Brighton coworking blooms in winter

When The Werks opened last spring, Brighton got it’s first proper coworking venue:  A place you could go and work with others for minimal cost in a supportive and like minded community, on a formal or informal basis.  The Werks is a superb blend of community, professional workspace, learning, collaboration tool and party.  I’m there a few days a week at the moment and love it.

However, Brighton being Brighton, and as the days close in, we’ve now got two other proper coworking options to try out.

The Skiff is a small, bright space in the heart of Brighton’s North Lanes. Good food, drink and coffee are close by, and your hosts, the crew from Inuda, are open, sharing and all around good value.  Pink chairs, nautical-themed room names and Bills just around the corner add to the fun.  And they said I can bring in the puppy too :-)

And to get down by the seaside, opening any day now is upstairs @ gemini’s, the much talked about geek bar made real.   This is a licensed space, with wifi, food, and open late, and will become the key venue for local social media and geek events.  What an alternative.  At the seaside, coworking.

Ah, Brighton, we luves ya.

And that brings up two things that we’ve been chatting about:

• How do we find each other when we are all coworking all over town?  We need microdopplr for that.
• and..  Can we have a Brighton-wide coworking card, that supports all of the coworking spaces to support diversity of spaces and having different places for different moods?

If you haven’t tried coworking, come down and try it.  You’ll be amazed by how much work gets done and how useful and fun it is to have like minds around.

Our official name change to Nodestone Limited

A note for our clients that are into the corporate details:  As of 19th November, we officially renamed our company to Nodestone Limited from the previous name, Presence Labs Limited.  Bank accounts and cheques and all of that are now in the process of changing.  We’ll let you know on invoices and by letter if there’s anything you need to know or change.

Yay!

Back to being a coworker

I’ve given up my permanent desk at the werks and am turning into a 2-3 day a week coworker.  Regulars in the first floor garden room might see the empty desk and wonder.  Let me explain what’s going on.

We’ve got this puppy, see. :-)

And she needs company at home, so for the moment I’m normally working from home on Monday and Tuesday, and will be out and about at the werks and with clients etc on Wednesday through Friday.