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MuckRock to Rock GeekOffices Cambridge Coworking Space
Geek Offices would like to extend a warm welcome to MuckRock, the newest member at our Inman Square coworking space.
MuckRock is a “non-profit, collaborative news site that brings together journalists, researchers, activists, and regular citizens to request, analyze, and share government documents, making politics more transparent and democracies more informed.”
The group has has helped reporters and others file more than 10,000 public records requests to government agencies in the past year alone and has released over half a million pages of records. An early Q&A with MuckRock co-founder Michael Morisy can be found here, though our favorite is the group’s FOIA redaction Hall of Shame.
Are you a non-profit startup or other company looking for flexible coworking space in the Boston area? If so, check out our co-working space in Cambridge’s Inman Square. Geek Offices is a coworking space offering all the amenities of a professional, furnished office, with none of the overhead. Technology workers and non profit organizations looking for shared office space in Cambridge or Boston will find that Geek Offices provides some of the most affordable coworking space in greater Boston. Compare Geek Offices to the prices and amenities of executive offices and other incubator spaces in Cambridge and Boston and you’ll be surprised by the value our coworking space offers.
Geek Offices Needed A New Website Design. Now We Have One.
While Geek Offices is one the most affordable coworking sites around Cambridge, our website was vintage 2011 and nearly impossible to read on a phone. With numerous new coworking spaces coming to Cambridge since Fairlane Properties started Geek Offices in 2010, we needed to up our marketing game. Our Craiglist, Google Adwords and Yelp listings were attracting a lot more people who wanted to work on our website than wanted to use our coworking space. And the Google Adwords’ Dashboard was telling us that over 50% of our views and clicks were from phones.
We finally decided to spend the time for the redesign when one of our members, Doug Feinburg of Thunder Sky Pictures, provided a proposal and suggested that he would ask our coworking members to be in our photos. Doug also suggested that providing lunch from All-Star Sandwich Bar in Inman Square would entice members to be around at the exact time of the photoshoot. We wanted the website to focus on our funky, former shoe manufacturing mill building, our emphasis on private, dedicated workstations and offices (instead of seats at dedicated Ikea tables like some other coworking spaces offer) and our talented members. www.geekoffices.com has been relaunched. So check us out and see that a 5 person company can receive 5 dedicated workstations for an average of $215/month per person!
Molasses Flood Readies To Launch
Our mates here at The Molasses Flood have been burning the midnight oil of late and their efforts are about to pay off. Later this week the game-making startup will go public with their first product, The Flame in the Flood. The game has been available via Steam Early Access for PC & Mac users since September. Xbox One will release it on Wednesday.
The Molasses Flood joined us here at Geek Offices a couple of years ago and soon after raised $250,000 on Kickstarter to build “A rogue-lite river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America.”
PC Powerplay calls the Flame in the Flood “a haunting, challenging and even a little disturbing world in which to wander.”
Molasses Flood co-founder Forrest Dowling recently spoke at length to Engadget about the Flame in the Flood, game making, and a decision he and his coworkers made to leave bigger, more established shops to strike out on their own.
“It seemed like it was the right time to do this, to take a risk,” he said. “None of us are so old that we couldn’t take a risk, but we also had been doing it long enough that it felt worthwhile to take it on.”
Are you a gamemaker or other startup looking for flexible co-working space where you can work alongside some of most talented individuals and creative companies in greater Boston? If so, check out our co-working space in Cambridge’s Inman Square. Geek Offices is a co-working space offering all the amenities of a professional office, with none of the overhead. Technology workers and non profit organizations looking for shared office space in Cambridge or Boston will find that Geek Offices provides some of the most affordable co-working space in the region. Compare Geek Offices to the prices and amenities of executive offices and other incubator spaces in Cambridge and Boston and you’ll be surprised by the value we offer.
Translator Lebzy Gonzales Joins Geek Offices
Geek Offices would like to extend a warm welcome to one of its newest members, Writing Lab member Dr. Lebzy González. Lebzy is a translator and scientist who “seeks to enable greater technological exchange between the Spanish and English speaking peoples of the Americas.”
Her work has been published in Macromolecules, Chemistry of Materials, and the Journal of Physical and Organic Chemistry. She has authored and translated successful science and engineering proposals worth tens of millions of dollars in revenue and is a frequent invited speaker at international conferences.
When she is not translating, she likes to travel around the world –65 countries and counting– learn about Spanish and English dialects, and “marvel at the amazing diversity of human nature.”
Lebzy writes on her website that her recent projects include translating patent specifications and scientific journal articles and providing pro bono translations for human rights and international development organizations. Welcome aboard!
If you are a globe-trotting translator-scientist or other interesting person doing interesting things and looking for flexible, inexpensive, shared or private office space to do it, we’ve got what you’re looking for. Our Inman Square office here in Cambridge provides some of the most affordable co-working space in Greater Boston. Compare Geek Offices to the prices and amenities of executive offices and other incubator spaces in Boston and Cambridge and you’ll be surprised by the value proposition we offer!
