Join us this Thursday for Hive Homecoming Happy Hour! We will have drinks and appetizers!
Come and meet with current and past members of the Hive, mix and mingle! If you would like to check out the coworking space for the day, please feel free to drop in!
Hope to see you on Thursday!
Hey Drupal freelancers and telecommuters! Get out of your PJ’s and do some parallel working with other Drupal peeps on Friday, November 2 from 9 am – 5 pm.
Join us at Beehive Baltimore at Emerging Technology Centers in Baltimore. Please RSVP so we can get a head count!
What is it?
What is provided?
What should I bring?
Where is it?
Beehive Baltimore
Emerging Technology Center
2400 Boston St #308 – 3rd Floor
Baltimore, MD 21224
Do you have a pile of unwanted tech or business books at home? We’re trying an experiment this month, one that we may make permanent – a free-for-all book swap at the Beehive.
Bring your unwanted tech or business books to the hive, and feel free to peruse the books that have been donated so far. Take what you want! We’ll use the same model that The Book Thing uses – the maximum number of books you can take is one million. At the end of the month, we will donate all the leftovers to The Book Thing.
There are only two rules:
Stop by anytime, and look for the signs and boxes of books. Thanks to the GBTC and Vigilant Medical for the first batches of donated books (the GBTC has donated multiple copies of a few books, including “Crush It!” by Gary Vaynerchuk, and “The Dip” by Seth Godin. Please consider taking a few copies of each of these to give to friends and colleagues).
Remember to sign the sheet to let us know how many books you’ve dropped off, and how many you’ve taken! And let us know what you think of this experiment.
Special thanks to Jonathan Julian and Kate Bladow for setting this up and hauling away the leftovers at the end of the month!
Curious about coworking?
In town after RailsConf?
Come cowork at Beehive Baltimore on our first Open Cowork Day, Friday, May 20, 2011. We open at 9am, and coworkers are often here past 5pm. Come see the space, get some work done, meet some members, and see if coworking at the Beehive is right for you.
On this day, we will not collect day fees. Come cowork for the whole day, or just stop by to see what we’re all about!
Welcome RailsConf attendees! The Beehive is Baltimore’s first coworking facility, and is considered by some to be at the epicenter of Baltimore’s young tech scene. The “hive” is frequented by many B’More on Rails members, and hosts the monthly B’More on Rails Open Source Hack Night, as well as the monthly Baltimore JavaScript meetup. We’re looking forward to meeting you! Contact @jonathanjulian if you need more info.
Our friends at SplitGear shot an amazing video tour of the Hive! Highlighting some of our finer commodities, the video also shows you how to find the Beehive from the street, a common question we get from first time visitors.
If you’re interested in checking out the space but haven’t taken the leap yet, be sure to take a look at this short video to get introduced!
Again, thanks so much to Paul from SplitGear for shooting this for us in stunning HD, if you’ve been on the fence about dropping in hopefully this encourages you to drop in. If you’d like a personal tour, just shoot a quick email to info@beehivebaltimore.org and we’ll meet up with you!
See you soon,
-Brian
Hey folks,
Wanted to touch base and wish everyone a happy 2010, and also update
you on some of the stuff that’s in the works for 2010 at the Hive!
1. Trip to IndyHall. As you likely know, we are planning a good sized
field trip to IndyHall in Philadelphia on January 22nd. You can find
out more info here – we hope you can make it: http://trip2indyhall.eventbrite.com
2. 2010 Events: We’ve set dates for our community events including
Town Halls, Show & Tell, and more all the way through the end of the
year. Some dates may end up changing somewhat as things evolve, but we
wanted to get some stuff on the books! Time flies when you’re having
fun. Check it out: http://beehivebaltimore.org/events/
3. Membership Billing: Many of you have been keeping up with your
membership payments via Paypal. Others of you are probably waiting on
reminders. Mike Subelsky, Jonathan Julian, Greg Gershman and I have
been working to automate the billing + Paypal processing for the Hive
presence-tracking system and are finalizing that today. Expect to hear
from us shortly with the totals you owe. That said, if you know what
you (think) you owe and/or want to support Beehive at any level, you
can always send funds to billing@beehivebaltimore.org. Beehive is kind
of like public radio; it’s not possible without your sustained
support, and we just need to cover our costs and keep the lights on.
We have added many new members in the last few weeks and I encourage
you to drop by in the coming weeks — not just once to say hi but
several times, so you meet more people — to get to know your local
tech/startup/creative community better. Beehive is what we all make it
and we keep adding to it, one person at a time.
We are also putting together a “community directory” as part of the
Hive-mind — if you have not, please go to http://gravatar.com and
upload your avatar so we can include you in the directory. A very
early version of the directory can be found here: http://hive.beehivebaltimore.org/people
; we will be adding the ability to include Twitter ID’s, etc there
soon.
