The next generation of HTML and CSS offer powerful new features for creating content that is graphically rich. It's never been easier to leverage animation, motion graphics, and sophisticated graphical techniques when building for the modern web. Come see what Adobe is doing to move the web forward in these areas by working on new W3C specifications, tools that help designers create content, and services for testing content across screens.

We meet the 3rd Wednesday of every month at several locations usually in NW Portland (Old Town). No need to RSVP, all are welcome - our group ranges from the geo-curious to the überhackers. Beer at nearby pub to follow, probably Pints.

This month: Geo-evening of beer and hacking on the terrace

This month is casual fun in the sun and we'll see where it goes. OSCON attendees are welcome to join us and tell tales of mapping adventures. If it's too sunny up on the terrace we can grab tables down on the back patio.

Should be fun, see you tomorrow.

Google Map Maker is a web application that enables individuals to add and edit details on Google Maps. These edits, once reviewed for accuracy, go live on Google Maps and Google Earth, including mobile versions, for millions of people to see... in your community and beyond.

Google Places is a local recommendation engine that helps connect people with places they like based on their personal tastes.

The Google Map Maker Team and the Google Places Team are having a joint event at Ecotrust on Thursday, September 1st, from 6:00PM - 9:00PM. This event will include an interactive Map Maker workshop (“MapUp”) and a demonstration on how to provide quality reviews for establishments in and around the Portland Area. Come learn about Map Maker and Places, ask questions, make some edits, review some places, and learn how these applications can help your community. We'll also have some delicious snacks and prizes.

PRIZES: We'll be giving out Map Maker t-shirts for those who map, and Google Places will announce a chance for you to win a Chromebook.

RSVP is required at this website: http://goo.gl/luJr7

Some important details: - INVITE OTHERS & RSVP: This event is by reservation only, please RSVP and feel free to pass the invitation along to others. - BRING A LAPTOP: this is a workshop, not a long boring presentation. A big chunk of the time will involve everyone mapping together and using Google Places.

O'Reilly Media presents miniTOC Portland

A one day event of conversation focusing on Portland's thriving publishing, tech, and bookish-arts community.

We invite you to join us for the first annual miniTOC Portland — and our first regional TOC event ever!

miniTOC Portland provides an opportunity for Portland's publishing and tech luminaries to share how they are forging ahead in the publishing/tech/content space. The best and brightest of PDX's art, business, craft and technology leaders will be gathered for a day of collaboration and connecting around their shared love of the bookish.

The program features some of the Portland publishing scene's most innovative thinkers and doers.

Register using code "FOO" to receive $40 off regular admission.

HOW THEY DID IT: Digital Strategist For Old Spice Gives Behind The Scenes Look At Getting Ideas Through The Gauntlet

You had a GREAT idea, but nobody would greenlight it? We've all been there.

Join Social Media Club Portland and hear Dean McBeth, Digital Strategist for Weiden + Kennedy, as he gives a behind the scenes look at the Old Spice campaign. What did it take to sell a wild idea to a conservative client? It wasn't tables and charts outlining CPM and ROI. Dean will illuminate the creative side to the decision that launched the Old Spice campaign.

Only 125 tickets are available, so buy now!

• Date: July 20, 2011
• Time: 6:00 PM
• Ticket Price: $10 Online, $20 at the door
• Ticket limit: 125
• Location: Ecotrust Building Rooftop Courtyard

This event sponsored by SOBCon Northwest, coming to Portland September 16-18, 2011. Follow @SOBCon for more details.

We start with questions-and-answer from the audience about Macintosh and iOS hardware and software. The featured presentation this month is about protecting your computer from malware like "MacDefender". This meeting is open to the public - join us!

Macintosh and iOS tips and information. Guest speaker will be Guy Kawasaki, former chief evangelist of Apple, co-founder of Alltop.com, The New York Times best seller author of “Enchantment”, “Reality Check”, and “The Macintosh Way”, and many others.

Portland Pearl Rotary Club Program: Risky Business - Decision Making Under Uncertain Outcomes Speaker: Steven A. Bleiler, PhD Mathematics & Statics, PSU

Eco Trust Building, 721 NW 9th Ave. Meeting begins around 7:15, $10 includes program and buffet breakfast Meeting adjourns at 8:30 a.m.

PMUG General Meeting starts with Q&A on Macintosh and iOS topics.

FEATURED PRESENTATION: Online Marketing for Small Business: You Are The Expert

Among all the challenges of running your small business, marketing is one of the most daunting. It’s easy to waste time and money on strategies that don’t grow your business. It’s easy to get overwhelmed with the amount of expert advice available, and you may even be tempted to hire an expert. In fact, no one has more expertise than you when it comes to marketing your business.

