Blogiversary!

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I can't believe I am celebrating my first "blogiversary!" Just one year ago, I posted my "Hello, World! My First Blog Post!" message!

Check out my blog page to see all the fun I have had this year! - sosAssociates.com/Blog/ Thank you to all the people who made the events happen.

See their names listed with the events in my blog posts, and follow them on Twitter, if you do that sort of thing (I find Twitter fun, and a great way to learn about a lot of great activities).

My only challenge I have had this year is that I have more to write about than I have time. I follow one rule -- if you have a choice between staying home and writing about an activity, or going out, choose to go out and be active. Between my WebSigCleveland.org meetings, and other events, I have about five blogs in my head that I will never have time to write. 

Meetings I Track For @sos_jr

In my "Tweet! Tweet! Celebrating Three Years!" blog post, I put together a list of the 116 groups whose meetings I track, so I decided to do it again here (the list has grown). One reason I am doing this is to assist you in learning about these organizations.  The main reason I am doing this is to encourage you to thank the leaders.

Most of these Cleveland tech, social media, and entrepreneur meetings are free or low cost. If you are on Twitter, please spread the word about these great Cleveland groups in your tweets. 

1. .NET SIG http://www.bennettadelson.com/ComingEvents.aspx Follow: @Bennett_Adelson

2. 20/30 Club Tech Committee (Cleveland Professional's Club) http://www.cleveland2030.org/calendar Follow: @CP2030 @kmsolorio

3. Afternoons @ Ahuja http://www.csuohio.edu/business/noon/ Follow: @JimDorazio

4. AIGA Cleveland http://cleveland.aiga.org/ Follow: @aigacleveland

5. Akron Canton PC Users Group http://www.acpcug.org/site3/

6. Akron Chapter of The Association of Information Technology Professionals http://akron-aitp.org/

7. Akron Linux Users Group http://www.meetup.com/Akron-Linux-Users-Group/ Follow: @davidegts

8. Akron Software Developers Guild (Akron, OH) - Meetup http://www.meetup.com/AkronSDG/

9. Akron/Canton web meetup http://www.meetup.com/akroncantonweb/ Follow: @coffeeandcode

10. Appcelerator Titanium http://www.meetup.com/Appcelerator-Titanium/ Follow: @bafmin

11. Association of Personal Computer User Groups http://apcug.net/events/ http://ugls.apcug.net/FindUserGroup.aspx Follow: @apcug

12. Association of Personal Computer User Groups (APCUG) http://www.apcug.net/ http://ugls.apcug.net/FindUserGroup.aspx Follow: @apcug

13. Bad Girl Ventures Cleveland http://badgirlventures.com/ Follow: @BGV_Cleveland

14. Big Data Analytics Special Interest Group - Cleveland, Ohio http://www.meetup.com/Big-Data-Analytics-Special-Interest-Group/

15. Bizdom Cleveland http://www.meetup.com/BizdomCleveland/ Follow: @BizdomCleveland

16. Burning River Developers http://www.meetup.com/Burning-River-Developers/ Follow: @burningriverdev @kberridge @StuartSaunders

17. Business Gateway Series http://www.csuohio.edu/business/global/gateway/ Follow: @LaunchHouse @CMLAWSchool

18. C#/VB.Net SIG http://www.clevelanddotnet.info/ http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-C-VB-Net-User-Group/ Follow: @SamNasr @CLEDotNet

19. CLE Internet Marketing Meetup Group http://www.meetup.com/CLE-Internet-Marketing/ Follow: @CLEMeetup @JoeKneale

20. Cleveland Adobe Users Group http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-Adobe-User-Group/ http://www.clevelandaug.org/ Follow: @cfaddict

21. Cleveland Agile Group (#CleAG) http://www.meetup.com/ClevelandAgile/ Follow: @jonrstahl @chzy @DocOnDev Hashtag: #CleAG

