Carrboro Creative Coworking

To learn a bit more about WHERE coworking spaces can work I've created a survey. Please fill it out when you have a moment. It's short.
http://flur.be/11

The results can be viewed in reports here. http://flur.be/12
You can even download the raw data.

I promise to elaborate on my assumptions once we have a good amount of data. I don't want to influence your answer. :)

A coworker here at the space started posting available jobs and freelance gigs on our board. A cool old fashioned way to get the word out. Even though most of us are web geeks and do everything online this method is still really valuable. A coworking space provides a physical location for people who live much of their lives in virtual worlds.

August 4th from 7-9PM Carrboro Creative Coworking will be sponsoring the West-End Tweetup. Wayne Sutton will be joining to talk about Social Media and Real-Time Information. So all you tweeple who live in the westend of the Triangle (Chapel Hill, Carrboro, etc) join us. Please RSVP here.

Peter Higgins, project lead of the Dojo JavaScript toolkit, is visiting North Carolina on July 11, so it's time for a dojo.camp() / dojo.beer().

Join us at Carrboro Creative Coworking on Saturday, July 11, starting at 10am until ??? for a day of hacking and learning. We'll order lunch from one of Carrboro's many fine eating establishments, and head out for drinks when it's all over. Come for as little or as long as you'd like, and BYOB if you're so inclined.

The event is free, but donations to Carrboro Creative Coworking for generously donating the space for the event are much appreciated! Please email rebecca (at) rebeccamurphey (dot) com to RSVP so we know we have enough space.

I'm pleased to announce a new training offered here at CCC. Its called jQuery Fundamentals. The instructor is Rebecca Murphey. Here's the low down.

Overview
This course will give you the knowledge you need to properly and effectively start integrating jQuery, the popular JavaScript library, into your web development projects. Over the course of two days, you'll learn the fundamental concepts of JavaScript and jQuery and tackle real-world exercises to solidify your understanding of the language and the library. This class is aimed at beginning jQuery users, although intermediate users may also benefit from the more formalized introduction to the library this class will offer. more

When: July 29-30, 2099, 10 am - 3 pm
Where: Carrboro Creative Coworking Map: 205 Lloyd Street, Suite 101, Carrboro, NC 27510
Cost: $489
Only 10 seats available

Registration Deadline: July 22, 2009

Get in while you can! Only ten seats available.

Info from Blake about the next Cocoa meetup:

Carrboro Cocoa Consortium Meetup - a regular iphone and cocoa developer event
Date: Tuesday June 9, 7pm - 9pm
Where: Carrboro Creative Coworking

Topic: Going Social w/ Cocoa Touch - Integrating with Facebook & Twitter
Speakers: Blake Watters & Jeremy Ellison of Objective 3, Rachit Shukla of Two Toasters

Facebook and Twitter offer us an exciting set of tools to build applications that are better connected, more viral, and often just more fun than our standalone offerings. At the June meetup, the group will examine the development possibilities and marketing opportunities available to us through social media integration.

From a development perspective, we'll examine:
- Facebook Connect for the iPhone
- MGTwitterEngine, a full-featured Twitter library for Cocoa & Cocoa Touch
- Various goodies from around the web

On the marketing front, we'll discuss a few questions:
- How can social media extend our application lifecycle and bring users back more often?
- How can smart utilization turn our users into recruitment and advertising assets?
- How can Facebook & Pinchmedia interoperate to provide killer market insight for my app?

Come join us as we explore the technical aspects & business of utilizing social media in iPhone & iPod Touch applications. As usual, we'll meet up at Carrburritos at 6pm to grab some delicious food before heading over for the meetup. Hope to see you there!