Carrboro Creative Coworking

CCC now has a full fledged technology library. Thanks to the donations of a few people we have over sixty books on a ton of topics. Such as Linux, PHP, Mysql, Ruby, Javascript, Windows, Mac OSX, Java, Cooca, Objective C, etc., etc. We welcome more donations to this library. Just contact me if you'd like to share your books.

Its intended to be a resource for coworkers here at CCC. Many of these books are expensive and aren't always available in public Libraries. So come cowork with us and read the books while you're here. A complete list of available books will be available soon.

Until we have Star Trek transporters physical mail is needed. Most new businesses require a physical mailing address to function.

Understandably some people don't want to use their home mailing address. Either because of privacy concerns, inconvenience, or the desire to establish a professional appearance. CCC can help you with our new Basic Mail Service.

Basic Mail Service is your own physical mailing address here at CCC. Its sending and receiving mail from the United States Postal Service. We provide a street address not a P.O. Box. (Some companies won't deliver to a P.O. box.)

The cost is $12 a month for Full Time or Office Coworkers and $15 a month for Part Time and Daily Coworkers. If you are a Office Coworker we'll even put your mail in your office. Both of these services require reoccurring billing and a six month commitment. To do this we accept Visa, Master Card, American Express, and electronic debit from checking accounts.

If you have any questions about this new service please contact me. Keep an eye out for other services we'll be offering in the future.

Tomorrow we begin new extended hours! The new hours are Thursday from 9 am until Midnight and Saturday from 10 am to 4 pm. We'll continue regular hours on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday 9 am until 6 pm..

So you night owls that need to get work done late try CCC. A change in your work environment will increase your productivity. Try it!

Same prices in the evenings and weekends as during the day. $10 for a day at a time or $100 a month (reoccurring) for any time we're open. This means on Thursdays your $10 goes even farther!

We have a bunch of free and public events on Thursday nights so there will be other folks here you may run into. Check out our calendar.

Come use the space Saturdays from 10 am till 4 pm. If you have a day job and haven't been able to join us now is your chance. Come work on the side project you love coding after work. Same deal as any other day.

This is a pilot project. I want to know what other hours of the week or times you need. So let me know if there is another day of the week you'd prefer. We'll ramp up to more hours soon. We're working on making the space available as often as possible.

Please drop me a line to let me know what you think of the new hours and how we can improve our services here at CCC. Thanks!

The sixth video in the journey to build a coworking space in Carrboro, North Carolina. We've been open six months. See all the videos at carrborocoworking.blip.tv and www.carrborocoworking.com.

In the past six months we've seen one other North Carolina coworking space open. Its SoCo Studio in Apex, NC. I've yet to visit SoCo but have been impressed by what I've heard. (My life has been b-u-s-y.) Sounds like they're carving a unique nitch within the coworking movement and their community.

Another coworking space in the works is Collective Giant in Charlotte, NC. I've met with the founders and am impressed by their energy. I hope techies in CTL are ready to support them!

Then we have Locomotivity in Asheville, NC who are about to open. I'm really looking forward to checking this space out. From my vantage point it appears Lance has done a great job. If I was a techie near Asheville I'd be there. BTW, Locomotivity opens Monday, March 30.

There is also movement in Raleigh, NC. Two different groups are working on spaces. One is Protege Cafe and another is Cowork Raleigh. I've even heard rumblings in Greensboro, NC too.

I predict by the end of the year we could have more than six coworking spaces in our state. But even then there will be a lot of communities in North Carolina without a nearby coworking spot. I believe Coworking is a neighborhood phenomenon.

In these tough economic times we need alternative work options. We all need more support groups within our communities. Not just because there are less jobs. But because we need to be excited about what we do! By working hard and playing hard together we can do that.

So please consider taking this short survey. Its purpose is to determine where demand is for more coworking spaces in North Carolina. To be clear I plan on using this data for business purposes.

Thanks for your help!

Special guest Vanessa Floyd, Circulation Supervisor for the Carrboro Cybrary will give us a tour of NCLive. Event starts at 12:30pm, Friday, March 6.

Here are some of the things you can do with NCLive.

• Get full-text articles and/or citations to hundreds of scholarly journal and popular magazine articles
• Get career and test prep information
• Get archived newspaper articles from many NC and national newspapers
• Find out how to fix your car
• Get support for your NC business
• Get investment information
• Look up residential and business contacts
• Map demographic, business, and marketing variables
• Search population, criminal, educational, economic and health profiles of NC counties
• Get reliable health information
• Get free e-books
• Watch PBS videos
• Search for jobs

NC LIVE is a statewide collaborative that provides the people of North Carolina with online access to a large and diverse collection of resources aimed at serving educational, economic, and informational needs of everyday life. With content and indexing from more than 50,000 newspapers, journals, magazines, encyclopedias, e-books, e-audio, and streaming video titles, NC LIVE offers users high quality and reliable information resources. At this brown bag session, we will introduce you to some of the databases, research, statistics, and toolkits that may be of special interest to entrepreneurs and businesses, as well as explore sources that may have broader appeal to participants and their families: language instruction, audiobooks, health information, auto repair, genealogy, reading suggestions, encyclopedias.

The CCC Brown Bag Lunch is a regular lunch meetup for coworkers to get to know each other. Bring your own lunch and come prepared to tell people about what you do. This is a free event. The public is welcome.