Meet other Ottawaians who are passionate about Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC) , Web Analytics, Social Media and other topics relating to Internet marketing. Gather and share advice and information on better ways to work with online traffic generation to monetize business for your clients or your company. We want to bring together the wealth of knowledge in the Ottawa community around topics that are happening within the industry. We encourage …

Meet other local people interested in the Semantic Web and related technologies.

The Ottawa Entrepreneur.ca Group is a dynamic and professional business group. Our Mandate is "Let's work together to ensure a better future for Ottawa". This group consists of SME, small business owners, entrepreneurs & professionals. If you are an entrepreneur, business owner, manufacturer, service provider, investor, wholesaler, distributor, retailer, join us and share your success stories or demo your products, we help with your sales and marketing. If you are a business consultant, a pro …

Ottawa Ruby is a group of programming enthusiasts that get together once in a while to hack, present, and talk about the Ruby programming language. Join us on our website and mailing lists at http://www.ottawaruby.ca/

The Ottawa Quantified Self meetup is modeled on the Bay Area Quantified Self Show & Tell meetings started in 2008 by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly in the Bay Area. Your host for the Ottawa meetup will be Artur Denysenko (Twitter @adenysenko). Write me with your recommendations, tips, and observations. This is a regular show and tell for people who take advantage of various personal self-tracking tools and methods to gain more knowledge about themselves, others and the world around them. Come share w …

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 …

People interested in software development on the .Net platform should check this group out. Come out and learn a thing or two!

What do we do? The Ottawa Android developers group aims to bring the community together to share their knowledge of the platform to help everyone become more proficient with it. We aim to provide demonstrations of various features within the Android API as well as personal projects that fellow developers are working on. Where do these meetings happen? We meet up at The Code Factory on the third Wednesday of every month. Do I need to be an Android pro? Definitely not! Anyone is welcome to come ou …

Are you involved in a business in Ottawa focused on education technology? There are a lot of businesses focused on education technology operating in isolation in Ottawa.  This group's mission is to provide an opportunity for people involved in education technology in Ottawa to meet, discuss and network.  What can we learn from one another?  How can we help one another? Is your company selling technology solutions to public education institutions, consumers or corporations?  If yes, please join u …

Women Developers and Programmers! Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a …

We meet a few times a year to discuss all things FileMaker! Our meetings are hosted by Carbon Computing in Ottawa, Ontario.

Microsoft SharePoint is a platform that has either been deployed or is being considered by many organizations throughout the Ottawa-Carleton Region. Our meetup group is focused on bringing together local people who are interested or interested in learning about SharePoint capabilities and implementations. Our goal is simply to help connect, network, and share experiences on the various implementations of SharePoint.

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Every other month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

Innovation Studio 527 is a monthly meeting of people interested in solving complex problems. We meet from 5pm to 7pm. The current meeting location is in the Byward Market - we always try to find something that is affordable and wheelchair accessible. We have a few rules: 1) Be yourself 2) Be open to new ideas 3) Be brave in allowing ideas to collide 4) Be willing to be uncomfortable 5) be willing to take the next step Other than that - everything is on the table. Hope you can join us. Peter Leve …

Group for Javascript and NodeJS enthusiasts in Ottawa. We meet to share information, demos, new technologies and promote client-side and server-side Javascript innovation in the local tech community.

My goal is to establish a solid Node JS community in Ottawa, aside from discussing our experiences and sharing our current road blocks we will discuss everything from creating simple api's, social integration, Database integration, coding style and ethics, rapid prototyping and of course production deployments. Please Join me at this Node JS round table.

This group is for anyone interested in non-fiction (current events, sociology, economy, psychology, sciences, technology, ...), including those leaning towards the 'penguin' end of the social spectrum. Let's get socially awkward together, and discuss some great books and topics!

We bring together entrepreneurs and others who are doing business on the internet, and seek to expand friendships and/or boost their connections with service providers from advertising sales to marketing to graphic designers and illustrators to book self-publishing via Meet-Up get togethers at cafés, restaurants and via Skype.

Welcome to the Ottawa Chapter of Ladies Learning Code - a Toronto-based not-for-profit organization providing women (and men*) the opportunity to learn beginner-friendly computer programming and other technical skills through hands-on workshops. We're all about showing people that learning to hack can be fun! Almost 2000 women (and men) have participated in one of our workshops since August 2011, and after receiving many requests to offer workshops outside of Toronto, we've decided to finally go …

Welcome to taking your first step in making improvements to your business practices and productivity. We are a group of people who are advocates for improvements to business practices and productivity. This could be done by investing in technology and keeping it up to date, automating and streamlining time consuming processes, changing and adopting new practices. Members freely share ideas and methodologies that have worked for them. Contrary to popular belief, talking is NOT doing; thinking is …

I want to give interested people the opportunity to collect and discuss hardware and software project ideas surrounding the Raspberry Pi computer. Bring your own if you have one of get a chance to play with someone else's. This group is for anyone, with any skill level, as long as the interest is there.

An Ember.js focused meetup for anyone using Ember.js to chat and drink with fellow Ember users.

The next evolution of the Internet is on its way. This meetup is a chance to discuss technologies, exchange ideas, insights and opportunities around this next frontier which brings with it an acceleration of innovation and disruption. Example companies that get IoT: Cosm https://cosm.com/ Fitbit http://www.fitbit.com/ WeMo http://www.belkin.com/us/wemo-switch A good IoT YouTube video from IBM:

Canada's largest tech meetups RSVP to get a nametag. This is important, because people without nametags aren't even really people. There, I said it. ******** HackerNest is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit movement dedicated to uniting local tech communities globally. We do this by cramming lots of very smart people into a room and providing free beer - rescuing them from the isolation of basements, offices, and the plight of code tunnel vision. Our friendly, relaxed, and inclusive Tech So …

Ottawa chapter of Code4lib: Code for Libraries The Code4Lib organization (original from the USA): http://code4lib.org/ Read more about Code4Lib North: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/North Code4Lib Wiki: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Main_Page

Calling small business owners who would like some free tips and also some possible tools to take advantage of mobile marketing and interacting with customers in fun and exciting ways like email, texting and facebook. Mobile technology is here for all of us to use, all we have to do is try it.