I really hope you are able to make our community trip to IndyHall and
get your tech/startup/arts scene groove on… it’s going to be a great
trip and I’m super-excited to share the energy there with all of you.
There are several other things in the works and we’ll be talking about
that on both the IndyHall trip as well as at our Town Hall on January
27th. If you have ideas or know groups and individuals who could
contribute positively to the Hive community, please feel free to reach
out and get them involved!
See you around the Hive soon!
Best,
Dave
What if there was a place where freelancers, creatives, entrepreneurs and financiers could meet up to collaborate on up-and-coming startup ideas? That place exists today, and it’s called Beehive Baltimore.
On October 1st, Beehive Baltimore will celebrate its first nine months of operation as a coworking facility, located in the Emerging Technology Center in Canton.
If you’re not familiar with coworking, it’s a shared workspace for creative professionals who might otherwise work at home or in a coffee shop. These days, anyone who works primarily via laptop and the internet is a great candidate for coworking!
Beehive Baltimore opened Feb. 1, 2009, specifically to cater to these kinds of professionals, and the Beehive community now has over 40 members including people in Web design, programming, marketing, public relations, finance and other information-based industries.
Last Thursday, we held an open house at the Hive for prospective members and others in the community to stop by, meet some of our members, and find out more about what coworking is all about.
Beehive is designed to be a community of peers, and does not aim to make a profit. Working in partnership with the Emerging Technology Center in Canton, Beehive aims to connect freelancers, seasoned entrepreneurs, and other professionals via long-term relationships that lead to mutual benefit – and possibly to new startups!
The Hive (as we call it) has also already given birth to multiple events and meet-ups that might not otherwise have a place to meet. Some of the groups that we either have hosted or have helped create include:
• Baltimore Angels (an angel investment group)
• Baltimore Hackers (a computer language study group)
• Baltimore/Washington Javascript meetup
• Baltimore Flash/Flex User Group (a group for users of Adobe’s Flex platform)
• Refresh Baltimore (a web professionals group)
• Barcamp Baltimore (a user-generated tech conference)
• TEDxMidAtlantic (coming on Nov. 5)
On Oct. 1st at 12pm, Beehive Baltimore will host its first “Show and Tell” event, where participants are invited to share their projects, startups, or prototypes and get feedback from the group.
And on Oct. 15th, Beehive Baltimore will be recognized by the Maryland Daily Record as an “Innovator of the Year.”
Several Beehive members and affiliates will be providing some guest posts for BaltTech over the next two weeks while Gus Sentementes is on vacation. So stay tuned for some voices from the Hive over the coming days!
Beehive Baltimore is part of a large coworking movement. Hundreds of cities all around the world from Los Angeles to Charlotte to Paris to Shanghai have implemented coworking facilities, and we see ourselves as connected to these communities.
And so coworking looks to be an integral part of the tech startup ecosystem – where entrepreneurs, creative talent, and angel investors can all come together to talk about the Next Big Idea.
To find out more about Beehive Baltimore, visit http://beehivebaltimore.org.
You may have seen on Twitter (via @bhivebmore) that we are planning a Community Open House event at Beehive Baltimore on Thursday, September 24th.
I hope you will be able to stop by sometime on Thursday and hang out for at least a couple of hours and meet some of the new people in our community who are looking to learn more about coworking!
We’ll also be having lunch from 12:30-1:30 and hope you can join us for that as well!
And please feel free to bring a friend who you think might be interested in coworking. Now that fall is here and vacation season is over, we are looking to expand the Beehive community.
Lastly, we’d like to ask you to commit, if you’re able, to working at least one day per week at Beehive Baltimore! Having an active coworking community requires your active participation, and you’ll get out of it what you and others put into it. So, please pick a day or two per week that works for you and come on down. Beehive is open every Monday-Friday from 9:00am on!
We look forward to seeing you on Thursday, and thank you again for your support for coworking in Baltimore!
This year has been full of gut-wrenching change here in Baltimore, and no industry has felt that change more sharply than the newspaper industry. Starting in February with the demise of the Baltimore Examiner and followed by deep, continuous cuts at the Baltimore Sun, long-time employees of these institutions are looking at what to do next in a market that seems to have all but forgotten the value of traditional journalism.
We lament these developments but believe that there’s only one solution: to start anew. Towards that end, we at Beehive Baltimore are encouraging laid off staff from the Sun to come and work for free through the month of May. Meet your local creative and tech community. Get networked. Work on some projects. Meet some collaborators. The future is now and we’re all writing it together. Come and be a part of it!
So, if you have been laid off from the Baltimore Sun, please join us at the Hive and bring your creative projects, ideas, and contacts. You won’t be disappointed, and we’d love to have you.