We were formerly known as The JP Women's Group. Founded 1/26/07 by Chris (formerly Hansen) Juliani, Director, the group has been so successful that now Robin, Mairic, and Lisa are assisting her in managing the group. Our purpose is to build community for women in the Boston Area. Our hope is to create more community for gay/queer women in the Boston Area, especially for women who have recently moved here, or who have recently come out. Also, to help change the story that it is so hard to meet pe …

Meet other CMS professionals, aficianados, and neophytes who want to learn about current and best practices, state of the art, and current quality practices for these CMS and related system used in business, government, and academia for collaboration, website development, eCommerce, and simpler things like family websites, web galleries, and other social networking applications. Come to see demos, profiles, and assessments of the latest systems. Hear independent evaluations of the most popular …

Users of Alfresco Open Source Enterprise Content Management to exchange information, code, use cases, case studies, demos, ideas and friends. Leverage the transparency (of code and conduct) and community of Open Source to deliver true value with ECM!

The Small Business Success Network™ is the leading Boston area community dedicated to helping small business owners and independent professionals grow their business, with a special emphasis on service-based small businesses. The group features resources, networking and best practices that will help you with marketing, social media, small business management, and overall help you be more successful. This group is for * Small business owners * Solopreneurs and entrepreneurs * Self-employed p …

The Boston WordPress Meetup is a Meetup group for fans of WordPress, the most popular open source blogging engine. Join us once a month to learn more about WordPress and meet other WP fans, including SEO gurus, theme designers, plugin developers, bloggers, and beginners. Traditionally, we meet at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center for a presentation, Q&A session, and casual networking. When we don't have a formal event planned, join us for informal social events at nearby re …

Laughing Matter of Greater Boston Laughing Matter is a community service nonprofit organization that brings the therapeutic benefits of laughter and improvisational comedy to individuals in places of care, including hospitals, homeless shelters and senior centers. This Meetup serves as the Auditions Circle for prospective Member Performers of the Greater Boston Chapter of Laughing Matter. Individuals can audition in one of two ways: City-Wide Laughing Matter Audition City-wide auditions take pla …

The New England Sitecore CMS User Group meets on a Wednesday once each month in Boston for networking, learning - and did we mention free pizza and drinks? The user group, led by noted CMS architect and developer Rick Cabral of ISITE Design, is open to anyone using or considering the Sitecore Content Management System, or who has an interest in .NET CMS platforms, regardless of technical proficiency. Programmers, marketers, content authors, CMS users and others are all welcome. We will be discus …

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Based in Boston, Content Strategy New England brings together copywriters, consultants, content managers, interaction designers, search engine specialists, and creative directors from Portland to Providence to discuss how we bring clear communication to online user experiences through the evolving discipline of content strategy.

We are a group of ExpressionEngine users and developers in the greater Boston area who are interested in learning from each other, sharing best practices, and otherwise geeking out about EllisLab's ExpressionEngine, a fantastic PHP-based content management system. We run structured presentations, informal "show-and-tell" sessions, co-hosted events with other local Meetup groups, "code & conversation" nights, and whatever other types of events our members dream up. We aim for one event per month …

The Zeitgeist Movement is an explicitly non-violent, global sustainability advocacy group currently working in over 1000 Regional Chapters across 70 countries. The basic structure of The Movement consists of Chapters, Teams, Projects & Events. Overall, the Chapters are essentially what define the Movement and each Chapter works to not only spread awareness about the roots of our social problems today but also to express the logical, scientific solutions and methods we have at our disposal to upd …

This is a group for Nonprofits who are using Salesforce in the greater Boston metro area to network, share best practices, and have tasty snacks! Please join us!

