Carrboro Creative Coworking

On Wednesday May 27 at 6:30pm join other entrepreneurs working on startups here at CCC. There is no ridged schedule or speaker planned. We'll just talk about startup culture here in the Triangle and exchange ideas. Coffee, water, and soda will be provided. Folks plan on bringing snacks. Feel free to do the same. If you like other kinds of beverages its BYOB. I'm sure lots of people will share.

If you're interested in attending leave a comment at the NC Startup Blog. This event is cosponsored by SpringStage and the North Carolina Startup Blog. Big thanks to Marc Dewalle for suggesting and organizing this event.

We now have nine regular FREE meetups here at CCC. Got an idea for a new one? Find a date and time that is available on our calendar and contact me. Several more events in the works right now. Dig it!

Regular Meetup Schedule

Brownbag Lunch
When: Every other Friday
Topic: occasional speakers, casual networking with coworkers

erlounge RDU
Topic: Erlang Programming Language
When: 2nd Thursday, 7pm

The Carrboro Rich Internet Applications Meetup Group
Topic: Flex, Silverlight, etc
When: 3rd Thursday, 7pm

Topic: iphone/Cocoa
When: See Calendar

Topic: Ruby Programming Language
When: First Wednesday, 6:30pm

Chapel Hill / Carrboro Game Meetup
Topic: Boadgames, other games
When: Every Monday Night 7pm

Topic: Boadgames, other games
When: 3rd Monday 8pm

Magic The Gathering Meetup
Topic: Collectable Card Game
When: Every Saturday night, 6pm - 10pm

2nd Friday Art Walk
Topic: Art, Music, Fun
When: 2nd Friday of each month

Small business really should be called Mighty Business. That's what Greg Hyer () and Helen Yoest () think. They just wrote out some steps for mighty business using Twitter. Check out Greg's blog post 12 Step Programs for Small Business Can Develop on Twitter! for the story. (I just reformatted it here for you're reading enjoyment.)

12 step program for Mighty Business

1. Project the Power of One! Don't worry about pretending to be big, you are big!
2. Realize that your customers will play "follow the leader" if you can get them to want to follow.
3. Always say "We" even if you are a company of one.
4. Believe of Spiritual Capitalism. Integrity & commitment are as important as profit & efficiency. http://bit.ly/QiwX4
5. Don't promise something you can't deliver.
6. If you do not enjoy what you do, re-evaluate your business and get back to basics. Try to find the love!
7. charge a fee that the market bares, not proportional to size of your biz
8. Never be too proud to ask for help if you feel you need it.
9. Align yourself with others to complement what you do. Be ready to recommend someone when a client asks.
10. Family comes first. You need to support them as much as you need their support.
11. Brand yourself. Coke can do it, so can you.
12. Become your customer's biggest asset. You should improve their business or life & in return it will improve yours.

Info from Blake about the next Cocoa meetup:

Carrboro Cocoa Consortium Meetup - a regular iphone and cocoa developer event
When: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 @ 7pm
Where: Carrboro Creative Coworking, 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, NC 27510

Topic: iPhone XML & HTML Parsing with ElementParser
Speaker: Lee Buck
http://touchtank.wordpress.com/element-parser/

Let's face it: working with HTML is a total pain. Though a superset of XML, the evolution of the web has brought unique
challenges to developers who want to parse and manipulate HTML programatically. HTML is a world of unclosed tags, poorly composed data, and is, at best, a loosely interpreted specification. High level tools like Hpricot and Nokogiri have removed quite a bit of the sting from working with HTML -- provided you are blessed enough to be working on a platform like Ruby.

But what about Cocoa and Cocoa Touch? Apple offers us only two options: the NSXML family of classes and the low level libxml2
library. Each of these options can be painful -- they really want well-formed XML and don't offer high level query API's such as CSS selectors. We'll explore these existing options and introduce a new kid on the block: ElementParser.

ElementParser is a new XML & HTML parsing library designed to give you "just enough" parsing and querying magic to be productive with HTML on everyone's favorite mobile device.

Come join the Carrboro Cocoa Consortium as we spend an hour exploring the HTML & XML world on the Cocoa Touch platform and take a tour of the new ElementParser library.

As usual, we'll meet up before the meeting at 6pm @ Carrburrito's for some delicious Mexican food and geeky conversation.

Check out the for more info.

During Free May for job seekers we'll have free job coaching and resume editing. Contact me to sign up a free thirty minute one on one session.

Our first job coach is Margot Lester. She's a experienced writer that covers many topics. You may have seen her articles in The Carrboro Citizen. One area she's written a lot about is looking for work. Check out her work on Monster.com.

• Recession Job Hunting
• Finding Work After 40
• Job Tips for Recent Grads
• Stimulus Help for the Unemployed

Margot will be available here at CCC May 6 and May 27. Here are the time slots. I will update this page as they become full. If the time slot is crossed through, its taken. (High tech I know.)
Update All slots for May 27 are taken.

• May 6, 2pm to 6pm

• 2:00 - 2:30pm
• 2:30 - 3:00pm
• 3:00 - 3:30pm
• 3:30 - 4:00pm
• 4:00 - 4:30pm
• 4:30 - 5:00pm
• 5:00 - 5:30pm
• 5:30 - 6:00pm

• May 27, 10am to 1pm

• 10:00 - 10:30am
• 10:30 - 11:00am
• 11:00 - 12:00pm
• 12:00 - 12:30pm
• 12:30 - 01:00pm

To register please email me using our contact form. Be sure to give me the following information; your name, your email, your zip code, and the thirty minute time slot you want.

Stay tuned for more opportunities to work on your resume. Several other people have volunteered their time to help.

Jeff Cohen, aka Digital Papercuts, came by the space last week and we had lunch. After a nice meal at Neal's Deli Jeff shot some video. He used the amazing Flip HD camera. This gadget is really small but makes a nice 740p HD vid.

So here is more from me going on about Coworking. :)

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