Important Media is a blog network focusing on creating the best possible environment to support content experts in realms that matter for humanity. If you've got something important* to say, we want to help. * we define "important" as meeting one of Maslow's basic human needs, applied to humanity as a whole.

Traditional marketing sucks! No budget, no resources, just pure creativity and innovation is what startup marketing is all about. You love it. You thrive on it. Join the SF startup marketing meetup group and share your successes (and failures), how you executed them and what you learned with the group. Each meetup we'll pick a new topic and have marketers present their stories. Topics might include acquiring customers, demand creation, blogging, analytics and measuring marketing effectiveness, s …

Got Questions about WordPress?  This weekly support group is appropriate for users, developers, and designers working with WordPress.  Bring your questions, we'll try to figure out an answer in the group.$10

  The Enchanted Business Woman™ The Enchanted Business Woman™ Meet-Up, is a networking group designed to empower you to Live, Lead and Work with Heart and Purpose . Our agenda has been created to serve you personally and professionally. Our networking style is casual, and created so you can let down your "professional hair," and focus on the social aspect of networking. At each meeting we will have a guest speaker, chosen to inspire and lead you in a way t …

(This statement is borrowed from the blog on which this group is based.) Thinking and deciding are central to our daily lives. The Less Wrong community aims to gain expertise in how human brains think and decide, so that we can do so more successfully. We use the latest insights from  cognitive science, social psychology,probability theory, and decision theory to improve our understanding of how the world works and what we can do to achieve our goals. Want to know if your doctor's diagnosis is c …

… We meet every month at Access Growth Usually we have the follow agenda: 1 Food and networking 2 Speakers Presentations. 3 Lightning Demos 4 Announcements We welcome to app demos, speakers, sponsors, blogs, news: 1 Please submit your lightning demo by adding comments to the specific meetup with your name, company name, app name, one sentence introduction, url. It is open in most of cases. 2 Please submit your speaker/presentation request by email. 3 Sponsors for gift, food, and drinks …

We empower businesses with web tools to amplify their voices and increase their business. This takes the form of: Beautiful and effective websites Easy to use blogs, forums and live support Facebook and other social media marketing Email marketing and customer relation management (CRM) Simple and well made shopping carts Search services for locally focused businesses AdWords campaign implementation and management Full, professional search engine optimization (SEO) services  Em …

Do you want to feel good and improve the quality of your life, meeting likeminded people in the process? Do you enjoy reading books about Mind, Body and Spirit? Would you like to empower yourself with a proven, practical approach to life? Whether you're a beginner or have more experience with the Law of Attraction philosophy, the Law of Attraction Centre is perfect for you. The Law of Attraction Centre, first established in London, UK in 2003, is the largest and most talked about Law of Attracti …

I started this group because of one reason. I LOVE BEER! Not just a little, but it consumes my life entirely! I'm always on the quest for the "best" double ipa, the "best" stout or Belgian ale. I've had a beer blog for over a year, www.barleypop.com, and wanted to branch out and not just "write" about beer, but share my beer adventures with a group of beer fanatics like me! So if you love beer and you love checking out great beer spots, join us!

This is a regular show and tell for people who take advantage of various personal self-tracking tools and methods to gain more knowledge about themselves, others and the world around them. Come share what you are doing and learn from others. Topics include, but are not limited to: *Self-experimentation *Behavior monitoring *Lifelogging, lifecaching, lifestreaming *Location tracking *Digitizing body info *Biometric data *Psychological self-assessments *Medical self-diagnostics *Personal genome se …

Design Salon Workshops for the Do-It-Yourselfer! Hosts: Lori Pepe-Lunché, Principal Interior Designer of Design Salon Janelle Renée, Design Salon Blog Editor http://www.designsalononline.com/ So far, we have these workshops in the works: - reupholster your ottoman- making simple and elegant covered tables and shelves- making and wiring your own chic table lamps- creating stylish branch lights- making your own design inspiration board just like a professional interior designer- creating …

Work is love made visible, Khalil Gibran.When you connect spirit to work, stress eases and burnout disappears.  You can see more clearly the way to work with increased integrity, purpose and joy .... and have time outside work for a rich life.That's been the theme of all my work for the past 15 years, first as a "Vision and Values" columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle, then the book Work with Meaning, Work with Joy: Bringing Your Spirit to Any Job, then numerous articles and book chapters i …

We love to drink wine that matches our food interests (local, organically grown). If you want to explore this, please join us! Check out the blog at www.winecountrygeographic.com for more info.

My Transformative Salon Groups have been happening for about 6 years in the SF Bay, New York/Brooklyn, and the Boston Area. They are currently back in the SF Bay. They are best describes as the optimal best of three worlds: Classroom/book club, group counseling, and ideal dinner party. They are less heady and conceptual than classrooms, less emotional and affective than group counseling, and unlike most dinner parties we all stay connected during the entire group rather than splitting off into t …

What in olden times was a sewing circle has turned into a vibrant online community--BurdaStyle, SewWeekly, blogs... But recently I've noticed local sewists reaching out to each other to connect in more personal ways. Let's start our own sewing circle, have a swap meet, go to the Alameda flea market, share inspiration and techniques, or oogle fabrics at Britex! This is a San Francisco Bay Area meetup for all people looking to meet up with other sewers. Learn more about who we are and what we'd li …

Every month the East Bay WordPress Meetup brings together both newbies and experts to talk about everything WordPress, from the features in new releases to favorite themes, plugins, and widgets, to specialized topics like SEO, theme design, customizing WordPress, and WordPress Multi-site.