22. Cleveland Area DevOps Interest Group http://www.meetup.com/DevOpsCLE/ Follow: @devopscle @benjaminws

23. Cleveland Area Python Interest Group http://clepy.org/ Follow: @CLEPY @dstanek @mcrute

24. Cleveland Big Data and Hadoop User Group http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-Hadoop/

25. Cleveland Boomerangs http://www.facebook.com/events/260172110679072/

26. Cleveland Chapter of the American Marketing Association http://clevelandama.com/ Follow: @ClevelandAMA

27. Cleveland Civic Hacking Meetup http://www.meetup.com/cleveland-civic-hacking/ Follow: @JeffSchuler

28. Cleveland CocoaHeads http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-CocoaHeads/

29. Cleveland Digital Publishing Users Group (CDPUG) http://www.cdpug.org/ Follow: @CDPUG

30. Cleveland Drupal User Group http://www.meetup.com/cleveland-drupal/ Follow: @DrupalCleveland @JeffSchuler

31. Cleveland Game Developers http://www.meetup.com/clevelandgamedev/ Follow: @pixelcream @mattperrin

32. Cleveland GiveCamp http://www.clevelandgivecamp.org/ Follow: @CleGiveCamp @MarkWSchumann @AmyCWong @AndrewCr @JonrStahl @LaurenceMingle @BeyerMatthew @NickBarendt

33. Cleveland InDesign User Group http://www.indesignusergroup.com/chapters/cleveland/ Follow: @AprilClark

34. Cleveland Indians Social Suite http://cleveland.indians.mlb.com/cle/fan_forum/social_suite.jsp http://mlb.mlb.com/fan_forum/social_media/index.jsp?c_id=cle Follow: @Indians

35. Cleveland Java Meetup Group http://www.meetup.com/cleveland-java/ Follow: @JavaCleveland

36. Cleveland JavaScript Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-JavaScript-Meetup/ Follow: @uzquiano @Jarmmi

37. Cleveland Lean Startup Circle http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-Lean-Startup-Circle/ Follow: @nickbarendt @jonrstahl @DocOnDev @gsvitak

38. Cleveland machine intelligentsia http://www.meetup.com/cleveland-machine-intelligence/ Follow: @SmartTypes @AndrewCr @mw44118 @excentrixweb @dstanek @bikegriffith

39. Cleveland MongoDB Group http://www.meetup.com/MongoDB-Cleveland Follow: @uzquiano

40. Cleveland MySQL Meetup http://www.meetup.com/mysql-cleveland/ Follow: @JavaCleveland @MySQLCleveland

41. Cleveland Node.js User Group http://www.meetup.com/NodejsCleveland/ Follow: @maurerdotme @SPGrasso

42. Cleveland Photographic Society http://www.clevelandphoto.org/ Follow: @CPSPhoto

43. Cleveland Public LIbrary TechCentral http://www.cpl.org/TheLibrary/SubjectsCollections/TechCentral.aspx Follow: @techcentral_cpl @Cleveland_PL

44. Cleveland Ruby Brigade http://www.meetup.com/ClevelandRuby/ Follow: @clerb @DocOnDev @chzy @Contribute007 @zspencer

45. Cleveland Sencha Users Group http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-Sencha-Users-Group/ Follow: @CleSenchaGroup

46. Cleveland SEO http://www.clevelandseo.com/

47. Cleveland SharePoint User Group http://www.sharepointcleveland.com/ Follow: @SharePointCLE @smartyskirt

48. Cleveland Social Media Club! http://clevelandsmc.ning.com/ Follow: @SMCCLE

49. Cleveland Startup Weekend http://cleveland.startupweekend.org/ Follow: @SWCLE

50. Cleveland Web Design and Development Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-Web-Design-and-Development-Meetup/ Follow: @aoirthoir

51. Cleveland Web Standards Association (CWSA) http://www.clevelandwebstandards.org/ Follow: @CWSA

52. Cleveland WordPress Bloggers http://www.meetup.com/cleveland-ohio-bloggers/ Follow: @ClevelandBlogs @WPTuneups

53. Cleveland WPF User Group http://www.clevelandwpf.info/ http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-WPF-User-Group/ Follow: @CLEWPF @SamNasr

54. Cleveland.Com #CleTweetUp http://www.cleveland.com/tweetup/ http://www.facebook.com/clevelandcom/events https://twitter.com/i/#!/search/realtime/%23CLETweetup Follow: @ClevelandDotCom @dan_labbe @denisep

