We are writers and aspiring writers. We meet regularly to attend author book readings, to hold informal writing workshops and discussions, and to support each others' writing aspirations. 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 are a supportive, non-competitive community focus …

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 …

… We also teach microblogging (Twitter), and the newest options for cutting-edge blogs. If you are an author publishing any kind of online content including fiction, writing a blog (or want to start one), want to find out about social media marketing for your business, or just need to be around some interesting people, come join us at the next BABS meeting. All blogging professionals are invited to network and share your products and services as well.

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

Stanford Web Consortium is all about Social Media - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Blogs. Bottom line - how do we make money with these Social Media? Is Facebook better than LinkedIn better than Twitter better than Google+ better than blogs for making money? This meetup is devoted to how to make money (legitimately) off of the Social Media platforms. Got ideas? Come share. Come learn. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AN …

  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 …

Traditionally, businesses have leveraged print coupons, newspaper ads, and direct mail to advertise their products and services. 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. How effective are these advertising and marketing channels for small businesses today? We will explore modern, …

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 …

Our meetups are for people who want to learn about WordPress, blogging and online marketing. Every person, family, business, group, club, or organization should have a website. WordPress is a free open source product and it allows you to build your own website. Our monthly meetups will appeal to you Do-it-Yourselfers who want to get a WordPress website launched. This meetup group is dedicated to providing you with an environment that’s supportive, productive and fun. Each month the meetups wil …

(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 …

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Writing Poetry!!! Let's share our poetry so that we can fine tune it and get it out there for publication. New additions to the group, as of June 7 2009, which are in-development: 1. website http://www.poetswanted.com 2. twitter account for quick updates on events, etc. - http://www.twitter.com/poetswanted 3. community blog: http://poetswanted.blogspot.com/ 4. Organizer's poems, haiku blog/tweets: http://www.fishridingabike.com/poetry.html

EcoTuesday is a structured networking event for sustainable business leaders that takes place on the fourth Tuesday of each month in cities across the country. Here's a brief outline of what takes place at each event: * Arrive at the venue, settle in, and meet new people * Learn about the cutting edges of sustainable business from an expert * Quickly introduce yourself & your project to a roomful of people * Network with people you learned about during the Introduction Circle Please go to www.ec …

The Marin Quantified Self Meetup is inspired by the Bay Area Quantified Self meetup and the Quantified Self blog. It's a regular show and tell for people who are tracking data about their body and conducting their own personal investigations and research into their bodies, minds, and selves. Anything is game -- from personal genetics to ways to digitize and track information, from how to self-diagnose to how to self-experiment with data and statistics. More specific topics include: * self meas …