The NYC chapter of the Digital Book World community gets together for fun networking events throughout the year. If you work in book publishing, let's meetup!

The Publishing Point is a community of professionals excited about the changes transforming the publishing industry. We are publishers, agents, authors, booksellers and bloggers coming together to learn, trade information and discuss issues that shape our industry. To join The Publishing Point community, please sign up on www.publishingpoint.com. You can also follow us on twitter: @publishingpoint; #pubpt. As part of our commitment to putting our members in touch with publishing leaders and i …

The Publishing Consortium is an exclusive association for senior-level publishing executives. This forum offers members the opportunity to gather, learn how to adapt in an ever-changing media landscape, while connecting with others to expand their network. Members find that by stepping away from their hectic work environment, they gain a fresh perspective by hearing about others’ experiences, which will save them time and money down the road. Although the emphasis is on idea sharing, members are …

We are an eclectic group of entrepreneurs, authors, publishers, agents, and technologists with a goal of creating a community to actively drive changes in the publishing industry.

mediaIDEAS CABARET is for discerning (possibly even jaded) MEDIA PROFESSIONALS (& friends, investors, watchers) with curiosity, wit, imagination, and an UNQUENCHABLE THIRST for LIFE and the future of publishing and paginated media. Come join us for an evening of THRILLS, CHILLS, SPILLS, and A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE. GASP as old business models and the publishing industry of yore GOES DOWN IN FLAMES! CHEER as you yourself WITNESS with your very own eyes and PARTICIPATE in REINVENTING the pu …

This is a group for authors (established, new, and aspiring) and agents (including new agents looking for new writers and books). We will meet once per month for an exchange of ideas, insights, intelligence, and information about getting published.    Those who are already published and who have an agent are encouraged to invite their agent to join with us.    Authors: Please ask your agents to get involved. Agents: Please consider all of your authors for involvement.   Thank you for reading.

For iPad Developers, special emphasis on Media and Publishing, how to integrate the iPad into larger publishing frameworks.

Everyone knows that opportunities exist in media. Lately innovation struggles with the "how to". Our organization works in conjunction with job creation. We want to learn and listen from our audience. We are all about start-ups and putting journalists to work. This group will feature available journalists and listen to start-ups in the media field. Monthly we will hear presentations from new start-ups in media. Free beer and pizza at every meeting. Other types of start-ups welcome.

DigitalMediaEvents.com (D.M.E.)- produces exclusive events, digital projects and recruits for NYC’s elite in digital media and fashion. Cipriani Wall Street, Setai, Hotel Gansevoort, MPD are exclusive venues where D.M.E. guests meet. Ad Week, Ad Tech, Fashion Week, and Winter Music Conference are the caliber of events D.M.E. hosts annually in New York City, The Hamptons and Miami. We are a consortium of the nation’s leading executives in digital advertising, publishing, interactive media and tec …

Founded in 1998, the Custom Content Council (CCC) is the leading professional organization representing custom media professionals in North America, and is focused on promoting the growth and vitality of this dynamic marketing discipline. Marketers across the country, the media and other interested constituencies rely on the Custom Content Council as the authoritative source of industry news, data and trends, information on the effectiveness of custom content, and referrals to the top custom med …

Technology and the web have changed how fiction, poetry, essays, and memoirs are being distributed, and have begun to alter the process of writing, reading, sharing, and consuming texts.  Words are finding new modalities, and innovators across disciplines have begun to experiment with how technology might improve their creation, curation, and consumption. Code Meet Print is the community at the intersection of texts + technology that will contemplate, define, and help build better interfaces for …

This group is for folks in the New York area interested in getting together to discuss MarkLogic and MarkLogic-related technologies.

The online media is drastically changing the interior design industry with the way consumers interact with brands. Meet the people that lead the interior design revolution online - bloggers, new media publishers, entrepreneurs, industry insiders, Interior PR reps, and web savvy trendsetters. You must a professional/student or lover of the interior design industry.   This group in located in New York, NY but it does not matter where you live to join.. with the power of the internet and innovation …

The future of content on the web – content that gets discovered, creates value, and builds audiences – is not cheap text cranked out by content farms. It's high quality, editorial and entertainment created by experienced journalists and passionate bloggers. The future is a social media world, where humans are the arbiters of quality, and search algorithms reward sharing and human readability. The Internet means publishers should no longer be confined to the limits of in-office staff, nor should …

Share your passions in photography with professional photographers Jerry Avenaim and Rolando Gomez and friends with this group dedicated to each of its members. This group is part of the http://www.PhotoMeetUps.com (PMU) co-op, or group of groups which is a social networking community dedicated to spreading the gospel of photography virtually and in person. Our goal is to help photographers become better with the photography they passionately enjoy. From beginners to advanced, PMU will striv …

… Each month we will have a different focus for our workshop...portraiture, composition, landscapes, etc...it is  great if you are looking for a more hands on lesson on how to create better photographs and how to use your camera if you are new to digital photography. I teach photography in a creative and fun way and try to steer clear of boring technical talk. I keep it light and most importantly, FUN