While being your own boss and working on your own can be great, it can sometimes be lonely. Missing the companionship of co-workers and having someone to run-things-by if you get stuck on something, can be frustrating. This is where Social Networking and being part of Forums come into their own.
Logging on to twitter, reading a blog or forum is like spending time at the proverbial “water-cooler”. Building relationships with other solo entrepreneurs in this way, helps with the feeling of loneliness and frustration.

But now there are other ways of overcoming this loneliness and solitude, if one has a laptop maybe coworking or even hotdesking would be beneficial.

What is hotdesking or coworking?

Coworking is where work-at-home independents get together in a social gathering to work in an office environment for only a period of time.
Coworking is an emerging trend for a new pattern for working. Typically work-at-home professionals or independent contractors or people who travel frequently end up working in relative isolation. Coworking is the social gathering of a group of people, who are still working independently, but who share values and who are interested in the synergy that can happen from working with talented people in the same space. Extract from Coworking Ireland.

Whereas hotdesking is about mobility and having the ability to work in cafes or anywhere there is a wireless broadband connection. Some coworking facilities offer one or two desks where “hotdesk-ers” are welcome.

As James Corbett says:

But hotdesking has evolved and broken free from the confines of the company. Now it’s more about flexible temporary space for individuals.

While at BizCamp Limerick, I met James Corbett and Keith Kennedy, who jointly write a blog, promoting “mobile offices” know as hotdesking or coworking.

For the VAs who work in seclusion, in their own office, these concepts could be of benefit to them, of course they would need to have a laptop, even if it was just for one day a week or month it would get them out and working in a different environment and share time with others.

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