OVERVIEW New Group!  Tech entrepreneurs and marketers come together to solve marketing, product marketing and product strategy challenges, big and small. Members are software/hardware/mobile app entrepreneurs and company founders, senior management, and folks from the marketing, product marketing and product management functions in companies big and small. The typical meeting includes a startup marketing case study (it could be YOU!), a rapid-fire roundtable discussion in which we we tackle …

Tech in Motion is broad by design, the goal of this group is to be interactive and allow technology enthusiasts to learn from other professionals, have questions answered in real-time, discover new tech, and hear stories that inspire. This group is a place for technology professionals who wouldn’t normally cross paths to meet, collaborate, and learn about what their peers are doing across the city. Join the conversation on Twitter, share and follow along with #TechInMotion! *We already have two …

MindfulBoston is a group of MBSR "graduates" who meditate using the practices they learned during a Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) intensive class. This group is mostly for people who have already completed an MBSR program with a teacher. If you have already completed a full 8-week program, with any teacher, any where, you are welcome to join this meetup. This meetup group will sometimes include opportunities for beginner-level learning. But the best way to find out about beginner-lev …

If you are involved with Product Management, Product Development or Product Marketing, this is the group for you! Our goal will be to establish a group where Boston's best and brightest can interact and learn form one-another. Whether you are in a large enterprise, a non-profit, a government agency or a start-up, this is the place to share and learn. We'll establish a quarterly meeting and have some speakers from local universities and businesses across a variety of industries and sizes share th …

The Boston Lean IT / Limited WIP Society is a local forum for sharing ideas and experiences of applying the Kanban Method and Lean Thinking to IT processes, including (but not limited to) software development, maintenance, and support. Lean Thinking can help IT teams, large or small, become more effective and productive. The Kanban Method has its genesis in Toyota's manufacturing processes, and was pioneered by David J. Anderson as a flow-based system for software engineering projects & operatio …

This is a group for people in positions of responsibility in Software Quality Assurance to expand their knowledge and to network with peers on a wide variety of issues unique to managers such as: - Innovations in Software Testing - Best Practices in Software Quality Assurance - Pros and Cons of Testing Frameworks, Methodologies and Tools - Key Performance Indicators - Tactics to reduce testing cycle times and budgets. We will hold events monthly to discuss topics that related to QA leaders' dail …

Are you a Customer Experience Enthusiast and willing to connect with like-minded professionals. Join this group to exchange best practices, industry standards in Customer Experience Management Space. Join now and stay on top of latest and greatest in the field of Customer Experience Management.

This non-partisan group discusses the latest in health and health policy, particularly healthcare reform as new changes are implemented in Massachusetts and the nation. We discuss the topics du jour, analyzing how the changes personally affect our health (whether they limit or increase it) as we learn about them. Our topics range from testimonials about interactions with providers to personal lessons learned about the system. Beyond group discussions, healthcare navigation consultations are also …

Intelligent.ly connects Boston's top experts with entrepreneurs and startup folks who want to hone their skills. Improve your craft or learn a new subject in 90-minutes through workshop-style classes in Marketing, Product Management, UX, Business Strategy and more. Learn, to win!

DAMA' goals are to: Help practitioners become more knowledgeable and skilled in the information and data management profession Influence practices, education and certification in the information and data management profession Support DAMA members and their organizations to address their information and data management needs Form alliances with other organizations with similar principles to strengthen the profession. The purpose of this meetup is to support these goals, and to provide networking …

Looking to gather like minded folks who believe that searching for and managing a home via mobile applications can be simple.

MPUG is recognized as the official Industry Association for Microsoft® Project. MPUG and MPA User Group Chapters is a non-profit association of local groups each led by community advocates. These groups provide local community meeting opportunities to share Microsoft Project and related technology experience, training resources and networking. Peer collaboration in local chapter meetings will help you make the most out of your Microsoft® Project experience.

This group is dedicated to helping local businesses use the Internet to grow their businesses. More than any time history, local businesses have the tools to empower them to control their success with local, social and mobile online marketing - the problem is that they are just too many of them and they are hard to use. We aim to teach local businesses how to make it all simpler for them so they can be successful. Our group is filled with people passionate about helping local businesses and orga …

Enterprise Architecture includes lots of frameworks, stakeholders and is still a young discipline. We want to share insights, tools, success and fail stories, modelling questions as well as how to make an impact in your organization. Become an EA Linchpin!

Do you manage a sales team? Do you have a support group? Now you do. Welcome to the Boston Sales Managers Meetup Group.

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers in Boston 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 companies big and small. …