For a limited time, Join the Chicago Email Marketing Meetup Group for free! This group is focused on email marketing and building an online following through email list creation and website integration. We'll look at best practices for writing email copy and how to build a huge email list. Please join if you're interested in getting started with email marketing for your business or you're interested in selling email marketing to your clients. This group is all about collaboration and building up …

Mobile Monday is the world’s largest mobile industry community with chapters in over 80 cities worldwide. Mobile Monday Chicago relaunched in 2009 and since has grown into one of Chicago's biggest technology networking organizations. We are a volunteer-led, grassroots trade organization and affiliated with other Mobile Monday chapters around the USA through Mobile Monday America. http://www.momochicago.org/

Stompernet Internet Entrepreneurs - Elmhurst We are a group of website owners & internet marketers who get together monthly to discuss topics such as SEO strategies, how to get more website traffic (paid & free), keyword analysis strategies, affiliate marketing, & general business building methods. Join us to join in the debate!

We discuss mobile app development issues and strategies. The group shares among ourselves and brings in outside experts to help educate and advance our knowledge. We offer the opportunity for developers to share their projects and get feedback from group members and have live demonstrations of new apps that our members are launching. Our conversations will include marketing and advertising so we can help get apps in the hands of our target audience and fund the work we are doing. Join us in shap …

A smartphone is a mobile phone that offers more advanced computing ability and connectivity than a contemporary basic feature phone.Smartphones and feature phones may be thought of as handheld computers integrated within a mobile telephone, but while most feature phones are able to run applications based on platforms such as Java ME, a smartphone allows the user to install and run more advanced applications based on a specific platform. Smartphones run complete operating system software providin …

My business partner & I have been very fortunate in finding success as "Entrepreneurs", in an unstable economy. We are very passionate in sharing our success and giving the ability to other individuals of being able to start their "own business" and finding success for themselves! If you have been looking for the right networking opportunity....it has arrived!

Get Blogging Chicago - Coming December 2011 Chicago Blogs is launching a major initiative called "Get Blogging Chicago." It's part of a national campaign starting here in Chicago to jumpstart Americans and Chicagoans into Blogging. If you're ready to blog and hit a brick wall and can't move forward, this campaign will help you by: Connecting with Chicago Bloggers offline, in person Executing a Blogger's Jumpstart Plan so you can create, post and maintain your blog even using your mobile phone S …

This group is for Chicago-area Web and Mobile Designers, Developers, Information Architects, Usability Experts, UX Designers, Web Producers, Programmers, Flash Animators, etc. - anyone involved in the designing, developing, programming and implementation of web sites and mobile applications. Sorry, but since this group is about meeting face to face every month, only people residing in the Chicago area will be admitted. At our meetings we'll network with others in the industry; compare …

BuiltInChicago.org is an awesome community of entrepreneurs, engineers, marketers, developers, designers, investors, technologists and academics working hard to create the next big web or mobile business. Our mission is to connect, educate and promote the growing digital community in Chicago. And we want you to JOIN today. This group will be used to help connect members of the community in person.   Feel free to reach out if you have any questions: adam@builtinchicago.org  

This group will meet to learn about the new crowd funding laws passed in the recent JOBS act and help prepare small businesses and entrepreneurs for raising capital through selling equity in their businesses using approved intermediaries. A couple of great articles to learn more about crowd funding, the JOBS act and more can be read here http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223290 http://www.fridayfirm.com/news/449-alert040612

We bring together entrepreneurs, developers, investors, corporations and media by organizing conferences, workshops and meetups. Current conferences include: the Data 2.0 Conference in San Francisco and TechWeek Chicago. Techweek conferences have featured speakers from Google, Microsoft, Groupon, ChaCha, and crowdSPRING.  We've help launch new features from over 10 startups and companies including Twilio, Hipmunk and Windows Phone. Our mission is to connect the Midwest startup and technology sce …

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 just …

We are a group of enthusiastic entrepreneurs - independent business owners, creative and handmade artists, fashion designers, potographers, cupcake genius, mobile spa, you name it we got it! We are here to showcase our businesses at local trunk shows, home parties, public events, and our vision is to help people shop at ease and be inspired by the many unique products and services that we can offer. If you are one of us, join in the group and let's roll! Cheers, Anne Founder of GoBlingGirl.com * …

Augmented Reality - What is it? Who's working on it? How can you use it? I hope this group can be a meeting place and discussion ground for everyone interested in Augmented Reality (AR); designers, developers, entrepreneurs, writers, students, journalists, and anyone who's interested in AR.