NoVA Working Moms Network is centered around supporting, encouraging, and providing an outlet for working mothers in Northern Virginia. With regular monthly events for mom alone as well as the whole family, our focus is on fun! Please note: Our group membership is limited to 100 members (active + pending) to foster close friendships among our members and their children. Who We Are Active working moms with active families throughout Northern Virginia Moms who can have a blast both with their ki …

Meet others from DC, MD, & VA interested in New Media, Web 2.0, Video 2.0, and Social Networks. Gather to discuss & learn: webcasting, internet video & video blogging, social media platform technology (Ning, Facebook, MySpace, openID, etc.), digital content, startups, funding & pitching, semantic web, new products & cool ideas & websites. We cover the following and more areas of web technology: * New media * Social web * Web 2.0 & 3.0 * Video 2.0 * Social apps/widgets * Microblogging & blogging …

If you want to know more about Information Security, you should join! If you know much about Information Security, you should join! If you don't know anything about Information Security, you should join! While we focus on helping people earn the distinctive Certified Information Systems Security Professional title, this Meetup is for anyone who wants to learn or share knowledge of computer security. If you'd like to earn a CISSP certification, this group will help you get there. If you have a CI …

The Center for Inquiry–DC (CFI–DC) offers an opportunity to put your principles into practice by joining other rationalists to work for positive change in society. In addition, the D.C. Center sponsors social events for freethinkers as well as intellectual programming. CFI provides an ethical alternative to religious and paranormal worldviews. In this time of rising religiosity, anti-intellectualism and political turmoil on ethical issues, it is critical that rationalists and freethinkers join t …

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 …

This Meetup Group is reserved for RAINN volunteers who staff the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline and live near New York City. RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) is the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization and was named one of "America's 100 Best Charities" by Worth magazine. Need Help? If you came across this group because you want help, please visit RAINN's website www.rainn.org for online support or contact 1.800.656.HOPE for phone support/counseling. Want to …

With the introduction of the digital camera, the interest in photography has literally exploded. Millions are enjoying the wonders of photography like never before. And, as a result, many are taking photography more seriously as an art form. But where do you go to improve your skills and get more from your photography? This Meetup group is for the photography enthusiast; photographers of all ages and skill levels, from beginner to expert, from amateur to professional. Whether you just bought yo …

Attn: QuickBooks Consultants, Accountants & Bookkeepers! Joe Woodard's National Advisor Network is forming local chapters Kickoff meeting Tuesday, Oct 12th from 12-3 pm at the Community Business Partnership, 7001 Loisdale Rd, Suite C (2nd Floor) Springfield, VA 22150 12:00 - 1:00 Learn about the new NAN-NOVA local chapter and the National Advisor Network 1:00 - 2:30 Joe Woodard presents "What's New in QuickBooks 2011" via webinar (you do not need to register separately for the webinar) 2 …

Bitcoin Users Meetup -- share and learn: best practices, bitcoin ideas, brainstorming, troubleshooting, development, merchant services, investing in bitcoin, promotion of bitcoin, mobile application development, online sales automation, etc. This is a social, learning, and business networking group. Everyone is welcome. It should prove to be very profitable for all.  We also have a Facebook Group.

This meetup group is for professionals interested in sharing their experiences and learning about how to engage the growing online and mobile Hispanic / Latino Community.

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 …

If you used to dance or always wanted to then this is the place for you!  All of these classes are taught at a studio called eMotion located in Burke, VA.  We offer a variety of small quality dance and fitness classes taught in a nurturing and friendly environment. From Hip Hop to Ballet to Cardio Kickboxing and Stretch, we've got a little bit of everything.  eMotion offers memberships and drop in classes. No recitals. No sessions. No pressure. Take what you want and how much you want in the per …

NO stuffed-shirt old codgers peddling their books and tapes that promise you’ll become the next Real Estate Millionaire if you buy them here. NO cheesy, yellow ‘WE BUY HOUSES’ bandit signs endorsed here. NO vague, outdated ideas that simply don’t work in today’s market here. What you WILL find here are straightforward, No BS ways to make money in Real Estate. Taught buy people who are in the trenches every day, doing it the RIGHT way! Founder, Chris Goff, wanted to create a REI Club where fello …

If you are interested in learning or sharing anything about designing, developing and supporting a great web site, service, app or online social network community, this group will not just explore, but we will discuss and possibly build, together.  This includes Javascript, HTML5, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, mobile web support, CakePHP, WordPress and other content management systems.  But it does not stop there. This group will identify and explore the use of technologies, content, media and social …

