Calling All Freelancers – Snap a Picture, Share Your Office
Posted December 20, 2009 in Showcase
Every once in a while I look at my home office and wonder how others have set their offices up. After all, we freelancers enjoy the freedom of working from anywhere we want.
Whether it’s from the basement, a gorgeous home office, a crowd filled coffee house or at the beach, we all have a unique setup that works perfectly for us. It might be messy, but as long as we can get our work done, the mess is ours and it doesn’t really affect anyone else. (By the way, that minimalist office above is not really my home office. More on that later…)
Anyway, the other day we asked our Facebook fan page members if they would like to share their home office with the rest of us. The response was positive. They were all up for it. So, here at Freelance Folder we decided to provide freelancers with the opportunity to share their workspace.
The What?
All we are asking is that you share your home office with us. Just take a picture and send it to us.
The How?
Through Twitter and Facebook, of course.
Sending via Twitter
If you are sending your home office image via Twitter, please tag it #freelancefolder. You don’t have to send an @ message to us. This way allows other freelancers to see your home office. Your message is not directed just towards us.
You can use any picture sharing platforms to get the picture to us. Some examples include: twitpic, yfrog, flickr, etc. It’s your choice. Just snap a picture and tweet it with the hashtag #freelancefolder.
Sending via Facebook
You probably want your Facebook friends to see your home office as well and not just the FreelanceFolder fan page members. For this reason, you can upload the image on your profile and just tag it @Freelancefolder in the box where you update.
Remember, Facebook doesn’t allow you to tag fan pages directly on an image as you would with people. For that reason you will have to tag us through your update.
You can update anything you want, just make sure you tag @freelancefolder so it shows on our fan page as well for other freelancers to see. The image below shows how to tag and upload on your profile:
Note: To be able to tag us, you have to be a member of our fan page. If you are a member type @Freelance. You should see a few options to choose from (just like in the image below). One of those options should be FreelanceFolder. Click on that option and you are good to go.
To upload the image click on the image button under the update box.
If you wish, drop the link in the comments section. We are inviting you to show your home office not just to us, but to other freelancers on Facebook or Twitter who are your friends or are following you. Help us by sharing your home office with the rest of us. It would be fun to see how other freelancers have it set up.
To get this started I will post my home office image right here on this post. You can see that it’s messy and cluttered. (I didn’t even move the Hoover resting against the wall!) However, I don’t care because it works for me. I just wanted to share my little space with you. So, if your home office is messy, cluttered, don’t clean it up…just snap a picture and send it over.
Next week we will compile all the images and post them right here on Freelance Folder. It will be fun to see other freelancers’ office setups and home offices.
Your Turn
I’ve shared mine, now it’s your turn. Go ahead, share your home office.
Top image by mkosut
Related posts:
- 6 Alternative Work Spaces to the Home Office – FreelancerMagazine.com
- Open Thread: What Do You Love/Hate About Your Home Office?
- Calling All Freelancers On Twitter
- 9 Pieces of Unusually Creative Office Furniture
- Getting Creative: Should You Start From The Big Picture Or The Details?
About the author: Ritu is a freelance writer who has been involved in social media for several years. At the moment he is working on a variety of projects, but is always open to new ideas. Contact him at email(at)ritubpant(dot)com or follow @ritubpant on twitter.
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22 Comments
David Zemens
December 20th, 2009 at 3:01 pmI thought the lead photo was your office! Now that is a nice looking work space!
Kyriakos
December 20th, 2009 at 4:09 pmseriously the first photo… cannot be a real WORKING office. its the kind of photo you see in ikea catalogs, looks nice but in practice is not functional.
Ritu
December 20th, 2009 at 4:11 pm@David : Ohh how I wish ;-)
Amber Weinberg
December 20th, 2009 at 5:30 pmTaking mine now!
Richard Cloutier
December 20th, 2009 at 5:56 pmHey,
I also like seeing other people’s work spaces. I launched a website dedicated to this recently. It’s called WorkstationSetups.com. Have a look and contribute if you want ! :)
Here is mine : http://www.workstationsetups.com/pc/pc-home-office-setup/
Good luck with the post !
Nicco Miranda
December 20th, 2009 at 6:25 pmThis is a bit of an old picture, but it’s still just as cluttered : )
http://cloud11clothing.com/storage/misc/officehaha.jpg
Laura Spencer
December 20th, 2009 at 7:31 pmI shared mine through TwitPic.
Daniel
December 21st, 2009 at 1:52 amI’m like wowing at Nicco’s wall. Noticed that you have rounded cornered photos on the left side of it. lol
Kei
December 21st, 2009 at 3:20 pm@Nicco – Wow, that’s all I can say about yours. = )
If the first picture was my desk, daydreaming is all I can do! = )
Elliott (Set Yourself Freelance)
December 21st, 2009 at 3:46 pmI’ll post mine when I get home.. Mine isn’t as pretty as the one in the pic, but I like it!
Elliott
jnyemb
December 29th, 2009 at 4:02 pmHere is my office http://www.flickr.com/photos/jnyemb/4051398710/. Still need a work bench though.
Interior Designs
March 10th, 2010 at 5:07 amWe need sharing in any environment. Facebook and twitter is powerful networking sites for our sharing. So share our snaps through them
Luke
November 14th, 2010 at 9:14 pmWhere abouts is the post that combines all the photo’s? I’ve tried looking on facebook and twitter but I can’t find them there either. Did you ever get around to actually compiling them?
sean
December 9th, 2010 at 4:11 pmhere’s a video of my desk hah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0kHMZw7_MM
Daquan Wright
January 27th, 2011 at 12:48 amhttp://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=500389453071&set=a.500389428071.302830.691823071&theater
My equipment, sorry I don’t have a picture of my tiny room!
DanielHeth
November 23rd, 2011 at 11:47 amI have multiple computers attached to the various monitors. My main system is on the left and attached to the three largest monitors.
I’ve built a complete article on it’s construction and details on the computers over on at Office « DanielHeth’s Blog
feel free to leave comments either here or there.
I’m looking for a new computer desk design which would suit my multiple monitor setup… so if you guys have any ideas…
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