If you are the Owner of a Local Business, you are probably suffering from a drop in demand for your products or services as a result of the continuing economic recession. And...many businesses are still using outdated forms of advertising.  Literally throwing away thousands of dollars each month. Why not make your company’s website “Your Hardest Working Employee?” Using Search Engine Optimization on your website combined with Social Media Marketing, your business can achieve Increased Leads, Cu …

NCTech4Good is the regional network for sharing knowledge about technologies that can advance the mission of nonprofit organizations. This sharing occurs during monthly meetings on the third Wednesday of the month, 6:30-8:30 PM, and the annual conference. Visit our website www.NCTech4Good.org. NCTech4Good is supported locally by the N.C. Center for Nonprofits, Public Information Network, Inc. (also known as RTPnet), United Way of the Greater Triangle, and our conference sponsors, listed on this …

Hook into the experience and enthusiasm of local Android developers and users! Android is Google's open source mobile OS, the basis for a number of newer smartphones and other mobile devices. This group is for those interested in the Android platform. Interests may include: * Getting started with Android application development * Talks and tutorials for developers and enthusiasts * Getting together to help each other hack on Android apps * Helping developers and employers find each other * Discu …

The group is primarily for developers interested in mobile augmented reality and want to share ideas, learn about new technologies, collaborate on small projects, and talk about an emerging industry that has the potential to change the world. Designers, artists, writers, futurists, and others are welcome. Strong emphasis on technology and mobile platform.

Each month, companies present what they are working on with the audience providing feedback. The events provide a time and place for technologists and entrepreneurs to showcase new technology/companies in the Triangle's startup community. Follow up on twitter: http://twitter.com/rtpnewtech Group is also open to angel investors, venture capitalists, startup mentors, key service providers like startup attorneys and financial services organizations.

TRINUG holds weekly meetups... really - every week! Click here to see our 2013 Meeting Schedule... Our Main Meeting is the 2nd Wednesday of every month. It's a get together for .NET developers of all levels. We usually have a high powered awesome speaker discussing one of the latest technologies, best practices, and anything else of interest to our craft. Food is provided by our meeting sponsor. On other (1st, 3rd, 4th, and sometimes 5th) Wednesdays we hold special interest groups (SIGs) at v …

A place for people interested in self-tracking to gather, share knowledge and experiences, and discover resources.

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.

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.

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 …

The one stop source for networking in the RTP area.  We take the local networking events, combine into one single source, and offer an opportunity to meet at events where BioStar Members are attending.  Making it easy to connect.

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 …

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Raleigh Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Raleigh serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who compliments you. …

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 …

This group is designed for technology professionals who want to get together to network/socialize after work once every couple of months. Anyone from help desk to CIO level are invited to join us. We will provide appetizers. The meetups will be located at the Ale House in Briar Creek. Hope you can join us!

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!

Research Triangle area Meetup for anyone currently engaged or interested in transforming and enhancing learning through technology. Network with fellow #edtech enthusiasts over drinks, discuss ideas, trends and ventures (read the EdSurge newsletter together?), or pool your curiosity and passion to explore new ideas.

Everybody likes lunch, and we all love agile development. Let's do one and talk about the other! For starters we'll meet for lunch and casual conversation. If people are interested, we can add in some more structured content. Until the group decides otherwise, we'll meet once per month in Raleigh, Durham, and RTP.  Please join us and suggest restaurants!

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!

A group for software entrepreneurs, developers, marketers, and evangelists. Network, share ideas, and learn from other local technology innovators. Starting in February 2013, we'll be meeting monthly at the HUB co-working space in downtown Raleigh. Meetups will feature one or two short presentations, but will focus mainly on open discussions and personal interactions with the local software community.

This Meetup provides an online space for Microsoft app builders to come together and build apps with the help of Microsoft and our Community of Developers and Designers.

TriHUG - Hadoop User Group in the Triangle: Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, North Carolina.  We're interested in discussing and promoting distributed computing and Hadoop related technologies. For more information: http://www.trihug.org

The ONLY Triangle, NC area user group for Microsoft Office technologies. Whether you're an employee looking to increase your knowledge and skills with one of Microsoft Office's applications or related technologies, a power user seeking to automate a business process, or a seasoned developer looking for like-minded fellow developers, we are your local community resource.

All Technical Professionals are welcome! The Research Triangle Alumnae Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers has recently been re-chartered and is part of a national student-based organization, dedicated to the development of intensive programs for increasing Black and other ethnic minority participation in the field of engineering and engineering technology. Founded in 1975 at Purdue University, NSBE now includes more than 394 College, Pre-College, and Technical Professional/Alumni …

Come join developers, designers, data geeks, leaders, and idea-makers who volunteer to help Triangle-area government and civic organizations adopt open web technologies!