Let's put young professionals into a room and throw away the key!  The Bridgemakers are looking to form an organic group of professionals & help each other in all our mutual endeavors. Never before has a networking group considered guerilla and all-together new ways of forming business-business alliances. This is NOT a BNI group, don't be mistaken, it's a BM.  We pledge to create a real face to face community. We are a Business Exchange & Referral group representing Entrepreneurs in the Vancouve …

We believe that organizations must see social media communications as an integrated part of all major business functions. Jumping into this space without laying the groundwork is like giving your kid the keys to your car without a driving lesson or a curfew, and then wondering why things went bad. This monthly social media lunch is focused on helping senior executives and team leaders tackle the challenge of socializing their company, and maximizing return on effort in your social media communi …

R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis and graphical visualization (it generates beautiful charts very easily!). It is the de facto standard for statistical computing in academia and is becoming increasingly popular with commercial users in areas such as business intelligence, predictive analytics, data mining, machine learning, computational biology and quantitative finance. While R has an estimated 1 million users globally, the local Vancouver user b …

We are a Business Exchange & Referral group representing Entrepreneurs in the TriCities Areas. TriMetro Business Exchange is a One-Individual-Per-Profession Business Group looking to work through the power of leverage.  We are looking to form an organic group of professionals who, through networking weekly, want to build a brand for ourselves. Through this branding, we want to promote all our members by leveraging through one name, one group.  This is no longer a guerilla cross-business marketin …

Who we are: We are a social group of nice, intelligent, successful, healthy and still young men who happen to be gay and like getting together to hang out and make friends in a quiet, relaxed and safe environment. Together we have gone to the theatre, dinning or entertaining. We have also had movie nights and like using any opportunity to meet and chat like mature intelligent individuals, but without getting too serious. Our active members are generally well read, well informed and well traveled …

Do you love the "big city" lifestyle, but don't necessarily do the typical "big city" things (go clubbing, wear expensive designer labels, carry a tiny dog in your purse, etc.)?! Are you a single, working professional, male or female, 30-45 years old, that's seriously wanting to meet others in your age bracket, with the same mindset? Then this could just be the group for you :) My personal goal with this group is to build a base of tight-knit, high-caliber members that fit the following criteria …

This group is dedicated to build a web analytics community in Vancouver area among E-business owners, online marketers, technology experts, managers, entrepreneurs, students and Web analytics professionals. WACH aims to make an innovative social network to share practical information, hands on experience, best practices, tools, and skills for making a successful and data driven online e-business. The group is committed to hold affordable or free high quality events including trainings, social ev …

6-29-12 Vivation is a skill to learn for living your most happiest, most creative, most loving, most sacred, most helpful to humanity life self.  Vivation is much more than just a skill of happiness.  You can't understand what this means until you begin to practice Vivation on a regular basis.  Learning to practice Vivation on a regular basis means that you finally learn to trust your body and all of the sensations that it brings up for you to feel.  The goal of Vivation is learning to love all …

The Seattle Business Intelligence (BI) Meetup is a professional organization whose purpose is to enrich members through networking, education, and discussion. Professionals of all levels are invited to attend the monthly meetings. Topics range from strategic overviews to deep dives into a particular technology. Incentives for involvement include: Members: Learn more about technology in your current skill set and be exposed to new or unfamiliar tools. Speakers: Hone your presentation skills and …

Over the last 15 years of my career, I have had the pleasure meeting and working with many dynamic individuals and interesting projects. In recent years, more and more of my conversations with colleagues have been conducted not face to face, but rather over some form of electronic communication, such as E-mail, Blackberry Messenger, texting or even the telephone. While the digital age is a fact of life, and a key component to success in the financial world, it still does not replace the personal …

This a right place for you if you are willing to drive your e-business based on real data and not guesses and assumptions, or if you'd like to help e-businesses collect and analyze their online and offline data. The group mandate is to create a community of local e-business owners, online marketers, web analyst, technology experts, entrepreneurs, and managers. V-WACH is committed to hold affordable or free high quality events including trainings, social events and seminars, to educate members, h …

Analyst like Gartner and Forester claim small merchants are quickly going extinct. Your odds of survival grow slimmer by the day as giants like big box retailers like Wal-Mart and massive online dominators like Amazon grow their market share affording technologies and resources that just aren’t available to the common merchant. E-Commerce - Social Commerce Mobile and Tablet Commerce Groupon, LivingSolcial, etc… Presence on Facebook, Pinterest, FourSquare, etc… SEM and SEO Amazon, eBay, Etsy, et …

Hi! We've been bemoaning the lack of opportunities to meet professional, healthy, happy, attractive, interesting, adult polyamorous people in the Seattle area. This is supposedly one of the biggest, most active polyamorous communities in the US, and yet it appears that all of us poly folk are just groping around in the dark, trying to meet each other! SO, after thinking about ways to meet others, we had the bright idea to start a group poly folk in the area. We personally are half-closeted (she …