55. ClevelandDotNet http://clevelanddotnet.blogspot.com/ Follow: @SamNasr

56. Code Craft http://www.meetup.com/codecraft/ Follow: @benWoz @robertromito

57. CodeMash http://www.codemash.org/ http://groups.google.com/group/CodeMash Follow: @CodeMash

58. CodeRetreat http://coderetreat.org/about Follow: @CodeRetreat @coreyhaines

59. Computers Assisting People Inc. (CAP) http://www.capinc.org/

60. Conversion Rate Optimization Professionals' Association http://www.cropa.net/ Follow: @CROProA @mikeperla @akrejny

61. Drupal Camp Ohio http://www.drupalcampohio.org/ http://groups.drupal.org/node/229728 Follow: @DrupalCampOhio

62. Entrepreneurs Club of America - Cleveland http://www.facebook.com/TECACleveland

63. Global Cleveland http://www.globalcleveland.org/Programs.aspx http://www.clejobfair.org/ Follow: @GlobalCleveland

64. Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses at Cuyahoga Community College I http://www.tri-c.edu/workforce/GoldmanSachs/Pages/default.aspx http://www.goldmansachs.com/citizenship/10000-small-businesses/US/index… Follow: @GoldmanSachs at @TriCedu

65. Google Technology User Groups (GTUG) Cleveland https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/cleveland-gtug http://www.gtugs.org/chapter.jsp?id=1026

66. Gorilla Group http://www.thegorillagroup.org/ Follow: @TheGorillaGroup

67. Great Lakes Geek http://www.greatlakesgeek.com/events/calendar.htm Follow: @GreatLakesGeek @DanHanson

68. Greater Cleveland PC Users Group (GCPCUG) http://gcpcug.org/ Other Technology & User Groups in Ohio http://www.gcpcug.org/othergroups Follow: @GCPCUG @GeekClean

69. Greater Cleveland R Group http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-UseR-Group/ Follow: @nhermez

70. Greater Cleveland Web Business Owners and Wannabe's http://www.meetup.com/Greater-Cleveland-Web-Business-MeetUP/ Follow: @dave_van_horn

71. Heights Library Computer Classes http://www.heightslibrary.org/page/computer_classes Follow: @heightslibrary

72. HubSpot Cleveland User Group https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3860316 Follow: @Diadalsky @pr2020

73. Hudson Software Craftmanship User Group (HUDSONSC) http://hudsonsc.com/meetings/ Follow: @HudsonSC

74. INETA User Groups http://www.ineta.org/UserGroups/FindUserGroups.aspx Follow: @INETA

75. Ingenuityfest Cleveland http://www.ingenuitycleveland.com/ Follow: @Ingenuityfest

76. International Association of Business Communicators (IABC) Cleveland http://www.iabccleveland.com/ Follow: @IABCCleveland

77. IT Martini www.itmartini.com Follow: @itmartini

78. IxDA Cleveland (Northeast Ohio) http://www.ixda.org/local/ixda-cleveland-northeast-ohio Follow: @ixdacleveland

79. Joomla!® User Group North East Ohio http://www.meetup.com/NEO-Joomla/ Follow: @gotmw

80. JumpStart, Inc. http://www.jumpstartinc.org/entrepreneursupport/events.aspx Follow: @JumpStartInc

81. Lake Erie Moose Society http://www.meetup.com/Lake-Erie-Moose-Society/ http://www.facebook.com/eriemoose Follow: @hacool

82. LeanDog, Inc.- Coming up @leandog http://www.leandog.com/events/ Follow: @leandog

83. Makers' Alliance – Cleveland - Learn. Make. Grow. http://www.makersalliance.org/ http://www.meetup.com/MakersAlliance/ Follow: @MakersAlliance @sdh7 @jhgorse @csanyk @N0maD_OH

84. Mobile Monday Cleveland http://www.meetup.com/Mobile-Monday-Cleveland/ Follow: @MobileMondayCLE @Michele_Messina

85. MS Access/Excel Forum http://www.barbron.com/AccessSIG/

86. N.E.O. Small Business Internet Marketing http://www.meetup.com/NEO-SB-Internet-Marketing/ Follow: @MichaelMirth @BobRess

