AltSpace would like to extend a warm welcome to Tim McNamara as the new Community Manager. Tim will become to day to day point person for AltSpace as time goes on.
Category Archives: members
Membership and Articles
February 23, 2009 – 1:00 pm
So far this year things have been going very well.
Had two Resident members and a Nomad member join so far this year as well as several people using the trial to see if it suits them. Based on the current growth AltSpace is actually planning to expand in August when the lease is up to [...]
New Membership Types
January 12, 2009 – 3:18 pm
I am just in the final stages of updating the AltSpace membership plans. Two new plans are being added:
Community
Friend of AltSpace
Community is based on the Resident plan but with a greatly reduce cost for those working on Community initiatives and/or Not for Profits. The other is a very lost cost plan to be able to [...]
Data projector has arrived
January 5, 2009 – 12:42 pm
The data projector (Optoma EP716 PDF) has finally arrived and is able to be used by members both for use at AltSpace and for presentations outside the office. It will be added to the online booking system for reserving in the next few days. It is an
Alarm.. what alarm?
January 5, 2009 – 12:28 pm
The of the amusing things running AltSpace has been the unexpected events that have occurred over the last six months. Over the Christmas/New Year break I reflected on what I think must have been one of the funniest voice mails I have ever received.
One morning in one of the warmer days in late November I [...]
Post Launch
November 26, 2008 – 11:39 am
The throngs have left, the liquids have been drunk and the nibbles have been consumed. So ends the AltSpace Launch night held last Thursday that upwards of 50 people attended. If you managed to pop in I hope you enjoyed yourself and took a look around. For those that did not have a chance to [...]
Job Posting of sorts
October 7, 2008 – 4:51 pm
Here at AltSpace HQ we have been thinking of ways to both help the freelancers and start ups and also ourselves. One idea we have had is offering reduced or even free membership to a small number of people that offer to help out. This could be as simple as helping dealing with questions and [...]
Coworking Visa Programme
September 12, 2008 – 4:34 pm
Over the last several weeks coworking SpaceOwners have been organising a programme to allow members of one coworking location to use the facilities of other locations.
This has finally been implemented and is called the Coworking Visa. It allows a members when they travel to use other locations (total of 17 sites in 4 countries) as [...]
Range of skills and knowledge of AltSpace members
August 20, 2008 – 11:48 am
In the span of 3 weeks we have the following skills (some people have more than one skill):
Contract Negotiation
Web Design and IA consulting
PHP and Perl programming
PR and Marketing
Project Management
Online advertising
Domain Name expertise
Several possible projects are already taking shape just from a broad range of skills and experience being in the same office.
