This is an experiment to see if WP Bloggers can be more successful and have more fun working as a team. This is a meetup for anyone whom has an interest OR tallent in WP Blogging (Socrates), Social Media, but more specifically Blogging about Health, Fitness, Food, Cooking, Nutrition, Wellness, all done in and around Roseville CA. Anyone is welcome but you should have an interest in anyone of these categories. We could really benefit from young social media people. (self promotion, or prior blogg …

Calling all bloggers (and budding bloggers) in the South San Francisco Bay Area interested in making a difference in the world through blogging! Let's get together and encourage one another in our efforts.

This is one of the oldest groups on meetup.com and we still welcome new members! Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We are writers and aspiring writers. We are bloggers and wannabe bloggers. We meet regularly to interact with serious and not-so serious bloggers. Our organize …

San Francisco Style and Fashion Bloggers is a social group for fashion & style bloggers in San Francisco Bay Area and Silicon Valley and the Meetup group of Fashion Bloggers Connect. This Meetup group is a place for fashion and style bloggers to connect, share writing skills knowledge, learn new marketing approaches, style tips and fashion ideas. Attend exclusive blogging workshops, social mixers, tech demo nights, beauty product launches, shopping discounts and styling events. Become an early …

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.

Turning Online Marketing Into Measurable Revenue. DIY SEO focus is to educate local small business owners build their online visibility (which equals profitability) using a variety of free and low cost tools that are available on line. You'll learn how to get top ranking on the top 3 search engine (Google, Yahoo and Bing) in just 12 minutes a day. Areas of focus: 1. SEO - Keyword research - How to optimize your website for Google - Get top ranking on Google and other search engines using off …

Traditional marketing sucks! No budget, no resources, just pure creativity and innovation is what startup marketing is all about. You love it. You thrive on it. Join the SF startup marketing meetup group and share your successes (and failures), how you executed them and what you learned with the group. Each meetup we'll pick a new topic and have marketers present their stories. Topics might include acquiring customers, demand creation, blogging, analytics and measuring marketing effectiveness, s …

This group is for WordPress bloggers, designers, developers and those interested in learning more about the world's best blogging and content management software. It's social, fun, and educational. Join us to share your experiences and learn from others.

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 blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. 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 explore modern, …

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 …

BABS was founded to foster the local community of content creators, bloggers, authors, web experts, ebook creators, publishers and online marketing professionals. Our in-person meetings go deep and wide into the culture and tools of digital connection. Members share tips & tricks, hear new concepts by local start-up owners, brainstorm blog elements, and network for mutual success. Attending our meetings, you will find new blogging buddies, support for your ideas, and answers to your technical qu …

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

Stanford Web Consortium is all about Social Media - Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google+ and Blogs. Bottom line - how do we make money with these Social Media? Is Facebook better than LinkedIn better than Twitter better than Google+ better than blogs for making money? This meetup is devoted to how to make money (legitimately) off of the Social Media platforms. Got ideas? Come share. Come learn. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AN …

We meet regularly to explore, discuss, and share Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and general issues related to Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We will also explore topics related to SEO: social media marketing, blogging, affiliat …

The Enchanted Business Woman™ The Enchanted Business Woman™ Meet-Up, is a networking group designed to empower you to Live, Lead and Work with Heart and Purpose . Our agenda has been created to serve you personally and professionally. Our networking style is casual, and created so you can let down your "professional hair," and focus on the social aspect of networking. At each meeting we will have a guest speaker, chosen to inspire and lead you in a way that will help you learn and grow. You will …

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 …

The Mission Promote Her Business (PHB) began as a vision sparked by a creative serial entrepreneur who passionately desired to see other women entrepreneu-HERS succeed in businesses longer than the 5 years they were estimated to last before going under. Namely, she understood how badly it hurt to give business(es) your 100% and NOT be successful, and she didn’t want other entrepreneurs to suffer from the same heartbreak! Accordingly, in 2012, Josephine Hanan, affectionately known as “Jos, teamed …

