You are invited to join us for networking conversations over lunch with local IT professionals,  webmasters and people of diverse professions and backgrounds to exchange experiences in programming, administration, hosting, development, design, and/or just to meet to chat and learn from non-webmasters to understand where clients are coming from for greater overall long term success. These events are great for practice skills required to build business ventures and develop mutually supportive and …

Meet other people in Baltimore who are involved in Search Engine Marketing (SEO and PPC) and have a bite to eat or perhaps a beverage or two! THIS GROUP IS INTENDED FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE INVOLVED IN SEO AND/OR INTERNET MARKETING IN A PROFESSIONAL CAPACITY. This is not training for beginners! The purpose of the group is to provide Effective January 2009, we expect to meet quarterly. Quality not quantity :) Our format will include roughly 60 minutes for presentation and Q&A in a meeting room …

Meet others from DC, MD, & VA interested in New Media, Web 2.0, Video 2.0, and Social Networks. Gather to discuss & learn: webcasting, internet video & video blogging, social media platform technology (Ning, Facebook, MySpace, openID, etc.), digital content, startups, funding & pitching, semantic web, new products & cool ideas & websites. We cover the following and more areas of web technology: * New media * Social web * Web 2.0 & 3.0 * Video 2.0 * Social apps/widgets * Microblogging & blogging …

If you want to know more about Information Security, you should join! If you know much about Information Security, you should join! If you don't know anything about Information Security, you should join! While we focus on helping people earn the distinctive Certified Information Systems Security Professional title, this Meetup is for anyone who wants to learn or share knowledge of computer security. If you'd like to earn a CISSP certification, this group will help you get there. If you have a CI …

Non-profits and activists around Philadelphia are increasingly using the web and social software to foster social change. Join Philly NetSquared as we bring together web innovators and social changemakers to socialize, strategize, learn from and inspire one another. For more info, including past Net Tuesday presentations, check out our site at http://phillynetsquared.org. NetSquared is a national organization (http://www.netsquared.org/) with chapters in many cities. Net Tuesdays are independent …

This meetup is for SharePoint professionals: - Network with fellow SharePoint Professionals - Learn about new developments - Share your knowledge Please join us and explore the world of SharePoint...

The purpose of this group is to enrich our businesses, share ideas, discuss strategies, and talk to people whose eyes don't glaze over when we talk about internet marketing. We get together once monthly to discuss various issues that we rarely get to talk about in the "real world". We are a mastermind group that discusses: * Internet Marketing * SEO (Search Engine Optimization) * Ecommerce * Affiliate Marketing * Social Networking * Working from home * Internet trends We'll discuss SEO, PPC, Soc …

Meet other local SEOs, marketers, developers, designers, and anyone interested in SEO. Anyone in Harrisburg, York, Lancaster and greater Central PA is welcome to join and attend! We will also be discussing SEO, PPC, website analytics, link building, web design, web development and other webmaster topics. Bi-monthly meetups to be held in the greater Harrisburg area. Please contact William Craig at wcraig@webpagefx.com with additional topics to present.

The Central PA IBM POWER Systems User Group is for IT professionals interested in learning more about IBM POWER systems. Specifically, topics relating to POWER technology, virtualization, performance, AIX and i OS's, and more. Users of IBM POWER Systems in the Harrisburg, Lancaster, York, Reading, Lebanon,and Hanover areas are welcome to join our group and attend meetings. Users of all skill levels and backgrounds are welcome. We meet at least twice a year at a venue located in the Harrisburg/ …

We are a group of IT Professionals who will meet to discuss and share ideas related to technology in the public sector.

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

3rd Tuesdays in Bethesda is a community of businesses and professionals looking to share, learn and benefit from each other. Our community will meet every 3rd Tuesday at BlackFinn in Bethesda to build relationships, find opportunities while enjoying themselves. This group can leverage this meetup group, Bethesda Connections on LinkedIn, DC Connections and Connections HQ as well as our monthly events. Click here to register: http://bethesdabiz.eventbrite.com/

For start-ups, entrepreneurs, hackers, and technology enthusiasts in the Lehigh Valley to share and demo what they are working on.  Come to learn about the start-ups in the Lehigh Valley and to network with other technology professionals. If you are interested in presenting a demo of your product or project contact mark@lehighvalleytech.org.

