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NWC Daily Session at New Work City

Just another day at New Work City!

Session Format
Coworking/Jelly

Time
9 a.m.-6 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

New Work City

200 Varick Street
#507B
New York, NY 10014

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Dana S.: I'm at Rare Bar and Grill (228 Bleecker St, 6th ave and Carmine, New York). http://bit.ly/msVYt
6 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: @whitneyhess check out the USB cell modem from millenicom. $60, no contract.
6 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: @whitneyhess You should check out @breakoutnow, which is exactly the "Mobile Coworking" you are looking for.
6 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: RT @lmacleod: RT @jeffpulver: Sept 16th hosting the first NYC #140conf Meetup. Content + Cocktails. RSVP at: http://www.meetup.com/140conf/
6 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: @lmacleod I just registered for the NYC #140conf Meetup. Hopefully we'll have something to show off!
6 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Breakout Beta Session at Barnes & Noble - Union Square

When workers of the world throw off the shackles of their fixed workplaces and liberate themselves from their cubicles, how will they find each other in the creativity-inspiring public spaces of the world's cities? At this session, we'll take the wrapper off an alpha version of the Breakout Operating System, a social wep app that's part Meetup, part social media aggregator, and part networking site for coworkers. Help us turn this amazing tool into something that can be used around the world to liberate people from the dull conference rooms and confining cubicles and experience work in the great outdoors.

Session Format
Coworking/Jelly

Time
noon-3 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

Barnes & Noble - Union Square

33 East 17th St, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10003

Dana S.: @breakoutnow (@ Barnes & Noble - Union Square in NYC w/ @markb) http://bit.ly/GdlmO
6 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Breakout! The Beginning at The Urban Center

Join us at the Urban Center for the opening reception of the Situated Technologies gallery exhibition. We'll be holding a Breakout session in the courtyard outside the gallery (in front of the Palace Hotel) just before the reception opens at 7pm. More details on the reception. Enter from Madison Ave.

Session Format
Speed Networking

Time
5:30 p.m.-7 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

The Urban Center

457 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022

Dana S.: Showing off cell modem wifi device to @tonybgoode and @chislett.
5 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: As always, debugging software at the last minute. At least its not raining outside...
5 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Breakout! (@ The Urban Center in NYC w/ @laura4lano) http://bit.ly/vvuuc
5 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: At the first official Breakout! Festival event. Very exciting to be mobile coworking in the middle of the Urban Center. http://bit.ly/3wnSqK
5 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

Pimp Your iPhone (for Mobile Work) at Gansevoort Plaza (Apple Store)

We'll share tips, tricks, apps and hacks (yes, including Jailbreaking) to make your iPhone the most super-duper tool for mobile work you could possibly imagine.

Session Format
BarCamp

Time
1 p.m.-3:30 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

Gansevoort Plaza (Apple Store)

9th Ave (14th/15th)
New York, NY

The plaza directly in front of the Apple Store in New York's Meatpacking District.

Dana S.: Working outside on the Breakout! Festival software, in the middle of an intersection, is awesome!
5 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Breakout! Festival in the plaza outside (@ Apple Store - W 14th Street in NYC) http://bit.ly/GbBLg
5 months, 3 weeks ago on Twitter

Sunday In the Park at Central Park - Sheep Meadow

If you're going to have to work on Sunday, why not do it in the most beautiful place in Manhattan? We'll have Wi-Fi and a printer here for you to do your briefs, rehearse your Powerpoints and print your term papers.

Session Format
Coworking/Jelly

Time
11 a.m.-5 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

Central Park - Sheep Meadow

Central Park (@67th St, West Side)
New York, NY

It was once used for agriculture, now we'll turn it into a knowledge factory.

Dana S.: Just updated the @breakoutnow site with user profile views. Its not complete, but at least there's a working page...
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: @anthonymobile is showing of Yelp!'s Monocle on his iPhone. Augmented reality FTW!
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Taking on the responsibility of keeping the Breakout! Session internet connection online.
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

One Web Day - Bloggers/Tweeters Press Tent at Washington Square Park - Holley Plaza

Breakout! will be on hand at One Web Day New York (http://isoc-ny.org/owd/) event to provide Internet, office supplies and a printer for anyone live blogging, tweeting or vlogging the event.

Session Format
Talk/Presentation

Time
noon-2 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

Washington Square Park - Holley Plaza

5th Avenue & Waverly Place
New York, NY

The plaza near the monument to the King of Steel, Mr. Alexander Holley.

