The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

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 jus …

Greetings! This Meetup brings fellow Kindle-format publishers together for collaboration and the sharing of marketing and production experiences.  To get the most out of this group you should already have at least one media product (book, blog or periodical) and ideally it is already published using one of the free Kindle tools. Other reasons for us to network are to share our experiences with non-Amazon epublishing formats (i.e. ePub) and our use of author websites and social media tools like T …

We are the Get Smart Web group and we are obsessed with everything digital and techie. Our blog The Get Smart Blog will give you an idea of what we are about. This group will be focused on helping businesses connect and grow digitally suplemented by in-person networking. We will post meetups that are educational, opportunities for networking, and philanthropic. Not all of the events we post information about will be our own, our goal is to help our members find the best that Meetup and the web h …

Net 10 Members enjoy these benefits: Business networking in a casual, friendly, low-pressure environment Exclusive category networking (one business/member per profession) Many low- to no-cost opportunities to speak and showcase your business, including your own FREE web page here on Meetup One-on-one networking at beginning and end of each meeting Guest speakers presenting topics pertinent to small businesses Marketing, product, research, web, interactive/digital media and public relations tip …

Do you use social media to market your business? There are so many great tools available to increase the effectiveness of your reach, but keeping up with the new technology can be overwhelming. The purpose of this group is to make the process of discovering, learning and implementing a social media tool more efficient and accessible. When you join this group, you will be asked to participate in a survey to help determine what tools we should be focusing on. Then, we will have monthly workshops t …

… Learn more by joining our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/SanDiegoEntrepreneurCenter In "America's Most Entrepreneurial City™", the San Diego Regional Entrepreneur Center ™ & Startup Society proactively supports a variety of vertical markets/industries--consumer products, Non-Tech or Tech, food/beverage, restaurants/bars, real estate, education, construction, architecture, manufacturing, automotive, energy, green/eco, B2B & B2C services, sports & lifestyle, technology-software/hardware …