Looking to start a business? Already operate one? Work from home or in the office? Operate online…brick & mortar...or both? The informed understand it’s every individual’s responsibility to help their families, communities, and the country at large. Although job numbers are rising, they're not rising fast enough to help resolve some of the systemic issues that a long-term economic downturn creates at the grassroots level. We represent an association of independent business owners specializing …

All Technical Professionals are welcome! The Research Triangle Alumnae Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers has recently been re-chartered and is part of a national student-based organization, dedicated to the development of intensive programs for increasing Black and other ethnic minority participation in the field of engineering and engineering technology. Founded in 1975 at Purdue University, NSBE now includes more than 394 College, Pre-College, and Technical Professional/Alumni …

This Meetup provides an online space for Microsoft app builders to come together and build apps with the help of Microsoft and our Community of Developers and Designers.

Refresh is a community of designers/developers working to refresh the creative, technical, & professional culture of new media endeavors in their areas through design, technology, usability & standards. Refresh is an international initiative, now over 60 cities strong. Visit refreshingcities.org for more.

Looking for a front end development meetup in the triangle area? Relax, you've found it. Discussions at Function Pink center around the latest techniques and best practices for professional HTML, CSS and JavaScript development.

NCTech4Good is the regional network for sharing knowledge about technologies that can advance the mission of nonprofit organizations. This sharing occurs during monthly meetings on the third Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:30 PM, and the annual conference. Visit our website www.NCTech4Good.org. NCTech4Good is supported locally by the N.C. Center for Nonprofits, Public Information Network, Inc. (also known as RTPnet), United Way of the Greater Triangle, and our conference sponsors, listed on this …

Everything design presented by professional designers. Crop is about sharing methods and techniques. We want to give designers a platform to showcase their skills and learn about the latest and greatest. If you love design, love to collaborate then we want you at the next Crop meetup. The format for the meetup will be an overall design theme and the second segment we will showcase a cool technique, latest software or new technology related to design. We don't want to focus solely on one area of …

The Web Design Meetup is an open floor forum for people with Web-related problems or interests. No matter what your background or skill level, amateur or expert, freelancer, entrepreneur, developer, or other, you're welcome to attend! Attendance is usually diverse and mixed. Ticker topics are set in advance to spur ideas. The format for the regular monthly meetup is always "open floor". People should feel at ease to raise issues that concern them and ask for help. Contributions are completely vo …

The TriUPA UX Book Club is managed by the Triangle User Experience Professionals' Association. You don't need to be a member to join, all you need is enthusiasm for creating easy-to-use interfaces. To learn more, go to www.triuxpa.org.

Are you in Talent Acquisition / Recruitment? Then this group is for you! Meet other local recruiters, HR professionals, ERE.net members, and Talent Acquisition leaders. Discuss topics including recruiting tactics, eRecruitment, social media, web 2.0/recruitment 2.0, talent management, best & next practices, and building business relationships. In Raleigh, it is all about who you know. Corporate talent acquisition practitioners are especially encouraged to join to share your experience. Other Top …

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Raleigh Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Raleigh serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who complements you. …

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 j …

Membership is comprised of Women either in the Information Security field or wanting to enter the field. The purpose of this group is to advance women in Information Security by promoting networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing, and opportunities. Regular workshops will be offered to bridge the gap of theory and/or minimal hands-on labs from a course you took or self-studying. You will get to learn and practice in an environment of like-minded women. Workshops will be led by SME's in …

This group is meant for all people who are somehow related to e-commerce. All are invited to join, e-commerce site owners (new and old), e-commerce developers, e-commerce platforms, EVERYONE. The objective of this group is to help e-commerce owners get in touch with service providers, professionals, etc, as well as different fellow e-commerce owners so we can help each other out with the daily problems of e-commerce activity. Regularly we will be organizing meetups, keynotes from e-commerce comp …

Triangle Web Women is a monthly gathering of female web professionals in North Carolina's Research Triangle area. Our goal is to foster connections among local female web professionals and to encourage those women to participate in the greater web community. Join the group and stay up to date about when we're meeting next; you can also stay in touch by following@triwebwomen on Twitter.

