Our group is a community of people involved in the creation and delivery of content, including web writers and editors, content strategists, and content managers. We meet monthly to further our shared commitment to creating more effective online and interactive content, network, and grow. If you're interested in content strategy or web content, please join us!

Sick of setting goals but not meeting them? .. of having aspirations and desires but not the balls or perseverance to reach them without giving up or getting distracted? .. of desiring closeness but sabotaging it or pushing away? "Self Sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen." GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY You will open to more ease and aliveness through: - learning to recognize self sabotaging forces/ voices/ behaviors - gaining tools to manage th …

Hypertable is an open source project based on published best practices and our own experience in solving large-scale data-intensive tasks. Our goal is to bring the benefits of new levels of both performance and scale to many data-driven businesses who are currently limited by previous-generation platforms. Modeled after Google's well known Bigtable project, Hypertable is designed to manage the storage and processing of information on a large cluster of commodity servers, providing resilience …

The corporate event technology group is a bay area based meetup for event and meeting managers, corporate planners, marketers, and event producers. The group focuses on efficiencies and savings gained from using technology solutions to manage events across the ecosystem.

The goal of the SF Community Manger's crew is to meet and trade ideas. Community Management combines leadership, marketing, social media, customer service, and quite a few other skills as well.  One great way to keep up with all these areas of growth is to meet and exchange ideas, stories, lessons, etc. Given the dynamic and diverse companies, charities, and groups in our region, the chance to learn from people pursuing unique avenues is pretty darn exciting. On the simplest level, this group ca …

Agile Coaching Circles are intended provide support for working ScrumMasters, agile coaches and project managers who are ready to polish their coaching skills by participating in an extended community of active, practicing coaches. Let's get together to share our successes and challenges with each other in order to support newer coaches, enhance our coaching skills and deepen our craft.

The Community Manager Breakfast is a meetup exclusively for Bay Area community managers who want to have an intelligent discussion with their peers. We love the beer-filled mingling events and big-name-speaker presentations, but we also want a chance to discuss our theories and issues with each other. The Community Manager Breakfast happens on the second Tuesday of every month at the UserVoice offices. The topic for each month is chosen by the group at http://communitybreakfast.uservoice.com. …

Startup Product, a movement for product excellence through cross-discipline collaboration and holistic product perspective. Startup Product welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence. Everyone is encouraged to contribute their point of view, w …

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Data Warehouse Group! This is a user group to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences building data warehouses. This group is open for everyone interested in networking with other data warehousing professionals (architects, developers, modelers, analysts, data scientists, PMs, directors, recruiters, etc), learning the latest technologies and trends, and sharing best practices and experiences. For those interested in: Data Wareho …

Who Should Join: Any current or aspiring project manager should join this community to learn, share, and have fun. There are project managers from broad section of industries that meet to share best practices, horror stories, and all that comes with managing people, deadlines, and budgets. We meet monthly to meet new friends, connect with colleagues, and to share our experiences. Why Members Should Join: You should join not only for fun and camaraderie but to learn. Have you just been assigned …

This group has been created to bring together users of Alfresco Content Management. Technical and non-technical users are invited to become a member to exchange information, code, use cases, case studies, demos, ideas and to make new friends.

This is a community of mobile product managers, UX researchers, developers, and designers who meet to share our experiences with the process, challenges, and joys (!) of developing mobile products (apps and mobile web too!) There are lots of awesome Meetup.com groups that focus on the dev/tech side of building for mobile. The emphasis of this group is on research, requirements gathering, definition, UX, product management, and design of mobile apps and sites. Come on over, we'll put on a fresh p …

Product Manager Breakfast is a relaxed conversation between Product Manager peers. The goal is for this to be a safe place where we vent, trade tips, and discuss the challenges and opportunities for our role. Note: this event is only for Product Managers. We've found that having people in other roles - even if they know a lot about product management - can make the conversation difficult.

