Philly Tech Meetup convenes technologists, entrepreneurs, investors and the broader innovation community regularly to learn and share. Each month, hundreds of innovators gather to see demos, launch products and meet their future co-founders, partners and funders. Apply to demo. Contact us to sponsor. Check out PhillyTechMeetup.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. Join the PTM Press List if you are interested in covering our events, programs and community.

Non-profits and activists around Philadelphia are increasingly using the web and social software to foster social change. Join Philly NetSquared as we bring together web innovators and social changemakers to socialize, strategize, learn from and inspire one another. For more info, including past Net Tuesday presentations, check out our site at http://phillynetsquared.org. NetSquared is a national organization (http://www.netsquared.org/) with chapters in many cities. Net Tuesdays are independen …

Engage with other women entrepreneurs in the Philadelphia Area! You are daring. You are innovative. You are independent. That's why you became an entrepreneur. Yet even you feel alone sometimes, in the daily effort to grow your business. That's why M3 Meetups are for you. Count Me In has helped thousands of women entrepreneurs by providing business resources and information through the M3 race, Micro to Millions and the Make Mine a Million $ Business initiatives. Our initiatives com …

Have you ever joined a networking group for creative professionals, and the organizers/members rarely ever scheduled events? This group is different. As the organizer, I try to keep things active—despite having professional obligations of my own. The purpose of this group is to get together and share ideas with like-minded professionals; share leads, cool sites, network, and collaborate. Partnering for project work is definitely encouraged. I invite you to join my group if you are enthusiastic, …

Do you drive about town envisioning a new, better, brighter built environment? Are you passionate about your career, and perpetual self- improvement? Do you have an affinity for finance and investing? Do you live, work, play, or schlep along the 422 corridor? If so, the 422 ARCH -just may be for you! The Skinny: 422 ARCH is an eclectic bunch of progressive, creatively charged, glass half full type professionals who are passionate lunatics about not only their careers, but the quality of the comm …

Join us for educational programs, book discussion groups, and a variety of opportunities to laugh and play and to learn and grow in community with one another. Through the offerings of this Meetup group, members will gain insight into practices that keep us well and resilient, connect with other people devoted to their personal and spiritual growth, and experience directly the benefits of ongoing participation in a supportive community. This Meetup group announces talks on resiliency practices ( …

Each month we get together to discuss a noteworthy business book and how we can best apply the book's concepts to advance our businesses and achieve our goals. Our group is for women entrepreneurs, women business owners and women executives to connect with each other and share inspiration, insight and innovative ideas we can put into practice in our own businesses. We are a women-only group. We focus on business books written by women or co-authored by women (but occasionally we do throw in one …

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 ju …

The Philadelphia Augmented Reality Group has been created to promote, advance and inform the Greater Philadelphia Region about Augmented Reality (AR) technology and supporting application platforms. AR is the next big thing -- QR codes are dead! With our hometown newspaper (Inquirer) being the FIRST US NEWSPAPER to embrace AR (the premier AR edition will be published May 6th 2012)...innovative ad agencies, graphic designers, PR firms and brand managers need to know about this new technology tha …

Fresh Fuzion is an artistic and social movement dedicated to innovative approaches in art, film, fashion and music. Our organization, The Fresh Fuzion Collective (currently processing our 501(c)(3) paperwork to become a non-profit), involves a tight-knit group of young artists, musicians, filmmakers and designers. We're developing monthly music/art showcases in Philadelphia and we run an internet television site as a creative hub to inspire others and also as a platform to fundraise for the arts …

The purpose of the Sustainable Fashion Designers Philadelphia meetup is to assist entrepreneurs with growing fashion related businesses that create social change and respect the environment. The National Association of Sustainable Fashion Designers provides specialized triple bottom line education, training, and access to tools and industry resources that advance creative, innovative and high impact businesses. Learn more at www.sustainabledesigners.org

PET is a group of people enthusiastic about technologies for the enterprise and B2B market. We will bring corporations and the tech startup community together to cultivate ventures serving the enterprise. Whether you are an entrepreneur, corporate executive, software developer, designer, or investor, you are invited to join us and participate in a series of panels, pitches and networking events specifically focused on enterprise tech.   We are affiliated with the Enterprise Tech Innovation meetu …

www.SocentPhilly.com Our goal is to bring together social entrepreneurs -- and aspiring social entrepreneurs --- to support, inspire and help one another. Social Entrepreneurs act as the change agents for society by improving systems or inventing new approaches that change society for the betterIf you are you running -- or thinking of starting -- a social enterprise, nonprofit, socially responsible business or organization aimed at making the world a better place, this group is for you.

Meet and learn from PHP developers in the Philadelphia area. Come to a PHP Meetup to exchange ideas and talk about code, architecture, innovation, and MySQL, LAMP, CMS systems like Drupal and Mambo/Joomla, open source web development in general. Anyone interested in PHP is welcome!

The Sustainability NEXUS The Sustainability NEXUS is a Philadelphia-based organization open to individuals dedicated to innovation, education, and entrepreneurship for Environmental + Social goals. "An Address for Sustainability" Our mission is to accelerate our progression toward true sustainability by establishing uniquely respondent regional centers that coalesce the abundant but fragmented energy and talent already flowing into social and environmental sustainability goals in each region. In …

  Mission Statement The Nikola Tesla Inventors Club was formed to promote the legacy of Nikola Tesla by raising awareness of his accomplishments, picking up where Tesla left off, and furthering his work. We bring together those with a genuine interest in Tesla through educational programs, workshops, meetings, and public events. NTIC also selects several inventors per year who have demonstrated a promising idea that exemplifies Tesla's life and work. We help patent and and bring these ideas to m …