Internet marketing encompasses a broad, diverse set of processes: search, content networks, email marketing, affiliate networks, video ads, social media, viral marketing, and more. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We meet regularly to discuss how to utilize these tools to …

Are you an Indian woman who runs her own business or service? Do you have your own company/consultancy/salon/business/blog? We welcome you to our group! We are a bunch of active, social and intelligent businesswomen who have come together for networking, forming friendships, colleague bonding experience, sharing the highs and lows in the day of a businesswomen and helping each other succeed in their fields. Additionally, we will also have business talks, brainstorming sessions, discussions about …

WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP & MySQL. This MeetUp group gives presentations and holds discussions about WordPress technical aspects and business applications. WP can be used under wordpress.com as a simple blog. Or, download the code from wordpress.org and customize your own Content Management System. It has many dynamic features, including a plug-in architecture and a template system. Our group's WordPress blog is SaratogaMeetup at http://saratoga …

This meetup is for Meetup organizers in Silicon Valley and for those who want to meet and network with people who have groups of people they bring together. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. In this meetup we will network about how to improve our meetups, cross promote on r …

Sonoma County Outdoors is an adult group for Hiking, Walking, and Social Activities. Want to hike or walk for fitness and fun? Would regularly meeting with a committed group of like minded people help keep you accountable to exercise? Just want to get out of the house and have some fun? If you said yes to any of these questions, then take a look at Sonoma County Outdoors! There are a lot of great hiking Meetup groups out there. I'm a member of many of them and plan to continue to hike with the …

We're all about the Application and SaaS business models and monetization mechanisms ranging from Freemium to Premium, IAP (in app purchases), Bundling, Customer Conversion Analytics - whatever it takes to actually get users (consumer and business) to pay for Apps! We typically have two or three speakers, each of whom shares a deep knowledge of and experience with the software monetization and business models.  All of our speakers will discuss Freemium, since it's the monetization model du jour, …

EcoTuesday is a structured networking event for sustainable business leaders that takes place on the fourth Tuesday of each month in cities across the country. Here's a brief outline of what takes place at each event: * Arrive at the venue, settle in, and meet new people * Learn about the cutting edges of sustainable business from an expert * Quickly introduce yourself & your project to a roomful of people * Network with people you learned about during the Introduction Circle EcoTuesday is o …

Welcome to the SocialBiz Meetup group! This Meetup group is for those who want to learn about and grow their business through online marketing and social media. Our focus is on helping small businesses but anyone who is trying to learn how to leverage the internet to create and grow a strong online presence is welcome. We meet at least twice a month on Tuesdays at 4:30 pm in Petaluma, California, about 30 minutes north of the Golden Gate Bridge on Hwy 101, and is led by Roohi Moolla, CEO/Founder …

Works by Women San Francisco supports productions written, directed, designed, performed and/or produced by women theater artists - a small step towards the larger goal of achieving gender parity for women in theater nationally. Our group is aligned with the NYC-based Works by Women blog and meetup group and also with the 50/50 in 2020 campaign. We are an informal and entirely welcoming group of friends, colleagues, and theater professionals who go to the theater whenever possible to enjoy perfo …

Writing Poetry!!! Let's share our poetry so that we can fine tune it and get it out there for publication. New additions to the group, as of June 7 2009, which are in-development: 1. website http://www.poetswanted.com 2. twitter account for quick updates on events, etc. - http://www.twitter.com/poetswanted 3. community blog: http://poetswanted.blogspot.com/ 4. Organizer's poems, haiku blog/tweets: http://www.fishridingabike.com/poetry.html

ATTENTION: This Meetup.com group is just a placeholder.  Actual meetups are announced on the Bay Area Less Wrong mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/bayarealesswrong.  Generally they happen Wednesday evenings at a private residence in Berkeley.  You can read the mailing list and email the organizers for more details. - - - This is a group targeted at readers of the rationality group blog LessWrong.com.  You're welcome to come if you don't read the blog, but you might want to spend an ho …