Author: Will Bennis

Start of Weekly Locus Jellies & international Coworking Day

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To commemorate International Coworking Day, Locus Workspace will host its first jelly. This will mark the start of an (almost*) weekly jelly, starting at Locus for this first event, but hopefully moving to other coworking spaces in the future (Coffice is already a co-host and will start participating when it can).

So what’s a jelly and what’s International Coworking Day?

“Jelly is a casual working event. It’s taken place in over a hundred cities where people have come together (in a person’s home, a coffee shop, or an office) to work for the day. We provide chairs and sofas, wireless internet, and interesting people to talk to, collaborate with, and bounce ideas off of. You bring a laptop (or whatever you need to get your work done) and a friendly disposition.” Learn more about jellies at http://workatjelly.com.

For details on International Coworking Day (and some things you can do to commemorate it, see my blog post from last year’s Coworking Day here: http://bit.ly/oQmadb.

Space is limited, so please sign up early if you know you want to go.*

The jelly will take place at Locus’s new upper floor (take the elevator to the 4th floor and find the door around the corner to the left). The jelly will be followed by a film night on Locus’s 3rd floor at 6:30pm where we’ll show *Harold & Maude* on the whiteboard with a data projector.

If interested, please sign up for that separately.*

Here’s the schedule:
9am-12:30pm: 1st block of coworking
12:30pm-1pm: Presentation (TBA)
1-2:30pm: Lunch at Vytopna ( http://praha.vytopna.cz/) for those who want to join.
2:30-6pm: 2nd block of coworking.
6:30pm-8:30pm: Harold and Maude.

Feel free to come for just the 1st or 2nd coworking block if you can’t make it to the whole day, but please indicate that in your confirmation comment.

If you’re interested in giving a 1/2 hour before-lunch presentation, please let me know.

* – If you’d like to attend, you will need to confirm your attendance by accepting a Google Calendar event invitation. Please send me an email letting me know you want to attend with a google email account if you have one (but you need not have a google account to accept the invitation).

Locus is Expanding!

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Locus is Expanding!

We just (April 12th!) signed a lease with our landlady for the space right above Locus, doubling our size and the workspace possibility for our members. The opening day is slated to coincide with Locus’s 1 Year Anniversary!
 
The new space is beautiful, with a different style (natural wood beams, light yellow walls, even more natural light, a fireplace, and plans for a more casual workroom complete with couches.
 
To commemorate these big events, we’ve streamlined our membership options and revamped our prices for simplicity, added value, and greater flexibility. If you’re thinking about membership at Locus, now couldn’t be a better time!

Two more Locus events

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1) This Friday, Dec. 3rd, 7pm: Film night. This is the first in a series of film nights that we’ll try to keep up every two months with a different theme. The first one is “Russia” with two contemporary Russian films, first an intense drama and second a comedy. Films will be in Russian with English subtitles. There may be a fee to attend to pay for Russian food and drinks that will be provided, but this will likely be optional.
2) Wed., Dec. 15th, 2nd Texas Holdem poker tournament. 6:30pm (for the half hour tutorial for beginners); 7pm (for people who don’t need a tutorial). Last time the vast majority had never played poker before and it was great fun.
To get more details, to sign up for these events, or to keep up with Locus Workspace events more generally, sign up at the Locus events webpage: http://events.locusworkspace.com (you need to sign up for a meetup.com account if you don’t already have one).

 

Free Talk at Locus Workspace: Procrastination – A Sidelong Glance

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Time: November 18, 2010 from 11am to 12pm

Location: Locus Workspace
Street: Krakovská 1307/22
City/Town: Prague 1
Phone: +420 223 017 593

You must sign up on the locus events page:
http://events.locusworkspace.com/calendar/15226067/

About the Talk:
 This talk will be a look at procrastination – what it is, its possible causes and possible ways out of the loop. The talk will last 30 minutes, followed by 30 minutes of chat on the topic. This talk will be given in English.

About the speaker:
 Andrew Power is a Creative Trainer drawing from years of experience in training, sales and media. Not satisfied with the current state of communication skills in Prague, Andrew applies creative solutions to training – giving students essential soft skills to improve their business and career. If you think your business can benefit from Business English expertise, why not get in touch?

mobile +420 775 901 220 andrew.power@me.com

Join the Locus Meetup group to be informed about events at Locus!

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Keep up with Locus Workspace events: Join our new Locus Event Meetup Group. Locus hosts a number of events of interest to the freelance community, most of them free, including talks about accounting, marketing, how to stop procrastinating, as well as just entertaining events like movie night and Texas Holdem Poker night. The best way to keep up with this information is by joining our Meetup group, which is solely focused on organizing Locus events.

Nezmeškejte žádnou akci pořádanou Locus Workspace! Přidejte se k naší nové skupině „Locus Event Meetup“, kde najdete informace o všech chystaných akcích. Locus pořádá četná zajímavá setkání, většina z nich je zdarma, včetně přednášek o účetnictví, marketingu nebo třeba o tom, jak se vyvarovat tolik zmiňované prokrastinaci během práce na volné noze. Stejně tak ale máme na programu i čistě odpočinkové a zábavné večery, například filmový večer nebo posledně velmi vydařenou pokerovou noc. Takže neváhejte a přidejte se, ať vám žádná budoucí akce neuteče!