This session will cover the basics of getting started in online marketing with a focus on finding a mix of online marketing activities that will be most most beneficial to your business–and won’t waste your scarce time and resources. We’ll look at search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, email marketing and social media campaigns. You’ll get an overview of the basics and be able to ask questions specific to your business during the Q&A.

Come see what the new features are in Microsoft's "Office for Mac 2011". Our meeting starts with a Macintosh question-and-answer session. Open to everyone.

Come join us August 9th for the PMUG General Meeting as Mark Ezell presents BENTO by FileMaker. This is a database application that is very easy to use. It is good for organizing your personal information.

Monday, August 9th, 6:30pm - 9:00pm Where: Ecotrust Center, 2nd Floor, 721 NW 9th Avenue, Portland, OR (map) Description: General Q&A 6:30 to 7:30; announcements 7:30 to 8:00; main speaker 8:00 to 9:00 PM.

Come join us June 14th for the PMUG General Meeting as Rob Griffiths, from “Many Tricks” software, demonstrates useful tools for the Mac, iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad.

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Monday, June 14, 6:30pm – 9:00pm Where: Ecotrust Center, 2nd Floor, 721 NW 9th Avenue, Portland, OR (map) Description: General Q&A 6:30 to 7:30; announcements 7:30 to 8:00; main speaker 8:00 to 9:00 PM.

Join us at Ecotrust for our third “SHIFT: A Green Salon” to hear 10 five-minute presentations from creatives and innovators that are making visual communications better and more sustainable. This inspiring and educational evening will also include a short Q&A, mingling, and giveaways – while enjoying fresh local cupcakes from Peach Cheesecake and 52 Ltd. and beer, which is free if you bring your own mug and are older than Taylor Swift.

Planning to Attend? Please RSVP via e-mail (sustainability@portland.aiga.org) and include your full name and whether you are an AIGA member. Cash/checks will be accepted at the door; sorry no credit card or online payment available. We will make every attempt to accommodate walk-ins.

Question and answers on Macintosh computers. Visit with rep from Wacom for their products.

Our guest speakers will be Bob Heinson and Gabe Salo from Adeline Music and Sound.

From scribble on the napkin to product on the market, Louis Foreman will share knowledge from THE INDEPENDENT INVENTOR’S HANDBOOK and explain everything a potential inventor needs to know from raw concept to market reality.

On October 10th join us in Oregon as we engage with the Publisher of Inventors Digest Magazine and executive producer of the PBS Emmy® award-winning Everyday Edisons in a 3-hour workshop that will cover protecting, prototyping, licensing, and more.

Scam companies run rampant in the industry and inventors need to get real advice from real inventors. LOUIS FOREMAN, THE CO-AUTHOR OF INDEPENDENT INVENTOR’S HANDBOOK gives aspiring inventors the real deal.

Understanding the difference between a good idea and a marketable idea. Why investing too much money at the outset can sink you. Plus the effective investor pitch, questions to ask a prospective manufacturer, 14 licensing land mines to avoid, “looks-like” versus “works-like” prototypes, 10 things not to tell a potential investor, and how to protect your invention once it’s on the market.

Louis J. Foreman is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for innovation. He started his first business from his college fraternity room and, for the past 20 years, has been starting and building successful companies. He is the publisher of Inventors Digest magazine and executive producer of the Emmy® award–winning PBS show Everyday Edisons.

Compostmodern PDX An Evening of Sustainability for Graphic Designers and Industrial Designers

About the Event Compostmodern PDX will feature video highlights from the San Francisco Compostmodern event and Brian Dougherty, author of Green Graphic Design (greengraphicdesign.net)

Dougherty, a founding partner at Celery Design Collaborative in Berkeley, Calif., and a leader in the field of ecological communications design, will discuss the ability of designers to send a socially and ecologically responsible message to both consumers and corporations. Signed copies of Green Graphic Design will be available for purchase by cash or check.

The original Compostmodern conference was presented by AIGA San Francisco and the AIGA Center for Sustainable Design. That event brought together designers, manufacturers and business leaders to produce sustainable solutions for the graphic design and industrial design communities.

Attendees will receive access to footage from the complete San Francisco Compostmodern conference. This seven hour video series will be available on-line.

Compostmodern PDX was developed as part of AIGA Portland’s growing focus on sustainability. The event is sponsored by Mohawk Papers.

Cost Members: $17 in-advance / $20 at-the-door Non-Memebers: $27 in-advance/ $30 at-the-door Students: $12 in-advance/ $15 at-the-door


Catering for the event will focus on local, sustainably produced hors d’oeuvres, beer and wine. Attendees will receive one free drink ticket.

I think this event was cancel as it doesn't show up on either EcoTrust's site or SAO.org.

Rescheduled from December '08

When: January 23, 2009 - 8:30am-10:30am Where: Ecotrust Building

Cost: free to attend - please RSVP!

