We are a community of freelance professionals located in Charlotte, NC spanning all types of fields.

This is the most successful SEO Meetup in the United States because we concentrate on actionable advice. This Meetup IS NOT about tricks to fake out the search engines or how to make quick money online via Google. Raleigh's SEO meetup IS about getting realistic and informational advice on what works with the search engines. Show up once a month to find better ways to tune your site, get more distance from your marketing efforts, write good web content. Take the mystery out of what Google has to …

The purpose of the group is to provide an environment for discussions of advanced Internet Marketing experts. These discussions will engage the participants with challenging concepts and internet marketing applications, and are designed to sharpen skills and advance techniques for professionals in the Charlotte area. To maintain the integrity of the concept of an “advanced” internet marketing group, we are limiting participation to members who have at least 3 years of solid IM experience, or th …

Meet other local users of WordPress, the Internet's classiest and fastest dynamic content management system. Gather and discuss the best ways to work with your WordPress. WordPress is a great blogging platform but with recent updates it is also one of the most effective content management systems on the planet. Learn from others in our community about how to put this system to work for you effectively. Other topics for discussion Search Engine Optimization, Site Monetization, Website Business pl …

Calling All Artists!!!! If you are a professional or amateur, engaged in or interested in media arts such as graphic design, web design, creative photography, filmmaking/videoography, 3D graphics/visual effects, audio/music production, creative writing, video editing, digital animation, New Media and business, this group is for you. Meet and network with creative individuals around the Triad. Share ideas and experiences, collaborate and share projects. Showcase your work, get exposure, get advi …

We *heart* ExpressionEngine and want to get together with other people who love EE too. If you are in or around the Charlotte, NC area, please join us.

Charlotte UX is for anybody interested in learning more about creating a great user experience. Join us once a month as we get together to discuss user experience design, information architecture, copywriting, analytics, usability studies, sketching and wireframing and much more. We a group of like-minded people that enjoy what we do. We keep the format pretty casual and we encourage you to bring a friend. See you there!

Come meet other Charlotte area bloggers to talk about blogging! Let's get together to talk about content, design, technology, blogging platforms, SEO, social media and anything else in our bloggy brains! We can share knowledge and trade tips and tricks to create better blogs, increase traffic and make our blogs rock. Oh - let's also have a couple drinks.

Triangle Web Women is a monthly gathering of female web professionals in North Carolina's Research Triangle area. Our goal is to foster connections among local female web professionals and to encourage those women to participate in the greater web community. Join the group and stay up to date about when we're meeting next; you can also stay in touch by following@triwebwomen on Twitter.

The purpose of this MeetUp is to help connect WordPress users, Webmasters, and Developers to increase our skills, our web development businesses, and make our Web-Fu strong! (We will try to have a little fun while we are at it! If you run your own blog, develop websites for fun or profit, or love to learn and have fun doing it, please join the group, and we'll see you at the next MeetUp!

Learn about the basics and advancements to WordPress, one of the most popular open-source content management systems, for web publishers, bloggers, and journalists.

Looking for a front end development meetup in the triangle area? Relax, you've found it. Discussions at Function Pink center around the latest techniques and best practices for professional HTML, CSS and JavaScript development.

This group is dedicated to bringing together the young professionals of the Charlotte MSA who have a similar goal: participating in a collaborative network of design and marketing professionals, while finding opportunities for personal and professional growth. Every other week we will have a topic to discuss. There will also be a surprise mini-topic or exercise to test our brains! I will generate a list of topics and take input from you as well to add to the list! The topic of the week will be r …

Dedicated to best practices, semantic markup, progressive enhancement & graceful degradation. Over the course of time and quite often we discuss HTML5, CSS, cross-browser support & testing, mobile, optimization techniques and much more. From time-to-time we'll discuss Javascript related topics but in most cases we'll let the excellent Charlotte JS Meetup Group handle the glory that is Javascsript.

[grok] — verb to intimately and completely share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed [ORIGIN: 1961, COINED BY AUTHOR ROBERT A. HEINLEIN IN HIS NOVEL STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND] Thanks to Joshua Blankenship for the definition. The Origin of the Grok The first Grok began in the tasty beer and pixel filled mind of Matthew Smith of @squaredeye & Cowork Greenvil …

Refresh is a community of designers/developers working to refresh the creative, technical, & professional culture of new media endeavors in their areas through design, technology, usability & standards. Refresh is an international initiative, now over 60 cities strong. Visit refreshingcities.org for more.

The TriUPA UX Book Club is managed by the Triangle User Experience Professionals' Association. You don't need to be a member to join, all you need is enthusiasm for creating easy-to-use interfaces. To learn more, go to www.triuxpa.org.

Everything design presented by professional designers. Crop is about sharing methods and techniques. We want to give designers a platform to showcase their skills and learn about the latest and greatest. If you love design, love to collaborate then we want you at the next Crop meetup. The format for the meetup will be an overall design theme and the second segment we will showcase a cool technique, latest software or new technology related to design. We don't want to focus solely on one area of …

This meetup group is a joint venture between the American Marketing Association, Charlotte Chapter and Studiobanks a full-service digital marketing agency. The objective of this free meetup group is to encourage an open dialogue between professional digital marketing practitioners and business leaders looking to enhance their digital presence. Who should join? Anyone with a keen interest in learning about digital marketing, both professionals in the field and business leaders looking to learn. …

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This Meetup group is designed to bring diverse people together who have a dream and a passion for a whole new level of financial freedom. So, whether you're looking to make your business more successful or ready to finally start one - let's come together and make it happen! We're a Mastermind group and that means as a group of people we work together and contribute towards each others goals and successes. Although this group focuses on the Laptop Lifestyle - a business that you can work on anyti …

We're a community of entrepreneurs, hackers, VCs, and founders focused on growing the local triangle tech community. You can regularly expect to see demos, hear from expert panels, and meet like-minded individuals so spread the word, bring your friends, and see you at the Triangle Meetup!

The Charlotte Queen City DotNetNuke users group is an energetic and active community of individuals, students, entrepreneurs and business owners who come together to discuss how design, develop, implement, administer and use one of the top Microsoft .Net based Web Content Management Systems. The QCUDG (http://qcdug.com) also has planned and hosted an international gathering to disseminate great content and topics on this fast moving platform. Our monthly meetings on the Microsoft Campus in Charl …

TACFUG, or the Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group, is the home for ColdFusion in the Research Triangle Area of North Carolina. We discuss web development, front end development, database development and general application development topics. Serving Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill, Apex, Holly Springs, Clayton, Garner, Wake Forest, Creedmore, Butner, Morrisville and those brave souls from the Piedmond Triad who come out to the meetings

Joomla!Days are a unique opportunity for Joomla CMS web designers, developers and integrators to connect, learn, share, and innovate. February 23, 2013 is the start of the first Joomla!Day in the Southeast United States, connecting Joomla! users who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend a local Joomla! event. Students planning to enter the web development field are encouraged to attend with a special student rate. Curious what the web industry for one of the major open source CMS platforms is rea …

This meetup provides an online space for Microsoft app builders to come together and build apps with the help of Microsoft and our Community of App Developers.

This Meetup provides an online space for Microsoft app builders to come together and build apps with the help of Microsoft and our Community of Developers and Designers.

This group is for UX professionals looking to share insights on books or articles that are inspiring, informative, explorative, trending, or innovative in the field of UX. I really want this group to be a casual get together where we can just talk about what we've read and how it relates to our lives and current way of thinking.