Time for a cup of coffee ? Then you have enough time to meet. No lengthy lunches in the middle of the day or early breakfast meetings (yawn). Join us for a power networking meeting each Wednesday. Members are restricted to one from each business or profession represented: Please include your profession with your RSVP. As a guest you can • network with other women in business before and after the meeting • put your business cards in our card case that is passed around during the meetings • do …

This group is for women who are looking to build friendships and enjoy social outings and events. Women from Winston-Salem and all surrounding cities comprise our group. The Ladies includes all ages, married, single and most of all FABULOUS!!! We love to welcome new women to the area and develop new friendships. Our calendar will reflect a variety of events from small groups to large venues. We will host book clubs, dining out, coffee trips, shopping, movies and lunch trips to name a few. Abigai …

Meet with other entrepreneurs who are starting, would like to start, or already own an online business. We'll discuss things like website design, SEO (Search Engine Optimization), viral marketing, advertising, social networking, video, Flash, ecommerce and domain names as well as the boring stuff like company formation (LLC or Corporation), tax planning, etc. Basically, we'll talk about everything necessary to operate an eBusiness. Our meetings are once per month with locations ranging from a lo …

Over Thanksgiving, I went to a coffee house chess club that my dad runs in Ohio. It was an amazing experience--people of all ages and skill levels observing, talking about, giving impromptu lessons in and playing chess. The social energy at a club like this creates an environment where we can improve our chess skills in a way that is often more difficult (and less fun) in an online-only practice. This is a very welcoming group, and anyone who likes to play chess is invited. Ideally, this group …

About the Coffee and Contacts™Network Coffee and Contacts™ is a women's business referral network with chapters meeting weekly throughout the Triangle. Meetings last 1 hour with a 30 minute social time before the start of the formal meeting. Breakfast is a dutch treat, so come for the informal networking to order breakfast. Benefits of Coffee and Contacts™Power Networking for Women Expand Your Sphere of Influence! Referrals, Referrals, Referrals! Develop your networking skills Develop new soci …

Dedicated to all hackers who hack in "alternate" JVM languages: Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Nice, Beanshell, Rhino, JRuby, Jython, etc. Low formality, causal "hack night" meetings at pubs, coffee shops, etc.

A meetup for hackers and founders to mingle and network with each other... If you're interested in technology startups, either as a hacker or as a founder, or both, you've found the right meetup. If you regularly read Hackers News ( http://news.ycombinator.com. ), have been to a Startup Weekend, have wanted an Open Coffee Club in the Triangle area, are building - or want to build - a tech startup, if you're a VC, angel investor, or anyone else with an interest in the startup community; then t …

We do something a wee bit different every month. Last month it was Show 'n Tell, this month: MANNA (where everyone is invited to bring something that has extraordinary value to them and to no one else.) Next month? Who knows? Something a wee bit different. Come join us amid the sometimes bustle of coffee, tea and cupcakes, one Tuesday a month, at the Looking Glass Cafe.

Looking for a friendly game of chess with a bit of conversation and maybe a latte? If so this is the group for you. We welcome everyone whether you are a tournament player or a chess newbie so don't be shy! The group will meet on either Wednesday or Sunday evenings from 7pm to 9pm at the Barnes and Noble at: 1925 Hampton Inn Court Winston-Salem, NC 27103

A group of professional women - age 55+ -  who'd like to do casual walks all around town and in our parks and open spaces - primarily in Chapel Hill and environs. The aim of the group is to get some exercise, enjoy the outdoors and get to know each other. Intended for women who live in close proximity to Chapel Hill/ Carrboro. This is for women who are married, or not, in a relationship or not, but who know and appreciate the support of other women. Women who'd like to make a few new friends; wh …

Insight (Vipassana) meditation is the simple and direct practice of moment-to-moment mindfulness. Through careful and sustained observation, we experience for ourselves the ever-changing flow of the mind/body process. This awareness leads us to accept more fully the pleasure and pain, fear and joy, sadness and happiness that life inevitably brings. As insight deepens, we develop greater equanimity and peace in the face of change, and wisdom and compassion increasingly become the guiding principl …

There are many book clubs. This group reads literary classics...books that have stood the test of time. So we'll never read the hot new thing...we'll read books that are 10-10,000 years old but are still in print. We'll read Homer, Dante, Salinger, Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, John Kennedy Toole, Alice Walker, Shakespeare. Great authors, great books. We'll read fiction, poetry, drama, folk tales, philosophy. We'll discuss what we read over wine or coffee. Sound fun?

