Shareable's Beth Buczynski recently wrote an article about how a coworking space can turn into a sharing hub by incorporating the following types of sharing: 

1. Bike/ride/car sharing

2. Cohousing

3. Food/Gardening

4. Swaps/Lending Libraries

5. Skillsharing

What we love about coworking and the above list is that it invites interaction with other human beings and for those working in tech or not, that's very, very, important for everyone's well being.

And that's one of the reasons we think marketplaces are more than a "trend" because you don't just want to participate, in some ways you have to. We all need community.

So, unlike Buczynski, we don't mind if people say coworking is the "low hanging fruit" for other sharing behavior because it probably is.

Let it be the gateway drug.

Read the source article at Shareable