Calling all Bay Area Fashionistas, Beauty Bloggers and Style Enthusiasts, this is a platform just for YOU! Meet, mingle and learn valuable information from industry leaders on how to turn your personal blog into a fabulous career.

We will participate in regular business and social networking events in collaboration with other meetup groups.  These events are great opportunities to meet and connect with entrepreneurs, financiers, technologists, tech executives, Internet consultants, and other movers and shakers in Silicon Valley. This meetup is geared towards small business owners, self-employed professionals, and aspiring entrepreneurs who want to maximize ROI for their advertising dollars. This is where small business ow …

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 creating good digital content. He pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his online content. 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 …

The 9,500+ member strong SVNewTech Meetup, started in Jan '06. Meet other entrepreneurs, investors, bloggers, and tech enthusiasts who come together to network and watch demos of hot new technologies. We meet once a month, the first hour is company demos, the 2nd hour is networking. Food, wine, and beer are provided. *** PLEASE RSVP EARLY (4 weeks ahead) *** Please check out our website, SVNewTech.com: www.svnewtech.com

Tech in Motion San Francisco offers an exciting opportunity for tech pros and enthusiasts of all ages to network around our beautiful city by the bay. The Bay Area is the epicenter of technological innovation with some of the most talented engineers, programmers, designers, and bloggers in the game. This meetup group is for the SF tech lovers out there to network and stay current. Let’s ‘meetup’ San Francisco! *We already have 2 staffing firms dedicated to offering career counseling services to …

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

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big and change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, financial …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big and change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions in Silicon Valley. Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, acade …

Food Startups is a community of food lovers, entrepreneurs, designers, hackers, bloggers, and thought leaders who are passionate about food and technology. We started Food Startups because of the growing demand for improving how we produce, distribute, discover, consume, and share food through the use of technology. We bring together industry experts, entrepreneurs, investors, journalists and thought leaders, fostering collaborative dialogues to better understand these issues and devise solution …

Fashion+TechSV joins Fashion+TechSF & Fashion+TechNY as the Silicon Valley Chapter. FASHIONTECHSF.org is the longest running monthly workshop and the original event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology. Our mission is to create educational, economic development, social and business opportunities for the fashion and technology industries. From it's inception in February 2010, FASHIONTECHS …

SAN FRANCISCO FASHION INDUSTRY MEETUP GROUP, is a social networking group for anyone interested in the San Francisco fashion industry. With SFFAMA's leadership, we offer top notched industry related events that will enable you to connect, learn, promote and expand your reach in Northern California's fashion landscape. We provide very valuable and innovative tools such as, high-end runway shows, funding opportunities, pop-up shops, educational/tech workshops, business entrepreneurship classes and …

If we leave it to the local news, Oakland’s reputation will be forever linked to the same old storylines: Art Murmur, racial tension, Brooklynization*, and crime. How can we work together to reveal the deeper story? Maybe you’ve been blogging for a while and want to meet new local people.  Maybe you want to increase your social media presence. Maybe you’re new to the area and full of stuff to say, and you need new connections to grow your audience. Or maybe you’ve always wanted to blog and just …

SF-Startup-Now is a meetup focused on bringing together the forward thinking business mentors to speed-up/accelerate the go-to-market of any start-up product or service! We have launched in SV-SF, also looking to launch in LA then NY etc... We have sponsors like Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Box. The sponsors will provide cash and product prizes including wireless internet, cloud storage, back office, and a host of many other business needs to go-to-market and create reven …

This group is designed to bring all vintage fashion lovers and thrift store junkies together under one roof. **online sellers, store owners, vintage lovers, thrift lovers, collectors, students, fashionistas/bloggers and more** Your style may be head to toe vintage or you simply appreciate that one special vintage accent piece to complement your outfit. Meet and Greet, workshops, fashion expos, thrift outings, online seller support group, fashion shows, photo shoots (for online shops, blogs, por …

We invite you to International CrowdFunding Film Meetup Group. ICFFF.org bring together artists, filmers, and video game creators to meet and discuss CrowdFunding Films Who will benefit from participating in ICFF.org · Independent Artists that want to learn about the opportunities crowdfunding   creates for them · Art and Film Students interested in getting involved in or thinking about      financing their new project · Journalists and business bloggers searching for worthy topics · Anyone w …