Presented by Climate Solutions, NEBC, Renewable Northwest Projects and the Software Association of Oregon

This year is presents a historic opportunity for Oregon to enact climate change policy. Governor Kulongoskib has recommended a significant package of climate bill for the 2009 legislative session. The Bills focus on energy efficiency, creating carbon markets, creating new funding and incentives for renewables such as solar, energy efficiency and new clean transportation infrastructure and incentives. We believe that it can drive economic opportunities for many of our members. We would like to give you an opportunity to learn more about it and get involved if you are interested. Creating a "smart grid" to save energy creates new opportunities for the software industry.

We are working with a local group, Climate Solutions, that works to find practical and profitable solutions to climate change. They are part of an organized campaign to pass the legislation. Climate Solutions is engaged in organizing business community support. We would like to invite you to a meeting to learn about the Governor's Climate change package and what the business community can do to get involved. We will have speakers to talk about the details of the package and we will also discuss the business campaign that we are organizing to support the Governor.

At this meeting, we will have speakers to explain the Climate Package, the business case and the how you can get involved.

Presenters Brian Shipley, Deputy Chief of Staff Gregg Small, Climate Solutions Lisa Adatto, Climate Solutions Jake, Weigler, Healthy Climate Partnership

Every month people who are interested in environmental issues and topics meet up for beers at informal sessions known as Green Drinks. These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity.

Northwest Chocolate Festival

Workshops, Tasting, and Celebration with Chocolate!
September 12th-14th, 2008 in Portland, Oregon

Join us at the Northwest Chocolate Festival. We will enjoy fun tasting and learning with Chocolate, great demonstrations, culinary classes and a NW Regional Chocolate Competition!

Tastes in Chocolate | Chocolate Demonstrations | Dessert Classes | Culture & Ecology

In the Northwest Chocolate Festival Education Center we will be bringing top educators in the culinary, history, and health of chocolate. We will be offering tasting, spa classes, culinary workshops & demonstrations, and seminars on trade and farming practices. Come learn how to make a chocolate martini!

The Gala Celebration Party: a chocolate lover's dream come true. This evening will include The Northwest Regional Chocolate Competition, with great local chefs, chocolatiers, and candymakers displaying their best chocolate talents. The Gala includes thousands of Chocolate Tastes, Beer, Wine, Local Art, Live Music, and Dancing!

Throughout the festival there will be prizes, fabulous treats, tasty chocolate samples, baking demonstrations and culinary seminars. Come to the Northwest Chocolate Festival for great chances to meet chocolate makers, producers, and many chocolate lovers.

The Northwest Chocolate Festival is a Benefit Event with proceeds benefiting regional farmers and farmers in cocoa regions from around the world.

Gala Celebration Party, we invite you to join us!

On Saturday Night, September 13th...There will be a bike race, a chocolate competition, a dance-a-thon, and a few awards to remember!

Join us for the Celebration Party! at the Northwest Chocolate Festival weekend. Saturday night only, this party will rock your chocolate tastebuds! Featuring the Northwest Regional Chocolate Competition where you get to be one of the judges, vote for the best chocolate in the Northwest! Get down to the live dance music, delicately taste lots'n'lots of chocolate, enjoy drinks and performance art. This is the ultimate celebration of chocolate in all its forms accompanied by live music, beer, wine and all-night dancing and decadence.

Every month people who are interested in environmental topics and issues meet up in cities around the world for informal sessions known as Green Drinks. These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity. It's a force for good, so please join us.

WHEN: First Tuesday of every month at 7:00 pm.

WHERE: Main Lobby on the first floor of the Ecotrust Building - 721 NW Ninth Avenue

DIRECTIONS: http://www.ecotrust.org/NCC/directions.html

FEATURING: Hot Lips Pizza and Beer (no host)

SIGN UP: For sustainability updates and event announcements click on the "Join this group" button and enter your email address that you would like to use to receive event reminders and announcements.

QUESTIONS: Send emails to portlandgreendrinks@yahoo.com

Please help spread the word about Portland Green Drinks.

Peter Richardson, a fellow Oregonian, will present his award-winning short film, "Clear Cut," about the timber industry town of Philomath, Oregon, and he'll tell us how he used his Mac to produce this film, and how he is using Final Cut Pro on his already-in-production 2nd documentary film.

Every month people who are interested in environmental topics and issues meet up in cities around the world for informal sessions known as Green Drinks. These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity. It's a force for good, so please join us.

WHEN: First Tuesday of every month at 7:00 pm.

WHERE: Main Lobby on the first floor of the Ecotrust Building - 721 NW Ninth Avenue

DIRECTIONS: http://www.ecotrust.org/NCC/directions.html

FEATURING: Hot Lips Pizza and Beer (no host)

SIGN UP: For sustainability updates and event announcements click on the "Join this group" button and enter your email address that you would like to use to receive event reminders and announcements.

