The Next Step for SOHO Community is Co-Housing

The biggest perspective of Intentional Communities:
SOHO (Small Office Home Office) Movement (leading to COHO and COCO)

It is certainly interesting to explore the background, history, current status and possible future development of the SOHO (Small Office Home Office) movement (it can definitely be considered as quiet social movement, particularly in connection with and in the context of the Network Economy). However, our objectives and concerns here are more pragmatic, by concentrating our attention on the following three aspects:

? Business / Enterprise Development
? Personal / Family Development
? Social and Ecosystem Development

These will be discussed in the context of the following five stages / phases of the SOHO movement:

? Small Office Home Office (SOHO)
? Mobile Office Home Office (MOHO)
? Co-Working facilities and services (COWO)
? Intentional Community and Co-Housing (COHO)
? Cooperation Commons (COCO)

Although the above stages / phases are not necessarily linear and sequential, the listed order could be convenient and useful for discussion purposes, particularly if we are to view these stages / phases in the context of Business Development / Personal Development / Social and Ecosystem Development in line with the Triple Bottom Line (Profit / People / Planet).

In fact, an innovative and fully functional Business Model incorporating the 3-Objectives + 5-Stages would be the biggest and ultimate perspective of the SOHO movement (leading to COHO and COCO).