eCommerce works on many of the same principles as business in general. If you have a product or service that others need and can afford, you are basically in business. The rest is marketing and management.Whether you are in the business of selling online or offering to help other businesses sell online, you may consider using Magento as part of that solution. But Why Magento? How does it compare to other eCommerce platforms? What does it cost? Magento is a feature-rich, professional open-source …

Natural Business Networking provides opportunities for holistic practitioners and owners of eco-friendly or wellness businesses to build relationships and make valuable connections. Members are encouraged to come with a collaborative and creative mindset, lots of business cards and an open mind and open heart. Who should join? Anyone working (or interested in connecting with those) in wellness and sustainable products and services, including health care professionals such as massage therapists, …

This group is meant to keep the community updated on where Amazon Web Services (AWS) will give talks/organize events in the nearby future. We want to keep in touch with you and get feedback on past events, so that we can deliver better ones in the future. Who Should Join: Anyone interested in Amazon Web Services, anyone contemplating the use of AWS, customers of AWS, IT professionals, start-ups, developers (in particular Ruby, PHP, MySQL, NoSQL, Java, .NET, and more).

If referrals are important to your business, join a group of local business professionals in Seattle who are serious about taking their businesses to the next level through friendly referral networking. Word-of-mouth is the most cost effective and powerful form of advertising. Even in this technological age, nothing beats it. By developing personal relationships with other qualified business professionals in a focused environment, you'll have the opportunity to substantially increase your busin …

Welcome!  This group is dedicated to having fun, sometimes insanely bodacious fun, while raising money for a great cause: Curing all Blood Cancers, Leukemia & Lymphoma! If you like to have fun, meet great people while you support an awesome cause, this group is for you. To learn more about why: http://pages.teamintraining.org/wa/anchor11/mwatkins or www.teamintraining.org Sign-up! Like having fun and meeting people?  sign up and try out an event. Keep your RSVP up-to-date The best thing you c …

Meetup for folks that would like to discuss Microsoft's cloud platform and service offerings. Things we will chat about...Office 365, Windows Intune, Azure, Implementation and Best Practices. Bring your questions or experience!

This group began in response to the surprising lack of such a support group in the Seattle area. Anyone directly experiencing generalized anxiety, panic, fear or excessive worry is welcome to join and attend Meetups. The purpose of this group is to provide a supportive, encouraging environment in which to share your experiences with anxiety and panic among other individuals who share similar symptoms. None of us should feel alone in our efforts to manage anxiety and make the best of life. Meeti …

This is the Seattle and Pugest Sound Area meetup about the OpenStack project. We are interested in working together to make the OpenStack project a success. Anyone who is interested in using, deploying, or contributing to OpenStack are welcome.  This includes open source hackers, business people who are interested in cloud computing as an IT solution, and DevOps and SysAdmin people. Seattle has two OpenStack oriented companies: there are offices of both Nebula and of HP Cloud Services here.  HP …

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With more than 3000 years of documented lineage, The Modern Mystery School is a worldwide network of initiates of all ages and diverse backgrounds with a common focus on their personal spiritual mastery and service to humanity through the tools of Western Magick and Hermetic Philosophy. The Seattle community of initiates includes a range of beginners, dedicated practitioners, Kabbalists, Healers, Guides, and Master Teachers. Together we gather to empower ourselves through understanding ourselves …

Analyst like Gartner and Forester claim small merchants are quickly going extinct. Your odds of survival grow slimmer by the day as giants like big box retailers like Wal-Mart and massive online dominators like Amazon grow their market share affording technologies and resources that just aren’t available to the common merchant. E-Commerce - Social Commerce Mobile and Tablet Commerce Groupon, LivingSolcial, etc… Presence on Facebook, Pinterest, FourSquare, etc… SEM and SEO Amazon, eBay, Etsy, et …

Welcome! This is a meetup group for those in the Seattle area who like maps, GIS, OpenStreetMap, open data, web mapping, cartography and anything in between. This is an open group and aims to keep the Seattle geo professionals, enthusiasts and users connected to each other for learning, socializing and to help find answers to their geospatial questions.

A holistic learning center nestled in the heart of Seattle in Capitol Hill. Club H2O “A Breath of Fresh Air” Health & Whole Body Wellness located in the majestic Orion's Cut spiritual community with our primary location nestled in the heart of Seattle in Capitol Hill. Upstairs 219 Broadway East Suite 33, Seattle WA, 98102 Like the earth you are comprised of approximately 70% water, by the time you start to feel thirsty your body has lost about 1% of your body's water content. When born you are …

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Seattle Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Seattle serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who compliments you. …

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

This is a group of actual heroes that meet twice a week to change the world. We have been meeting since 2000 to find ways to be modern day superheroes by funding retired CIA, NSA, KGB, Mi6, Delta Force (SFOD-D) and Interpol operatives to work with the FBI to stop Extreme Human Rights Abusers. If you care about human rights abuse and the United Nation's 37 Rights of Children and would like to have a direct hand in stopping badguys please join us!! We need more local heroes to join our group!