This group is for Women, Men and Families driven by a passion to live their lives in a new way...full of health, wealth, and happiness guided by conscious intent! Our main group tenants: We do not have all the answers, nor do we believe we need to "know" everything in order to to take action or learn together. We believe in the Universal Intelligence available to us all. We are open to any and all info, people, and resources that will propel us on our paths/journeys. We are curious about the wo …

Splunk has grown from a simple log aggregation tool with a search to a tool that provides meaningful data from any source. This user group was created to focus on collaboration, solving real world Splunk problems, and more practical implementation similar to the Hackaton at .Conf. Whether you’re a Splunk app developer, search user, administrator, or just curious about using Splunk this group is for you. The hope is to help all user levels or get users in contact with the right people. Bring your …

Discover new insights and patterns about your data. Geek out with other data geeks who want to get the most of their data. See why Tableau rocks. Although this is a UBC-specific group (open to faculty, staff, students) and meetings will typically be held at the Point Grey (Vancouver) Campus, we also welcome anybody who is interested in visualizing and exploring their data and creating dashboards with Tableau. Learn. Inspire. Share. We're also on LinkedIn. Find our LinkedIn group UBCTUG - UBC Ta …

Event listings for the Seattle (data) Visualization group. For discussions and job listings and everything else, please join the google group at http://bit.ly/seavis

This is a group for people who have the initiative to strive for a better financial future by increasing their financial intelligence. If you are interested in discussing financial topics with other like-minded people, and want to build close and personal relationships with others who are like-minded, this will be for you! The journey to financial freedom can be lonely and you will need like-minded people to be on your side in this adventure. Enjoy! Hope you will find this a tool to serve your n …

Join our learning group as we explore the evolving field of Neuroleadership, which applies neuroscience research to enhance leadership, communication, collaboration and facilitate change. Meeting once per quarter, we will introduce models, research and the latest developments in this field to improve thinking and performance in the workplace through video clips, research papers, presentations, guest speakers and group activities. Our goal is to foster interactive learning and discussion, and sha …

AVIOS is an international speech technology applications professional society, and we have launched a local chapter in Seattle. Our mission is to: Build a vibrant speech technology community to encourage future commercial and research partnerships Increase awareness of current and future speech technology trends Stimulate innovation and further investment into speech technology Our goal is to bring together researchers, industry suppliers, companies using speech technology, developers and design …

We are a lonely hybrid of hackers, software developers, entrepreneurs without the alpha male social skills to successfully manipulate corporate subordinates because only we exist and our product exists because of us. We must do everything because you are the business, the corporation, the secretary, the annoying HR, accountant, marketer, salesman, software dev, the CEO. Sorry not interested in startupdom or any of it's witchery, raising cash, venture capitalists, ben bernanke, are banned words. …

Infobeasties meet on Tuesdays (bi-weekly - Advanced) and Wednesdays (weekly - Elementary) in a presentation/workshop setting to advance our skills in consumer/user level, self-service access and analytics of data in its many forms: localized, Enterprise, Cloud, Big Data, Semantic, XML, RDF, MD, OLAP, Data Warehouse, etc. Our base platform will be Excel, but we will be working with several client-based tools and tactics in our pursuit of Infogeasties (data sources), and how can we use them to ex …

Seattle Marketing Analytics Group is a collection of marketers and analysts that want to share best practices and learn about new trends. We want to start a group that gets together on a monthly basis for a casual gathering.

Dedicated to sharing the power of our local networks, the TPC is designed to connect professionals from all sectors. Find opportunity as we discover what Tacoma's experts offer to your business, network, and future.

This is a group of Analytics professionals in the Vancouver, BC area that meet every 6-8 weeks for networking, analytics discussions and professional growth. Find us on LinkedIn at - http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=4802565&trk=anet_ug_hm

Girly girls may get a bad rap, but not here. The Girly Girls are intelligent, hardworking professionals who love fashion, spa days, girlfriends, antiquing, culture, DIY, watch the occasional mindless reality show (after the news, of course), read chick lit and might even be a little bit crafty. The Girly Girls are a group of creative, aesthetically minded ladies who truly value close girlfriends. The Girly Girls are drama free. We are positive group of ladies who are kind hearted and love to lau …

:: Welcome to Sattva Yoga Pacific Northwest :: We are delighted to be creating and expanding the Sattva Yoga community in the Pacific Northwest. Sattva Yoga Pacific Northwest (Sattva PNW) brings communities in the Pacific Northwest together in transformation through the practice of Sattva Yoga, founded by Anand Mehrotra. Sattva PNW is a creative network of students, teachers, and studios who share an enthusiasm and passion for the expansion of Sattva Yoga in the Pacific Northwest. Sattva PNW off …

Socialize and connect while enjoying food, drinks and a presentation on “Building and Operating Scalable Services With and For Amazon EC2.” You’ll also be able to explore the exciting job opportunities that Amazon Web Services has available for Software Development Engineers, Web Development Engineers, Software Development Managers, Business Intelligence Engineers, and Product Managers. Find out more about AWS http://aws.amazon.com.