Welcome to “ The Sydney Business Networking Group (SBNG)”. Award-Winner of the Top 100 Small Business Influencers. Over the last 2 years, SBNG has hosted monthly free and paid business networking events to introduce members to the most dynamic business professionals and executives, business owners and entrepreneurs in Sydney. In August 2011, Ilana Eberson, NYCBNG and SBNG won the Top 100 Small Business Influencer Award. We are excited to be acknowledged for the business networking opportunitie …

Media140 is an independent global movement creating unique conferences, events and experiences to explore the future of the real-time web. To foster discourse, collaboration and innovation within journalism, media, advertising and technology. We bring together global thought leaders from journalism, advertising, politics, entertainment, brands, marketing, government policy and technology to help you understand how the real-time internet will change the way you do business and help you understand …

Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. Happiness comes from deep within, and not from people, situations, or circumstances. According to Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego: “When an individual becomes happy, the network effect can be measured up to three degrees. One person’s happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends’ friends, and his frien …

The Australian Social Media Association is a supportive trade association for the dynamic social media industry. AuSMA is a membership based organization comprising of professionals, individuals, partners, corporations, non-profits, government agencies and students. AuSMAs objective's is to support our members through education, advocacy support, and certification, and to support the diverse people of the world through social media intelligence and technology.Vision: AuSMAs vision is to bring th …

THE DIGITAL MARKETING CLUB A free community created to exchange knowledge and explore ideas related to the new world of digital marketing. Both beginners and advanced users will benefit. Events include discussions related to online business strategies, e-commerce, social media, mobile apps, community engagement, display advertising, proximity marketing, SEO, SEM, converging traditional and digital marketing, online privacy and more! See you at our next event! Anna Maria Alba The Digital Marketin …

SMAQ (Storage, MapReduce and Query) is an emerging architecture pattern pioneered by organisations such as Google, Powerset, Yahoo, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and others to handle massive quantities of globally distributed data effectively and scaleably. We're a group of systems engineers and data scientists who are solving the challenges of building the highly scalable software systems that enable "big data" and the next generation of business intelligence. We've had speakers from IBM, Google, …

Do you want to feel good and improve the quality of your life, meeting likeminded people in the process? Do you enjoy reading books about Mind, Body and Spirit? Would you like to empower yourself with a proven, practical approach to life? Whether you're a beginner or have more experience with the Law of Attraction philosophy, the Law of Attraction Centre is perfect for you. The Law of Attraction Centre, first established in London, UK in 2003, is the largest and most talked about Law of Attracti …

This is an extension from the Brisbane SEO group that first met up at the Ship Inn, Brisbane Southbank, 7th Nov 2008. The meetup event was expanded as we found it was often hard to put a face to a name, or people wanted to take their conversations beyond the 140 characters twitter allows. Past feedback is that the meetups have been a good way to meet others in the industry in a relax environment and share some tips and hints on what you might know that can help them become a better web marketer …

I love making things and sharing and learning with other like-minded creative people. Finding others to share your interests in an engaging and inspiring group is what community is about and the reason I formed this club. Since May 2011, when CWC was launched with a fundraiser for Japan, we now have over 200 members with an interest in creative pursuits of all sorts. If you love: -  to be creative but can't find the time or always have something 'more serious' to do then let me help you find the …

How can Social Media be used to benefit all? This Group for anybody that is interested in using or developing innovative Social Media solutions. Come and share your ideas, the applications you built, or even the ideas you would like to see turned into reality! Bringing together users, innovators and developers is a great way to really understand "what is possible with social media?"

Do what you love. Turn your passion into your career. Start a company. Create jobs. Inspire others. Change the world. Vision Women as Entrepreneurs were created with the vision to build, support and promote the Australian national community of like-minded aspiring and accomplished female entrepreneurs. With partnerships, empowerment and inspiration, WE encourage more women to bravely step into entrepreneurship, increasing the current 17% female presence in the Australian entrepreneurial space. …

Sydney chapter of the IxDA. Twitter: ixda_sydney All Welcome. We're just starting, so looking for collaborators, community-minded folks, and catalyzers.

For Chinese-speakers of all levels, (learners and native and anything in between) to get together and practise their Mandarin and any other Chinese language that takes their fancy! We aim to meet regular at places that are free or low cost. We meet to create a friendly supportive atmosphere where we can practice speaking, share tips, or mentor each other. see our links for the Facebook, as well as Twitter!

I have set up this group with a focus on Banking & Finance because this is the area that I have worked in for the majority of my  25 years of working life.  I am interested in finding out what value my Bank can derive from solutions based around Big Data  so that I can build a business case to present to our executives to get funding.  I’ve found that keeping up with current news around Big Data  is like using twitter on speed so I have filtered my interest  for news and use cases specifically r …

We are a Sydney meet-up group, interested in connecting educators, tutors, tech geeks, start-ups and investors who are passionate about the education space and interested in applying technology to solve current problems in the education sector. If you are a developer / hacker / entrepreneur / investor — who is passionate about education — please join us. You can follow us on this meet-up, or "like our Facebook page" or follow us on Twitter at @SydEduTechGroup. We plan to bring together interesti …

Welcome! Tinkerers, Makers, Developers, Hobbyists, Teachers and Students of all skill levels and ages are welcome :-) Join us and ride the next wave of open embedded computing! We believe open source software and hardware can make the world a better place. The mailing list ozberrypi@googlegroups.com is the best place to ask questions and/or have discussions.To join, simply send a blank email to : ozberrypi+subscribe@googlegroups.com The web based viewer is located here We have a community wiki …

USA Property investors is a place where anyone who is thinking about, or already has, US property investments can network with and learn from other US property investors. My goal in creating this group was to fill a perceived need for real consumer education after seeing many questionable claims about US property investing from so called 'experts'. As a 20 year US property investing veteran I've seen a lot of amazing US property deals and made significant amounts of money from them. However my e …

A Mentor is like a light in the dark. As knowledge transfers from the 'Baby Boomer's' through the 'X Gen' to the 'Y's' and out to the new 'I Generation'; the original pearls of wisdom of our past are being lost or diluted. The speed of acceleration of knowledge is, to many, frightening. Some things about humanity are core to who we are as a race, and there is a danger that too much of it will be forgotten. George Santayana (1863 - 1952) is often misquoted. He said "Those who cannot remember t …