Every month, the NetSquared community comes together offline at Net Tuesday events to mix, swap stories and ideas, build new relationships, and collaborate. These gatherings provide a chance for all those interested in the intersection of social technologies and social change, whether you're part of a nonprofit organization or a for-profit organization, a funder or a consultant, a developer or an entrepreneur. WHY AN EASTSIDE GROUP? Due to the realities of the traffic flows in our fair city ( …

Social Media Mastermind Orange County (SMMOC) was founded by Bob Watson in May 2009. SMMOC is a facilitated discussion group providing a safe* environment to share and learn social media, technology and the Internet. Come ready to listen and participate! We meet most Saturday mornings from 9-11. From our beginnings when we met at Peets coffee in San Clemente we have grown to a solid base of over 400 members worldwide and our meetings are now primarily held at the SMMOC Lab/Klingaman Creative …

OCRuby is for anyone interested in learning or sharing experiences with "Ruby" or "Ruby on Rails" or tangential technologies (NoSQL, etc.) In existance since 2006 (but new to Meetup), we usually meet the last Thursday of each month (moving on holidays or other exceptions) at smart-soft.com in Irvine, CA. Regards, Forrest Chang OCRuby organizer

This group is focused on bringing tech startup founders, team members, associates, etc. together to discuss topics that are specifically relevant to them. We will also bring other members of the startup ecosystem to the group, including VC's, angel investors, law firms, thought leaders, PR and marketing specialists, etc.

Join the Microsoft Store for workshops and classes on relevant business topics and technology. Also events featuring Windows 7, Office 2010, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and more along with great networking opportunities. Each month we will offer different workshops on how technology can improve your small business, professional organization, company, or non-profit. Committed to community and business development The Microsoft Stores features a fully equipped theater with a 103” touch screen present …

This group intends to offer support to new-intermediate Ruby and Ruby on Rails aspirants interested in learning and sharing what they learn with others. The group is also seeking to create a support network for teachers (and non-teachers) that want to draw connections of programming concepts to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).

The San Gabriel Valley .NET Developers Group is an organization of software architects, developers and Microsoft .NET framework enthusiasts who want to learn, share, innovate, network and develop. The salient purposes of this organization are stated below: Microsoft.NET framework is a major advancement in the available software development platforms. Our main goal is to educate the group membership to fully utilize the potential of .NET framework and use its powerful features to build better sof …

If you're creating scalable, high performance, high quality systems, or writing mobile applications for the largest smartphone market you should probably join this group.

Long Beach Tech is a network of Entrepreneur, Designers, and Techies with a passion for making Long Beach a tech hub. ** You must be approved to join Long Beach Tech. **

OC Lean Startup Circle is the Orange County Chapter for the lean startup movement. It is hosted by K5. The OC Lean Startup Circle is a group of smart and driven high-tech entrepreneurs that are focused on building products that matter, based on focused customer discovery, market opportunity and the right timing. Lean Startups (which can include for profit and not for profit organizations, new product/innovation organizations within larger companies and even government agencies) achieve success f …

TIMEOC was started to help people get technology ideas made into reality. WHO SHOULD ATTEND: Anyone with a technology idea (ESPECIALLY if you have been thinking about it for some time and have not REALLY done anything about it just yet). Software and/or business developers, graphic artists, testers, copywriters, etc. Others that may want to contribute. WHAT WE DO: We take your idea and help you refine it, test it and build your prototype.  Just to be clear - you are doing the work.  We just …

Join the Microsoft Store for workshops and classes on relevant community, educational, business and gaming topics and technology. Featuring complimentary workshops on Windows 7, Office 2010, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Movie Maker, Photo Gallery and more! Committed to community and business development The Microsoft Stores features a fully equipped theater with a 103” touch screen presenter PC, Sound system, wireless mic , and seating 30+. Set within an interactive high tech environment where we en …

SoCal/ OC Media, Technology and Online Search Marketing Group has been formed to bring together individuals who want to market, network and find strategic partnerships to thrive in the current business environment.

