We meet regularly to explore, discuss, and share Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and general issues related to Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We will also explore topics related to SEO: social media marketing, blogging, affiliat …

Welcome to the San Francisco HTML User Group (also known as THE Largest HTML5 User Group in the World)! We are enthusiasts of HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and related cutting-edge web technologies. We meet monthly with the industry's leading experts who talk about, present, and demonstrate the latest concepts, features, APIs (you name it!) in this cool new world, and answer all your burning questions. Our past speakers have included such HTML5 superstars as Paul Irish, Bruce Lawson, Steve Souders, G …

Investor Ron Conway estimates real-time data is 1 percent to 2 percent of Web content (2009). In three years, it will climb to 25 percent of the content on the Web. That will make the market a $5 billion opportunity. “I think this is the next multi-billion dollar market.” – Ron Conway The real-time web has the potential to disrupt and fundamentally shift the way we communicate. This is THE meet-up to attend if you are shaping or wanting to know the people, technology and thought-leaders of th …

Wish you could meet other people who work at the local coffee shop or in their slippers at home? Want to share ideas for business, freelancing, etc.? Join us and other coworkers who are discovering the value and power of working side by side on your own projects. We'll be highlighting events all around the Bay Area, at existing coworking spaces as well as forming ones. Welcome back to Bay Area Coworking. We're reviving this long-dormant MeetUp group to make it something that truly encompas …

Welcome to the Responsive Web Design SF Meetup Group. This group, based in San Francisco, CA, actively supports the San Francisco Web Design and Development communities, by educating it's members about Web Design, Web Standards, development languages, frameworks, libraries and best practices, and how they all converge in the exciting Responsive Web Design paradigms. Watch this space for the first Responsive Web Design workshop, which will include building a Responsive web site, from design to de …

Bay Area Community Managers is a group for community managers to casually get together and share experiences, ideas and tricks.

… BACE Timebank Mission •Build a more resilient, sustainable, fair and decentralized local economy based on relationships, trust and the sharing of resources and skills •Building and maintaining an accessible, sustainable Timebank - an online directory, reputation and hour-based accounting system - that facilitates better communication of needs and resources and a more abundant means of exchange •Strengthen community bonds to improve emotional and economic security by creating an interconnected we …

Are you a professional in a web-related field? A Tibet supporter? Interested in helping to make change happen? This group is for professionals working in web-related fields who support the Tibetan people's cause and want to help by contributing their ideas, skills and energy in a collaborative, stimulating atmosphere with like-minded people. We would like to form a think-tank of talented people from multiple disciplines to creatively explore how web 2.0, digital video and social media can …

A group of passionate FreeSWITCH enthusiasts exchanging ideas in an open forum. We're here to explore not just FreeSWITCH but other telecommunications initiatives around open source telephony. The group will consist of formal trainings, informal install fests, lots of Q&A time and general time to just share ideas and meet people. This group is founded by Darren Schreiber - the author of FreePBX v3, FreeSWITCH's mod_nibblebill module and various other open-source telecom software. Meetings are …

Meetup with other people interested in the XMPP and Jabber Technologies and how they will change the internet! XMPP is becoming a very hot topic : come, join and share with us!  

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Meet other Meetup Organizers and Assistant Organizers. Get new ideas on events and venues, exchange tips on how to improve your Meetup, and take advantage of the direct line to Meetup.com for feedback and suggestions.

Come discuss Javascript with some of the most talented programmers in the East Bay. Show off some of the cool projects you've been working on and talk about everything happening in the JS community. Let's share tips, tricks, hacks and frameworks! We don't have a JavaScript group in the East Bay so I thought I'd start one. Our first topic is an intro to Node. Come check it out!   Logo provided by Oakland's Where It's AT-AT. http://www.oaklandiswhereitsatat.com/

Based on the idea that we all benefit tremendously from giving our time and attention, the Community Learning Web is a network of families that have agreed to facilitate fun activities for each other during regular sessions throughout the year. We are located in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are interested in learning together and connecting socially through shared activities. Our mission is to create fun, accessible activities primarily for homeschooling families. We create social and learn …

East Bay Technology Executives (EBTE) has been formed to take advantage of and leverage our common East Bay location and unique cultural attributes. To create a foundation of shared experience, membership is open to people living in who live in the Bay Area's 510- and 925- area codes...and are current or former: officer-level (VP or more senior) executives and entrepreneurs/founders from technology companies of all types (hardware/software, communications, digital media, Internet, cleantech, et …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big and change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, financial …