Do your clients fail to follow through on your coaching or consulting guidance? Does your staff fail to follow through on what they need to do to get the job done? Do you have clients (or staff) who know what they need to do, and you know what they need to do, but they just don’t do it?  As a trainer, have you ever wasted time and money designing and delivering your training programs only to find it was not appropriate...or even necessary? Wonder why?  We know why and you can, too.   Join …

Crowdsourcing is a powerful and rapidly growing way to improve your business and get things done cheaply that otherwise might costs thousands of dollars. This group will be for those who want to learn how to use this resource for their startup or existing small business. Whether it's programming you need done (or any other contracted work), funding for a project or expansion, customer acquisition or involvement, or really just about anything, there is the potential to crowd-source it. We'll be a …

Hi! I'm a 41 year old male who went through the break-up of a 17 year relationship. I was devastated.  I bought self help books and watched hours of YouTube lectures and seminars to try and help me get through the pain I was feeling. One common piece of expert advice is to get out of the house and to get something socially active on your calendar. This is much more easily said than done.   Does any of this describe the way you've felt? Friends invite you to come along with them to parties or ge …

  IF YOU'RE TIRED OF STARTING OVER...STOP GIVING UP.   How many more years will you let go by before getting the body you've always wanted; the body you've needlessly endured that's-all-I'm-to-eat-seriously?!! diets and sweat-drenching-feels-so-good-but-I-may-pass-out contortions for; the body you can have?  Are you planning to start again tomorrow, next week or, maybe, next month?  And, that time, you swear you won't give up?   When we have meals planned, prepared, ready to eat and convenient, …

Are you a single, spiritually conscious woman who is committed to magnetizing powerful, soulmate love in 2011? Are you "done with dating"? REALLY sick and tired of the singles groups and singles clubs and the superficial conversations that go nowhere? If this is you, keep reading. If you are looking to make that deep connection- but just aren't finding it, chances are you are still stuck in patterns of thinking, acting, and being that are repelling your soulmate from you. Yes, even conscious an …

… Family Constellations discovers these entanglements and puts things back in their truer pattern. We will do two constellations for assigned clients each night. We also need 20 participants to make the experience happen; this is a great way to get an initial 'taste' of Family Constellations. Clients and participants both can expect a rich experience of family healing. These constellations are led by Leslie Nipps, a trained Family Constellations facilitator. Please find more information about me …

… Making female friends on the other hand requires you to put in a little more effort – but it is a relationship that can last (through marriages, divorces, good times, bad times) Unless the venue is able to accommodate a large group comfortably, general meet ups will be small group of girls – 10 maximum, possibly less, depending on the event – so that we can actually spend time getting to know each other better. We will try to go beyond introduction of name, occupation & background at each meet u …

What would it be like to own your home in a thriving community, close to work and school? Cohousing is housing created with the design input of the residents, according to common goals such as sustainability, community, and simply living well by sharing more. It includes individual homes supplemented by shared facilities and common areas. Management is consensus-driven and done by the residents. There are over two dozen cohousing communities in the Bay Area to date, and it’s about time …

Do you work from home and find it hard to be motivated, productive or inspired?  Do you go to coffee shops and cafes alot to work on projects or meet other people?  I do those things often and found out that there are others out there in the same boat.  Why don't we work together?!  This is called "CoWorking" This is a group for entrepreneurs, independant contractors, freelancers and others who work from home (or the nearest cafe) to work together in a social setting, network with each other, an …

We've been super enthralled with what the NYC Hack and Tell group has done, and we think it's high time to bring the same format to SF. If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library (did you just write a library to access th …

… “You can think about things in a more thoughtful way.’’ For her, the group is not just another place to market her business. “It’s enlightening to go to those meetings,’’ Biller said. “It’s all women who are pursuing their dreams. They are passionate and very hard-working, but take time out of their day to inspire others.’’ Through the group, Biller has found a peer in another industry whom she meets for morning walks, where they bounce ideas off each other. As a businesswoman surrounde …

Local SF bay area people with a yen to start a food business could be cafe, restaurant, bakery, online food shoppe, cater. We could use a couple of people with the exerience who think to expand their current food business and yet most of us have never done this .... to bring what we know about food to Others and make a profit

… Together, we will decide how to get this done and do it. Key contributors will be invited to become members or employees of any non-profit/co-op we form to run the system. Together, we will create meaningful work for ourselves and build a sustainable economy for everyone. We need all talents: web & mobile developers, monetary theorists, marketers, biz dev folks, graphic designers, videographers, lawyers, crowd fund-raisers, strategists, writers/bloggers, event organizers… Come tell us what you w …

We all know the Bay Area has tons of software meetups, but where's the hardware love? We're bringing together anyone who interested in building a business in the world of physical products: from company boards to organic soap. The purpose of the group is to start to build the hardware startup community by: bringing people together, bringing in experts in the fields of hardware & form entrepreneurs who've done it before, and also to build a better picture of the hardware scene so we can all find …

What is Lean UX about? Lean UX is about learning more, more quickly. Lean UX is about getting more done better for the same investment. Lean UX is about replacing time spent polishing your design artifacts, with time spent polishing your design. Lean UX is about doing research, testing your hypotheses, and building better hypotheses quickly, based on more information, based on reality. Read 10 Principles for Lean UX on Luxr The intersection between Lean Thinking, Agile Development and UX is a …

A lot of good work is being done from within the Bay Area to address global development issues. This Group serves as a space where those involved in and dedicated to this work can commune, share and socialize.