Join the Microsoft Store for workshops and classes on relevant business topics and technology. Also events featuring Windows 7, Office 2010, Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and more along with great networking opportunities. Each month we will offer different workshops on how technology can improve your small business, professional organization, company, or non-profit.

The Bay Area ACT! User Group has helped companies of all shapes and sizes get more value out of their ACT! investment. Organizations from 1 to 100 and more have found ACT! to be the solution for them to keep track of their interactions with customers, clients and business associates.At each session we provide a "deep-dive" into a feature or component of ACT! - that you can take back with you and use right a way. Our Question and Answer sessions are first rate so a nagging problem that has been e …

We empower businesses with web tools to amplify their voices and increase their business. This takes the form of: Beautiful and effective websites Easy to use blogs, forums and live support Facebook and other social media marketing Email marketing and customer relation management (CRM) Simple and well made shopping carts Search services for locally focused businesses AdWords campaign implementation and management Full, professional search engine optimization (SEO) services  Em …

            Walnut Creek Events is the perfect networking group for San Francisco East Bay professionals who want to connect with other professionals in Walnut Creek. Make new business and personal connections, build your network, find new clients, and identify business opportunities. We make our networking events easy by having greeters at the door to not only welcome you - they introduce you to others, along with having events in elegant Walnut Creek locations, making it fun to meet new peo …

Mt. Diablo Business Women is a group of professional business women working in many industries including: banking, finance, interior design,technology, medicine, mental health, fashion, coaching, public relations real estate, skin and body care, website design to name a few. Members consist of both self-employed and corporate businesswomen. We have no limitation to industry or size of the business. We meet the second Thursday of every month at the Lafayette Park Hotel for networking, dinner and …

Business owners helping other business owners to gain knowledge and expertise in using Pinterest for Business, the fastest growing internet website today It is the first social footprint based upon 'discovery' rather than keyword search. Join us to learn how effectively use Pinterest for your business! Learn what you can do to be on the 'cutting edge' of Pintetest. We will examine everything from SEO to Custom Graphics learning the 'ins and outs' of Pinterest while creating innovative strategies …

This high energy networking group is for startups, entrepreneurs and small business owners who are launching a new venture and want to share ideas.  Our first event in LA had over 200 attendees and 30 PopUP Demos. Each event will begin with networking mixer while enjoying beer and wine with happy hour specials. 6pm-7pm Networking and View Demo tables Anyone who spends $20 on food and/or drink can have a demo table to display their technology. We provide WiFi and outlets; bring your laptop.  Our …

Business and Social Networking Events for San Francisco Bay Area Entrepreneurs and Professionals to create new business and personal connections, find new clients, and identify business opportunities. Our members include successful entrepreneurs, startup founders, small business owners, business executives, technology gurus, attorneys, bankers, angel investors, real estate developers, franchise owners, local retail and restaurant owners, physicians, and other San Francisco Bay Area professionals …

Business Intelligence (BI) is the exciting new discipline of skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making in every organization. The Business Intelligence Special Interest Group (SIG) is a forum for discussing advances in BI. Talks range from industry and process trends, through the software tools that enable BI to best practices and issues that arise from their application. Our mission is to create a community of Business Intelligence professionals …

The Purpose of this Meetup Group is to work with Entrepreneurs and Small Business Owners to use Web 2.0 and Social Media to Webify their businesses. In today's world, Entrepreneurs must utilize the tools now available to be successful. We will be using Patrick Schwerdtfeger's book, WEBIFY YOUR BUSINESS, a comprehensive and detailed marketing road map, as our guide to your success in Web 2.0 Marketing. Some of what we will cover is: - Using Facebook, Twitter, Linked-In and other social media site …

Eastbay Localprenuers Meetup In order to survive as an entrepreneur, it's crucial to understand how to make the right connections, get the tools and inspirational education in order to grow your business. Eastbay Localprenuers Meetup brings you fresh speakers, monthly training and networking to jump-start your projects and dreams. • Have great business ideas; however you don’t know where to start? • Clueless about Internet Marketing 101? • Have a website that's not working for you? • N …

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The Bay Area Strengths and Engagement team is a non profit think tank and member led group of HR professionals and their business partners. The team is gathered to help HR professionals working for companies with fewer than 1,000 employees find and rate tools for improving employee productivity through the application of strengths and engagement based approaches. The nation's largest companies have organizational development budgets required to afford the outside consulting and technology that …

The purpose of this group is to learn, build and collaborate on ecommerce and cross-channel commerce with fellow enthusiasts. We intend to explore strategy, domain concepts, business models and technologies to further the evolution of cross channel commerce. This will include social, web, mobile and enterprise commerce The meetup will host featured speaker events along with collaborative discussion, networking opportunities and community. All are welcome to attend our events.

Meet a new network of local women entrepreneurs who want to learn and apply specific actions for marketing our businesses online. We'll share and collaborate on ideas, and also support each other as we decode and demystify some of the more technical aspects of promoting our businesses successfully on the internet. We all know there are tremendous opportunities on the internet, but it's easy to get overwhelmed by all the options and technology, as well as trying to figure out what are th …