This is a play group for mothers, mainly of toddlers (0-5).  We will schedule a few meet-ups so the kiddos can play, but this group will focus on letting the moms play! :)  And we have a beautiful background to do so!  Let's make downtown WS our playground.  It may not be LA (trust me I've lived there) or NY BUT WS certainly has some fun perks - mostly good drinks and good food which suffices just nicely. :) So if you are a mother who moved from a large city, a mother who loves to get dolled up …

This is a group for anyone interested in tea. I want to taste and cook with the incredible tea leave. I look forward to meeting others in the area with the passion I have for anything tea related.

Our group is open to anyone - single, married, divorced, separated, you'll be welcomed as if we've known you forever. Our goal is for you to develop new friendships that stretch beyond the group and events and last a lifetime. This group is for people between the ages of 40 to 60 plus in the Triad. We are interested in activities most people in that age range would enjoy. The primary purpose will be for socializing, making new friends. Everyone is welcome within the age range. Our goal is to all …

As a member of the Oprah Book Club 2.0, you can tweet, post, and all of that jazz, but if you want a little face-to-face contact as well, then this is the Club for you! We'll follow Oprah's picks and meet to discuss what we think and how we feel about what we've read. This is for bookworms who also want to get out and about! We can meet in our homes, at coffee houses, restaurants, it's all up to us!

A weekly game night in Historic Pittsboro's alt-history haven, Davenport & Winkleperry. Game Night is brought to you every Thursday night from 7pm until it's over by the notorious ne'er-do-wells of BAMF Games, James and Donnie. Join us for Limited MTG Tournaments, ongoing D&D 3.5 campaigns, strategy games and more tabletop fun. ***D&W membership is recommended, but not required as long as the hosts are present.

"Expand Your Noise!" Calling all acoustic musicians (or wanna be's like me. :) This is a group about getting those instruments out...walking proudly into the world and expanding your noise! Simply put it's an acoustic jam group, but potentially, sooooooo.. much more! My vision is that it will be many goofy, memory making moments strung together as well as a way to connect with other musicians,family and friends. We will get together once a month to play (and I use this term loosely) MUSIC! ..... …

This is a group for anyone interested in practicing / developing Mandarin language skills. All skill levels welcome. I am a beginner. I started this group because I miss studying Mandarin with others. Looking forward to going out to eat, for hikes while we talk about plants and weather, for coffee or Celebrating Chinese New Year.

PURPOSE: Purposeful Women Gathering (PWG) is designed to build healthy, positive and empowering relationships. WHO SHOULD JOIN: PWG welcomes women who are positive, social and fun yet, serious about their individual and collective personal development, well-being and growth. WHY: PWG represents a diverse group of women with varied interests, desires and backgrounds. Plus, PWG is about stimulating conversation, camaraderie, girl-talk and good old, wholesome fun! EXPECTATIONS: As a network of purp …

Since we're starting around dinner time, please bring a snack or drink (wine is always nice XD) to share with everyone. Please RSVP to let me know if you'll be coming. I'll be working on my crocheting, feel free to bring whatever craft your working on with you.

This is a group for those interested in the writings of both ancient and contemporary Buddhist and Taoist poetry and stories. Reflecting on the minimalism, yet elegance of the poetic styles of such greats as Issa, Roykan, Basho, Saigyo, Li Po, Tu Fu, among others, we will plan to meet, sip tea and recite as well as discuss our favorite poetry of the great Buddhist and Taoist sages from the past and today. Central meetings may be planned at my Urban Hut, but we can plan for others to be located i …

Some people plan, while other just do. This group is for those that just throw caution to the wind. Wanna have breakfast at midnight with an hours notice? We can do that. We are like a flash-mob with a hastily thrown together plan. It might be bowling, or a ball game. Music in the park or poetry at a coffee house. If you are a spontaneous person with an urge to socialize then aye oh, let's go!