(ISF) Looking for advice about bartering office space for tech advice

Dear ISF Colleagues,

One thing that I don't like about being an independent consultant is
working from home. I was thinking that I might try to barter with a
nonprofit or philanthropic organization: free desk space in return
for strategic tech advice.

I'd be interested in your thoughts about this, especially if you've
ever tried such a thing. It would have to be arranged carefully, so
that neither party experienced it as an unequal exchange.

Here's my blog article on this:

<http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2007/9/17/3235755.html>

Any thoughts?

Many thanks and best regards from Deborah

Deborah Elizabeth Finn
Cyber-Yenta
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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www.cyber-yenta.org

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I do that with one of my clients. We're doing it pretty loosy goosy for now, since I'm using the space fairly infrequently. We've both agreed to just see for a while and let each other know how it's going. We have a pre-existing relationship so the lines of communication are already good.

If your relationship is more formal to start with you might want to agree some kind of formula - 1 day in the office = 1/2hr of tech support or whatever. Perhaps this could be calculated based on $ value of rental space vs $value of tech support.

Good luck I agree about working at home.
Jenny

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>&gt;One thing that I don't like about being an independent consultant is working from home. I was thinking that I might try to barter with a nonprofit or philanthropic organization: free desk space in return for strategic tech advice. I'd be interested in your thoughts about this, especially if you've ever tried such a thing. It would have to be arranged carefully, so that neither party experienced it as an unequal exchange. Here's my blog article on this:
<http://blog.deborah.elizabeth.finn.com/blog/_archives/2007/9/17/3235755.htm l> Any thoughts? >>

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