87. NEO Society for Technical Communication http://www.neostc.org/

88. NEO Young Entrepreneur's Meetup http://www.meetup.com/NEO-Young-Entrepreneurs-Meetup/

89. NEOSA, the COSE Technology Network http://NEOSA.org Follow: @NEOSA_Nellis @COSEsmallbiz

90. North East Ohio WordPress Meetup http://www.meetup.com/NEOWordPress/ Follow: @brianlayman

91. Northeast Ohio (NEO) IT Think Tank! https://sites.google.com/a/infotechthinktank.com/neo-it-think-tank/ Follow: @NEOITThinkTank

92. Northeast Ohio chapter of Business Marketing Association (BMA) http://www.marketing.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageID=5597 http://www.facebook.com/BMANEO Follow: @BMANEO

93. Northeast Ohio Information Security Forum http://www.neoisf.org/ Follow: @NEOISF

94. Northeast Ohio ISSA Security Meetup Group http://neoissa.org/ http://www.meetup.com/NEO-ISSA/

95. Northeast Ohio PC Club http://www.neopc.org/

96. Northeast Ohio Software Quality Assurance Association @NOSQAA http://nosqaa.org/ Follow: @NOSQAA

97. Northeast Ohio Usability Professionals' Association (NEOUPA) http://www.neoupa.org/ Follow: @NEOUPA

98. Ohio Blogging Association - #Cleveland http://www.facebook.com/ohblogging Follow: @OHBlogging @poiseinparma

99. Ohio North SQL Server User Group http://www.ohionorthsqlserverug.org/ Follow: @ONSSUG

100. Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Cleveland Follow: @owasp

101. PechaKucha Night Cleveland http://www.pecha-kucha.org/night/cleveland Follow: @PechaKuchaClev @mchristoff

102. PodCamp Cleveland http://www.podcampcleveland.com/ Follow: @PodCmpCleveland

103. Rustbelt Refresh http://rustbeltrefresh.com/ Follow: @RustbeltRefresh @CWSA @bdielman @bradcolbow @bridgetstewart

104. Shaker | LaunchHouse http://www.meetup.com/LaunchHouse/ Follow: @LaunchHouse @DarCaldwell @jrgifford @mimibuildwealth

105. Slideluck Potshow Cleveland http://www.facebook.com/SlideluckPotshowCLE

106. Springboard http://www.springboardenterprises.org/builditbig/cleveland Follow: @SpringboardEnt

107. StartCLE https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3688748 http://startcle.com/ Follow: @StartCLE @danyoungdxy

108. Stir Trek http://stirtrek.com/ Follow: @stirtrek

109. SYN/HAK, the Akron Hackerspace http://synhak.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.meetup.com/synhak/ Follow: @SYNHAK @gsvolt

110. TechLife NEO http://www.meetup.com/TechLifeNEO/ Follow: @bblanquera @consultski

111. TEDxAkron http://tedxakron.com/ Follow: @TEDxAkron

112. TEDxCLE http://www.tedxcle.com/ Follow: @TEDxCLE

113. UrbanCode Challenge - Home of code monkey wars!!!!!!! http://www.meetup.com/UrbanCodeChallenge/ Follow: @kitcorry

114. UrbanCoders http://www.meetup.com/UrbanCode/ Follow: @kitcorry

115. Using the Internet to Promote Your Local Business http://www.meetup.com/Using-the-Internet-to-Promote-Your-Local-Business/ Follow: @DustonMcGroarty

116. UX Akron http://www.meetup.com/UX-Akron/ Follow: @carologic

117. UXBookClub Cleveland http://uxbookclub.org/doku.php?id=cleveland Follow: @uxbookclub

118. VimCLE http://www.meetup.com/VimCLE/ Follow: @veezus @eraserhd

119. Web Association http://www.webassociation.org/ Follow: @CLEWebAssoc

120. WebSigCleveland.org http://www.WebSigCleveland.org/ Follow: Me! @sos_jr Hashtag: #WebSigCL