… SFBAJ is co-sponsored by the Knight Digital Media Center at UC Berkeley; the San Francisco Chronicle; California Press Women, NFPW; the Center for Integration and Improvement of Journalism ; New America Media ; the Bay Area Black Journalists Association ; and RedwoodAge.com . (If you'd like to become a cosponsor, please contact Tom Murphy, the group's organizer.) We meet throughout the Bay Area, and our meetups follow four major themes: * Startup to Success: Helping new and mid-career jour …

… Enabling convergence and fostering innovation: Advances in digital technology are driving the convergence of computing and communications. This trend has profound implications for all participants in the mobile/wireless industry. With future tense, wireless handsets will provide all end-user demographics with relevant applications and may converge and communicate with I.P & HD Televisions and all electronic devices. As high performance wide-area (cellular networks) have been created from the gro …

The online media is drastically changing the fashion industry and the way consumers interact with fashion brands. Meet the people that lead the fashion revolution online - fashion bloggers, new media publishers, entrepreneurs, industry insiders, fashion PR reps, and web savvy trendsetters. You must a professional within the fashion industry and have an online presence to join this group. This is the SF chapter of NYC based Fashion 2.0 meetup, founded in 2008. We are currently working on get …

The Location Based Marketing Association of SF is an international group dedicated to fostering research, education and collaborative innovation at the intersection of people, places and media. Our goal is simple; To educate, share best practices, establish guidelines for growth and to promote the services of member companies to brands and other content-related providers. Members of the LBMA include retailers, agencies, advertisers, media buyers, software and services providers, and wireless co …

Meet others interested in all aspects of Web, Digital, Social Game and Social Media Analytics. Gather to discuss key trends and updates around advanced analytics,as it applies to marketing and tech offerings, upcoming web, search, BI, sentiment analysis, reporting and predictive analytics software (Web Trends, Google Analytics, Net Insight, Omniture, etc.) Open to anyone interested in learning more and sharing thoughts about digital analytics, SEM, SEO and social media as it relates to web desig …

Core group has worked with technology startups for over 18 years. How to take a social media or technology start-up company from idea concept through funding and global market. Whether family shoestring budget, angel investment or VC venture capital the principles for success remain the same. With the warp-speed changes in digital, mobile and hyper-localized marketing as well as consumer savvy rewards based technologies emerging every view days we would love to meet and chat about some basic …

Rather than focusing on one specific profession, we want to mingle with varieties of visual creators; graphic designers, interior designers, product designers, architects, videographers, photographers, filmmakers and more. Visual creators should have something in common and expand their expertise in different directions, but we all probably want to get inspired by other visual creators. The main activity of this group is social mixers, which help members meet new visual creators, get inspiration …

The Northern California Journalists meetup group is a breeding ground for discussion, training and innovation. Through panel discussions, social mixers and training, Northern California journalists will have a chance to meet and talk with their peers, share ideas, and learn. This meetup is sponsored by the Northern California chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists and is open to all journalists in Northern California.

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We are sound enthusiasts - from music to radio to storytelling and beyond. We want to explore how sound is changing online, from simple creation to sharing within our social networks. Topics that we may discuss together may be as diverse as evolution of music apps to the future of radio. We are open to your ideas and welcome your participation!

Let's build tomorrow's Smart Cities  and Networked Society together    A place for Mobile Web Apps developers, end-users, entrepreneurs, local industries and communities stakeholders involved in evaluating, developing and providing web and mobile web applications as well as anyone wishing to learn about the business opportunities and mobile lifestyle experiences the newly created Mozilla marketplace and other mobile web development environments (Participants in the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core C …

… We will explore modern, targeted, cost effective ways of advertising and marketing: 1) PPC 2) SEO 3) email marketing 4) blogging 5) social media 6) viral marketing and more! This meetup is geared towards small business owners, self-employed professionals, and aspiring entrepeneurs who want to maximize ROI for their advertising dollars.

There are DOZENS of game development events and groups with very specific topics in the Bay Area. Attempting to go to all of them is insane. Let's use this group to discuss what we've learned at other venues. This will be our crowdsourcing for indies project! This group is a place for independent developers who live near Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Los Altos to discuss design trends, platforms, tools, testing and sales techniques, the media, the IRS, lawyers, cloning, pirates, advertising, pub …

Advertising professionals as far North of Quebec to West of LA are welcome to join this meet up group. Our goal is to offer the most unique roundtable discussions that allow advertisers from all across North America to share experiences and positive trends. This group is perfect for anyone in TV, Radio, Broadcast, News Media, Coupons Book Publishers, Yellow Page Publications, and any type of Print Media.  We will also include topics that are important to Digital Web Media, Daily Deals Sites, SEO …

We are a group of people who work in social marketing, TV 3.0 creators, entertainment, film and the Internet who meet to explore the the newest, and most exciting innovation in social video. We see a future for video being live/recorded online, in social networks, and as personal channels. We want to understand and evangelize this video movement.