Identity, social networking and personalized [our] data and how it is used is one of the core issues of our time. We are taking the ideals associated with the Identity Commons, the Identity Gang, Internet Identity Workshop, and bringing them local. Speakers, events, and workshops with the leading minds in Silicon Valley. We want to keep the conversation and community growing. Topic areas will include: Personalized clouds Identity theft Identity management Social networks Privacy in a world wher …

This group is for professionals interested in developing their organizational skills to improve personal productivity, management ability, and to influence their organization to become more effective. Learn the principles and practice the disciplines of getting things done. Weekly workshop with monthly focus on: Personal productivity - getting things done Team productivity and project management Organizational effectiveness The workshops will integrate different approaches to personal and grou …

Is managing projects your bread and butter? Using JIRA to do that? Well, then this meetup is for you. If you are a project manager and use JIRA day to day then this meetup is for you. Come along and share your tips and tricks for managing projects with JIRA and GreenHopper.

This is a group for anyone interested in the Tomcat Container. All skills levels are welcome. I manage a Tomcat based product and started this group to meet other Tomcat enthusiasts. Looking forward to exploring Tomcat with everybody

This is a group for anyone managing software sales teams at the Director level, VP level, or above. A minimum of 10 years of experience is recommended. I started this group because I was spending so much time in the tactical world of managing my teams that I wanted an opportunity to brainstorm high-level strategies with a group of peers - over dinners, drinks, etc.

This is a user group for Salt in the Bay Area. From SaltStack.org: Salt is an open source tool to manage your infrastructure. Easy enough to get running in minutes and fast enough to manage tens of thousands of servers (and still get a response back in seconds). Execute arbitrary shell commands or choose from dozens of pre-built modules of common (or complex) commands. Target individual servers or groups of servers based on name, defined roles, or a variety of system information such as hardware …

A group for those interested in learning actionable best practices for improving startup operations. We cover a diverse range of topics, including startup accounting, cash management, runway management, budgeting, tax compliance, legal issues, equity agreements, banking management, business insurance, employee benefits, people management, vendor relations, investor relations, business process automation, lean startup methodologies, operations technology, and much more. Any startup founder who is …

The group is for Chief Strategy Officers, Strategic Planning professionals and individuals interested in strategic planning in San Francisco. It's a place to discuss challenges and best practices for effective strategic management. We will discuss topics such as how best to set strategy and align resources in an increasingly changing environment. It aims to bring together individuals of all skill levels for thought-sharing and networking.

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers in San Francisco and the Valley to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Design, Development and Management, as well as Lean, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include short talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, design and development as well as plenty of time for networking and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to com …

A community of aspiring and existing Product Managers. Want to be a Product Manager? This group is for people interested in entering or learning more about Product Management and for existing Product Managers who wish to be mentors and share their experiences. We will bring in product experts to share their knowledge, help build product skills, have networking opportunities and also work on projects together. These projects can be personal or volunteer challenges posed by non-profits with a goal …

The Bay Area meetup for all things workflow and process automation related. Why not come together for business and technical discussions? From how to add forms to workflow, to getting started with BPM, let's share our experiences here. Brownie points if you're also an Open Source and/or Java wiz.

Elcom Technology Inc. (Elcom) is a global provider of enterprise web content management solutions. We assist mid-enterprise organizations to achieve their corporate objectives for Websites, Intranets, Portals, Mobile Web, Social, eCommerce, Learning Management and Online Marketing. We wanted to start a Meetup in the SF Bay Area to help customers, prospects, developers, content contributor's, system administrator's overcome the frustrations often associated with planning, designing and implementi …

This is a group for Project Managers interested in Product development or in a career change: from Project to Product Manager. I started this group after making the change myself and realizing that there were a lot of others like me trying to do the same. So, this group is for everyone who needs help to make the move as well as learn more about how to manage product develoment. Project managers, Product managers, start-up entrepreneurs and Data analysts crowd is expected.

There are lots of developer skill building talks/events etc but not enough meetups for Product Managers to get together and share lessons learned, tools, processes, tips/tricks etc. That is what this group is for. A way for tech/web/startup Product Managers to get together and hang out with other PMs, to learn, share, and network.

Interested in getting more involved in the entrepreneurial scene in SF but not sure where to start? This group provides an authoritative but friendly firsthand look at the current Bay Area landscape. From impromptu drinks with mentors and hiring managers to both speaker-centric and straight-up social events at cool offices around SOMA, we'll give you an insider's introduction to startup culture in the area code where it all started.