A community for educators who want to engage their students, who use games in the class, or who want to start; a place for game designers and developers to meet and learn from one another tips and strategies for making games that effectively teach; a place where "serious games," "alternate reality games," and "gamification" might fit in the same sentence with "edtech," "curriculum" or "Common Core Standards." NYC's #1 group for people who concern themselves with the overlap of learning, design, …

NYC UX Acrobatics primary focus is the varied facets of UX design, research and usability. Our aim is to create monthly 'UX themed' workshop style meetings where members work with each other learning, discovering and networking on all things UX. Potential topics: paper prototyping, experience maps, user research and testing, persona dev, a/b testing, front-end best practices, RWD (Responsive Web Design), PET Design (Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust Design), competitive analysis, sketching UX, cont …

Digital Marketing Professionals NYC consists of the best decision makers in the New York Digital Media Community. Whether you are a Brand Marketer, Affiliate Marketer, CMO, Agency Media Buyer or planner, this group will be home to some of the best networking available in the area. Our focal point will be on brand/consumer engagement - harnessing the best technology/platforms/media available! We will meet once a month at a different location for early-evening cocktails. Lets make stuff happen!

Habit Design™ is the largest national cooperative for sharing best practices in developing sustainable daily habits that last beyond 100 days. Our goal is to spawn local "habit labs" across the world; over 8,000 members have participated representing 500+ companies, universities, non-profits, and other organizations. We synthesize applied research across a wide range of habit designers including entrepreneurs, Wellness companies & professionals, non-profits, trainers, coaches, academics, and eve …

NJ's largest technology community. The NJ Tech Meetup is a monthly meeting of 150+ entrepreneurs and innovators.  We meet monthly at the Stevens Institute of Technology campus in Hoboken, NJ to hear from smart feature speakers and interesting startups.  The goal is an atmosphere of sharing best practices and learning from both failure and success. Past speakers include David Kidder (Clickable), Ben Sun(Community Connect), Tad Martin (Overstock), Seth Besmertnik (Conductor), Gabe Zichermann (Ga …

There are tools that can effect both emotions and habits. Like brain mapping you will learn to capture your specific unique mind, measure effects and form wanted habits, thoughts and emotions. Place the palm of your hand on your forehead. You are now centimeters form your frontal and prefrontal cortex. This is only one brain system out of the many that produce your unique personality and habits profile. We will take abstract concepts and transform them through the knowledge of neural science and …