QUESTIONS: Send emails to portlandgreendrinks@yahoo.com

Please help spread the word about Portland Green Drinks.

Gene Steinberg of "The Mac Night Owl" podcast, and author of several Macintosh books, will dialog with us via iChat on the new iPhones, what to expect from Snow Leopard (the next version of the Mac OS), and other topics of current interest.

WHEN
Thursday, July 10, 2008 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm
WHERE
Ecotrust Rooftop Terrace
721 NW Ninth Avenue between Irving & Johnson
Portland, Oregon
WHAT
Dance to Lisa and Her Kin with
a cool beer in hand and a bird's eye view
of the delicious Portland Farmers Market below.

Buy $5 or more worth of farmers market products
and your first drink is on us!

Every month people who are interested in environmental topics and issues meet up in cities around the world for informal sessions known as Green Drinks. These events are very simple and unstructured, but many people have found employment, made friends, developed new ideas, done deals and had moments of serendipity. It's a force for good, so please join us.

WHEN: First Tuesday of every month at 7:00 pm.

WHERE: Main Lobby on the first floor of the Ecotrust Building - 721 NW Ninth Avenue

DIRECTIONS: http://www.ecotrust.org/NCC/directions.html

FEATURING: Hot Lips Pizza and Beer (no host)

SIGN UP: For sustainability updates and event announcements click on the "Join this group" button and enter your email address that you would like to use to receive event reminders and announcements.

QUESTIONS: Send emails to portlandgreendrinks@yahoo.com

Please help spread the word about Portland Green Drinks.

Like many foundations, MMT has been building a "knowledge management" system to archive information in an accessible way to help us be the best grantmakers we can be. But we've been approaching this task with a bigger end in mind.

Why, we asked ourselves, would we set up a system that only MMT could use when the need for good information is shared by other foundations... and nonprofit organizations and public agencies and official decision makers and citizen volunteers and... in fact, everyone working for the common good?? Wouldn't that be a smarter investment for us to make?

What if there was a place where we could all exchange what we learn as we go about our daily business? What if nonprofits could see the data and information that foundations use in their due diligence process? What if organizations and people could easily determine which foundations' interests match their project goals? What if foundations could quickly see what groups are working on an issue they are investigating? And so on...

Well, we are building such a place. A place where people and organizations can connect about subjects and places. A place called connectipedia...

Want to know more? Want to see connectipedia in action? Want to find out how you can be part of all this? Attend the public launch event at:

2 - 3:30 p.m., Tuesday, June 10 Jean Vollum Natural Capital Center aka Ecotrust (second floor conference center) 721 NW Ninth Ave. Portland OR 97209

We would love you to be part of this event and celebration. Several renowned geeks will be there! We're not requiring folks to register, but if you plan to attend, please send a quick rsvp email to marie@mmt.org.

If you can't make it to Ecotrust, you can still witness the launch. We plan to record the event so anyone in our corner of the world can make time for connectipedia. (More details about watching it remotely to come.)

After June 10th, connectipedia will be open for business!

Collaborative Ingenuity is a free for all forum that lets everyone come to work on any project of his/her choosing that day—with an underwritten agreement that each participant must agree to help everyone to the best of their ability.

While this concept is comparable to co-working, the fact that we have everybody from graphic designer, web developer to account planner (we're looking for more diversity) means that everyone will benefit from having feedbacks from folks who are experts in other things. So the designer's print ad will benefit from the planner's research ability, the planner's website analysis would benefit from the developer's expertise, etc.

Collaborative Ingenuity relies on the fact that new ideas are always born, and sparks always fly when different fields of knowledge intersect and help each other.

Portland Macintosh Users Group

This week’s Collaborative Ingenuity—wherein both geeks with a penchant for creative stuff and creatives with a penchant for geeky things met up to get things done—was both fun and productive. Join us next week! Collaborative Ingenuity is a free for all forum that lets everyone come to work on any project of his/her choosing that day—with an underwritten agreement that each participant must agree to help everyone to the best of their ability. While this concept is comparable to co-working, the fact that we have everybody from graphic designer, web developer to account planner (we're looking for more diversity) means that everyone will benefit from having feedbacks from folks who are experts in other things. So the designer's print ad will benefit from the planner's research ability, the planner's website analysis would benefit from the developer's expertise, etc. Collaborative Ingenuity relies on the fact that new ideas are always born, and sparks always fly when different fields of knowledge intersect and help each other.

Portland Macintosh Users Group (PMUG) meets the 2nd monday of every month 2006 & 2007

Web Site: http://www.pmug.org

Contact Information: Peren Bjork perenb@pmug.org

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