Confused about Social Media? Don’t know what use it could be to you or your business? Then our Introduction to Social Media meetup at the Microsoft Store at South Coast Plaza is for you. Come learn about how you can leverage social media to help your business, charity or education institution grow and learn more about the new technologies and services available to you. Each month we cover a single topic and have an open question and answer session ending with a meet and greet to network with oth …

I got a call several weeks ago, it was a very typical conversation. The lady on the other end was frustrated, bordering on angry. Who was she angry at?  The answer was so common: it was "us": web developers, web solution providers.  She felt cheated and robbed.  Her story as a litany of failed solutions, money wasted, and what she perceived as outright lying and cheating. She no longer trusted anyone in the web development industry. This always makes me a bit angry as well.  Part of anyone's rep …

This is the San Diego Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, slated by the national organization to build local interest on computer graphics and interactive techniques, for educational, artistic and scientific purposes. It's free to join this Meetup ($0), but we encourage you to become a Full Member in order to enhance your involvement, opportunities, and cool giveaways! To join as a Full Member for a year, just make a $20 PayPal donation and email to let us know (emails below), or you can pay with cash, che …

The Social Media Chamber of Commerce is an organization whose mission is to enhance business results for local businesses and organizations that employ a social media marketing strategy or that wishes to develop one. It is primarily an educational organization, but also seeks to provide the technical tools necessary for businesses to take advantage of the most powerful and productive marketing platform available in the 2010's -- social media. Not only is social media marketing a good value for …

… As a result, Al Smith, Jr. and Vanina Mangano initially formed this Meetup as a way to provide a quick and effective way for professionals to stay current with the latest IT technologies by holding online "brown bag" trainings. But now, upon opening their own IT training facility, SME Technical Training, ILT Meetups are also held in San Diego, CA. Al and Vanina are experienced IT trainers and published technical authors. For over 15 years they've assisted companies like Dell, Raytheon, Lock …

We're building a learning community for hackers & founders by organizing local study groups on technology and entrepreneurship around the free online university classes provided this spring by Stanford, Berkley, MIT, Udacity, Coursera, and others. This is the start of an era of massive open online learning. In fall 2011, Stanford University offered a free online class in Artificial Intelligence. 160 thousand students from 190 countries enrolled, with more than 23 thousand completing the class. N …

Hello and Welcome to Payment Processing Solutions or to keep it short for the meetup group “PayProSol”. The group’s mission is to educate, inform and to be a knowledgeable link for the ever changing financial world of payment processing. As a group I along with other Entrepreneurs, Business owners, Organizations, etc., will share stories, moments and situations where we had problems with payment processing and the avenues we took to recovery. For you entrepreneurs and small business owners, you …

… People don't need a lot of marketing experience to make money online. With a home base business, people are getting help to achieve success. Finally being able to reach their income goals and experiencing financial freedom. They are even able to work from home or anywhere else they choose. This is a business; therefore it does require an investment to get started as any business does and time. On the Internet there is no recession. This means no one’s loosing their jobs or no limitation on h …

… This environment allows for community and business partners to conduct public or private workshops, presentations, and other events on various community, business and educational topics by leveraging our technology, products and services to deliver their message. Centrally located at the Microsoft Store – South Coast Plaza at 333 South Bristol Street, Costa Mesa CA 92626. Offered to the community for complimentary use please contact Community Development at msc007@microsoft.com to schedule y …

This is the hub for all of Social Media education classes that are facilitated by Red River Productions. These classes are designed to help you grow and effectively market and expose your offerings better, which in turn will lead to beefing up your bottom line. Please take a moment and join this group so we can keep you up to date on all the different class offerings and bonus incentives that will be associated with productive performance in marketing and exposing you and your company better w …

… We will have periodic meetings, an online forum, and a directory of participants as a way to meet, communicate, and plan. The plan will include: Preparation for you and your family Recruiting other Ramonans Becoming an expert at something Being vigilant for Rights Community building and service Response to local emergencies Volunteer Defense Communications Community Decision Making Healthcare/ Medical Emergency Management Conflict Arbitration Supply Chains Construction/Structure Repairs Commerc …

… We currently provide online resources and workshops for parents and teachers who are raising and educating bilingual children. In the near future Multilingual Mania will be expanding to include language classes for children in the Inland Empire. We are currently in the planning stages, and would greatly appreciate any feedback or suggestions from meetup members! We look forward to meeting you! Please visit our website for additional resources about raising and educating bilingual children!  

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The American Christian Fiction Writers is a National online and in-person group whose mission statement reads: To promote Christian Fiction through developing the skills of its authors, educating them in the market, and serving as an advocate in the traditional publishing industry. I am a graduate of the Odyssey Writing Workshop, editor of New Myths magazine and a published short story writer. I am also west coast director for the ACFW and would like to meet other writers interested in com …

… If you or anyone that you know believes they may be experiencing a haunting or other Paranormal Activity, needs help or has legitimate concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SPARTA via email at: spartainvestigations@gmail.com EPIC of SPARTA, SPARTA of California & the EPIC Historical Society have active, official Facebook pages and invite everyone to visit us online!!! Please show your support for our groups by visiting us and clicking on the "LIKE" button. To view our offic …

San Diego residents who practice stoicism as a life philosophy or try to do so. People who want to get together and share their experiences, broaden their horizon about Stoicism by meeting fellow stoics and meet like-minded people. A formal education in psychology and philosophy is not required for members to join this group. I don't have that myself. My knowledge about Stoicism comes primarily from the following written sources: - A Guide to the Good Life {the ancient art of stoic joy} …