We’ll closed to the general public the week of December 26th-30th for the holidays. We’ll be back January 2nd for a new year of coworking!

Caroline Collective will be closed to the general public on Thursday, November 24th and the following Friday for Thanksgiving.

Operations will resume as usual on Monday, November 28th. Have a great holiday!

Caroline Collective now hosts monthly Jellies!

Jellies are casual coworking events where people come together to work for the day. We provide chairs, wireless internet, and interesting people to talk to, collaborate with, and bounce ideas off of.

On the second Friday of every month we’ll waive the drop-in fee for coworking, so bring a friend or come by and make a few! A little change in scenery and socialization might be just the cure for your home-office blues, or perhaps it’s the catalyst in your next creative breakthrough. You’ll have to see it to find out.

Towards the end of the day things will slowly shift into the weekly office happy hour!

WHERE: Caroline Collective! 4820 Caroline, HTX, 77004
WHEN: Friday, November 11th 10AM-6PM
HOW MUCH: Free!

More on Jellies

Offices 106 and 107 are both available and are each approximately 110sf.

Being an office member comes with some sweet amenities:

• -24/7 keyed access
• -On site parking
• -Coffee/print/wifi
• -Kitchen use
• -Mailbox
• -Promotion through Caroline Collective’s web and social media channels
• -Use of the coworking space after hours and on weekends for meetups, workshops, conferences, and private events!
• -Access to our amazing community of entrepreneurs, small businesses, non-profits, and creative-types

What are you waiting for? Now is the time to join a vibrant community of do-ers. Give us a call at 832.429.6867 or drop us a line for more information about membership, rates, or to schedule a tour.

Due to the increasing demand for dedicated desks, we are issuing six new desks! Dedicated desk membership (full membership) includes everything from our light membership plus 24/7 keyed access to the facilities, a filing cabinet, a mailbox, and a secure area to park your monitor. Full members can also reserve the event space at no additional cost.

More info about membership can be found on our membership page! Please contact us at carolinecollective@gmail.com or at 832.429.6867 for details.

UPDATE: We’ve gone live on online signup for Full Membership. We have only a few spots left in the new space!

Dyan is a student pursuing a dual degree in Graphic Design and Photocommunications from St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. She also has a high interest in film and animation, which she plans to study in graduate school. She loves music, cemeteries, and her two new kitties North + South. Dyan is a Houston native and is happy to be interning here for the summer. Please don’t feed her anything that isn’t raw food vegan friendly.

We’re glad to have Dyan around the collective, going to great lengths to make things look awesome.

OK guys, time for an intervention. Let’s stop this problem before it gets out of hand. Nip it in the bud, as they say.

This is the third day this week we’ve had donuts at the front desk. And today it’s not just one dozen, but two. We’ve got the jelly-filled, the chocolate-covered, the maple-glazed, (for the Canadians) and what have you. I believe use of the word plethora is justified.

While I appreciate the team-player-ness of bringing yummy snacks for your co-workers, this is not a good habit for us to get into. I mean, if you really cared for your co-workers, you’d bring us some bran muffins and wheatgrass shots.

So next week let’s start a new trend. Healthy snacks, everybody! Bring some quinoa, acai, and/or spirulina. As a basic rule of thumb: the less pronounceable it is, the healthier it is. The person who brings the healthiest snack will win the knowledge that all your co-workers will live just a little bit longer.

Geoff and Ned are at Ikea right this moment, getting some more desks to add to our dedicated desk space. This means we can accommodate more full members! Woohoo!

If all goes according to plan, we should have five new desks put together by the end of the day. If you want to come see the boys putting together quality Scandinavian furniture, swing on by for happy hour, when we’ll have hot mulled wine – the official beverage of Snowpocylpse 2011.

Thankfully, though, Caroline Collective was spared. Electricity and wireless are up and running. There’s a fresh pot of coffee on, the heaters are cranked up to 11, and there’s plenty of room in the coworking space. You can come enjoy it all for FREE (that’s right, free!) today, and for the rest of the month, during Free Coworking February.

Hope to see you soon!

Thanks to our own dear Jeff Reichman of Tender Branch, we’ve got a spiffy new site to show to the World Wide Web. Cleaner, simpler, and all-around better-looking than before, the new site will be a great way to keep everyone posted on the goings-on here at Caroline.  Be sure to high-five, bro-hug, or fist-bump Mr. Reichman if you see him on the premises today.

But the virtual face of Caroline isn’t the only thing that’s changed: the lounge in the back of the coworking space got some TLC as well this Saturday. Some new furniture, improved lighting, and a little bit of paint make a world of difference. It will definitely be a favorite hang-out this Friday during happy hour.

Happy coworking everyone!