Last week, the AboutUs Portland office moved into our new digs at the (still under construction) OMCC building in Portland’s “Inner SE” industrial area.Beyond just being a place for our growing staff to stretch our wings, the new space provides a way to work within an “open space” environment; all our desks are outfitted with wheels, allowing ad hoc pairings on projects simply by rolling one workstation towards another. (This has led to a variation of the WikiWay philosophy LawOfTwoFeet which we call “The Law of Five Wheels.”)

The staff seems to be enjoying the space. Says Kasey, “I appreciate how fluid the space is and how easy it is to collaborate … it almost seems like a metaphor for wiki.”

JasonParmer of our development team also really appreciated the dynamicness of the space, which allows for not just teamwork, but the ability to retreat into a corner if you’re needing a quiet space, “The flexibility of being able to change for current needs is really hot.”

The building, of which AboutUs is among the first tenants, is part of an area that’s just across any of three bridges from the downtown Portland core, but is still developing, something that was a benefit to AboutUs founder RayKing. “We’re in an up and coming neighborhood that is quiet and yet alive,” he said.

Of course, moving offices had one disadvantage — we’ll miss our friends at the old space at River Park Center Executive Suites, who were nice enough to put up with “those crazy wiki people” for the last 9+ months.

For anyone needing to send us mail, cookies or other care packages at the new space, the address is: 107 SE Washington #520, Portland, OR 97214

Contibutor: TakKendrick