Carrboro Creative Coworking blogs

New Daily and Month Rates

brian — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 17:21:37 -0500

Starting February 1, 2010 some of our pricing will change. The One Day Coworker will be $15.00 and the Monthly Coworker will be $150.00. All Monthly Coworkers who have paid for the service before February 1, 2010 can continue to pay the old rate of $100 a month. I offer this as a THANK YOU for your support of Carrboro Creative Coworking (CCC).

These changes were made to strengthen CCC and help make it profitable. It wasn't an easy thing for me to do. I work very hard to provide affordable options. That is my most sincere goal. I hope you will still find these rates a value.

Remember your first day at Carrboro Coworking is still free! One day is all it takes to discover what working here can do for you. Thank you for working with us and being part of our workspace community! As always if you have any questions please contact me.

Urban Land Magazine features CCC

brian — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:24:24 -0500

Check out this nice piece called The Shared Office in Urban Land Magazine. It features many coworking and other shared office spaces around the world. One of them is Carrboro Creative Coworking. Urban Land Magazine is a publication of the Urban Land Institute. Thank you ULI for featuring us!

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Carrboro Cybrary Twitter Forum

brian — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:50:47 -0500

Our awesome local library the Carrboro Cybrary (@carrborocybrary) is holding a Tweetup & Forum. I'm on a panel with Paul Jones @smalljones and Molly Buckley @mollybuckley. If you want to meet local Tweeps or learn more about Twitter join us!

When: Friday, Febuary 19, 2010, 6:30pm

Where: Carrboro Century Center, 100 North Greensboro Street, Carrboro, NC 27510

Carrboro Cybrary: 919-918-7387

Twitter Forum Flyer [PDF]

Holiday Hours

brian — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:09:35 -0500

CCC will be closed December 24 and December 25 plus January 1, 2010. We will be open December 28 - December 31. The exact hours of those days will depend on how busy we are. If you are coming in those days lets us know. The front door may be locked but someone should be here.

Have a relaxing holiday!

Breakfast with Jason Caplain of Southern Capitol Ventures

brian — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:10:42 -0500

On January 29 at 10am Jason Caplain, General Partner at Southern Capitol Ventures, will join us at Carrboro Coworking. He blogs at Southeast VC and Twitters as @jcaplain. Please come and meet Jason and learn about what he does. He'll provide bagels to go with our coffee. FREE FOOD! :)

If you have a startup or are considering getting one going you'll want to be here.

Django Sprint Dec 12&13

brian — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:04:02 -0500

December 12th and 13th, 2009 Caktus Consulting Group is sponsoring a Django Development Sprint here at CCC. Django is a python based web framework.

Please contact Caktus if you have any questions. Here is some more info about the event.

What's a sprint? How do I participate?

See Sprints for information about how sprints work, how you can participate, etc.

Anybody, anywhere around the world, can participate and contribute. We'll be gathering in person in Carrboro Creative Coworking, but if you can't make it you can also help out in IRC.

You can find all the gory details on the Sprints page.

Attendees

If you plan to participate on-site, please RSVP via Eventbrite so we get an idea of how much food to plan for.

Getting there

Carrboro Creative Coworking (CCC) is located in downtown Carrboro and is within walking distance of many restaurants, bars, and shops. The address is:

205 Lloyd St, STE 101, Carrboro, NC 27510

After turning on Lloyd St, CCC will be on your left just past Rice's Glass. The sign reads "The Lloyd Street Office Center." You can park in the lot immediately in front of the building or, if space is limited, there's additional parking beside the building (just turn into the main parking lot and continue straight to the gravel parking area).

Year One

brian — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 18:05:04 -0400

Last week was Carrboro Creative Coworking's first birthday. We opened our doors in early October 2008.

So much has changed. I've learned SO much. I have a beautiful son. The community has grown. So many smart and friendly people work here now. Its an amazing environment that is bursting with energy.

Unfortunately the anniversary came and went without much fanfare. Fact is I'm so busy that planning a party or other celebration was just too much. But sometime soon I'll organize something special. I want it to be fun and different. So stay tuned!

A GIANT thank you to everyone who's made this year possible!

More Coworking spaces: Where in Raleigh?

brian — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:43:04 -0400

Our survey, and lots of feedback, has uncovered that you'd like a coworking space in Raleigh, North Carolina. Where in Raleigh would you like to see it built? Please take this survey to tell us where. Thanks!

What can Coworking do for Journalism?

brian — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 09:07:45 -0400

Andy Bechtel, who teaches Copy Editing at the UNC School of Journalism and Mass Communications, came by last week. I gave him a tour of the space and we had a great chat. Like a pro he did his research right and asked me a ton of questions. He followed up our talk with some questions via email. See my answers on his blog in this post Q&A with Brian Russell of Carrboro Creative Coworking. Here's a taste.

Q. Newspapers have typically operated from a central newsroom with bureaus in surrounding communities. Now, many bureaus have closed because of financial pressures. How could newspapers use coworking to cover the news?

A. Newspapers could use coworking spaces as ad hoc gathering places to meet and create news. Journalists should be in the field covering the news and regenerating the news beats of old.

Coworking spaces are also greater community hubs. With a diverse group of people working in the same place, lead generation is amplified. Plus, coworking spaces are about sharing resources and are very cost effective.

Thanks for coming by Andy. I'm looking forward to the future of coworking journalist.

Location, Location, Location

brian — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 11:21:59 -0400

When I was doing my original business market research for CCC I discovered that place is very important. This is the case for most physical businesses with public space. (ex. retail) Experienced business people express this with the refrain, "Location, Location, Location".

As I got into the day to day of running a coworking space the assumption about where our space is located seemed to be validated. I believe that being close to where people live, shop, and play is essential. But can coworking spaces exist in other places?

This is why I created the following survey. If you work at a Coworking space I'd really appreciate it if you could take it. The results are located here. You can even download the data and use it how you want.

I feel its essential we have big numbers of survey participants to validate or disprove this assumption. Once we've made it over two hundred participants I'll elaborate more on why I think this is important.

Thanks!