Traditionally, businesses have leveraged print coupons, newspaper ads, and direct mail to advertise their products and services. Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. How effective are these advertising and marketing channels for small businesses today? We will explore modern, …

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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 …

Learn more about our networking events at www.playthemusic.biz Digital Music SF is the premiere networking event for music professionals in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley area. Our events bring together the complete ecosystem - managers, producers, marketers, artists and more- to explore new technologies, products and revenue models that are creating new business opportunities for the music industry. Explore digital and interactive music technologies, business models, devices and creativ …

A group hosted by the Online News Association for local professionals interested in the changing landscape of digital media and new technology. Gather with writers, editors, photographers, producers, technologists, developers, designers and more with an interest in the production of news for digital presentation. For more information on ONA, check out http://www.journalists.org.

The Digital Media SIG (special interest group) meets 5 times per year to explore the emerging concepts and platforms that are constantly reshaping "digital media" as we know it. New platforms are mobile, new currencies are virtual, and the reality has been augmented. A generation has grown up digital, and the game is increasingly social. The Digital Media SIG is the place to find the talent and projects that will reshape the territory in ways we haven't yet thought of. Have your own ideas about …

With there being a lack of Social Media PR meetup groups out here I decided it would be a great time to start one. The purpose of this group is to bring people in the tech startup PR field together to meet and talk about strategy, methods and opportunities. You should join if you are 1. In PR 2. Want to be in PR 3. Are not in PR but want to meet PR people 4. In the tech startup industry 5. If you just want to join to see what we're up to.6. Want to be in the tech startup industry I will be pl …

Our mission: To offer the International mobile technology and services sector an unbiased discussion dialogue on emerging technologies. Analyze their commercial, economical, social and political impact for an audience of senior business executives, researchers, financiers, policy makers and our loyal software developers. In keeping with SVForum’s history of innovation and leadership, we have decided to commit to I.P. protocol technology and the distribution of information associated. Enabling co …

TechCentralSF is San Francisco’s exclusive online directory resource and collaborative community for High Tech, Biotech, and Cleantech with over 1,000 start-up companies and established innovators making breakthroughs across San Francisco. TechCentralSF is a B2B exchange to support entrepreneurs, startups & the SF tech ecosystem. TCSF brings together the hottest startups and entrepreneurs through popular events such as the startup crawl, the startup mixer, and visionary leadership panel discussi …

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 …

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 …

This group is for independent publishers, authors, and agents on the West Coast who publish ebooks or want to learn more about ebooks and digital change. Get together with other publishing professionals to mix, mingle and discuss industry developments. Our first meetup will be held in conjunction with eBooks for Everyone Else San Francisco which will take place on Wednesday, November 2 at the Parc 55 Hotel in Union Square. For more information and the full conference program, visit PublishersLau …

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!

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.

Learn and Share how to build kick ass HTML5 Mobile Web Apps 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 Community G …

The Gray Area: Creative Code Meetup is an ongoing platform for the Bay Area Creative industry and technology industry to present their work. We will gather together every month to update one another on our progress. We hope that the meetup will encourage and nurture unforeseen collaborations between like-minded individuals. We encourage you to join us and meet others in the community who are using code, microcontrollers, and emerging media to stylize their artwork.

Join the Online Marketing Institute, the leader in Digital Marketing Education and Rocketspace, San Francisco's top start up destination, for a provocative networking and thought leadership series. We'll start with a 30 - 40 min discussion with a Bay Area digital marketing leader. After a moderated question and answer, we'll mix and mingle over drinks.

Participate in our Dojo as we to work together to leverage and expand your skills in digital media storytelling. Storytelling is the fundamental component of how human beings relate to the world around them. Stories are present on multiple levels - there are personal, local, global and civilization stories. Whether it is politics, soap operas, or sports, it is the stories within them that give each topic meaning and influence our actions at each level. Your brand is becoming it's own media outle …

"Visual Media Professionals Group in San Francisco" is a professional group dedicated to provide time to share knowledge, experience and ideas with others professional who live or work in San Francisco Bay Area. Our members are coming from Photography, Graphics Design, Printing, Webdesign, Animation, TV, Movie, Magazine and Fashion industries. Our purpose is to deliver what it takes to help our group members become more successful and profitable in their professional life or business. To accompl …

Let’s start networking with the people who are in this business. Shooting photo, editing images and selling products online. Product photography could well be the single most important design aspect of any e-commerce website. Without the ability to touch, hold, smell, taste or otherwise handle the products they are interested in, potential customers have only images to interact with. Ultimately, the softer, tastier, flashier and more attractive your products look to shoppers, the more confident …

Silicon Valley based group with the goal of fostering a digital art & media community through activities, workshop and events.

The Entertainment Storage Alliance puts on events and distributes publications on digital storage technologies and their applications.  You should join if you are interested in digital storage technology and its use in consumer or professional media and entertainment applications.  You should also join us if you would like to network with or meet other folks with similar interests in digital storage technology and its applications.  We put on quarterly Storage Valley Supper Club meetings as well …

We're tired of talking among ourselves about all thinks digital marketing. We need to hear form the outside world. Come and share your thoughts with us on digital marketing - SEM, SEO, PPC, display, mobile, web site development, etc. Bring your strategic game, because that's where we like to start.

The Programmatic Advertising & Data group is for Savvy Marketers and Technologists to discuss the latest trends in advertising technologies, advertising tools and more. Though there is a focus on programmatic advertising there are other areas covered like mediation, aggregators, programmatic mobile, search analytics

Join Big Data Marketing in the Bay Area for exclusive invitations to BlueKai hosted data marketing focused events. Audience targeting driven by 3rd party data intelligence is crucial to achieving scale and efficiency for any digital media plan. BlueKai sits at the center of this growing industry as a DMP solution. From this position we interact with agencies, marketers, service and data providers. Our goal is to help cultivate relationships between data buyers and sellers through Bay Area events …

This is a forum for individuals, large and small business and non-profits, and legislative bodies to come together to discuss the most pressing internet, mobile, social media privacy issues of our day. I want to bring people to together specifically around the issues of privacy, legislation, and big data and each person's personal data. Social media and mobile privacy affects us all. What we put out there today will effect our future tomorrow: What do we really agree to as far as Terms and Condi …

Calling all director- and VP-level brand management and omni-channel shopper marketing pros! We are the Brand Activation Association, dedicated to creating education on all the disciplines required to activate a brand's strategy. We host a myriad of conferences each year that touch on all points of activation, but our Digital Shopper Marketing series allows us to delve into the research, technology, and case-studies behind CPG brands and agencies in the digital omi-channel world. Our content foc …

Are you doing something new with traditional content? Making it more visual, social, interactive, whatever? Are you in ed-tech, corporate e-learning, journalism, interaction design, the arts? Once a month, let's leave our silos for a few hours and teach each other how to MAKE IT NEW.