This is a group for health and mental health professionals (clinicians) interested in starting and/or expanding a clinical business. See this article about clinical professions: http://myclinicalbusiness.com/2012/10/22/500-best-jobs-overall/

Discuss and share practices, knowledge, pains and improvements over anything related to Software Quality Assurance and Testing. Agile, Risk-based, Automation, System, Integration, Exploratory, Regression, functional, security and in fact any kind of testing which assures the system. The group has information about certification, on-going training courses, both in person and on-line to further professional development. People from all across the US and world are welcome to join and share your tho …

This group is for current VCPs preparing for VCAP certification.  Here are some of the benefits of being in a study group: -Motivate each other to study and learn -Discuss difficult VCAP subject issues and concepts.  Share info from your virtualization specialties and experiences and receive help from others with varying technical specialties and experiences to help fill in the gaps.  Get well rounded in everything subject area you need: VMware networking, VMware storage, VMware security, VMwar …

GeekMeet is a technology networking group. We welcome all professionals that work in or around technology. Our members include entrepreneurs, project managers, developers, scientists, marketing, sales and more. Come out to GeekMeet to meet others in the industry and build your professional network with quality people. Go to http://www.geekmeet.com/raleigh-durham/ for more information and to signup on the website for additional benefits.

This is the most successful SEO Meetup in the United States because we concentrate on actionable advice. This Meetup IS NOT about tricks to fake out the search engines or how to make quick money online via Google. Raleigh's SEO meetup IS about getting realistic and informational advice on what works with the search engines. Show up once a month to find better ways to tune your site, get more distance from your marketing efforts, write good web content. Take the mystery out of what Google has to …

If you are the Owner of a Local Business, you are probably suffering from a drop in demand for your products or services as a result of the continuing economic recession. And...many businesses are still using outdated forms of advertising.  Literally throwing away thousands of dollars each month. Why not make your company’s website “Your Hardest Working Employee?” Using Search Engine Optimization on your website combined with Social Media Marketing, your business can achieve Increased Leads, Cu …

-Do you PPC, SEO, SEM, Tweet, Digg, and Autorespond? -Are you on all the guru's lists? Do you know Jay Abraham, Dan Kennedy, John Reese, Rich Schefren, Joel Comm and the others? -Do you have a swipe file? a Clickbank account? If you know exactly what I'm talking about then this group is for you! Let's all get together and help mastermind each other's businesses and share the latest cutting edge online marketing tactics and strategies. At each meeting, we'll also do our regular Q&A session w …

A “how to” Group to get new product ideas to market. All disciplines for ideation, prototype, marketing, merchandising, supply chain management, IT software, logistics, fulfillment, market channels, manufacturing, venture capitalists are all encouraged to share and recommend services and ideas. Inventors, innovators and people that have had that idea that they just don't know how to get it to market and be successful.

Join us to realize the next steps in your continued success! Here we discuss... Strategic Partnerships Channel Marketing Resellers For Your Products Revenue and Value Online Marketing and Brand Building And More!! Join the group today while membership is FREE!!

Formed in 2008 our mission is to provide an outlet for developers, IT, and business users who are interested in learning, sharing, and growing their knowledge in Microsoft SharePoint. Our goal is to bring together local, regional, and national speakers to share their knowledge of SharePoint and foster the SharePoint community in the greater Raleigh Durham area. We cover the entire spectrum of SharePoint topics. We meet on the 1st Tuesday of each month. Attendance is always free and informal. All …

This group is a place for developers to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database and many of the key committers are based right here in New York City. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions. We typically meet on the second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and …

Having a successful clinical practice is great. Having a successful business makes the practice and your life a whole lot better. If you agree with those statements then you are a wanna be or a mature "DENTALPRENEUR," somebody who is constantly looking for the sweet spot - where clinical and business needs are in perfect harmony. The purpose of this group is to gain business insights from a community of forward looking entrepreneurial dentists, all the while assuming that a solid foundation of c …

Can't get a job without experience? Can't get experience without a job? The Tech In exists to solve that catch-22. If you're a college student or a recent college grad studying software development, computer science, information systems, or anything else that makes other people ask you to fix their computer, we can help. That is, if you're in the Triangle area of North Carolina. Hopefully we'll get bigger soon. We try to have fun, help you learn a little, fill your stomachs with something other …