Dana S.: Gale Brewer promoting a more free Internet! http://twitpic.com/ipw07
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Don't say geeks don't have culture: http://twitpic.com/ipu9w
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Listening to all of the great work @jaskin does helping create a more free Internet from a legal perspective.
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Just gave an impromptu talk about NYCwireless to the crowd at OneWebDay.
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: OneWebDay! (@ Washington Square Park in NYC) http://bit.ly/4YcaT
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Disruptive Organizing: Collaboration and Innovation in the Open Source City at School of Visual Arts

How can we reformat our cities and public spaces – and the architectures and technologies within them – as sites of collaboration and innovation? The open source movement is known not only for the innovation of robust operating systems such as Linux and Internet browsers such as Firefox but also as an emergent form of organizing based on collaborative production. Disruptive Internet technologies such as e-mail, blogging, instant messaging, Skype and Twitter have enabled the widespread availability of cheap, instantaneous global communication. These same technologies have engendered emergent forms of organizing in physical spaces including MeetUp groups, BarCamps (unconferences) and coworking communities. This presentation will discuss disruptive forms of organizing based on a current collaborative project, Breakout! Escape from the Office, which is being presented by The Architectural League of New York as part of the Situated Technologies: Toward the Sentient City exhibition.

Session Format
Talk/Presentation

Time
6 p.m.-8 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

School of Visual Arts

132 W 21st St
6th Floor
New York, NY 10011

Dana S. @ Disruptive Organizing: Collaboration and Innovation in the Open Source City

Dana S.: Laura gave a great talk on Breakout! Festival. (@ SVA MFA Interaction Design Department in NYC) http://bit.ly/12R8wT
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

The Future of Mobile Work at 60 Wall St Atrium

Let's talk about the future of mobile work practices, discuss the tools (current and future), places and organizational policies to support mobile work. Who are the right workers, and what are the activities that could (or should) take place in collaborative work environments? How can corporate organizations learn from the existing (and growing) community of NYC coworkers?

Open to all, but the discussion will be of special interest to corporate workplace strategists, mobile work program managers, and corporate mobile workers.

Session Format
Coworking/Jelly

Time
noon-2 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

60 Wall St Atrium

60 Wall St
New York, NY

Dana S.: RT @NYCwireless: This is something that should be a no-brainer - Broadband truth in labeling: http://bit.ly/JdriG
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Thankfully MySQL supports large ints, which lets a single line of SQL code correct for the @breakoutnow Twitpocalypse bug.
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Current geek TV addiction: Defying Gravity. Thanks @chislett for turning me on to this soon to be cancelled show!
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Breakout! was hit with the Twitpocalypse this morning, pulling in statuses with IDs that are greater than 4,294,967,295 http://bit.ly/1anAuG
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Annoyed that the Downtown Alliance hotspot at 60 Wall Street keeps dropping my connection. Thankfully Breakout! brings its own Wi-Fi.
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Trying to multi-task: participate in a discussion about the future of mobile work, and update some of the Breakout! software.
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Just got out of a meeting with a Volunteers for America about bringing free Wi-Fi to one of their buildings in Chelsea.
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Breakout! Festival - The Future of Mobile Work (@ 60 Wall in NYC) http://bit.ly/2zqEcL
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Reflecting on Breakout! at Wagner Park

The Breakout planning team and anyone who has participated in a Breakout session will retreat to the serenity of The Cloisters to ponder the big lessons of the experience, in preparation for our evening seminar at the Architectural League.

Session Format
BarCamp

Time
noon-4 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

Wagner Park

n/a
New York, NY

Dana S.: Stepping out for some lunch. I've seen more parts of the city this week than I have all summer due to Breakout! Festival.
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Working with @anthonymobile on the Breakout! presentation for tonight's lightning talks at the New York Architectural League.
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: I'm at Wagner Park (20 Battery Place, New York). http://bit.ly/NWE9B
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Happy Hour Presentation at the Architectural League at The Urban Center

Laura Forlano, Dana Spiegel, Antonina Simeti and Anthony Townsend will discuss the inspirations, design, and initial experiences with their experiment of mobile work.

http://www.sentientcity.net/exhibit/?p=150

Session Format
Lightning Talks

Time
7 p.m.-9 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

The Urban Center

457 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10022

Dana S.: I just ousted @chislett as the mayor of The Urban Center on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/vvuuc
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: I'm at The Urban Center w/ @chislett. http://bit.ly/vvuuc
5 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Planning for a Mobile Workforce at Edgar Plaza

How can we make cities more mobile work-friendly? Discussion will explore policies to support mobile work in the city - from recommendations for public space planning guidelines to public support for collaborative work environments.

Open to all, but of special interest to urban planners, urban designers, public space planners, economic development experts.

