HR Girlfriends is a networking community for women working in or providing services to the Human Resources field, who are looking for an environment to socially and professionally collaborate. The community provides a friendly environment for open minded professionals to share common interests. HR Girlfriends knows no color lines and ALL women are welcome! If you are looking for a community of professional girlfriends who understands your world, this group is for you. We will get together for n …

We're a group of local business people looking for other professionals to give business to. If word of mouth and warm business referrals is good for your business, than join us for our weekly Tuesday Morning Referral Breakfast at The Original Pancake House 7700 Wisconsin Ave Bethesda, MD 20814 Bethesda (7:30am - 9am) - * Pancake House is more accurately located at the corner of Woodmont and Old Georgetown - the address of Wisconsin Ave is correct, but it's set back from the road. Please note: w …

The purpose of this group is to bring together a network of actors, of all levels, skills, in which the exchange of valuable information would take place, in addition to building an community that is embodied with support and friendship for the actor(s) who are committed to pursuing their acting careers on a professional level.

Monument Toastmasters is a welcoming and inclusive group that develops and sharpens public speaking, presentation and leadership skills in a relaxed, friendly and supportive atmosphere. We meet on the first and third Thursday of every month from 7 - 9 pm at Vicino Italian Restaurant in downtown Silver Spring, Maryland. You are warmly invited to join us and feel free to bring a friend.

The benefits of the group: I created this group to equal the platform between Real Estate Professionals where they are dedicated to develop from within. A group of professionals who have the willingness to give value first. Professionals inter-twine together to educate, motivate and positively leverage their knowledge and expertise on various developmental topics.

Washington, DC Official PASS Chapter. We meet 2nd Thursdays at the Microsoft MTC in Chevy Chase (Red Line at Friendship Heights). Join us!

We aspire to become better communicators and leaders as we serve and support each other to achieve success with our individual and corporate goals . We love humor because laughter keeps un on point.

Are you a fabulous female of color or a fabulous female that appreciates fabulous females of color who would like to be involved in fun activities, increasing your social circle and developing new friendship? If you answered ‘YES” then you have come to the right place.Brown Women of Montgomery County (BWMC) is a group for women of color primarily between the ages of mid 20's and above that are interested in creating lasting friendships, meeting positive and intelligent women of color who are als …

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 …

SHE CAN SHOOT© has become the largest firearms female only group on the East Coast. Currently, we have chapters in Fredericksburg, Northern Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia.  In the next few months a chapter will be in the VA Hampton Roads area. SHE CAN SHOOT© is a group committed to offering support to women who are interested in developing or enhancing their shooting proficiency as well as self-defense skills without feeling intimidated and being judged.  We are also a group of …

Storm Users Group is a community for Storm developers and companies using Storm. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of fun to use!

I started this group because I want to keep up on the latest books on global affairs, international development, foreign policy, economics, or finance. I also wanted to meet other people out there with the same interests who crave stimulating intellectual discussions. I thought this group could serve as a way to motivate us to stay current on the latest literature and lead us into some fun discussions. You should join this group if you are one of the many Washington area professionals (like …

The Washington DC LGBT Ballroom, Latin, Swing & C/W DanceMeetup is the Meetup group for Lambda DanceSPORT DC (http://www.LambdaDanceSportDC.org) which supports the art and sport of partnership dancing of all styles for same-gender couples and LGBT-friendly mixed-gender couples in the Baltimore/Washington Metropolitan area. Lambda DanceSPORT DC (http://www.LambdaDanceSportDC.org) is an affilliate of the LGBT DC Sports Connection, Team DC (http://www.TeamDC.org). DanceSport in C/W, Ballroom & Lat …

Hello to everyone who likes to dance and have fun, Dance is my life and I love to teach others how to experience this exciting form of art. I find great joy in watching my students progress and learn and most of all see them go out to salsa clubs and have fun. I am so proud to know that I've given them something that they can use to meet new people and have fun. Isn't that what we all need in these days full of stress? I have recently relocated to the DC area from Chicago where I taught at t …

Whether you're a professional, student, stay-at-home parent, or retiree ... Toastmasters is the best way to improve your communication and leadership skills - lose the fear of public speaking (really!) - learn skills to be more successful - become a better listener - improve your English or accent - easily lead teams and conduct meetings. You'll comfortably give and receive constructive evaluation. You already have some or all of these skills. In Toastmasters, you will enhance these skills. Gues …

A group for Space Flight Dynamicists in the Washington, DC area.  You can be a practicing dynamicist, previously practicing or just curious. Objective of group is to network professionally, socially, and to exchange ideas, in interesting venues where we can have quick presentations and talks over food and drinks.

There are many things that this group is NOT: It's not being critiqued by anyone who walks in off the street, It's not meandering conversations about kids, recipes, having a terrible job, or having no job at all. It's not about blogging, fanfic, children's books, or books that are written in an hour, a week, a month, or a year. What this group IS is meeting regularly with a professional writer and editor who will work on your book on all levels from genre choice to plot arcs to line-by-line edit …

Are you in looking for more movement in your job search? You have come to the right place! Led by kick-butt, nationally-renowned career expert and nurturing "job sage" Laura Labovich, this high-energy group is designed around a structured curriculum that promises to move job seekers forward in their campaign. As a former recruiter and HR leader at Walt Disney World and (the former) AOL Time Warner, Laura knows what it takes to get a job faster and how to leap ahead of the competition--and will s …

The Enterprise SharePoint Professionals Meetup Group was started to allow SharePoint Professionals to network, learn, and share what you know about SharePoint technologies with other cutting edge technical professionals.

The Capital Area ColdFusion User Group meets once a month in the DC Metro area. We are a technical and social community of developers, software architects, managers and students with professional and personal interest in all or some aspects of the Adobe ColdFusion development platform and its related technologies.

Hello everyone and welcome to the 35+ Singles Have Fun 2 group. Whether you’re new to the area, newly single, or what I call a professional single person (like myself) this meetup is for you. The DC metro area is an awesome place to live, work, and play. Born and raised in the area I am still learning and discovering new places and things to do, and hopefully together we will be able to experience some of my favorites as well as some of yours. The purpose of this group is to put it simply, meet …

We are a group of professionals who use SAS, R, MATLAB, etc. in the following areas: mortgage credit analytics, portfolio risk management, computational finance, statistics, economists, analytic developers, financial modelers, etc. Our backgrounds are in places like: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, CapitalOne, E*TRADE, Treasury Dept., FDIC, Wells Fargo, Wachovia, Standard & Poors, etc. At our meetings we share good cheer, business leads, and technical discussions.

This group is dedicated to local, social and mobile online marketing.  Our group is filled with people passionate about helping local businesses and organizations get the word out on social media, search, email, directories, mobile and everywhere you need to be. Our Members We are filled with diverse and passionate members and experts: Owners of small-to-medium size businesses PR professionals looking to leverage online channels Entrepreneurs who want to grow their business Technology and serv …

The Venezuelan Cultural Institute branch Washington, D.C. is committed to enriching the relationship between venezuelan culture and the rest of the world by sharing venezuelan's vibrant cultural past and present with the local community. Establishment in january 2013, the Institute is in search of presenting diverse, ongoing cultural programs and become a thriving artistic center in the heart of Washington area.