i went to a Work Jelly @ The Betahouse just outside a Central Square proper out in Cambridge in like late July and i have to say … i think this is truly the wave of the future …

some rules for the road on How to Start a Jelly, like right here …
http://wiki.workatjelly.com/HowtoStartaJelly

so, here’s the vision, right?

you’re an independent professional ( but anyone can do this too … keep that in mind ) and you typically work in a home office or something, maybe form a café or something, ya know? well, then you find out about a Work Jelly … a local company is basically opening up a space in their office to invite people in for the day to conduct their business on site …

so, for me, i forget how i found out about it, but i found out that Betahouse in Cambridge was having this Work Jelly open house workday thing on a Friday … @ the time i was an independent design consultant … off i go

i enter a nice open communallike space, some subtle backdrop music playing, wifi key on the whiteboard … everyone brings some snackage … laptops all around, people focused on their work for the day … a little light banter and some introductions … i got a LOT done that day … and i caught up w/ a good friend from * and hopefully helped her straighten out some rumors that were being spread around the office @ one of my previous places of employ … but mostly, i got a LOT of work done, met some amazing people ( a trademark lawyer and an interaction designer … and many more ) … we talked a little shop here an’ there … got a nice middle eastern sandwich for lunch up the road ( it was raining like crazy @ one point though, a very strange an’ rainy day toward the end of July from my own recollections, not someone else’s ) … amazing

you gotta check one a these out, aight?

and if you can, you gotta put one a these on … it just makes sense