Maybe you've read the Lifehacker blog, Tim Ferriss' Four Hour Workweek, Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project, Leo Babauta's Zen Habits, or Chris Guillebeau's Art of Non-Conformity or The $100 Startup. If you liked what you saw and are looking for a community of other people who are tackling the same challenges, this is the group for you. All members will have the chance to share favorite new hacks and current obstacles, to help us learn from each other. Since we ascribe to the 'personal choices ov …

Join others to learn & share ideas in an open forum run by one of the most successful meetup organizers in the area. This is the first meetup group designed to assist people & businesses with all aspects of online & offline monetization. The focus is on finding out what is working, and how to either start or grow revenue & conversions for a website, blog, app, game, or newsletter. (Monetization in this case referring to revenue/sales/income/donation). Designed to let online entrepreneuers, blogg …

With every thought and action, you affect yourself, your world, and your future! Happiness and success involves understanding how we can decide on our vision for the future, stick with those decisions, and improve our confidence in actions towards our goals and passions in life.  Our brains constantly change & grow in response to new thoughts.  Exercise, diet, and our habits will affect who we are tomorrow. Join others to participate and develop, confidently controlling your life & your destiny …

Meetup Group was created to promote all the organizers in the Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland areas to congregate and exchange tips, schedule joint events and much, much more. Our main goal is to create an alliance to share knowledge, organizers, presenters, venues and other resources. If we work together, our events' quality will increase which results in larger members rolls and possible sponsorships. Of course, this is a closed group by design.  We will open it up routinely with events …

This is a group dedicated to sharing tools, tips, and techniques for user experience research (UXR) via story telling and demonstration of real life examples and the subsequent lessons learned.

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each 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.

Hi! ProductCamp DC is a series of community organized gatherings focused on product related topics. Professionals interested in designing, building, launching and marketing great products gather to learn from one another and share their experiences. ProductCamp DC was conceived to fulfill the mission of advancing our capability to conceive, build, and market great products through an open and collaborative community. Whether you are in a large enterprise, small business, startup, non-profit or g …

The Digital Exchange (dX) is a group created to bring together individuals who are changing how their organizations work, operate, and communicate with new digital tools, technologies and strategies. From top-down digital strategies for organizational operations, to new back-office tools to improve process and workflows, to mobile engagement and stakeholder engagement, organizations of all types and sizes are working to embrace digital and unlock their organization’s digital future. dX is the pl …

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 just …

We're a group of user experience professionals ranging from information architects and interaction designers to visual designers and usability specialists. Every month (more or less) we read a book related to designing for user experiences and get together to chat about it.

We host 5 - 10 events each month to help business owners get more leads, make more sales, develop crucial business skills, create strategic partnerships and more. The events fall into three categories: Business Education events (workshops, speakers & trainings), Business Social events (a monthly business networking happy hour & a business brunch), Business Games (Fun games designed to generate leads while teaching people important business skills). Our mission is to assist the business and perso …

This meetup group will be a resource for ones interested in the fashion industry. From Gucci to local designers, photographers, models and those who have a fashion fetish! What is a Fashionpreneur? A fashion risk taker, a fashion organizer, a love for fashion beyond recognition by their peers. One who has a fashion fetish, who LOVES EVERYTHING ABOUT FASHION, LUXURY, STYLE & COUTURE! Here you will find news, events, blogs, websites on fashion, designers, models.

Thank You For Joining & Welcome To The Community! Drupal is widely used by many government agencies, hi-profile businesses, not-for-profit firms and community-based organizations to build their websites and applications. Internationally, Drupal powers millions of websites and applications in many countries and is built, used and supported by an active, passionate and growing world-wide community. The Drupal Technology Meetup is a resource for the growing community -- including professionals in …

Join for FREE expand your professional circle. You'll be invited to attend fabulous lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) professional networking events at trendy gay-friendly lounges in Washington, DC. The purpose of the group is to build a stronger base of professional contacts. Share ideas and job possibilities, tap expertise, or meet potential clients or business partners. Benefit by making new connections and adding to your knowledge base. This is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and tr …

Network and Nibble is designed for professionals to network with colleagues, meet new people, keep up with industry news and get leads on jobs and business opportunities. There is no formal program just a fantastic opportunity to create a solid professional network, at a fantastic restaurant and lounge...901! Remember to bring LOTS of business cards, hardy handshakes and broad smiles.

