We are thrilled to announce that CoLab Orlando and doterati have decided to join efforts and are now together on a very special partnership!

For those of you who are not familiar with doterati, doterati is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advance the Central Florida interactive marketing, media and technology community by serving as an association for professional development, education, community networking and overall inspiration for our digital society.

For more information, please visit www.doterati.com

The idea of this partnership is to provide the members of doterati and CoLab with special benefits and discounts while helping the tech/creative community of Central Florida grow stronger.

Some of the benefits and discounts we are offering are the following:

doterati Founding Members:
• Receive $25 off CoLab Orlando part-time and full-time membership!
• When taking out your CoLab Membership, denote your doterati membership on the application that will later be validated.

CoLab Orlando Members:
• Receive a 25% discount off any doterati Founding Membership!
• Please note that this does not apply to CoLab memberships that are available for $25 per month.

Do you want to learn more? please contact us at Staff@CoLabOrlando.com

Direct Art is a new Art School in Orlando. It is a non-traditional school of various arts. The curriculum consists of a plethora of stand-alone, one hour classes that are original, specific, and fun! Tisse Mallon- an artist consultant-founds Direct Art-

Tisse encountered many individuals who were artistic in nature but not quite sure where they belonged in the art world and she believes art empowers us through its use as a vehicle of expression, collaboration, and self-discovery.

No Arts Experience Necessary!

Direct Art classes include:

Painting
Drawing
Mixed Media
Photography
Film
Acting
And more…

In addition, every Saturday night from 10 am to 2 am you are welcome to visit The Lounge…artists get together to hang out…have drinks and meet each other- it is free!

For more information visit DirectArtOrlando.com

On December 18 at 6:30 pm, Ignite Orlando will be having its very first event-planning meeting and you are invited!

Ignite Orlando is a community event and all our welcome.

This planning meeting will be held here at CoLab from 6: 30 pm to 7:30 pm-, everybody is invited.

Topics include:

• What is Ignite Orlando
• The Event Coordinator role
• The role of the Talk Coordinator
• The role of the Space Liaison
• The role of the Make Project Coordinator
• The role of the Volunteer Coordinator
• The need for a Videographer
• The need for a Photographer
• Event Promotion
• Future Meetings
• Projected Costs to run the event
• The event date

If you would like to get involved or just show your support, please come by!

To learn more about this event and Ignite Nights, please visit:

http://www.igniteorlando.com/about/

The CoLab website is finally up and running! Here you will find all sorts of fun facts, pricing and info about CoLab Orlando along with the latest news, updates and events. Check out the events section to view the upcoming tech and creative happenings around town. The location page is filled with info and history about the building that houses CoLab, the Angebilt on Wall St. Also view the current prices on the pricing page.

In the coming weeks and months we will be launching new website features and improvements along with updating news and events, so keep coming back or subscribe to the CoLab RSS feed for a better way to keep up to date with Orlando’s co-working space. You can follow us on Twitter too!

Big thanks to Derek Bender for the design and buildout of the site and Danny Jones for the great branding! Also thanks to everyone else that helped out too!