A gathering of all those interested in the study of signs and meaning systems in the digital space. Open to a variety of disciplines: academics advertising professionals independent researchers computer scientists digital anthropologists linguists designers We'll meet every month to talk about the relationship between semiotics and digital technology, covering topics around: traditional semiotics computational semiotics computational linguistics user experience interface design interaction desig …

As of April 2011, this group will discuss "website marketing methods", (Google Adwords, Facebook Ads). Google Adwords is great, but I would like to expand the discussion Here's the original greeting from the previous organizer: Everything you ever wanted to know about Google Adwords, who invented it, how it will be regulated, how it works, why it works so well, the magic behind it, and why Google's implementation of this amazing technology is causing so much fraud - more than $3 billion a year i …

We are dedicated to be a venue for discussion among doctors, nurses and those using Electronic Health Records (EHR) systems in their practice. This meetup is also perfect for those who are planning to use EHR in the future. In this meetup, there will be much sharing in the use of EHR as a new and exciting technology in the field of medical practice. Donate you time, talent, and ideas to develop improve other practioners' EHR knowhow. Share with us! Show us how you use your EHR gadgets! …

This group focuses on Office 365 and spectrum of services it provides including Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft Lync Online. Each month we will pick a topic area that suits (IT Pro / Dev / Power User) and help better understand and utilize Office 365.  You feedback and suggestions are always welcome. Cheers, Razi Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP http://www.linkedin.com/in/razirais

Chef-NYC is a users group for people in the New York City metropolitan area who are interested in using the opensource configuration management tool called Chef, developed by Opscode: http://www.opscode.com/ Every month, we get together to discuss Chef, Ohai, and related devops topics ... and SHARE COOKBOOKS/RECIPES! :-) Whether you're a "dev", "ops", or "other", join us!

This group is designed to bring together the Microsoft Windows Azure development community in the NYC Metro area to talk about challenges, roadmap, what we'd like to see in future releases, and overall user experience.

Meet others who use Plone (www.plone.org), an open source content management system that makes it easy to build full-featured websites. YouTube Video for the Plone NYC Users Group http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnttWju8BGw Plone adheres to web standards, is cross-platform, multi-lingual, and has a friendly, worldwide community of developers and users. Plone and its underlying technologies Zope & Python can also be used to create web applications, including mobile apps. Gather to shar …

The NYC Lync User Group is targeted at IT Pros and Developers interested in Microsoft Unified Communications. Our goal is to provide the NYC area with a vast amount of valuable information as it relates to all forms of Microsoft Unified Communications. Our meetings will include both Technical and Business information relating to Lync 2010, and other components of the Microsoft UC product group.   Our First Meeting will be happening in January 2012!

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The NYC Metro Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the NYC Metro Area and beyond. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related ar …

The New York Windows Phone User Group is devoted to bringing information to users, developers, and those interested in Windows Phone 7 about Microsoft's latest phone platform. Topics at our meetings include new development tools, new platform improvements, demos of software written by our members, and more. All are welcome to attend these small group meetings with any questions or thoughts they have on the subject - especially if they haven't had the chance to explore Windows Phone yet on their …

A group to discuss digital user experience (UX) both on web and mobile platforms. Meetings could cover research or innovative real world examples & case studies Design topics can include (but not limited to) interaction design, UI design, mobile app design (iPhone, iPad, Android), usability, site stickiness, human-computer interaction, value of entertainment factor beyond core conversions, etc. From the data side of things we'd like to have discussions around using data to drive and measure U …

The NYC SharePoint Developers user group is a free monthly meeting where SharePoint professionals present on various topics related to SharePoint development. We try to vary the meetings so that they are not just about Visual Studio coding and the SharePoint API, but also about all the other programs you need to customize SharePoint: SharePoint Designer, InfoPath, PowerShell, etc. In addition, you'll get insights into the practical usage of the various SharePoint functionalities via the interact …

SharePoint is a large and complex platform. There are many sources for technical information, but we have found there is not enough help on the business side. We deal with issues like: * Taxonomy * Governance * Project Planning * Scope Management * Adoption * Change Management * and many others In the People-Process-Technology triangle, we focus on the corners that deal with People & Process.

The Enterprise Search User Group is a SharePoint based community with a focus on Enterprise Search aimed to provide valuable and timely information to its members. Its primary goal is to provide a forum that encourages disparate practices and business groups to come together and share thoughts, ideas, successes and failures, to cultivate a borderless body of knowledge.

If you are a SAP user or professional in the New York metro Area and would like to share around SAP and address business challenges, join the group! We welcome Consultants, Independent Contractors, and Business Users. Technical, Functional, ECC, BW, SCM, etc, etc. Job seekers and posters, please feel free to join and post your information in the forum.

… If there is interest, we might also cover SVG and JavaScript API Drag & Drop, but we won’t turn this group into a general HTML5 group as there are already great groups for this in NYC: Learn HTML5 HTML5 User’s Group JavaScript & HTML5 Monthly Hackfest HTML5 Application Developers Group   I’m looking for co-organizers. Interested? Send me a message through Meetup. I’m looking for companies to host classes and events. Interested? Complete this form. I’ve started some discussions and I invite you t …