Blogiversary: Two

Two Years!

Two very fun and active years have passed since my first "Hello, World! My First Blog Post!" message!

Last year, for my first Blogiversary, I listed 120 organizations that I tracked. I have found that in the last five months, I have not been able to keep up with all the exciting growth in Cleveland and Akron, but I try to do so in my weekly tech blog posts.

In addition to my weekly tech and social media blog posts for our community, I (and sometime we -- my wife and sons co-write with me) also write about other items that interest me. Please check out all the blog posts that I have completed these past two years on my "Blog sosAssociates" web page at: sosAssociates.com/Blog/

As stated on the home page:

sosAssociates.com is an extension of my sos_jr Twitter interests -- taking it beyond the 140 characters. Current focus areas include:

• Promoting and sharing experiences at Cleveland tech meetings, social media events, and some entrepreneur groups.
• WebSigCleveland.org
• Website Design & Technology
• Cleveland Cultural Events, Art, Theatre

In addition to writing this blog, I also enjoy running my WebSigCleveland.org meetings. I hope you will join us on the third Saturday of each month, if there is a topic of interest to you. All meeting are free and open to all, so please help me spread the word by inviting others. Planning the WebSigCleveland.org meetings takes time, but it is a labor of love -- the only payment I receive is knowing that those who attend appreciate what they learn.

Please do the following...

Call for action! The reason I publish this list is to encourage you to thank the leaders and assist in promoting their meetings. Please do the following:

• See the 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). Please share their meeting information on your favorite social media.

• Most of these Cleveland tech, social media, and entrepreneur meetings are free or low cost. Please go out of your way to thank the leader(s) and let them know you appreciate their good work. Offer to buy them their favorite beverage.

• Finally, if you see a group listed that is not currently meeting, or think of a topic that is not being covered, please volunteer to take a leadership role to make the meeting happen!

Our Community is much stronger for having these opportunities to learn from each other. Thank you for supporting each other.

The sos_jr List

I have bolded the groups that I know I added since last year, so you can check them out.

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 Big Data and Hadoop Group http://www.meetup.com/Akron-Big-Data-and-Hadoop-Group/

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

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

8. Akron Film+Pixel http://akronfilm.com/ Follow: @akronfilm

9. Akron Game Developers http://www.meetup.com/Akron-Game-Developers/

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

11. Akron Mini Maker Faire http://makerfaireakron.akronlibrary.org/ Follow: @AkronLibrary

12. Akron Programming Languages Group http://www.meetup.com/Akron-Programming-Languages-Group/ Follow: @gsvolt

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

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

15. AMC @ CWRU (CWRU's Association of Computing Machinery) http://acm.case.edu/ Follow: @cwruACM

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

17. Bad Girl Ventures Cleveland http://www.badgirlventures.com/locations/cleveland/calendar/ Follow: @BGV_Cleveland

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

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

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

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

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

23. Canton Ohio Web Meetup Group http://www.meetup.com/Canton-Ohio-Web-Meetup/ Follow: @JrodR87

24. Charged Conversation http://www.meetup.com/Charged-Conversation/events/164348292/ Follow: @ContextualElec @chris_gammell

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

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

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

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

29. Cleveland Area Python Interest Group http://clepy.org/ http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-Area-Python-Interest-Group/ Follow: @CLEPY @dstanek @mcrute

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

31. Cleveland Boomerangs https://www.facebook.com/groups/clevelandboomerangs/events/

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

40. 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

41. Cleveland IT Security Meetup Group http://www.meetup.com/Hurricane-Labs-IT-Security-Meetup-Group/ Follow: @hurricanelabs

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

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

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

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

46. Cleveland Mobile Developers http://www.meetup.com/Cleveland-Mobile-Developers-modevcle/ Follow: @GaryGJohnson @DaveShah @audienceofnone #modevcle!

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

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

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

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

51. Cleveland Public LIbrary TechCentral http://www.cpl.org/TheLibrary/TechCentral.aspx http://www.cpl.org/EventsClasses/ComputerClassesAssistance.aspx Follow: @techcentral_cpl @Cleveland_PL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

61. 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

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

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

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

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

66. Content Strategy: Cleveland http://www.meetup.com/Content-Strategy-Cleveland/ Follow: @awakulch

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

68. Data Visualization & Visual Analytics Meetup – Cleveland http://www.meetup.com/Data-Visualization-Visual-Analytics-Meetup-Clevel…

69. Drupal Camp Ohio http://drupalcampohio.org/ Follow: @DrupalCampOhio

70. Enterprise Architect/Solution Architect Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Enterprise-Architect-Solution-Architect-Meetup/ Follow: @MySQLCleveland

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

72. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

79. Hack NEO http://hackneo.org/ Follow: @Hack4NEO

80. HackCWRU http://www.hackcwru.com/ Follow: @HackCWRU

81. Heights Library Computer Classes http://events.heightslibrary.org/computer-classes/ Follow: @heightslibrary

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

98. NEOOUG - Great Lakes Oracle Conference http://www.meetup.com/NEOOUG-Great-Lakes-Oracle-Conference/

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

100. NorTech http://www.nortech.org/ Follow: @NorTech

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

102. Northeast Ohio (NEO) IT Think Tank! https://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=2268461&home= Follow: @NEOITThinkTank

103. 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

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

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

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

107. Northeast Ohio Scala Programmers http://www.meetup.com/neoscala/ Follow: @neoscala @relrod6

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

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

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

111. Ohio Mobile Developers (Oh-Mo-Dev) http://www.meetup.com/OhMoDev/ Follow: @Anth0nyRussell @lancewmccarthy

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

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

114. OSC Tech Lab http://www.meetup.com/Startup-Akron/ http://www.osctechlab.com/events.html Follow: @oscTechLab

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

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

117. Rosetta Tech Talks For now will be on http://www.eventbrite.com/ Follow: @RosettaMktg's #RosettaTechTalks

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

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

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

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

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

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

124. SunDown RunDown – Akron http://sundownrundown.org/akron.asp Follow: @SDRDorg

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

126. Tangent @ DXY www.meetup.com/DXY-Solutions-LLC/ https://www.facebook.com/DXYdoes/events

127. Tech Savvy Women https://www.facebook.com/techsavvywomen/events http://www.purposefulwoman.com/businesses/tech-savvy-women/ Follow: @JJDiGeronimo @janecalexander

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

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

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

131. The City Club http://www.cityclub.org/Programs/Upcoming/tabid/173/Default.aspx Follow: @TheCityClub

132. The Microsoft Store | Beachwood Place Mall http://www.meetup.com/Microsoft-Store-Beachwood-Place-Mall/

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

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

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

136. We Can Code IT (Empowering Girls and Women in Technology) http://wecancodeit.org/home/schedule/ Follow: @WeCanCodeIT @MelKMcGee @ShanaM27

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

138. WebSigCleveland.org http://www.WebSigCleveland.org/ Follow: Me! @sos_jr Hashtag: #WebSigCLE

139. WordCamp North Canton http://northcanton.wordcamp.org/ Follow: @NorthCantonWC Hashtag for 2014: #WCNC2014

140. Working Women Connection - Cleveland East Chapter http://www.meetup.com/LaunchHouse/ https://www.facebook.com/clevelandeastwwc http://workingwomenconnection.com/teams/cleveland-east/ Follow: @WorkingWomeNC at @LaunchHouse via @KatieJConnelly