Our group is a community of people involved in the creation and delivery of content, including web writers and editors, content strategists, and content managers. We meet monthly to further our shared commitment to creating more effective online and interactive content, network, and grow. If you're interested in content strategy or web content, please join us!

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

What is Lean UX about? Lean UX is about learning more, more quickly. Lean UX is about getting more done better for the same investment. Lean UX is about replacing time spent polishing your design artifacts, with time spent polishing your design. Lean UX is about doing research, testing your hypotheses, and building better hypotheses quickly, based on more information, based on reality. Read 10 Principles for Lean UX on Luxr The intersection between Lean Thinking, Agile Development and UX is a …

SF Creative Coders is a meetup every few weeks to bring our local community of hackers, designers & creative technologists together to share experiences and build new friendships here in the Bay Area. The goal is to get outside and meet fellow coders while enjoying the amazing beauty that is San Francisco. Our conversations tend to center around the intersection of human / computer interaction, emerging technologies, and interface design. If you are interested in the above, passionate about UI/U …

Bringing designers + geeks together to talk shop, startups, and do some knowledge sharing. All types of designers + geeks welcome. Designers + Geeks Newsletter All Designers + Geeks events, news, and giveaways are announced through our newsletter. You can subscribe to it here: Join The Designers + Geeks Newsletter We hate spam, and will only use your contact info for Designers + Geeks news. Connect with us on Twitter & Facebook: @DesignersGeeks Facebook Page

This User Group meets to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences around the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. You will learn from the experts, meet your peers, and enjoy pizza and drinks at each meeting.  Meetings are free, and are held monthly in either San Francisco or Mountain View. We are a volunteer organization sponsored by the Professional Association for SQL Server and software companies.

A San Francisco-based Hadoop user group focused on helping Hadoop users share experiences, problems and solutions, as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Hadoop-based systems. Please fill out this short survey to help determine the best date/time for most people to meet - http://bit.ly/ajK26U.

We welcome anyone interested in social gaming on mobile (Android & iOS). Whether you love to play the games or sit in your garage and write code to create these games, we'd love to have you join us! Majority of our events cater to developers and helping them socialize, monetize, and increase users for their games. Our topics will range from discussing gamification of games, current games and technology, and analyzing market trends. Its a great causal place to network and pick up some interesting …

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 be us …

The Design Thinking Meetup  Group is a collection of individuals who understand the importance of culture and design, and the role both play in the world of technology and business. We are passionate about mixing anthropology with economics, psychology with design, cultural observation with implementation, humanity with consumerism, and other clever concoctions. We meet to learn about human-centered design and put human-centered design to work by volunteering for non-profit and charity organizat …

Game developers today live in a challenging climate: gaming has never been a more crowded space than it is now. In this environment, how do you attract users, differentiate your game from competitors, and still make enough money to keep the lights on? Existing methods of game monetization are starting to get stale.  Virtual goods have become a commodity, in-game advertising intrudes on the user experience, and level packs require continuous time investment to create new content. Game developers …

We connect startup entrepreneurs with startup funding from angel investors, seed and venture capital. We attract the most innovative startups in both tech and non-tech industries. At our events you can demo your startup, meet investors,  and learn how to build startups from successful entrepreneurs. We also  cover the following topics:  disruptive startups, pitching your startup, investor relations, startup law, augmented reality, and mobile development. Take a look at our entrepreneur community …

Public transit has the potential to be awesome, moving us around our city quickly and easily. But sometimes it really sucks. Buses are never on time, routes can be unfamiliar, and connections are difficult. On the other hand, taxis are too expensive, hard to find and there is no easy way to share a ride with other users. The latest evolutions in transportation provide enough data to plan and develop new mobile apps, where no operative intervention of dispatchers (or other external agents) is req …

This is a community of mobile product managers, UX researchers, developers, and designers who meet to share our experiences with the process, challenges, and joys (!) of developing mobile products (apps and mobile web too!) There are lots of awesome Meetup.com groups that focus on the dev/tech side of building for mobile. The emphasis of this group is on research, requirements gathering, definition, UX, product management, and design of mobile apps and sites. Come on over, we'll put on a fresh p …

Welcome to StartupMonthly Startup Accelerator Startup Accelerator in Silicon Valley providing an ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become your …

Tools for designing and making things are evolving at an astounding rate! As we watch different methodologies come and go, it becomes apparent that parts of one or bits of another will persist as landmarks on the bumpy road from pure thought into matter. We are interested in identifying and mapping these landmarks, forging new paths to try, and new techniques to explore. Come ride the wave of human potential with us into the post-digital era!

For people interested in the development of software that supports the needs of different languages and cultures and enables worldwide communication.

Design&Startups is a group for the best web, mobile, and graphic designers in the Bay Area. With growth and focus shifting from only technology to beautifully designed technology, Design&Startups wants to be the central place to learn about it. We will interview amazing designers, provide access to great products, and showcase beautiful work. Join us if you believe in a more beautiful web.

The Interaction Design Studio organizes workshops, discussions, and presentations aimed at discovering and sharing knowledge related to user interface and user experience design. We explore and promote useful tips and tools, including design patterns, HTML, CSS & JS templates, and prototyping systems that are useful to web designers and developers. We also host workshops aimed at bridging the knowledge-base gap that exists between designers and developers, especially in the freelance community.

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 …

Digital distribution and the proliferation of reading devices are bringing great changes to what we think of as books, and their attendant industries. This meetup is about exploring all aspects of this change, from cultural, professional, technical, and experiential points of view. We welcome fans, critics, innovators, and skeptics, as we bring some thought and exploration of where we are headed.

We love spontaneously bringing people together through storytelling and sharing artisan cups of coffee. We try to keep things simple: We focus on people, coffee, and stories. We're coffee lovers, storytellers, geeks, technologists, and creative people passionate about sharing stories and drinking coffee. At each CoffeeStartups event we bring together entrepreneurs, thought leaders, technologists, designers, and writers to share a unique story to the group. Each CoffeeStartups event has a specifi …

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers in San Francisco and the Valley to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Design, Development and Management, as well as Lean, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include short talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, design and development as well as plenty of time for networking and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to com …

This is a group for experience designers who want to practice their trade, and developers, project managers and visual designers who want to understand more about what UI/UX design is, how it's practiced, and what factors real UI/UX designers consider. This is a place to understand the nuances of designing human-computer interaction and to help everyone get an idea of what to look for, how to approach it, and what the design process should look and feel like. Meetups are based on demand and are …

This is a group for Project Managers interested in Product development or in a career change: from Project to Product Manager. I started this group after making the change myself and realizing that there were a lot of others like me trying to do the same. So, this group is for everyone who needs help to make the move as well as learn more about how to manage product develoment. Project managers, Product managers, start-up entrepreneurs and Data analysts crowd is expected.

We’re bringing everyone on the team together to talk about what makes products great. Each month, we will pick a key product development topic and feature a speaker who’s kicked ass at that topic to share their story. Join us if you love disruptive products - there is plenty of room for group discussion and learning!

This group is for people interested in learning web and mobile development as well as more advanced people that want to contribute to the group.

This is a group for anyone interested in networking with fellow Oracle ERP Users/Consultants/Architects/Management Professionals. This group will also provide networking opportunities for consulting companies and the oracle applications professionals in the bay area. Also tech talks, user experiences, latest trends in ERP will be a part of this group.