Introduction This group explores the intersection of the data revolution and the art of creating value. Bring your inner data scientist and learn how people are not only doing cool things with data, but doing so in ways that help startups, businesses, and other organizations thrive. While we will always have industrial, academic, and government luminaries as speakers, this meetup will not just be about lectures and free pizza (or empanadas as we secure sponsors).  Simply put, we are building a …

Let's teach ourselves Objective-C for iOS development! If you want to learn to develop iPhone or iPad apps, please join us. Early meetups will start from scratch. As we grow, we can start helping beginners as we become more experienced. We plan on having meetings twice a month in Northern VA and DC. The NoVA meetings will meet on Mondays at 7 or 7:30 PM. The DC meetings will be on Thursdays. I'm standardizing on the Big Nerd Ranch book series: Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide …

This group will share experiences people learn from starting and marketing for an online e-commerce business. Here we will discuss and share ways to market your online business through social media and other different internet marketing techniques. We will learn steps to drive traffic, acquire users, retain them, ask for referrals, and turn them into paying customers.

The Reston SharePoint User Group is hosted at the Microsoft offices in Reston, Virginia. The group was brought to fruition by Dan Usher and Scott Hoag, realizing the need for a user group in the Reston area that met during the day so as to provide a place for practitioners, professionals, and enthusiasts to learn and share ideas during the work day. If you’re interested in speaking, sponsoring or for more information, contact Dan and Scott at info@restonspug.org. Looking to attend? We meet on th …

This meetup group was started to announce World Tavern Poker free poker tournaments being held in the Northern Virginia area. World Tavern Poker is an awesome free poker league! Players can register online for the games or just show up and play! Everyone is welcome and new players are always encouraged to come out to the games! World Tavern Poker is great because you can show up just once and play for fun or you can come out often and qualify for regional and National events. THe National events …

A branch of the edX Global Community for people who live near Washington, DC, USA! Meetup with other people taking edX courses, have study groups at local coffee shops and libraries, and celebrate your successes!

We are an organization dedicated to learning and practicing Heart Chan meditation.  We do not only sit quietly and relax, because Chan is far beyond this.  We learn what mediation is about—its purpose, practice, and effects—through tradition-based practice. Chan (it’s the same word as “Zen” from Japanese) could be regarded as a philosophy about one's life from birth to death and all its ups and downs in between.  Through this philosophy, we could understand ourselves better.  Not many people un …

Mountaineering Section of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club http://www.potomacmountainclub.org Our Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!forum/patc-ms Welcome We are the Mountaineering Section of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club. The premier rock climbing, ice climbing and mountaineering club serving the D.C. Metro area since 1944. We climb daily and have weekly events such as climbing at Carderock on Wednesdays in the climbing season. We also plan annual trips a …

Weekly group to discuss the lectures and readings from the EdX Ancient Greek Hero class (CB22x). Open to all active learners, but specifically focused on active learning in retirement. Members are asked to keep up with the readings and lectures.

Welcome to the Mid-Atlantic Division Lync User Group known as MADLUG. This user group will promote a sense of community across the Mid-Atlantic Division with like-minded communication and IT professionals. By attending these meetings, in-person or virtually through Lync, you’ll gain an understanding of the fast-evolving technology of Microsoft Lync and its integration with existing telephony – allowing users to share ideas, technologies and collaborate on business decisions. The meetings will al …

Tired of fighting the fight by yourself? Looking to find out how to be the leader in your industry - in the eyes of your prospects? Looking to overtake your biggest competitor? The biggest problem most of our businesses have is we do not generate an adequate number of leads, appointments or opportunities to produce the number of sales or clients we desire. The biggest FAILURE in most of our businesses is we do not Market our own business good enough, or at all in many cases. Most of us just don' …

This group is dedicated to growing your business with using social media. You will learn how to efficiently use social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, YouTube and Pinterest to build your brand, and increase sales. Our goal is to providing informative and fun local, social and mobile online marketing workshops. At our Meet Ups you will learn: How to set up Your Twitter Profile for Best Results How to generate qualify leads from Twitter How to use Google Hangouts to use that g …

Dating Suggestions is a group where Men and Women can freely and openly discuss dating issues. Join us in frank, open discussions about dating experiences in fun, relaxed atmospheres, without pressure. Typically, men talk to men and women frequently talk to women, but not often do people get the opportunity to discuss dating stories with the opposite sex. Do men and women have different opinions? Together, we’ll meet and have fun, insightful, conversations where we can all learn and hopefully cr …

The B2B Content Marketing Meetup was born from a simple idea: content marketing is the most powerful marketing methodology out there today. Write something that educates people about something they care about, provide them something that is valuable and that they can actually use, and you can attract tons of loyal customers to you and build a brand name as well. Combine that with modern technology, such as social media, email and video, and you’ve got the perfect combination. It’s an effort to b …