The London Co-Workers Speaker and Network Series is a new group designed to bring together all those entrepreneurs and small business owners looking to grow and expand their business. We aim to help with ideas, building and pitching for young entrepreneurs, startups and small businesses. The group brings together new and experienced entrepreneurs, inspirational speakers and startup experts for a practical series of events that offer advice, mentoring, networking and a host of other benefits.   S …

The Big Data Technology and Business Insight Group is about developing and promoting the BigData community in the UK We currently create or replicate about 1.8 zettabytes (ZB) of data. Just a few years ago, we hadn’t even invented the word zettabyte. Every day we send approximately 300 billion e-mails and share one billion items on Facebook; every minute we post 170,000 tweets to Twitter. We will explore and explain the difficulties which include capture, storage, search, sharing, analyt …

Are you using Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or any of the other hot social networking sites? Do you want to get more out of them or use them more effectively? Do you want to know what the opportunities are? Do you want to be sure you're using them safely and not taking any risks? Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn will allow you to network and develop opportunities to boost your business; provide channels to communicate with employees and recruit new employees; and will enable you to track and posi …

Purpose To provide a regular forum where we can share ideas, experiences and models for helping organisations become more social. And, in doing so, create new connections that lead to community. **Really important** This is not a social media marketing event. We will not be talking about Facebook, Twitter etc. This is about organisational culture, structure, and internal technologies and approaches. Participants We welcome people from a diverse range of backgrounds: academics, consultants, resea …

This group was established in response to demand for a regular business networking group in Greenwich, bringing together proactive entrepreneurs who seek to expand their network, promote their business and attract new sales. From software developers to vets and IT consultants to travel agents, NABO Networking is attracting business owners from every sector and industry – including lots of people who had never been to networking events. The format of each meeting is to focus on how each member ca …

Wednesday Business clinic: Wednesday business clinic is a relaxed casual business event were newly formed businesses exchange ideas about challenges faced in the first year of trading and possible solutions. Some of the areas covered will include: 1.How to get funding from the bank. We shall look at how small businesses should present their business plan to give themselves a better chance of getting the much needed loan! 2. How to save as much tax as possible in your first year of trading. 3. H …

Welcome to the SSV Network! The "Startups & Societal Ventures" Network http://www.ssvnetwork.com Discuss: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=48286 Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SSVNetwork Follow us on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ycd24uk Check the SSV Network Innovation Hubs' Worldwide Map: http://www.communitywalk.com/SSVNetwork Entrepreneurs, investors and all other resources providers need better relationships matchmaking. SSVN is an internet-based entrepreneurship support system e …

Happiness is a state of mind or feeling characterized by contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. Happiness comes from deep within, and not from people, situations, or circumstances. According to Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego: “When an individual becomes happy, the network effect can be measured up to three degrees. One person’s happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends’ friends, and his frien …

Motive is for anyone who has an idea and is motivated enough to bring it to completion (or at least start). An 'off-line' community, made up of Creatives of every kind. We meet regularly to talk about interesting projects they've seen, are working on or want to collaborate on.   * Visit the motive portal with links to previous speakers: http://www.motive.org.uk * Join us on twitter at:   http://twitter.com/MotiveGroup * Join the vimeo group at: http://www.vimeo.com/groups/motive * Join …

Bootlaw is a free boot camp for emerging technology, internet and digital businesses and the professionals working in them who want to learn more about the legal issues they face. Its brought to you by an enthusiastic team of lawyers at Pinsent Masons LLP, an international law firm based in the City of London. Monthly at our London office we're hosting an evening for the members of Bootlaw where we'll cover business questions and their legal ramifications from a pragmatic and practical standpoin …

    The Social Media Strategy Group is focused on sharing, discussing and learning what is working in social media today. You will meet industry expect, make valuable contacts and learn about LinkedIn, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, Google +, Klout and Blogging - in a way you can actually understand. Our group is for social media newbie’s and experts, small and large business owners, non-profits, ad agency reps, restaurant, retail, and hotel professionals - basically anyone interested in leveraging …

See what other people are saying about this event: LEM Testimonial Video   Achieve you business and personal goals faster. We are on a mission to help people build a 'cash machine' earning an extra £500 -£1000 per month. Who wants to be one of those people. Just ASK and we can get to work on it This is regular networking event for entrepreneurs and individuals who are currently thinking about starting a business and for established entrepreneurs who are trying to grow and develop their businesse …

Confidence issues? Want to excel in your career? Freeze in meetings? Not sure know how to start or keep a conversation going? Then Toastmasters is the perfect opportunity to improve on those speaking skills. Whether you are a new to public speaking or an expert speaker we have a wide variety of members who meet regularly every month for one common purpose - To improve their speaking skills and gain confidence. You are sure to reap the rewards from just one event! Guests are always made to feel v …

… As a collective, we offer support and encouragement for each others’ songwriting activities, including collaboration and exchange of current information relating to the industry. A friendly community of songwriters, from hobbyists to professionals. Please spread the word - the more, the merrier!   Our URL is: http://www.LondonSongwriters.co.uk/ London Songwriters Group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=190851819720 London Songwriters Page on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/L …

We Love Social Media. We love it, we love it, we love it and all it can do to bring the world closer together. Whether its businesses closer to their customers, or governments closer to their citizens. We want to share this love with you in this Love Social Media Meet Up group. Your educational source for Social Media. Love Social Media’s aim is to educate entrepreneurs, traditional publicists, and business owners on marketing themselves online to improve online reputation, increase sales and im …

    The Creativepreneur Club  is a business and social networking group for creatives who want to be inspired attend great business and social events and  meet loads of interesting fellow creative thinkers   We will provide a platform for you ,network with like minded people ,foster collaborations,be inspired and learn from other creativepreneurs who will share their knowhow and wisdom.   We run  monthly (ish) events  in  London and each month we will have a different speaker who will share with …