Mainly due to space limitation and cost of building materials, sharing of office workspace was inevitable. Some offices have also had to adopt the concept of temporary office space. This short term office space is allocated to members of staff members where they carry out their work before being located to other places.
In some instances, shared office suites have had to be used. The idea of putting up partitions to separate different working spaces is costly for some enterprises and they have to share the few office suites that are available. The co-working office in Newton, Ma sees to it that sharing offices is as comfortable as it can be and that the office space shared does not undermine the results produced.
A virtual address is used to point to a specific address in a shared computer network. In offices where all or most of the computers are networked, there is need to access the content of various computers without having the user of that computer to send it to you via email. In such a situation, you can access the computer in the shared office network if you know its virtual address. Virtual addresses are also called logical addresses.

Co-working office space

outlaw — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 20:11:58 +0000

Co-working office space continues to take off. I recently read an article in the Wall Street Journal, thought that it was great and wanted to share it with you all. Enjoy…

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203791904576609301747256470.html#

The Benefits Of Co-working Office Space in Newton, MA

outlaw — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:40:00 +0000

If you love working independently but you lack the funds to start up your own office, there is no need to worry. Co-working office space in Newton, MA will provide a solution for you. You need no capital in order to make use of the co-working newton concept. In addition, you need not work at home in order to have your freedom. All you have to do is try co-working, which has several benefits.
This concept allows you to own a short term office space in a shared office. You get to have company while sharing office instead of working at home in isolation. From the shared work space, you get to be independent while sharing office with other independent workers. This way you can interact and share ideas variously.

If you have shared office suites with others, you also get to have a virtual address on which your customers can reach you easily. This increases the number of clients who attend to your business from referrals in the office and the fact that you have an online address. The clients need not come physically to your shared workspace in order for their needs to be met. Their physical appearance would only lead to confusion and distrust in your company because you are working on a temporary office space.
Office space shared allows you to be more productive. This is because you walk to the office with the intention of getting your work done. Unlike when working from home, you have no time to laze around in the office or be distracted. In addition, the productiveness of others persuades you to be as such.