03
Feb
Get your week off to a sweet start! Beginning this coming Monday, February 6th, we will be serving up fresh Spudnut donuts for our members on the first Monday morning of every month.
Before diving into your workload for the week, take this opportunity to gather ’round the sugary, fried goodness (but it’s potato!) and make a new coworking friend.
We’ve had a lot of new member sign ups lately, and here’s your chance to meet all the new faces! There are so many great people at OpenSpace working on such a diverse range of projects, the collaborative potential is endless! But don’t just take our word for it. First Mondays is your chance to get to know the people who work around you every day. It’s a moment in our busy lives to build up the community-feel that makes coworking so great… while also indulging in a little sugar to get you going!
01
Feb
Brad Wilcox
Associate Professor of Sociology at UVA
Director of the National Marriage Project at UVA
President, Demographic Intelligence
THE WHO
As you can see from his titles above, Brad Wilcox is a busy man. A sociology professor at the University of Virginia since 2002, Brad teaches mostly undergraduate students in a variety of classes, such as the popular “Sociology of the Family,” a seminar on the Sociology of Religious Behavior, and an introductory course on Social Statistics.
He is also the Director of the National Marriage Project at UVA, which researches and reports on the state of marriage in America and analyzes the various factors involved in the quality and stability of contemporary marriage and family life. The National Marriage Project was founded in 1997 at Rutgers University, where it was located until 2009, when the Project moved to UVA and Brad took over as director. In December, Brad and the National Marriage Project released their 2011 State of Our Unions report, entitled “When Baby Makes Three: How Parenthood Makes Life Meaningful and How Marriage Makes Parenthood Bearable.” The report addresses marriage and parenthood and how it relates to happiness in marriage; the full report can be read on their website.
About a year ago, Brad started his own company, Demographic Intelligence, to provide demographic forecasting on fertility rates in the United States. A myriad of companies, from Gerber to Disney, come to him and his team for projections on US birth rates. With so many projects, Brad sums up his main focus of study as being about marriage and parenthood and the causes and consequences of a strong marriage and its effects on children. Through all his teaching and research, Brad says he strives to be a marriage-friendly voice in the academy, and he is often quoted in publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and the BBC.
THE WHY OPENSPACE
For this busy professor, OpenSpace is the perfect workspace when he needs to focus on a project or just get away from Grounds. It’s a great downtown location, he says.
WHAT YOU MIGHT NOT KNOW
Brad and his wife have eight kids, ranging from 11 years old to six months. Having eight kids really keeps you on your toes, Brad says (we can imagine!), but it’s been a great experience. Five of their children are adopted, three from Guatemala and two from Ethiopia, where they have visited frequently for the adoptions. The beauty of having kids, says Brad, is that it encourages you to have the perspective of a child. And we bet if you ask, he’ll have some great baby pictures!
Photo credit: Jen Fariello
28
Dec
Reclaim your productivity in 2012!
Everybody wants to start the New Year out on the right foot. Like hundreds already before you in Charlottesville, join our community of forward-thinking professionals who left home and got serious about their business.
Say good-bye to the distractions of your home office and let OpenSpace help you start 2012 off right. Sign up today for an Unlimited Plan and your first month is only $99!
Simply enter the promotion code UNLIMITED2012 when you sign up, but don’t wait too long – this offer expires soon! Applies to new OpenSpace members only.
27
Dec
OpenSpace is back from holiday! We are open today and all the rest of this week for our normal business hours.
If you’ve still got house guests or need to escape the temptations of too much good food, stop on by to see us and get a little work done!
19
Dec
The OpenSpace Christmas party is tomorrow!
Starting at 2pm in the Conference Studio, we’ll be serving up hot apple cider and assorted Christmas goodies while showing a selection of classic holiday movies.
A Charlie Brown Christmas will start things off at 2pm
Elf, starring Will Farrell, will go on at 2:30pm
Miracle on 34th Street (the original with young Natalie Wood!) will conclude the evening and will begin at 4:00pm
Join us for a little Christmas cheer, and feel free to bring family and friends!
Happy Holidays!
16
Dec
Reclaim your productivity in 2012!
Everybody wants to start the New Year out on the right foot. Like hundreds already before you in Charlottesville, join our community of forward-thinking professionals who left home and got serious about their business.
Say good-bye to the distractions of your home office and let OpenSpace help you start 2012 off right. Sign up today for an Unlimited Plan and your first month is only $99!
Simply enter the promotion code UNLIMITED2012 when you sign up, but don’t wait too long – this offer expires soon! Applies to new OpenSpace members only.
15
Dec
OpenSpace will be closed on Friday, December 23rd and Monday, December 26th for the Christmas holiday. We will be open during normal business hours the week of New Year’s.
But as always, Unlimited Members with 24×7 Access are free to work whenever they’d like.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
14
Dec
NEW! In response to great member feedback, we are pleased to announce a new feature from OpenSpace- now you can access our work studio calendars online!
Members can view existing reservations and see available times for their favorite work studio before requesting a room reservation. Use the link below to access the calendars:
http://getopenspace.com/calendars/
Now scheduling meetings will be easier than ever! If you see a time you would like to reserve, please contact our concierge staff at (434) 566-0880 or email us at hello@getopenspace.com.
14
Dec
To celebrate the Christmas season, OpenSpace is hosting a Christmas Party & Holiday Movie Marathon- hopefully our festivities won’t get upstaged by a snowpacalypse this year!
Next Tuesday, December 20th, starting at 2pm in the Conference Studio, we will be playing an assortment of all the best holiday movies! It will be a chance to take an early Christmas break and relax with other OpenSpace members while enjoying some classic seasonal favorites.
Elf,
A Charlie Brown Christmas, and
Miracle on 34th Street (the original!) will be showing on the big screen, and there will be popcorn, hot cider, and Christmas goodies to munch on throughout the afternoon. Feel free to invite friends, the more the merrier!
Rumor has it Jeff may also make a special appearance as Santa Claus, and Joseph may or may not be convinced to play an elf. Caroling encouraged.
434-566-0880
