-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 …

Meet local people interested in all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Semantic Web, Big Data, Analytics, and related topics.  For practitioners, academics, students, enthusiasts, hackers or anyone with an interest in cutting edge technology.

Queen City PHP is a group of professionals and hobbyists alike interested in developing web applications with PHP. Our meetups generally occur on the second Monday of every month at 7PM. Our mission is to encourage continuous learning and facilitate networking between Charlotte area developers. Please check out the message boards for any job openings in the area. http://meetup.qcphp.org/messages/boards/forum/1380853 website: http://qcphp.org twitter: @qcphp freenode irc: #qcphp

Come meet other Charlotte area bloggers to talk about blogging! Let's get together to talk about content, design, technology, blogging platforms, SEO, social media and anything else in our bloggy brains! We can share knowledge and trade tips and tricks to create better blogs, increase traffic and make our blogs rock. Oh - let's also have a couple drinks.

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.

Bi-weekly free lunch, networking, and general tech discussion at SDW HQ. Have an idea for a topic, email josh@skookum.com

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.

Designing, developing and supporting applications for "the cloud" presents different challenges than on dedicated or VPS environments. The mission of CLT Cloud is to facilitate conversation amongst developers, system administrators and technologists involved in applications that run in cloud environments like Amazon AWS and Heroku. Anyone interesting in cloud computing should join, regardless of experience level or technologies of interest. This group is language and technology agnostic.

This group is created as a networking and resource tool for open source web developers in the local area.

[grok] — verb to intimately and completely share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed [ORIGIN: 1961, COINED BY AUTHOR ROBERT A. HEINLEIN IN HIS NOVEL STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND] Thanks to Joshua Blankenship for the definition. The Origin of the Grok The first Grok began in the tasty beer and pixel filled mind of Matthew Smith of @squaredeye & Cowork Greenvil …

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.

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 …

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.

OWASP Charlotte North Carolina Chapter. Free to join, open to all. We meet to discuss & demonstrate web and browser-based vulnerabilities, tools & solutions. More information about OWASP can be found at https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Charlotte. Join our mailing list https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-Charlotte. Find us in IRC #owasp-clt on freenode http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=owasp-clt Find us on Google+ Hangout https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/extras/owasp-clt

Group of Javascript Enthusiasts focusing on development with and learning around the ExtJS and Sencha touch libraries. We want to learn, develop skills, exchange ideas and work through issues surround these and related technologies.

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.

To foster a community of individuals, active in software or related technology fields in the Blacksburg/NRV area, that meet regularly to network and share their experiences. This group is for anyone that loves hacking on the latest software technologies and would like to share how they utilize them in their work environments or personal open-source contributions. While the focus is on discussing the latest concepts like: cloud technologies, big-data problems, mobile app development, "as-a-Servic …

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 …

This meetup group is a joint venture between the American Marketing Association, Charlotte Chapter and Studiobanks a full-service digital marketing agency. The objective of this free meetup group is to encourage an open dialogue between professional digital marketing practitioners and business leaders looking to enhance their digital presence. Who should join? Anyone with a keen interest in learning about digital marketing, both professionals in the field and business leaders looking to learn. …

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 …

The focus of this group is to grow our understanding of the following technologies: Groovy, Grails, Griffon, Gradle, GORM, and more.  We will have speakers from different companies including SpringSource (which is also our primary sponsor).  We also plan to collaborate with the Raleigh Spring Meetup group because there is a lot of synergy between them. If you want to learn more about the features of the dynamic Groovy language that is built on the JVM, then you should join this group.  We look f …

This is free training for the next 6 to 8 weeks, Tuesday evenings at 6pm at Packard Place (222 Church Street, Charlotte). Who should sign up: any veteran with a desire to learn about Hadoop technology and app development (both very desirable skills) or just brush up on IT skills in general. No prior computer training required, just have a desire to learn! More about the Charlotte Code Ops Challenge: Take some old hardware, a group of Charlottes active developer community and build a set of new d …

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 …

geek school is for all ages, bring a tablet or laptop computer running Windows, Mac OS X or Linux (Ubuntu or Debian preferred). no prior experience assumed. geek school is beginner to intermediate, current curriculum is always available at http://geekschool.me/curriculum the goal of the charlotte geek school is to provide basic computing and technology skills foundational to a career in software development, systems administration, computer engineering, or help you excel in any job role or caree …

We're a community of entrepreneurs, hackers, VCs, and founders focused on growing the local triangle tech community. You can regularly expect to see demos, hear from expert panels, and meet like-minded individuals so spread the word, bring your friends, and see you at the Triangle Meetup!

Joomla!Days are a unique opportunity for Joomla CMS web designers, developers and integrators to connect, learn, share, and innovate. February 23, 2013 is the start of the first Joomla!Day in the Southeast United States, connecting Joomla! users who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend a local Joomla! event. Students planning to enter the web development field are encouraged to attend with a special student rate. Curious what the web industry for one of the major open source CMS platforms is rea …

We're trying to put together a makerspace for Moore County, NC. A makerspace (or hackerspace) is a community space for technology-minded people to socialize, collaborate on projects, and share knowledge about electronics (microcontrollers, soldering, robotics), physical computing (3D printing, CNC, laser cutting), and other methods of making things (wood and metalworking, sewing). They typically have tools that are too expensive or large for individuals to purchase, store, or maintain on their o …

This is a group for anyone interested in the new virtual currency called bitcoin. I started this group because I have recently become aware of and involved with bitcoin.  I was searching for a local bitcoin meetup to join and discovered that there wasn't one.  So I decided to create one.  I believe that providing a forum for people to get together and share what they have learned about this new technology will benefit us all. I am extremely excited to meet and maybe even help create new bitcoin …