~Update! - Local Website: launched 11-7-12 - special thanks to 'Optimus' for site design Earthship Washington Please join the www.earthshipwa.org website and join our discussion board A local place for Earthship Biotecture enthusiasts around Seattle to connect, and to plan Earthship building in Seattle or within Washington state. e-mail: www.earthshipwashington@gmail.com Earthship Seattle: facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EarthshipSeattle tumblr blog: http://earthship-seattle.tumblr.com/ mee …

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This meetup group is for any business or organization wanting to network with like minded individuals for the purpose of gaining knowledge from one another and making valuable connections. Share knowledge and ideas on topics such as social media, networking, e-newsletters, marketing, and improving ones digital and social media presence.  People curious about our services or looking to find help with their social media or digital presence are always welcome.

Who We Are: From food novices to epicurean gourmands, Seattle Foodies always have a great time enjoying delicious food. Join us to share a meal with Real Foodies! It's just 2 bucks to save your seat at one of our communal tables. What We Do: We bring together Real Foodies around delicious food. Our events include restaurant excursions, food truck runs, food crawls, picnics, food festivals, food-related book launch parties, film screenings, benefit galas and more! Our group checks out restaurant …

A group for users of AutoCAD for Mac - all skill levels are welcome. Meetups are a chance to mingle with fellow users (and sometimes Autodesk Product Managers), solve problems, and share product feedback. Meetups will generally contain a cocktail/hors d'oeuvres component, happily provided by Autodesk.

Infobeasties meet on Tuesdays (bi-weekly - Advanced) and Wednesdays (weekly - Elementary) in a presentation/workshop setting to advance our skills in consumer/user level, self-service access and analytics of data in its many forms: localized, Enterprise, Cloud, Big Data, Semantic, XML, RDF, MD, OLAP, Data Warehouse, etc. Our base platform will be Excel, but we will be working with several client-based tools and tactics in our pursuit of Infogeasties (data sources), and how can we use them to ex …

This group is for anyone in the tech industry looking for guidance and support in their job search completely free! It will be a personalized service focused on anything from resume writing, interview tips, how to negotiate pay rates with managers and recruiters, and etc. I started this group because finding a new job is always a challenge and I wanted to provide a service that didn't have any strings attached. Bring your resume in hand and we can chat over coffee! I'll be changing the locations …

Battling invasive ivy, blackberry, and caring for native plant communities is hard work with purpose and meaning. West Seattle has a little-known creek, Puget Creek, that is culturally important to the Duwamish Tribe. Salmon once spawned in this creek that drains into the Duwamish River near the Duwamish Longhouse and Cultural Center. So, restoring habitat in the Puget Creek watershed has an environmental justice aspect to it. Puget Creek watershed is also important to King County Wastewater Tre …

Filter is a unique digital solutions agency providing creative marketing solutions, consulting and staffing services. From experience design and development, to content management services, to contract staffing and direct hire recruitment, Filter offers a wide range of services. Whether you're interactive or like to interact, mobilize with your fellow Filterati because the freaks and geeks come out at night! unFILTERed (after hours) is dedicated to strengthening our digital community through qua …

The Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) networking and security team is excited to meet with local talent to discuss the complex multidisciplinary challenges we face whether it be in software, hardware, process, or some combination thereof. We need software developers, system engineers, and security engineers with a wide variety of skills to help us look at things differently in order to go faster and push the boundaries of technology even further. You will have a large, sustained impact. So come have a …

This is an established group of professionals and business owners looking to grow business and build relationships with like mind entrepreneurs. The group allows one member for each profession or type of business. We meet every other Wednesday morning from 8:00am - 9:00am at Cafe Presse on Capitol Hill. We are looking to grow the group to include new members representing other services. Current positions that we are looking to add include, but are not limited to the following: printer, plumber, …

Regus is proud to host a monthly networking event for those in the tech community. Whether you are building a website, launching an app, or are a web programmer, we invite you to network with a number of like-minded individuals. Learn best practices from a variety of new and established companies, and experience the atmosphere of a coworking environment. Each monthly event will have a guest speaker within the community to speak about their company and network with the group. Bring your business …