Session Format
Coworking/Jelly

Time
noon-2 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

Edgar Plaza

Edgar Street
New York, NY 10006

Dana S.: Why do office workers assume that you won't get work done if you try to work outside.
5 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Dana S.: So mobile work just makes the importance of indicating your location more explicit.
5 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Traditional offices mask the importance of location for getting biz done. You shouldn't assume someone will "always be at their desk".
5 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Many people don't realize how little equipment is needed to do your work, and are scared off by lack of physical infrastructure.
5 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Dana S.: One issue: how do we make the mental leap from office work to outside work smaller and easier for traditional office workers?
5 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Dana S.: One answer: being able to see who's there so you can try to proactively meet up with someone.
5 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Question: what is the inherent benefit for working at a breakout session?
5 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Discussing how burger joints in buildings always cause the lobbies to smell like burgers.
5 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Discussing mobile work in public spaces. http://twitpic.com/jyu88
5 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Dana S.: OH @ bar: "You can't hate women if you don't respect them."
5 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Breakout! (@ Trinity Plaza in NYC) http://bit.ly/1kcRKJ
5 months, 1 week ago on Twitter

Designing the Mobile Office at Shake Shack

The goal of this charrette is to create designs for outdoor / mobile workplaces. Is it possible to create a truly mobile office?

Open to all, but of special interest to architects, interior designers, and furniture designers.

Session Format
Coworking/Jelly

Time
11 a.m.-2 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

Shake Shack

Madison Ave and East 23rd Street
Southeast Corner of Madison Square Park
New York, NY 10010

Dana S.: I'm at New Work City (200 Varick St, Room 507B, Houston St, New York). http://bit.ly/TgUeb
5 months ago on Twitter

Dana S.: @asimeti - Breakout! design considerations: http://twitpic.com/khkxw
5 months ago on Twitter

Dana S.: @asimeti - Diagram of what Breakout! is (conceptually): http://twitpic.com/khkvs
5 months ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Beautiful day for a breakout! (@ Madison Square Park in NYC w/ @anthonymobile) http://bit.ly/1awgJA
5 months ago on Twitter

Breakout of Manhattan (Philly Edition) at Independents Hall

We'll meet at the Bolt Bus stop at 34th and 8th Avenue to board the 8:30 am bus (We'll buy tickets for advance registered attendees - cut off date TBD). We'll take the 3:00 pm bus home from Philly.

Session Format
Speed Networking

Time
8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. (US/Eastern)

Location

Independents Hall

20 North 3rd St
Philadelphia, PA 19106

Unit 201

Dana S.: I'm at Indy Hall (20 North 3rd St, Across from Church, Philadelphia). http://bit.ly/4dofP
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Cheesesteak! (@ Campo's in Philly) http://bit.ly/U5qMK
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Anthony showing off Breakout gear bag. http://twitpic.com/l9fi7
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Talking about what infrastructure is needed to support mobile work in a city.
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Anthony tagging Philly for our Breakout! Session. http://twitpic.com/l9ek3
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: I'm at IndyHall64 (20 N. 3rd Street, 3rd and Church, Philadelphia). http://bit.ly/1anF8o
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: I just unlocked the "Newbie" badge on @foursquare! http://bit.ly/12OMDA
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: I'm at 30th Street Station (1 North 30th St, Market St, Philadelphia). http://bit.ly/lK95X
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Loads of bug triaging...
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Working on some bug fixes for a client.
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Doing my normal new website reading to start the workday.
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Giving the example of how Anthony and I had a videoconference over the midwest while I was on a Virgin America flight and he was in NYC.
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Discussing what Breakout! is, and its larger context.
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: On BoltBus to Philly for Breakout! of Manhattan
4 months, 4 weeks ago on Twitter

UrbanLabs 09 Presentations at Citilab

Breakout! while listening to fascinating talks by UrbanLabs 09 presenters

Session Format
Lightning Talks

Time
10 a.m.-2 p.m. (Europe/Madrid)

Location

Citilab

Pl. Can Suris, s/n
Cornellà de Llobregat, NY 08940

El Citilab-Cornellà és un espai orientat a activar, impulsar i extendre la capacitat creativa i innovadora en tecnologia d'emprenedors, empreses, ciutadans i ciutadanes de la societat de la informació i el coneixement.

Citilab-Cornellà s'orienta a promoure projectes relacionats amb la Internet Social i fa especial atenció a treballar en l'evolució de nous espais, conceptes i metodologies relacionades amb l'impuls de la societat de la informació i la nova economica com són; telecentres, living labs i e-learning.

Dana S.: Ben Cerveny: Massively Multiplayer Everyday Life - the game of the city #ul09
4 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: "21st century cities will be collaboratively produced" - crowd-sourced information is more meaningful than top-down municipal information.
4 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Ben Cerveny: the city is already shaped by information...
4 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

Dana S.: Fascinating discussions so far this morning at UrbanLabs 09. #ul09
4 months, 2 weeks ago on Twitter

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