A gathering of all those interested in the discussion and study of signs, meaning systems, web science, thinking, language, and knowledge in digital and web spaces. Open to all disciplines: All interested individuals are welcome, including academics, philosophers, advertising professionals, communications professionals, independent researchers, computer scientists, digital anthropologists, linguists, designers, information architects, user experience, human interaction, developers, localization, …

About Us: NY Cultural Tech has expanded its focus as of March 2013 to more broadly delve into the innovative intersection of tech and culture.  It started out as a cross-disciplinary group for practicing technologists (coders, info architects, developers) focused on the advancement of emerging tech from within the domains of public knowledge.  Our participatory group is a new-media catalyst for those involved with museums, libraries, educational institutions, government, non-profits, and outwar …

Calling all people in the Princeton area who work in any of the following fields: Interaction Design, User Experience Design, Usability Research, Information Architecture, Visual Design, Customer Experience, Consumer Research, Cognitive Psychology, and anything else that has to do designing, creating, or understanding human experiences. This group exists for people who want to boldly create new engaging experiences that transcend the ubiquitous glowing screens that we stare at all day. If you be …

A professional networking group for those involved in creating taxonomies, controlled vocabularies and classification schemes for information and/or content. Whether you're a "lumper", a "splitter", or somewhere in between, if you're interested in organizing information professionally, please join us to network with other taxonomists in the NYC area.

Welcome to NYC-CHI, the NYC chapter of SIG-CHI (Special Interest Group - Computer Human Interaction www.sigchi.org/). We hold UX-focused events and have an active mailing list to service the NYC region. We have over 1900 active members in all aspects of HCI, including information architects, interaction designers, user experience designers, service designers, product and museum experience designers, usability practitioners, digital librarians, user interface designers and UI developers. We're t …

Welcome engineers and technologists in the New York area. Whether you are a hands on software engineer, quality engineer, or a person just interested in advanced technologies, you will enjoy these meetups. Hosted monthly at Google's NYC offices, these talks will cover a variety of topics of strong interest to the NYC technology community. Speakers will be enlisted from the local community (including, but not limited to, Google engineers). Topics will range across the spectrum of computer science …

This is a meeting place and professional development network for user experience professionals (including information architects, usability professionals, interaction designers, visual designers, systems analysts, and business analysts) in northern New Jersey. We're building interactions and content to help users get the results they want and need. You can log in using the blue "Log in" link at the top of the page. If you're new to the group and want to join, you can register using the "Sign u …

The Philadelphia Semantic Web Meetup is here to share and discuss all things related to the semantic web. Programmers, database administrators, information technology managers, web masters, entrepreneurs, content management specialists, Intranet managers: you're all welcome to come and see what semantic technology can do for you. We'll meet in an around Philadelphia to talk about technologies such as RDF, ontologies, SPARQL, linked data, microdata, schema.org, and much more.

Membership is comprised of Women either in the Information Security field or wanting to enter the field. The purpose of this group is to advance women in Information Security by promoting networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing, and opportunities. Regular workshops will be offered to bridge the gap of theory and/or minimal hands-on labs from a course you took or self-studying. You will get to learn and practice in an environment of like-minded women. Workshops will be led by SME's in …

Gathering of people who are interested in data visualization. Speaker series - watch and listen to fellow designers, statisticians, mathematicians, architects, programmers, start ups, and other great people in the industry. We hope to have monthly small meetups sharing work and ideas. Also plan to have headline speakers every two to three months in a larger format!

This NYC MySQL Group is the world’s largest database group organized on Meetup! HD-Video of our previous events is regularly published on the IT Management & Leadership eMagazine (www.LeadIT.us) and on the Database Month (http://www.DBMonth.com) website We are here to help new and seasoned users alike; join us regularly for discussion, networking and the chance to meet with the most world-renown experts in MySQL, Drizzle, MariaDB, Percona as well as NewSQL and NoSQL. The NYC MySQL Group Meetup …

An opportunity for Product Managers, Strategists,etc., to come together to meet, interact, and network. The ideal environment within which sharing and learning can flourish and complement the knowledge base for all on a peer to peer basis.

