State of the Space Address

Posted by Drew January 12th, 2010

January is a fine time to look forward and consider the potential accomplishments and goals of the upcoming year. BetaLoft has been around for 6 whole months, and we’ve accomplished a handful of both simple and great things. We expect 2010 will bring about much much more.  Here are some things I personally hope to see this year.
How does BetaLoft and/or Coworking fit into your goals this year?

More Groups. The Loft is nothing if it isn’t a comfortable place for people to network and share. This past year we’ve been home to CodeAway, S.L.L.U.G, Salt Lake iPhone Users Group, and we were key in the beginnings of the Salt Lake Autodesk Users Group.  We’ve also hosted numerous other groups from the Social Media Club of SLC to Startup Princess‘ SLC chapter.

More Loft Activities. We tried last year to hold a separate night of fun each month at that loft, some were very well attended, others…well anyway this year we want to see a growth in the energy that surrounds these Loft nights.  We’ve had nights of playing Rock Band, TechKaraoke, and Christmas parties.   This year we hope to include LAN parties, board game nights and more parties.

More Members. Obviously any coworking space is benefited by having dynamite members.  We hope to increase our ‘Spark’ by increasing our membership base.  We have so many unique individuals who frequent the loft it’s a veritable cornucopia of professional awesome sauce.  It can only get more savory, the more members we have!

Kill the Hyphen. It’s coworking…not co-working.    Editors, your spell-check is wrong. please see doescoworkinghaveahyphen.com and have a nice day.

More Start-ups. BetaLoft is a perfect place for birthing new ideas, new designs, and new companies.  We hope to see more startups calling BetaLoft home.

More Giving. We believe in giving, and giving some more.  We have hopes and dreams of spearheading Utah’s first Givecamp. More details to come, soon!