Welcome to “ The Philly Business Networking Group (PhillyBNG)”. Over the last 4 years, our parent company, NYCBNG has earned a stellar reputation as thhe premier networking group in the country.  Each month we host free and paid business networking events to introduce you to the most dynamic business professionals and executives, business owners and entrepreneurs. In August 2011, Ilana Eberson, President of the company, won a spot in the Top 100 Small Business Influencer Award. We are excited …

The ultimate goal of our group is for you and our group members to obtain a strong global presence. We understand the complexities and intricacies of the global marketplace. The more countries, languages, and cultures involved, the more attention will be required in the execution of your strategy. Visionary business leaders understand these barriers and risks involved but also understand the potential rewards that can result, including new revenue streams, sales channels, and partnerships. All …

This group was started as a means for local independent creative and technology professionals to meet and share ideas. Often, independent contractors or freelancers work from home which allows for total freedom of work style, but lacks regular collaboration or even interaction with like minded people. The purpose of this group is to provide a forum for designers, developers, writers and other creative professionals, working in professional services industries to connect and exchange relevant inf …

Our Purpose The purpose of this group is to create a professional network for Online Marketing and Social Media professionals located in Bucks and Montgomery Counties, PA. Networking Our goal is to exchange ideas, discuss strategies and talk about interesting industry topics. Our events will bring together social media peers, online marketing specialists, bloggers, SEO experts and anyone interested in those areas. Keep it cool! We want to keep the meetups friendly and informal, as most people ar …

Rockville SEO Experts is a local networking group specifically for online marketing, analytics and SEO professionals in the Rockville, MD area to share industry information, job opportunities and best practices.

A local meetup group for folks in the Lancaster, PA area to meet and discuss WordPress. We aim to welcome everyone interested in WordPress, from the casual blogger, the professional business owner, the designers and developers that make things possible, and the SEO people that make things visible!

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and,  in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just …

A community where Digital Forensics and Media Exploitation professionals meet together to discuss challenges facing the community and work together to create innovative solutions.

The Central Pennsylvania .NET Users Group is a voluntary association of information technology professionals and enthusiasts who meet monthly with regionally and nationally known speakers to share information, ideas, and experience using Microsoft Visual Studio .NET and related technologies.

The Philly 'burbs WordPress Meetup bridges the gap between designers and developers building WordPress sites and writers, bloggers and marketers who use them on a daily basis. We focus on both design and development considerations (tips, techniques and hacks) as well as user concerns like expanded functionality and best practices. The conversation is all about WordPress. We aim to create an atmosphere of sharing and collaboration, where each side of the conversation can contribute to insightful …

This is to be the inaugural meeting of NoVA Networkers, a discussion group for computer network engineers and administrators of all skill levels. (Please note that this group is NOT for interpersonal networking.) The goal of the group is to facilitate the free exchange of ideas and experiences among like-minded professionals. The group was founded by Jeremy Stretch of packetlife.net, and is not sponsored by any commercial entity. (This means that all vendors and technologies are fair game!)

Our goal is to help people gain the skills, experience, and connections necessary to be successful in the tech industry, regardless of their race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. We work to achieve this goal by providing low cost classes, professional development seminars, networking opportunities, and employment resources. We encourage anyone who is currently in the tech industry, would like to enter the tech industry, or just interested in the tech industry to join.

Do you know your ways around systems? Do you know more than just performing vulnerability, network scans, password cracking, or using a sniffer to listen across the network wire, etc.?  Can you decrypt encrypted files on the fly? Today's network traffic is mostly encrypted, how do you analyze traffic?  Do organizations have a box or appliance to decrypt traffic?  What if you are an Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Analyst, how would you examine the traffic -- if 80% to 90% of the traffic is enc …

The Capital Area ColdFusion User Group meets once a month in the DC Metro area. We are a technical and social community of developers, software architects, managers and students with professional and personal interest in all or some aspects of the Adobe ColdFusion development platform and its related technologies.

LOPSA DC is the DC chapter of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA), a local group created for system administators in the DC Metro area. LOPSA is a nonprofit corporation based out of New Jersey with members throughout the world with the mission of advancing the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through education and outreach on system administration issues. While membership in LOPSA is e …