Welcome to The NYC Business Networking Group (NYCBNG). Winner of Top 100 Small Business Influencers Award in Leadership. Over the last 5 years NYCBNG has earned the stellar reputation as one of the premier business networking group in NYC.  In August 2011, Ilana Eberson and NYCBNG won the coveted Top 100 Small Business Influencers Award. We are excited to be acknowledged for the business networking opportunities we've provided our members, the long term business relationships that have been c …

The NY Video Meetup is the world's largest organization of online video entrepreneurs. We meet monthly in NYC to showcase and discuss the emerging trends of our industry. Each month local startups, content producers and big media companies demo in front of hundreds of peers followed by bi-directional Q&A. Industry thought leaders are also interviewed in our "Founder DNA" Series. Our goal is to bring the local online video community closer together and to inspire and help each other succeed by sh …

Welcome! Here’s the plan: Big City Dare2Draw's main mission is to help provide networking, mentoring and promoting opportunities, along with resources, for artists of all levels, while raising money for artists in need, with the art done by our guests. We have art demos, artist panels, action models, drawing contests and great prizes provided by our sponsors. Our new home is at The Society of Illustrators. Established artists and arts organizations meet in a supportive setting, putting the art b …

Ever combined the Web, Second Life, World of Warcraft, Google Earth, Nintendo, Xbox Kinect, Facebook, Moore's Law and the unfolding human experience into a single thought (which, perhaps, you then Twittered over your iPhone)? Working on an art or web or game or virtual world project? Have an avatar? Are an avatar? Think video games can save the world or that the world is already a video game? (Or think that's the worst thing you've ever heard?) Does Snow Crash ring any bells even if you're way t …

Big Screen Little Screen - The Creative Side of Web Video - is a monthly event devoted to celebrating and supporting innovation in the creative side of web video and the exploding online entertainment industry and hosted by Matt Semel and Paul Kontonis. Each month, we’ll take an in-depth look at the processes and people behind some of the most successful entertainment products created for broadband distribution, followed by networking with industry peers, artists, executives, producers, and up-a …

There are more bloggers in Brooklyn than any other place I know of. Just look in the Tea Lounge in the middle of the day. What are they all doing? Blogging. Add to that all the web designers, developers, web video producers, and we *are* the center of the web universe. So I thought we should have a meetup that meets in the center of the universe, BKLN, where we can get together and meet, talk, have a beverage. Last Wednesday of every month, usually.

Come join us for friendly discussions of web content and presentations from leading content creators and publishers. This group benefits content creators of all stripes — from creative writers to video bloggers, musicians to web designers. Anyone who produces or helps to deliver content online is encouraged to join. *** This group has no affiliation with Associated Content***

Meet others who use Plone (www.plone.org), an open source content management system that makes it easy to build full-featured websites. YouTube Video for the Plone NYC Users Group http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnttWju8BGw Plone adheres to web standards, is cross-platform, multi-lingual, and has a friendly, worldwide community of developers and users. Plone and its underlying technologies Zope & Python can also be used to create web applications, including mobile apps. Gather to share kno …

Brooklyn Futurist Meetup is designed as an authentic forum to discuss what the world might look like in ten years plus. Like the social and artistic Futurist movement of the past, we explore emerging trends that have the ability to transform our world. Our events take place in Brooklyn where most members work or live. Topics are not Brooklyn-focused. They are open to attendees and speakers from anywhere. Many people are concerned about our society's inability to think and plan more than a handfu …

The definitive digital event for brands, agencies, and entrepreneurs. SES Toronto brings more than 1,200 interactive marketing professionals together annually; helping them to connect, share, and learn the leading trends and strategies for growing online businesses. Join us as we trek the globe and explore where search, and the interactive industry as a whole is headed next! Learn more about this Meetup Group Also Check out our Facebook Group for more discussion, photos, and videos from past and …

Presented by Tilzy.TV, the New York Web TV Meetup is a monthly event devoted to celebrating and supporting innovation in the exploding digital entertainment industry and bringing together the dynamic web television community. Each month, we’ll take anin-depth look at the processesand people behind some of the most successful entertainment products created for broadband distribution, followed by networking with industry peers, artists, executives, producers, and up-and-comers.

CLICK HERE TO WATCH VIDEO The goal of The NJ Business Networking Group is to build ongoing relationships and a community of interest in NJ. We invite you to come to this group with an attitude of sharing and giving and not just taking. Our objectives are to build our businesses, help other people with theirs and work together to build a strong business community. At our events we help you promote your business while we provide you with the opportunity to meet new prospects and contacts. This …

With online video becoming a native part of every online interaction, it is crucial that we use agreed standards, and discuss ways to keep video open and free for all. The Kaltura Open Video Group brings together thinkers, hackers, designers and innovators who wish to learn and collaborate on new projects related to online video, and to ease consumption of media online. The group hosts meetups in various cities around the world and holds online webinars and everyone is welcome to present inter …

This meetup group is a source for professionals in the newspaper, magazine, and book industries to share ideas on touch technologies.  This group discusses the aspects of the business, programing, art, and publishing of slate devices like the iPad and other future touch technologies.  We will delve into the impact of these devices as they pertain to the best uses as well as develop and incorporate interactive capabilities.  It is important that everyone in this group has a significant amount of …

If you are in the field of web design, graphic design, online marketing or video production/editing then this group is for you.  Why? Because we can collaborate, teach and support each other since all of our specialties are intertwined and interdependent. We'll also discuss regularly how technology is influencing both marketing and design and how it can benefit us.

