C⁴ Workspace is looking for someone to replace the irreplaceable Chris Godfrey. (Yes, we know, big shoes to fill. Actually, his shoes are pretty average but Chris is defintely far above.)

So here’s the deal. We need help with:

• Managing the space
• Minding the store
• Community events wrangling
• Building community

We realize that 9-6, 5 days a week might be too much for one person. We totally get that. Our main concern is opening the space and prepping it for the day, so the only time you’d really NEED to be at the space is from 9am until after lunch. You’re welcome to stay longer, but if you’ve got a part time job or class or familial responsibilities we’re willing to work with you. We’re open to a job share – 2 people to share the load!

The ideal candidate is someone who would want to be a member of C⁴ Workspace to begin with!

Check out the full job description here.

Angelica Sandoval and her company Geisha Inc. were on SA Fashonista this week. Check it out!

Thanks 210TV!

The next two weeks are probably the most unusual in business. Heck, even for retailers this time of year isn’t like normal day to day operations.

C⁴ Workspace will be closed on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. If you need to get away from the retail insanity on Saturday the 26th (after picking up wrapping paper on deep discount) we’ll be open from 9 am to 1 pm as usual.

Next week we’ll be open Monday the 28th through Thursday the 31st from 8:30 am to 6 pm. And since New Year’s Day is on First Friday this year we’ll have our monthly First Friday Open House from 5 pm to 8 pm.

If you don’t have to work we hope you’ll enjoy the season and spending the time with your family and friends. We will!

We’ve always thought of the space as flexible, reconfigurable and evolutionary. Almost every time you come in you’ll see something a little different.

• There are doors on most of the rooms now.
• We’ve covered the big hole in front of the HVAC units with a curtain.(The fuse panel is next.)
• One of the phone rooms has been sound treated eliminating almost 100% of the echo.
• We have lockers near the left hand bathroom for member storage.

Next on the list is to tweak the lighting with some china ball paper lanterns in the community space. Over the holidays we’ll drape strings of lights down from the ceiling. Drop on by and check it out.

The coworking has picked up during the day with new Full Time and some new Part Time, uh, Coworkers, signing up since September. The evenings and weekends are busy too with a mixer for Mosaicinfo.org and a photog workshop with Justin Moore a Saturday or two ago. We even have the NOWCast San Antonio citizen journalism project working here temporarily until their new digs at Central Library are available.

In the meantime, checkout some of these upcoming events:

• Nov. 4 – Brownbag Lunch (FREE) – 11:30 am – 1 pm – Open to members and everyone
• Nov. 5-6 – Non-profit Grant Writing Workshop ($) – 5-6, 8:30 am – 5 pm – hosted by Mosaicinfo.org
• Nov. 6 – First Friday Open House (FREE) – 6-8 pm – James Hendricks, painter and sculptor
• Nov. 7 – Teach a Friend to Homebrew Workshop (FREE) – 9 am – 3 pm – Hosted by Original Gomez Homebrew Club
• Nov. 12 – Jelly San Antonio FREE coworking say – 8:30 – 6 pm

Keep an eye on our calendar. There’s more to come!

There was a fair amount of planning that went into opening C⁴ Workspace. We thought a lot about pricing and benefits. We were influenced by examples from many spaces around the country. Our mission is to be a sustainable professional community and that means we need to have the right mix of service and prices. So we’re making a change in our grand experiment.

Our Part Time Desk Plan is No More. Gone. Obliterated. It is an ex-Desk Plan. But like a phoenix a new plan has risen from the proverbial primordial coworking soup. We call it…wait for it…

The Coworker Plan

Snappy, huh?

Instead of 10 days a month with the old Part Time plan the Coworker Plan gives you access to the space for as little or as much time as you’d need anytime during normal business hours: 8:30 am – 6 pm, Monday through Friday or 9 am – 1 pm on Saturday. Any of the shared desks are yours to use. The conference room and phone rooms are available. The kitchen, the fridge and microwave, the couch – yours to use. Yea, verily! The bathrooms, ye left side and ye right side are yours to use! All for the same price as that stinky old Part Time Desk Plan: $150 a month or $135 a month with a 12 month agreement. Such. A. Deal!

Give us a call, drop us a line, tweet us a tweet or heck! Drop on by for more information! Sign up for a desk while you’re here!

Memebrship Made More Simpler!

When we opened we had two kinds of membership: Coworker and Community. And there was some confusion about that. And now with a desk plan called “Coworker” and a membership called “Coworker”, well, you can see where the confusion might deepen, so… PRESTO! We are all just Members! When membership comes up for renewal everyone will renew as a C⁴ Workspace Member. It just that simple!

Coming soon to a television screen near you is C⁴Workspace’s broadcast debut.

Our lounge area was used for a segment of an upcoming San Antonio Express-News commercial spot. The spot was shot by Geomedia for their client Creative Civilization. Here are some snaps of the “making of”.

For you production geeks, the spot was shot with a RED camera and the images were stunning.

So, while you’re flipping through the channels watch for the young professional woman reading a newspaper in a very cool looking blue office. That’s  us!

Wait for it…wait for it…aww, you missed it!

We found a cool Wordpress plugin, wpng-calendar, to display a feed of the C⁴ Workspace Events Calendar from Google Calendar in Wordpress. Except it hasn’t worked for a few weeks. That was a bummer. Until I found the problem. (It doesn’t play well with WP-Hashcash plugin.) So now it works!

You can check the site for the calendar in the sidebar. Or on the Calendar page under Events.

And if you would like to subscribe to the C⁴ Workspace Events Calendar directly just use the following address:

http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/c4workspace.com_800hl443rfo8252rkg5fihutj0%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

More (events) to come!

Mark “Rizzn” Hopkins at the studio.rizzn blog included “ours truly” in his recent “Texas Coworking Space Roundup.”

We’ll let you read it for yourself but, needless to say, we are pleased as punch to be included!

C⁴ Workspace is on it’s way! The lease was officially signed today on 108 King William Street! (map). We hope to have keys in hand on Sunday. Be prepared for some casual coworkng action!

We’re the green building, right across the street from the San Antonio Conservation Society (the reason for NIOSA) and up the street from the San Antonio Art League.

It is going to be a great place to work. High speed internet, color laser printing, creative and interesting people. Good Coffee. Free Coffee. And it’s not your bedroom/dining room/living room/kitchen table.

The Details

Now

• 2500 square feet of open space
• Concrete floors
• 18 foot ceilings
• New air conditioning
• Kitchen
• 2 bathrooms

Soon

• 6 full time desks
• 20 part time and daily desks
• Lounge area
• Conference room

Future

• 2 private offices
• 1 quiet room (4 desks)
• 2 phone rooms
• 1 ADA bathroom (remodel)

Nearby

• The Filling Station – (Next door) Homemade pizza, pastries, salads & espresso
• El Mirador – (Around the corner) Mexican restaurant hangout of local movers and shakers.
• S. Alamo St. – (2 blocks away) We’ll leave it at that.

A soon as we have the keys we’ll be moving in. Be prepared for some casual coworkng sessions!