Naked Tech is a series of candid and informal discussions about the state of the tech industry. We're breaking down the chatter of self-promotion and feel-good babble.  No more mindless talks about web marketing or the unveiling of another photo sharing app.  Naked Tech is designed for business leaders, technology professionals and students interested in the realities of working in and with the tech industry. This series will cover a variety of topics like minimizing risk in U.S. and offshore de …

Meet with other local IT Professionals, contractors, and all those with an interest in the field. Gather to network, swap tips, and make new friends. An hour of networking over dinner, followed by a 90 minute meeting that includes "Stump the Geek" and a technology presentation by a guest or member, invariably makes this an entertaining evening. All meetings are free for the public to attend, with no membership required. Come check it out! The OCCA is a non-profit group, established in …

Meet with other developers, web operations, system administrators, designers, and business professionals who are looking to making their site and application faster, enhance the user experience, and lower abandonment rates and make more money.

The Portland Google Technology User Group is for those of us who encompasses our lives with everything google, or if you just have a gmail and like technlogy in some way. We don't dicriminate, all geeks acceted!

Drupal is the best Content Management System, for multi-site and multi-language available in the open source community. I would like to start a meet-up group to discuss all things drupal from custom websites like the lab-connector ( dataservices.co ) project my company created to deliver laboratory test results online to smaller projects, blogs or community websites. I have an office at NedSpace downtown where could meet!

Get Caffeinated, Strategize & Work the Night Away

You can join this meetup for updates, but you should be sure to watch the main site for all future updates, tickets, and info: http://portland.startupweekend.org Be sure to check out the past Startup Weekend company Mugasha! http://mugasha.com/

This group is for PSU's Professional Development Center's meetings, events and activities such as the Digital Marketing Strategies quarterly breakfasts, HR's breakfasts and other program events and open houses

We are part of the movement to revolutionize the way small businesses market and are fanatical about Infusionsoft. This group is for sharing ideas, methods, tools and inspiration among Infusionsoft users in the Portland Metro area. If you're an Infusionsoft user or just curious about how Infusionsoft can help you grow your business, this is the place for you!

The Portland Sitecore CMS User Group meets once each month in the downtown Portland Oregon area, for networking and learning. We may meet in a board room on occasion for practical training, and other times in a pub. The user group is led by the ISITE Design technical staff, and open to anyone using or considering the Sitecore Content Management System, or who has an interest in .NET CMS platforms, regardless of technical proficiency. Programmers, marketers, content authors, agencies, CMS users …

Site owners who use Google Analytics sometimes have a tendency to “tag it and forget it”. We aim to change that by providing a free source of expert advice and collaboration with other Google Analytics users. Google Analytics has been cranking out new features right and left, and these are powerful tools in the right hands. The Google Analytics User Group is designed to bring analytics professionals, consultants, and marketing users into the same room so that we can share and learn how to use GA …

A group of entrepreneurs who meet regularly to stimulate the free flow of entrepreneurial ideas and share real life experience and wisdom. Some of our events will be sponsored and some will promote specific programs.

The Portland chapter of Hacks/Hackers, a group dedicated to building a network of journalists (“hacks”) and technologists (“hackers”) who rethink the future of news and information.

Meet other local Flash developers and designers to talk about the product, trade tips and share your work.

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The global reach of the Internet has democratized entrepreneurship.   Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning drive to succeed,  to make it big 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, …

JobGroup empowers professionals to effectively manage their careers by promoting networking, volunteerism, and job search skills.  We routinely hold 2-3 events per week.  Events include targeted networking mixers, job search seminars, and community outreach.