“We are transforming to a new era ‘The Society30“. A new order of people is presenting itself. It may still be an undercurrent, but maybe that is the best way to grow. These Society30 citizens cannot and will not deal with the thinking of the establishment anymore. They want to add value in their work and life in a significantly different way, namely by creating ‘value’ instead of ‘growth’. 

We think these global citizens – who are increasing in number daily – are the pillars supporting Society30. Hundreds of millions of people of the world move around without restraints, literally unbounded, across borders all over our world. Sometimes they do this physically, but more often they do so digitally through out the Internet: the World Wide Web. These people of the world are no longer bound to old organizations. They have organized themselves in virtual social networks. They have started to create value in a different way. They do not work according to a formal organizational structure. They guide themselves. They are themselves. Their social connections show great creative vitality and unleash an enormous amount of energy. From within their self-awareness they respect the individuality of anybody. People of the world of Society30 are not after personal enrichment at the expense of others. They share; they are prepared to do a lot for someone else, without always expecting a monetary reward. They reinvent society and create all kind of new, fair and sustainable business models. 

We think it is both exciting and fun to be such a person, a Knowmad of the world of Society 3.0.
Seats2meet.com wants to play an active role in that world!”

Mariëlle Sijgers & Ronald van den Hoff
founders of Seats2meet.com

This is how boundaries continue to dissolve: Value networks are extraordinarily dynamic and flow into each other. That is why it is so difficult for outsiders to understand: It is not always an obviously recognizable team or project group that is on the job.

The Mesh, THE network of networks. Mesh networks can be described as a network system of nodes where each node must not only capture and disseminate its own data, but also serve as a relay for other nodes, that is, it must collaborate to propagate the data in the network (“Mesh networking,” n.d.)

The number of knowmads is growing fast. In 2002 in the United States alone there were already over 33 million free agents, another term for knowmads, about one in four American workers (Pink, 2002)

Thus, access becomes more important than possession

We need new physical locations in new geographical locations where people can meet, work, exchange information and more

Free” means however “no free lunch”: upon reservation, the bookers/co-workers tell the system, thus the S2M network, what topics he/she is working on, where his/her interests lay and more. This way the booker commits him/herself to the network: he/she is available for unexpected meetings and maybe called upon by traditional clients in the meeting rooms to share their expertise and knowledge. Payment by knowmads is therefore done by means of social capital

In blurring these virtual and the physical products, services and logistic components around our physical locations we have created an organization in, what Pine & Korn name in their latest book, Infinite possibility (2011)

by far the greatest value will come from those innovations that create third spaces that fuse the real and the virtual.

Thus, the 3rd Place has become the 3rd Space. This 3rd Space enables us at Seats2meet.com to offer a unique, tailor-made experience, with a serendipitous educational element, to all our stakeholders.

We as an organization get back a lot. the return is immense. Our stakeholders appreciate our products and services tremendously and help us to position Seatswmeet.com on the free agents mesh. They create an enormous flow of buzz on the web.. they feed us with tips, reviews, knowledge and their time… that used to be called marketing; and actively promote us to other knowmads and to corporate and governmental organizations.. that used to be called sales.. Whenever they have real business they book their training and meeting rooms at Seatswmeet.com locations without asking for a discount. Therefore, at Seatswmeet.com we no longer have a PR, sales, or marketing and reservation department. how do you think that works out for our operational costs? And the still growing army of fans who do our commercial activities is staggering.