This group is designed for young professionals who want to meet other successful young professionals at events all around DC. If your looking for business or social benefits in DC this is the meetup for you!

The Kingdom Chamber of Commerce creates an environment of opportunities for Believers who share Kingdom principles, values and beliefs. Partners are able to benefit from unique leadership development, networking, and business referral opportunites. Whether you are are an established business, a start-up or a professional, you can sharpen your business skills through interaction with top area executives and business leaders. The Kingdom Chamber environment is designed to help you translate your v …

The Inventors Network of the Capital Area (INCA) is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1993. Our members are interested in patents, the innovation process, product design, marketing, licensing, prototyping and other product development issues. Every month we host a meeting with a speaker and time for experienced and beginning inventors to network.The meetings are usually held third Mondays of the month at the Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library in Falls Church, Virginia. Private sector …

The group for networking and collaborating with others interested in UX, MobileUX, and other areas of Design in DC, MD, and VA.

Challenging economic times require us to re-think the way we get things done. Let’s get back to basics. Instead of paying cash for the services or products of others, why not trade the services or products you have for what you want! Everyone has something they can trade; skills, products, services, or just “stuff” that can be bartered with others who have something you want or need. That’s what this group is about! Let’s do direct and organized trading to help each other in these tough times. T …

Are you in looking for more movement in your job search? You have come to the right place! Led by kick-butt, nationally-renowned career expert and nurturing "job sage" Laura Labovich, this high-energy group is designed around a structured curriculum that promises to move job seekers forward in their campaign. As a former recruiter and HR leader at Walt Disney World and (the former) AOL Time Warner, Laura knows what it takes to get a job faster and how to leap ahead of the competition--and will s …

Small-to-medium sized businesses have the same technological issues as larger corporate business enterprises. The Metro DC Mobile & Wireless Technology Interest Group is designed specifically for smaller business enterprises to discover how new trends and advances in mobile computing and wireless technology can help them run their business and provide them a forum to share with the rest of the world what they are doing and how they can make a difference.

We want to collaborate with developers, designers, businessfolk, and innovators to build a partnership between business and the open source community for the future. Peeps are encouraged to find inspiration, confront new challenges, share their expertise, renew bonds to the community, make significant connections, and find ways to give back to tech movement.

Looking to meetup with people interested in discussing business challenges, or goals and how web, mobile or application development solutions can be developed to achieve those goals or resolve the problems they are designed to overcome for their end users. The first meeting will be a brief presentation about how we do that at The Nerdery and to learn more about what tech topics members are interested in discussing in future meetups.

This group is designed for Connected Investors in and around the Washington, DC, Northern Virginia, Rockville, Chevy Chase, Baltimore, Gaithersburg, Columbia, Potomac, and Bethesda.  Enjoy a real estate investor networking group focused on connecting you with the local people & resources you need to take your life to the next level.  This Meetup group is focused around doing deals.  No educational products are being sold, but we may give you a few for free. Looking for an investment property to …

Amazon Web Services (AWS) strategies, implementation, and on-ramping.

Our group is created for: Career discoverers exploring their career calling Aspiring professionals launching new careers (obviously, when those careers have already been identified) Professionals (a) giving back to the community, (b) leading training and other activities to gain new experience, (c) taking advantages of our robust marketing and public relationships' services, and/or (d) looking for additional income Recruiters and employers performing their professional duties Everyone willing t …