Welcome to The Social Media Challenge with Jonathan Christian - Where we do our best to answer one simple question: How does Social Media work for business? If you‘re in business you‘ve been told you "have" to be on Facebook…you‘ve "got" to be on Twitter…or at least on LinkedIn – not to mention YouTube, Google +, Pinterest, Digg, and on it goes.... And, if you‘re like most of the business people we work with, you may not even "want" to be on any of these sites. You don‘t want to hear that someo …

Concept of Purpose: Triple Win Thinking is a simple philosophy, a idea to promote social action, a dream.  We encourage the individual and collective group to imagine themselves to be more than self-actuated or self-aware, but to grow beyond themselves and extend human kindness, generosity and brilliance to others, who with no intent themselves , become the recipient of acts of kindness that inspire both the giver(s) and the recipient (and those in their community). Intention: The concept is …

Creating & marketing your online business is a challenge we're all facing today. This meetup group will therefore be dedicated to knowledge sharing, networking and support on all aspects of your online business. So whether you're a business owner, a social manager, an entrepreneur, a creative professional or a student -  just starting out or need a reminder about the essentials -  we'd love for you to join our class for Free and learn: Core lessons (will be repeated every few months): How to Cr …

"Master your mind, rather than being mastered by it." Zen Proverb Reach and network with like minded individuals, couples, organizations and businesses to harvest the infinite possibilities and resources of your individual, the collective and Universal Mind. Learn and share mindfulness based communication, living and business skills to decrease stress, anxiety, depression, emotional or phisical distress, dis-ease, inner and interpersonal conflict. Incorporate mindfulness and conscious awarene …

VanMoodle User Group is a community website dedicated to connecting Moodle users locally by helping organize local gatherings, known as 'VanMoodle user groups'. This group is being formed to get Moodlers together to discuss how they use it, what their issues are and see if we can help each other solve these issues - and hopefully have fun while doing it! Come and meet other users of the Moodle Learning Management System. Share your problems and solutions, frustrations and successes, with …

You know you're capable of so much more...we're here to help you achieve it! Success Buddies is about support, encouragement, inspiration. Accountability. Feedback. An opportunity to hang out with like-minded people on a peer-to-peer basis – rather than a seller to potential-buyer basis. It’s comfortable. No need to posture, be on your best behaviour, watch your language, fake it until you make it…or dress for success. (What do you expect from a group started by a motivational speaker who wea …

UX Book Club Vancouver is part of a larger collective of clubs worldwide that have been rapidly forming since 2008 and are now active in over fifty cities across the globe. Each meeting brings together a diverse group UX professionals—including information architects, interaction designers, visual designers, usability specialists, researchers, developers and students—for a fun, enriching discussion on books related user experience. The club will provide an opportunity to engage in learning acros …

Our Twitter Hashtag: #IACSVan These are meant to be working definitions to help us keep the meetup group on track. Information Architecture From the IAInstitute (http://iainstitute.org/en/learn/resources/what_is_ia.php) Information architecture is defined as: The structural design of shared information environments. The art and science of organizing and labeling web sites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability. An emerging community of practice focused …

Video is the future, replacing website text, blogs, corporate meetings, and even emails! This group is for entrepreneurs and executives who want to make web video work for them. Overcome the fear, get the know how, create the content and network with similar people going through the same thing!

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The global reach of the Internet has democratized entrepreneurship. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning drive to succeed,  to make it big in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions.  Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, fi …

//collaborate here Canada's largest tech meetups RSVP to get a nametag. This is important, because people without nametags aren't even really people. There, I said it. ******** HackerNest is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit movement dedicated to uniting local tech communities globally. We do this by cramming lots of very smart people into a room and providing free beer - rescuing them from the isolation of basements, offices, and the plight of code tunnel vision. Our friendly, relaxed, and …

We welcome all Xsan users to get together, have a beer, and discuss how we move forward in a world without Apple's support of Xsan. Tips and tricks, user stories, etc

This ongoing series sponsored by QCollege and StikkyMedia will give you the tools necessary to manage your brand reputation, drive sales, create impact and dominate your market. From Facebook, Twitter and Google+ to YouTube, blogging and SEO , our industry experts will lay the groundwork for a winning social media strategy.

This is a group for Realtors interested in boosting their websites Google search ranking and reaching out to other social media platforms. We'll meet once every couple months to discuss the changes to social media marketing and how it influences our lead generation as Realtors. We can also talk about the most effective ways to qualify leads and turn cold calls into potential sales. I'm looking forward to sharing my knowledge on the subject and keen to learn what works for everybody else.

// tl;dr Small group (max. 10) of experienced digital marketers get together to give and receive feedback on new ideas. It's hard to find other digital marketers to bounce ideas off. You post your question on SEOMoz and get a Bro SEO answer, you post on Reddit and get trolled, your friends think you surf Facebook for a living -- where does that leave you? Here! Downtown Digital Marketing Sounding Board (you'd think for a marketer, I would have come up with something catchier). The idea is, every …

No matter what industry you are in, or what stage of your career you are at, being an effective communicator is essential to your success. In this group we will explore ways to improve your communication skills. Whether it is doing a great sales presentation, working with difficult people, how to inspire action with your words, improving your dating success, or influencing others to your way of thinking we will explore it all. When you come to one of our events you will be experiencing world cla …