The purpose of Speaking of Design is to hold educational events for the professional design community in and around Ann Arbor. Each Speaking of Design event features an exceptional local or regional design professional who will discuss topics of interest and inspiration to Art Directors, Graphic Designers and Web Designers.

Welcome to Local Business Help Group on Meetup.com (Note our new name.) WHO: Galina Zwerlein is the founder and Creative Web Director at Remote Business Help, LLC, supporting web development and marketing solutions for business owners, company executives and individuals.   Visit RemoteBusinessHelp.com for additional information. WHAT: Our group's signature event is the Coffee Connection Networking, occurring on First Thursday morning of each month in Ann Arbor. WHY: With the explosions of online …

This is a group for small business owners interested in learning the skills needed to build and manage a small business website. No web design knowledge or experience required! The meetups consist of 5 very structured training sessions. The meetups repeat and are numbered to help members keep track. Intro to WordPress CPanel, Themes, and Settings WordPress Plugins and Time Saving Tools Graphics, Photos, & Video Shopping Carts and Selling Tools. Requirements: A laptop computer or iPad or other …

These days, to develop software you need to know web development. And to know web development, you need to know JavaScript! Let's meet up and talk about our new favorite language. We'll find the space and invite speakers and meet once or twice a month in Toledo.

JavaScript is quickly becoming required knowledge for all levels of web design and development, whether you're creating static web pages or highly interactive web applications. Join us to learn more about JavaScript. Our focus is on emerging technology including leading libraries such as Node.JS, Angular.JS and Backbone.JS. We plan to highlight techniques and tools but we're also interested in supporting beginners by teaching debugging techniques and skill building. We plan to have something for …

Drupal is an award-winning content management system. Its modular design makes it a perfect choice for personal blogs, social networks, and Fortune 500 websites. Whether you are a business owner, internet professional, or hobbyist... the Drupal framework is the right size for any project. Drupal also has a thriving community of developers, designers, and instructors that can help you with your project. And, if you need a commercially supported version of Drupal, the Acquia Network can provid …

eCommerce Ann Arbor focuses on encouraging innovation within the local eCommerce sector and helping local companies participate in initiatives through the import and export of visions, concepts, technologies, know-how and best practices. Topics include: development, usability, platforms, design, marketing, integration, security, organizational alignment, mobile, SEO, SEM, web analytics, functionality, strategy, social media integration We are aiming to have our first meeting in the next coupl …

WordPress is freedom. Freedom to publish, freedom to design, freedom to extend. It is its own brand of awesome and we're getting together in the Columbus/Dublin area to talk about it. So, no matter what your WordPress skill level is, from baby steps new to advanced developer, plug-in to our group to learn, share and network. We're just getting started, so now is the time to join and help guide the direction of the group.

It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." Branching out from the successful Girl Develop It program in NYC, our goal is to build a series of web development classes for the Columbus, Ohio community that focuses on creating a comfortable, low-pres …

Meet other local Flash and Flex developers and designers to talk about the products, trade tips and share your work. Meetups will range from social events to formal presenations by other developers, product evangelists, and industry professionals.

We are a group of professionals that build stuff for the web and mobile devices. But we are interested in learning about more than one topic. DevToledo is about being platform and language agnostic. We are about learning new things regardless of what we work with on a daily basis. We meet on the third Thursday of the month @ 6:30 at Seed Coworking in Toledo Ohio.

A meetup group designed to connect local business professionals, users and developers who share an interest in applying Semantic Web standards, Linked Data principals and Web architecture to information integration challenges, especially to support collaboration and social computing.

Publisher? Developer? Blogger? Student? Professional? Sharpen or share your WordPress skills by attending this monthly networking, education and sharing event in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Every meeting consists of a presentation by a local WordPress professional (which could be you!), networking, tips and general WordPress discussion. Optional post-event networking at local bars or coffee shops.

Drupal users in Dayton Ohio looking to share their knowledge, expertise and experiences. Membership includes hobbyists to professionals.

The goal of the meetup is to teach Big Data ideas and concepts.  The format is hands-on so a laptop with 64-bit OS is required.  Every week we have labs with members coding and using Big Data technologies.  Since the big data arena is a somewhat new area of research, there are many new technologies and approaches to explore. Requirements: -  A laptop with 64-bit OS able to run virtual box -  Working knowledge of programming concepts and database theory is helpful. - Strong interest in expanding …

We are a group of developers from around Northwest Ohio that center on PHP, as well as topics like MySQL, Linux, Apache, and Javascript. We want to help connect PHP developers in the Northwest Ohio area from all levels to share knowledge and experience.

We hope to be a beacon of light and hope for the continual growth and use of emerging technology in the Greater Toledo Area and beyond. There are so many people who are doing amazing things or have great ideas and feel like they are the only ones around. We are for you! We are a place to breed creativity, learn about new emerging technologies in areas such as web, mobile, data, & social media, we solve problems using our collective application of technology and outside the box thinking, and we f …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and,  in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just …