Carrboro Creative Coworking

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.

Friday, May 8, 7pm to 8pm, Carrboro Creative Coworking

If you have technical skills to offer and you have considered starting a business but didn't know how to go about it, this session is for you. After a short presentation on the basics, professionals from the nationally respected nonprofit SCORE will facilitate a discussion and answer your questions. Continuing help for your new business is available free from SCORE at locations around the area, too. Join us to get your business started on a shoestring and network with people who can join forces with you for larger projects than you can handle alone.

The audience for this presentation would be people with technical skills such as computer programming, graphic arts, technical writing, and so on. These people could begin consulting businesses immediately with low risk and low initial investment.

Registration limited to 15. Please use the form bellow or this page to register. I'm sorry. This class has reached it's registration limit.

GOING GREEN: Part One - An Introduction to Options, Resources, Strategies, and an Environmentally Thoughtful Planning Process for Small Businesses

A TOWN OF CARRBORO / SBTDC of NC Business Training Collaboration
WHEN: Wed April 22, (“Earth Day!”) 9am – 3pm
WHERE: 205 Lloyd Street, Carrboro, NC 27510
TO REGISTER:
Free Lunch!

As a small business owner / entrepreneur of the Carrboro business community you are invited at no cost (limited to 15 participants – reserve your seat at this table now) to join us for a customized information & training program that will include the following:

• Why “Go Green”? – feasibility, pros & cons, project management, ROI
• An introduction to Orange County and other NC resources to assist your company in “Going Green” business decisions, planning, and practices
• Planning processes and strategies to develop “Green” projects that are appropriate, affordable, and achievable
• Energy audits – how to select an auditor, what to look at, where’s the payback?
• Building / Retrofitting facilities – LEED certified green building practices / professionals
• “Green” project choices – recycling and re-use, product redesign, pollution prevention, branding and marketing, energy use, policies and incentives for employees
• “Green Jobs” – Trends / Curricula / Training Options for your employees
• Worksheets & Project Management templates and materials
• Triple Bottom Line Business Success: A True, Local Case Study - “People/Planet/Profits”

The design of this training experience will be interactive, informal, practical, and fun. Presenters will include professionals who deliver specialized services in these areas. Participants may be eligible for Part II of this training, scheduled for Wed. June 24th.

Join us Remotely! If you can not attend this event watch and interact on the web. Just go-to http://www.ustream.tv/channel/town-of-carrboro-trainings You can watch the training and submit questions in the chat room to the right of the video. No need to log in or register.

In the month of May Carrboro Creative Coworking will open its doors FREE to anyone who is unemployed. We will be providing our Part Time coworker service to assist people in the chore of finding work. There will also be meetings with small business advisers, resume coaches, fun events, and professional networking. Keep an eye on our calendar for new events. Several new ones will be announced here soon.

Here is the official press release. [PDF]

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.

Tuesday, February 10 we're playing board games like Monopoly, Settlers of Catan, Taboo, Cranium, and Risk. Join us! Here's the low down.

Grab your favorite board game and join us for the first Game Night Meetup!

This is a meetup for the entire Triangle area, so everyone is welcome. You're encouraged to bring friends who enjoy a fun night playing games and meeting new people.

The first Game Night Meetup will be held on Tuesday, February 10 at the Carrboro Creative Coworking space at 205 Lloyd Street, Carrboro, NC 27510.

THE SCHEDULE:
6:00 – Socializing & Snacking
7:00 – Introduction and game selection
7:10 – Let the games begin!

THE FORMAT
The space will be divided into five group areas where we'll have the following games set up:

1. Monopoly
2. Settlers of Catan
3. Taboo
4. Cranium
5. Risk

Have a favorite board game you want to play? Bring it with you (even if it's one of the ones we're providing). The game stations will change depending on the games people bring and what people want to play. Some games are faster than others, so throughout the night you're welcome to move from game to game.

Game Night Meetup is all about having fun and socializing, so you're encouraged to try games you've never played. No experience necessary.

You can RSVP on if you like. Thanks to Jeff Brenman for organizing this event.