San Francisco is a hotbed for lowbrow art so I created this group to explore local lowbrow happenings, and to meet other enthusiasts. Viewing gallery openings and hops are a staple at galleries like White Walls, The Shooting Gallery, 111 Minna, Guerrero Gallery and Fabric8 to name a few.  Also films relating to lowbrow culture and related events will be posted here.  Open to suggestions or a heads up about other events, maybe a live art night at a cafe or art space.  Going out for drinks after i …

Curvy Ladies of Bay Area lets get together and build a strong vibrant community of fashion forward plus size chicks ready to have fun in the City. LBGT Curvy "Ladies" welcome too!

BeMyApp hosts interactive weekend-long events for the app-loving community in San Francisco, Dallas, New York and Europe. The WeekEnds are designed to accelerate collaboration, share knowledge, inspire and connect mobile app makers and idea shakers. BeMyApp WeekEnd is open to developers, designers, tech journalists and bloggers as well as non-techies, idea generators, artists, and everyone who wants to have some hands-on experience with mobile apps. Work in teams and hack apps during a whole wee …

We had such a great time at the SummerMash San Francisco stop that we want to see everyone again. Join Mashable and San Francisco's tech elite for an evening of meeting, mingling and conversing about web's hottest new services while enjoying light appetizers and drink tickets. We're coming together in a venue that hosts multiple levels, which in turn means a variety of activities. We're bringing the people of San Francisco together, along with local bloggers and press, to have a chance to meet …

The online media is drastically changing the fashion industry and the way consumers interact with fashion brands. Meet the people that lead the fashion revolution online - fashion bloggers, new media publishers, entrepreneurs, industry insiders, fashion PR reps, and web savvy trendsetters. You must a professional within the fashion industry and have an online presence to join this group. This is the SF chapter of NYC based Fashion 2.0 meetup, founded in 2008. We are currently working on get …

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 will …

This is a group for anyone passionate about food, drinks, and culture. We started this group to keep you informed of our upcoming events that we are either hosting or sponsoring. Facebook Twitter Blogger Instagram

This meetup is all about the 'Press, from beginning blogger through to hardcore hacker. 10% of the internet runs on WordPress; that's insane and awesome. The hype is real, so come and learn everything there is to know about WordPress! photo "Guitar Hero" courtesy of green kozi

A Webmission is a delegation of Belgian Web, Tech & Mobile entrepreneurs that travel abroad to promote their companies and to network, taking advantage of an international Internet/Tech event and the secondary happenings around it. Taking advantage of this year's Google I/0 event (19-20/05), We are organizing a new Webmission for Belgian entrepreneurs, journalists bloggers and Internet, mobile and tech enthusiasts, interested in promoting themselves in the US markets. This is a great opportunity …

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.

Come and meet other bright, ambitious internet marketers! Find new business partners, share innovative marketing strategies, find co-working buddies, talk about what worked and what didn't work, talk about your super-secret traffic sources, share victory stories or get help on your current challenges. This meetup is perfect for: Affiliate marketers Infoproduct entrepreneurs SEM / SEO specialists Bloggers Passive income builders Mini site empire owners eCommerce store owners Website flippers & d …

To understand what we are about, watch this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=vWeQfNpW9sQ This was a group for people interested in issues such as sustainability and economic justice and wanting to create a complementary currency for San Francisco Bay Area. That currency has since been created. Check it out: www.bay-bucks.com. Bay Bucks is a social startup. Our goal is not VC-funding, acquisition by Google/Facebook etc, or high-profile IPO. It will be crowd-funded, structured as a non-profi …

Calling All Astrologers! Astrology Improv Salon isn't astrology by the book. It's a live, fun, informal hands on, practical-style way to learn and play with your astrological chart in a welcoming atmosphere. Signs get real. Planets talk to each other. Astrology becomes fun, creative and playful. It’s a place where you can talk about the fascinating subject of astrology, network, hang out, learn something new, and just have fun! Astrology Improv Salon is aimed at those who are curious about astro …