The MIT Enterprise Forum of New York City is a volunteer, not-for-profit organization part of a network of 27 chapters worldwide. Our mission is to be the New York City-based leader in hosting networking and educational events focused on innovation and entrepreneurship. We host monthly events that attract between 30 and 200+ people. We count a membership of 200 people and a subscription list of 10,000 people, and have been an active chapter since 1971. We also occasionally host events with part …

ABOUT The New Marketplaces, Science & Tech For A Better Internet meetup invites scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, software coders, designers, activists and financiers to discuss and explore how new online marketplaces, business models & infrastructures can create more interaction and innovation on the Web. MEETUPS We meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month at some of NYC's most cutting-edge tech company offices. MEMBERS Where does the network end and where does the marketplace begin? Wh …

This is a group for aspiring comic creators to have an opportunity to network, collaborate, synergize and hang out with like minded individuals. If your an artist, writer or other welcome aboard. I started this meetup because comic books/graphic novels have had a resurgence in popularity recently with the movie, t.v. and video game adaptations. The technology of the last five to ten years has made it possible for the independent creators to go forward on their own via web comics with greater acc …

The web as we know it evolves rapidly. New layers are added, of social, collaboration, semantic, interactivity and accessibility.. it reaches across all platforms, from the PC and mobile devices to TVs and beyond. Through the web, we're connected any where, at any time. This group is dedicated to bring developers, designers and thinkers together, to explore the vast opportunities and great potential of the web. We hack together, discuss implementations and design approaches. All on the basis and …

***This group is currently on hiatus, check back here or look out for email updates on if / who / when we start up the weekly screenwriting or production groups for spring/summer*** About a year ago, I began purchasing equipment to develop video content. It started out with a camera, then another, then microphones, then Final Cut, then Motion, then a green screen, then lighting, and so forth. I realized that there are probably other people like me, producers, directors, cinematographers, sound …

This is a gathering point for all of us finding our way in learning how to live creative in NYC. For filmmakers, video producers, camera ops, relevant start-ups, writers, coders, designers, actors, financiers, brain-stormers, make-up artists, costume designers, etc. A place to network, start projects, source talent, find a job and imagine new possibilities for how we can all leverage our contacts, talents and ideas to create more and better work. This a take 2, about 2 years ago I created "NYC I …

Filmmakers!  From Concept to treatment to script to production to distribution deal. Let's get together and discuss it all! This meetup is for filmmakers to meet and discuss the creative side AND the business side of filmmaking. WRITERS with a script, meet filmmakers who may want to develop your film. FILMMAKERS, let's brainstorm and compare notes about distribution. DP's and DSLR shooters, let's talk about casting, directing, about web series, and about self-distribution.

NYC Music Meetup focuses in empowering music professionals, promoters, artists, and fans.

A group of web developers meets monthly to build web apps and learn how to do it right and fast using open source, web standards and various API (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Meetup and more). @StartupAPI The list of topics ranges from Security and Identity to Usability and Analytics. If you know a good topic we should discuss, please add it to the wiki, maybe even add some links to good articles / videos about it. We also code web applications right at the meetings - using whatever we want …

We attract the most disruptive startups founded by students and seasoned professionals in both the tech and non-tech spaces. We host monthly events that include: *Co-founder mixer, professional networking and investor meet and greets *Startup Contest and demo nights *Social events such as entrepreneurs hiking, biking, ski trip and dining events The topics we will cover at our events include but are not limited to: how to find your tech co-founder, how to make a video pitch, how to raise fun …

About The Group Centralizing New York film, web video, and TV industry professionals of all kinds as well as cinephiles. The NY Film Meetup is a source of industry networking, pitching projects, as well as screenings and workshops. Who Should Join Film & TV Professionals and enthusiasts.

Leap Motion has captured everyone's attention, including ours. All those video demos in the months leading up, left most everyone in the tech community wanting one. The time has come to show it in action and how to develop with Leap Motion. Our goal is to foster a lively and engaging community for Leap developers, to better understand how to harness this marvelous technology, take the state of the art to a new level, and stay ahead of the curve as Leap continues to evolve. We'll be regularly hol …

We're a group of SEO professionals who enjoy hanging out together and sharing cutting edge SEO tactics (sometimes in that order, sometimes not). We have the back of our members and take the time to get to know them on a personal and professional level. We meet once a month and our members have access to the most influential SEO network in North America. If you are looking for a new job or need help learning vital SEO skills, there's definitely someone in our group who can help you out. We're i …