Come meet other Charlotte area bloggers to talk about blogging! Let's get together to talk about content, design, technology, blogging platforms, SEO, social media and anything else in our bloggy brains! We can share knowledge and trade tips and tricks to create better blogs, increase traffic and make our blogs rock. Oh - let's also have a couple drinks.

This is a group for the Sustainability Technologies program at Central Piedmont Community College. The CPCC Students for Sustainability is a service learning student organization within the Sustainability Technologies program at Central Piedmont Community College. Purpose 1. The purpose of Students for Sustainability is to encourage students to act as a catalyst for innovative student-initiated projects that promote sustainability issues affecting people around the globe. The club helps suppo …

Bi-weekly free lunch, networking, and general tech discussion at SDW HQ. Have an idea for a topic, email josh@skookum.com

Designing, developing and supporting applications for "the cloud" presents different challenges than on dedicated or VPS environments. The mission of CLT Cloud is to facilitate conversation amongst developers, system administrators and technologists involved in applications that run in cloud environments like Amazon AWS and Heroku. Anyone interesting in cloud computing should join, regardless of experience level or technologies of interest. This group is language and technology agnostic.

Dedicated to best practices, semantic markup, progressive enhancement & graceful degradation. Over the course of time and quite often we discuss HTML5, CSS, cross-browser support & testing, mobile, optimization techniques and much more. From time-to-time we'll discuss Javascript related topics but in most cases we'll let the excellent Charlotte JS Meetup Group handle the glory that is Javascsript.

[grok] — verb to intimately and completely share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed [ORIGIN: 1961, COINED BY AUTHOR ROBERT A. HEINLEIN IN HIS NOVEL STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND] Thanks to Joshua Blankenship for the definition. The Origin of the Grok The first Grok began in the tasty beer and pixel filled mind of Matthew Smith of @squaredeye & Cowork Greenvil …

The Charlotte PowerShell Users Group offers learning and support opportunities for IT administrators and developers working with PowerShell. While some meetings include guest speakers, most meetings are designated as "Script Club" sessions, where group members can bring in their own PowerShell scripts and receive advice and assistance from fellow group members. In addition, the group actively participates in the annual Scripting Games and holds it own mini-competitions to foster PowerShell knowl …

This is the website of the Charlotte ALT.NET group. We are a group of Charlotte developers interested in .NET and sharing knowledge about the best in software technology and practices. This includes but is not limited to things such as Test Driven Development, Distributed Source Control, Agile Methodologies, NHibernate, and Model View Controller web frameworks.

We're a group of learning and development professionals in the Charlotte, NC area who are specifically interested in the use of technology to promote learning and performance.  Our members range from novice to expert and everywhere in between.  If you're interested in learning technology consider joining.

Group of Javascript Enthusiasts focusing on development with and learning around the ExtJS and Sencha touch libraries. We want to learn, develop skills, exchange ideas and work through issues surround these and related technologies.

"Turning space science-fiction into space science-fact." http://charlottespaceexploration.org/ Our purpose: Our goal is to educate civilians, doctors, soldiers, teachers, students, lawyers, business entrepreneurs, engineers, physicists, electricians, parents, children, and all walks of life on the reality of the upcoming private space exploration age. We are simply providing a forum of discussion (in person) for all who are interested in the cosmos and its future and current business opportuni …

This group is created as a networking and resource tool for .Net Developers in the local area. All developers in the Charlotte area encouraged to join. Please no recruiting companies.

This meetup group is a joint venture between the American Marketing Association, Charlotte Chapter and Studiobanks a full-service digital marketing agency. The objective of this free meetup group is to encourage an open dialogue between professional digital marketing practitioners and business leaders looking to enhance their digital presence. Who should join? Anyone with a keen interest in learning about digital marketing, both professionals in the field and business leaders looking to learn. …

Free to attend. We hold bi-monthly tech related discussions on how it can help your business. The first hour is dedicated to a speaker and a single topic, practical 'how to' use of technology. The second hour is for break out groups to discuss how they can use the concept in their business. We want to give you actionable steps..things you can do right away.

This is free training for the next 6 to 8 weeks, Tuesday evenings at 6pm at Packard Place (222 Church Street, Charlotte). Who should sign up: any veteran with a desire to learn about Hadoop technology and app development (both very desirable skills) or just brush up on IT skills in general. No prior computer training required, just have a desire to learn! More about the Charlotte Code Ops Challenge: Take some old hardware, a group of Charlottes active developer community and build a set of new d …

This group will serve as a networking and resource tool for Sharepoint Developers in the local area. All developers in the Charlotte area encouraged to join.

geek school is for all ages, bring a tablet or laptop computer running Windows, Mac OS X or Linux (Ubuntu or Debian preferred). no prior experience assumed. geek school is beginner to intermediate, current curriculum is always available at http://geekschool.me/curriculum the goal of the charlotte geek school is to provide basic computing and technology skills foundational to a career in software development, systems administration, computer engineering, or help you excel in any job role or caree …

Learn about Clojure and meet other local programmers interested in Clojure.

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Charlotte 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 Charlotte 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 y …

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 App Developers.

Charlotte New Tech welcomes members from all industry and backgrounds. The only pre-req is that you LOVE new tech! Also, you don't need to know everything about tech, but you will need to be knowledgeable enough to give input with group "white-board/brainstorming" sessions. Meet with people to discuss the latest in technology in all fields and areas of our lives. We will talking about things like..... * The latest in cool tech. * Awesome websites. * Advanced tech concepts and ideas. * New startu …

This is a group for mobile developers to get together and talk about the latest technologies and techniques. Whether you are an experienced developer looking for like minded people near you, or a new developer trying to pick from the growing number of mobile technologies, this group is for you. This group is open to any and all mobile platforms from iOS and Android to HTML 5 and Windows Phone.

Business Owner? Tired of Bad Software? Come learn, share, and receive solutions. This is not a sales meeting. This is a business discussion about removing your technology headaches. Business owners only.

Hackerspace Charlotte is a non-profit organization where people with common interests, usually in computers, technology, or digital/electronic art can meet, socialize and collaborate. Hackerspace Charlotte can be viewed as a kind of open community lab incorporating elements of a machine shop, workshop, classroom, and studio where all kinds of hackers can come together to share resources and knowledge to build and make cool things. Hackerspace Charlotte has members from a wide range of background …

This is a group for anyone interested in the new virtual currency called bitcoin. I started this group because I have recently become aware of and involved with bitcoin.  I was searching for a local bitcoin meetup to join and discovered that there wasn't one.  So I decided to create one.  I believe that providing a forum for people to get together and share what they have learned about this new technology will benefit us all. I am extremely excited to meet and maybe even help create new bitcoin …

This meetup site shares meeting activities and documents for the IEEE Charlotte, NC section. Group membership is extended to all IEEE members who work, attend school, or reside in the Charlotte MSA. IEEE membership requirements may be found at: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/qualifications.html Guest attendance of potential members is encouraged, though specific requirements vary by meeting (some social events are member only; some events are 21+; some are public).

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What is a TM1 Warrior? A TM1 warrior is anyone who uses IBM Cognos TM1 software and wants to share their experiences, successes and even dilemmas of using this tool. Sound like this could be you? Then join our TM1 Warrior Group.