We're a community of content strategists and other professionals working in digital technology. We meet to network, provide mutual support, share knowledge, improve our skills, and contribute to the growth of our discipline. If you have a professional interest in web or digital content from any perspective — or are simply curious about what content strategists do all day — please join us.

We're a group of SEO professionals who enjoy hanging out together and sharing cutting edge SEO tactics (sometimes in that order, sometimes not). We have the back of our members and take the time to get to know them on a personal and professional level. We meet once a month and our members have access to the most influential SEO network in North America. If you are looking for a new job or need help learning vital SEO skills, there's definitely someone in our group who can help you out. We're i …

Thoughtworks is a home for anyone interested in user experience design and the development of technology products. Join us for talks, workshops, and new perspectives on UX, and meet others in the experience design community. TW NYC is located at 99 Madison, floor 15.

The group focuses on Analytics, Databases, Big Data, and Business Intelligence (BI).

To inspire and help designers pursue, do, and succeed at what they love. We are building a strong, passionate community for current NYC designers either at startups or looking to join startups, to inspire, collaborate, and mentor each other. We'll have a mix of Speaker Sessions, Happy Hours, and other fun events to help you excel in your design career. Note: This group is for professional designers and is not open to entrepreneurs, engineers, design enthusiasts, or recruiters. Please do not appl …

Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform for the greater NYC Area.

Huge Events are open to anyone who has interest in UX, design, agency life and more. Join us for a fun evening of refreshments, networking and talks by design professionals and leaders in the industry.

NYC UX Acrobatics primary focus is the varied facets of UX design, research and usability. Our aim is to create monthly 'UX themed' workshop style meetings where members work with each other learning, discovering and networking on all things UX. Potential topics: paper prototyping, experience maps, user research and testing, persona dev, a/b testing, front-end best practices, RWD (Responsive Web Design), PET Design (Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust Design), competitive analysis, sketching UX, cont …

Brooklyn. User Experience. Happy hour. We meet irregularly--three or four times a year. And it's fun. Really, is there much more to say?

Welcome to the New York City SEO/SEM Meet Up group. We're a group of SEO and SEM professionals and enthusiasts united to learn and have fun (sometimes in that order, sometimes not). We're interested in: - Networking, and meeting other SEO/SEM practitioners. - SEO (site structure, information architecture, on-page optimization, link building, etc.) - PPC -Analytics/Tracking -Usability -Conversion Rate Improvement -Search-Optimized Content Creation -and many other topics Suggestions are …

We will talk shop and share thoughts on IA, IxD, UI, UX and Mobile.

Welcoming startup folks and professionals in UX, IA, product, design, etc. to be one another's usability testers as well as discuss UX trends, best practices, and strategies.

Knowledge of and fluency in the language of analytics is becoming increasingly important in business, especially in the financial services industry. Even small process changes based on advanced analysis can result in millions of dollars in revenue gained or lost. It’s never been more important to brush up on your analytics “literacy”. This is a great place to learn and network with other professionals in analytics!

DUMBO Designers is the group for enthusiastic designers of all kinds in DUMBO, NY. Follow on twitter @DUMBOdevs Support us on gittip.com: https://www.gittip.com/DUMBOdesigners/ Meetups: Currently hosting a monthly lunch and talks about design in DUMBO, NYC. PLEASE NO JOB POSTINGS Also, don't contact other members about jobs unless they've contacted you first, or that's a chop.

Start Up Addicts NYC is a community of enthusiastic web professionals who simply want to make the web a better place. Although our members are mainly designers and developers, anyone is welcome to attend and participate in our meetings. Membership to this group is and always will be free. If you have any questions or suggestions, please don't hesitate to reach out. Visit us elsewhere on the web: http:www.startupcamper.com If your looking for an awesome space to set up your next startup, check o …

The group will discuss topics like: IA, UX, Web & App design, Best Practices, New Technologies and much much more. The group will have a focus on designing for the web and mobile.