The Venchure Community brings together like-minded professionals through roundtable discussions, user groups, training workshops, seminars and civic community activities. If you're an entrepreneur, startup, or a small business owner we welcome you to join!   *This group will be limited to specific types of professionals and your membership will be pending upon approval.  **This is not a group for MLM, sales leads, real estate or insurance sales. And definitely not a group for dating leads!! Any …

About BuddyPress BuddyPress is a robust WordPress plugin that can transform WordPress into a fully featured social networking platform. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress. Out of the box, users can create profiles, befriend one another, send private messages, form and join groups, follow activity streams, create blogs, and participate in forum discussions. But the best part about BuddyPress is that i …

We are a community of people in web-related professions including designers, developers, SEO specialists, social networking consultants, usability experts, content developers and marketing consultants. Many of us are sole proprietors with a specific niche in design or technology, while others are "generalists," sampling and mastering a broad range of interactive tools. We seek to support, inspire, educate and collaborate. People of all levels of expertise and interest are welcome as we explore t …

Looking to get maximum value out of your SharePoint application? Want to use SharePoint to build a competitive advantage for your organization? Not getting the usability or user adoption that you desire out of SharePoint? Join this group. This group is focused less on the intricate technical details of SharePoint development and more on the business applications of SharePoint. Each month different people in the group share their ideas and real world experiences using SharePoint. This group is …

Are you a Greater Chicagoland or north suburban Chicago area SharePoint user looking to get maximum value out of your SharePoint application? Perhaps you’re looking to use SharePoint in building a competitive advantage for your organization? Concerned that you’re not getting the usability or user adoption that you desire out of SharePoint? You need to join this group! We’re focused on the business application advantages of SharePoint, showcasing users’ ideas and real world experiences. PLUS, …

… Join Chicago WordPress Meetup Group if you are using or contemplating a WordPress website or want to learn more about WordPress. All levels of experience accepted. Email and Privacy Other than automatic email reminders sent from Meetup.com about upcoming Chicago WordPress Meetup Group events, you will not receive constant emails from the organizer. You can also disable automatic reminders or leave the group at any time. Organizers do not have your email address and you are not added to any lis …

Alfresco User Group focused on sharing experiences and best practices leveraging the Alfresco platform for content management. Users are invited to to become a member to share experiences, use cases, code, case studies and help foster the Alfresco Community!

We're a group of SugarCRM administrators, users, decision makers, managers and developers interesting in making the best use of SugarCRM in our companies. If you use SugarCRM in your company or are thinking about using it--either the commercial or community editions--come and learn from others doing the same.

Data Science Chicago brings together people interested in data science: the analytical "statistics and machine learning" side, the creative "visualization and design" side, the verbal "communication and story-telling" side, and especially the area in-between those extremes. Our members are professionals, students, consultants, and entrepreneurs that love data and understand the potential value it brings for society, business, and government. Meeting topics are varied and range from tutorials on …

The Chicago Erlang User Group is a community of technologists who are interested in learning more about the functional programming language Erlang. We meet regularly and have great presentations by local experts as well as international superstars. We also maintain a mailing list at ceug@googlegroups.com where good Erlang development talk takes place.  Please join us if you are simply interested in learning more about the language or are looking to share knowledge with other gurus. All are welc …

Social change makers and web innovators have come together in cities across the nation to share ideas, network, and build community web resources and network. Now join us, so Chicago can grow more technology savvy social change organizations that benefit our local communities. Staff and volunteers of non-profits, web innovators, and any individuals pushing for change are encouraged to attend. learn more at http://www.netsquared.org

We are a community of passionate experience designers interested in getting together to share stories, tools, project experiences and events! We explore human-computer interaction, agile design, user experience, frontend development, information architecture, interaction design, usability testing among other topics that help us deliver engaging customer experiences.

We bring together entrepreneurs, developers, investors, corporations and media by organizing conferences, workshops and meetups. Current conferences include: the Data 2.0 Conference in San Francisco and TechWeek Chicago. Techweek conferences have featured speakers from Google, Microsoft, Groupon, ChaCha, and crowdSPRING.  We've help launch new features from over 10 startups and companies including Twilio, Hipmunk and Windows Phone. Our mission is to connect the Midwest startup and technology sce …

Digital Diva 2.0, a start up community for women entrepreneurs, experts and future founders of female online and technology companies. Our vision is to bridge the gap for women in technology by providing resources, seminars, consulting and networking opportunities to start ups. Digital Diva 2.0, host monthly women technology networking events providing a platform for company founders of women owned and other minority companies to profile their start ups, and secure business guidance. Although ou …

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 …

Refresh Chicago is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in and around the Chicagoland area. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards. Do you feel like the web needs a new look? Interested in the latest web technologies? Care about design, but feel it must be usable? Want to meet informally with other designers and developers around town? Currently we meet every fourth Wednesday of the mon …