The world is going Digital and so is Business! The Digital Pond is a meetup community welcoming all those from a digital discipline and those wanting to learn more or build networks with those within the industry. So whether you are an entrepreneur, business owner, website designer, UX (user-experience) designer, online marketer, web developer or social media guru: enter the pond and meet like-minded professionals.

The omnipotent big data group that is all things to do with dealing with, managing, handling and delivering big data, in the mild mild South West. Topics include MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Node.js, scaling, engineering data, open-source, linkeddata, and beer. Discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/south-west-big-data.

Bristol Web Folk is an informal gathering of web developers, designers, and anyone else interested in what makes the web tick. Front-end and back-end, professional and amateur, coders and designers - anyone with an interest in talking about the latest developments in web technology. The group is open to anyone - the more the merrier. (Meetup is free for group members, so don't let that put you off.) This group is not for networking and recruitment - if that's all you're interested in then please …

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Lincoln Javascript Thing is a fun and informal event [inspired by Leeds Ruby Thing] for anyone interested in Javascript (or programming in general..). You don't have to be an expert in Javascript - we're just a friendly bunch who enjoy a beer and geeky chat. In fact, it'll probably end up being another excuse for a pint :) The intention is for this to become a monthly thing... As people get to know each other, we might learn from each other... etc