We want to connect investors with technology and marketing companies. Technology more than ever is rapidly expanding. There are many great technology solutions in the works. Unfortunately, it is difficult for many to network with the right groups and professionals. We want to simplify this by creating a valuable networking group for our members.

Startup California and Startup OC are regions of The Startup America Partnership, a public private initiative founded by President Obama and former AOL Chairman Steve Case. The Startup America Partnership is based on a simple premise: Young companies that grow create jobs. As a core American value, entrepreneurship is critical to the country’s long term success and it’s time to step up our game. Startup Orange County is part of the Startup California ecosystem, and has three key goals: 1. Provid …

Are you a wedding company? Or a tech company? Or a little bit of both? We're often straddling the line, and we're here to compare notes, network, and help the wedding industry move into the 21st century as quickly as possible.

Southern California's Near Field Communication (NFC) technology group. Our mission is to bring together NFC professionals in this exciting industry to share ideas and network. Southern California members only please: Orange County, Los Angeles or San Diego requests will be honored.

Female Entrepreneurs in Web Technology is a group designed for women (and men) to get together and inspire, support, share stories and tips about making their way through the Startup environment. Whether you're a designer, developer, entrepreneur or investor, this group is for you!

Rockfield Labs is put together by a group of awesome and nerdy serial tech entrepreneurs. Our goal is to help you build your product using the best practices and methods for web and mobile app rollout. Connect with the best speakers, find nerdy technophiles, partner up with a hackers, find business developers to rock our technology ideas, get mentored by seasoned entrepreneurs and most importantly, help you build your big f'ing idea. So if you've got a great idea but don't have all the right too …

I have a couple of extra computers and some networking stuff. I am going to study for A+ then Net+, Security+ and ccna/ccnp. We will be using a variety of learning tools. Video's to ebooks and live demo's to flash cards to whatever you can bring. I invite anyone who wants to get certified to join me and add some accountability. If you already have some of these certifications and would like to help out some noobs that's good too. Member's need to be serious about getting certified.

This group is for anyone interested Digital Media, Small Business Technology and the Arts. I am not affiliated with any professional organizations. I just want to help you understand and use digital technology. I started this group because I am a small business owner and artist and know how time consuming and confusing learning the basics can be.

This is a group for anyone interested in a fun meet up to chat about web technology, web start ups, & basically everything new in development & incubating a web based organization. Engaging discussion & drinking is not required but strongly encouraged!

If you work in Healthcare and interested in the use of Technology to enhance the tools care providers have, and you live in SoCal, this group is for you. If you are interested in Bigdata, Cloud and Mobile and want to discuss and see their case studies in Healthcare, this group can also be of interest to you. I searched before starting this group, and the same problem that faced HealthIT for decades still exists, at least in SoCal, there are great interest and venues for Technology driven initiat …

TCVN is one of Southern California’s premier technology business networks. Through a wide variety of forums, pitch sessions, workshops, and other networking events, we bring together entrepreneurs and resources from every facet of the technology and startup landscape.

Semantic Web in Orange County Meet local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [ http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web. The existence of a semantic web meetup group in San Diego will hopefully stimulate information exchange, and the growth o …

How "Technology is Changing Fashion" is creating a community of Techies coming together to meet like-minded Fashionista's and Designers to exchange ideas and best practices in the evolving Techno Fashion scene in LA. Within this community we are promoting mentoring from the Design Community along with professional development within a general forum for the Software Engineers to share their experiences. And we plan to have fun doing it. Software engineers are encouraged to join this group to gain …

Calling all women in technology interested in being part of a 'Lean in' circle. The idea is to meet in small groups regularly to share and learn together, based on the lean in 'Circles' idea conceptualized by Sheryl Sandberg in her book 'Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead'. Please check out http://leanin.org/ if you would like to learn more. I have started this group because there are not enough women at my workplace and i want to keep my social contacts...social. We will meet in the Pasa …

This is a group to combine real estate, technology, and networking. For agents it help them be more productive learning about technologies that can benefit their business while also learning to network. For investors, buyers, and sellers, it would be a way to understand how the real estate work and meet agents that can help them on their current situations. Real estate is one of the biggest investments in our life and could also be one of the easiest to make money on. This group's purpose is …