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October 3, 2003

Portland Bloggers First Friday at Backspace

October 8, 2003

STC Contractors' SIG at The Business Center

October 8, 2003

Cirque Du Soleil (Alegria) at The Grand Chapiteau

October 14, 2003

IPN's 2nd Annual Networking Event at BridgePort Brew Pub

October 15, 2003

DevGroupNW's Third Wednesday at PCC Cascade Campus

November 7, 2003

Portland Bloggers First Friday at Backspace

November 21, 2003

User-Centered Design: A Practical Life-Cycle Introduction at The Mallory Hotel

December 16, 2003

The Lord of the Rings (trilogy marathon) at Regal Cinemas Lloyd Center 10

December 17, 2003

The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King at Loews Metreon Theatres & IMAX

February 9, 2004

O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference at Westin Horton Plaza San Diego

February 26, 2004

Information Architecture Summit 2004 at Hilton Austin (Airport)

March 4, 2004

From Fra Angelico to Bonnard: Masterpieces from the Rau Collection at Portland Art Museum

March 11, 2004

South by Southwest Interactive Festival (SXSWi) at Austin Convention Center

March 14, 2004

AIfIA F2F @ SXSW at Club DeVille

May 11, 2004

Blog! at Powell's Technical Bookstore

May 29, 2004

Rose Festival at Tom McCall Waterfront Park

June 16, 2004

No Doubt and Blink 182 at White River Amphitheatre

June 17, 2004

No Doubt, Blink 182, and Phantom Planet at Clark County Amphitheater

July 16, 2004

WebVisions 2004 at Oregon Convention Center

July 16, 2004

AIfIA F2F @ WebVisions 2004 at Oregon Convention Center

July 26, 2004

O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) at Portland Marriott (Downtown)

January 24, 2005

Seattle BBS 05 F2F at Seattle Marriott Waterfront

February 19, 2005

Northern Voice Canadian Blogging Conference at University of British Columbia Downtown Campus

March 10, 2005

South by Southwest Interactive Festival at Austin Convention Center

March 11, 2005

Break Bread with Brad at Ginger Man Pub

March 12, 2005

South by Southwest Opening Party at frog design

March 12, 2005

Web Standards Meetup at Buffalo Billiards

March 12, 2005

Kick! 2005 at Palm Park

March 13, 2005

2005 SXSW Web Awards Ceremony at The Hilton Austin (Downtown)

March 13, 2005

Fray Cafe Five at Red Eyed Fly

March 14, 2005

Digital Web Magazine SXSWi F2F in Austin at Club DeVille

March 14, 2005

Google / Blogger Party at Club DeVille

March 14, 2005

20x2, version 5.0 at Tambaleo

March 15, 2005

Bruce Sterling's SXSWi Closing Party at American Legion Hall of Honor

April 1, 2005

The Future of Digital Product Design at Portland State University

May 20, 2005

Currents 9 Influenced at Seattle Art Museum

June 15, 2005

Born Magazine's "Portable Ideas for Experimentation" at Portland State University

July 14, 2005

Visionary Workshops at Portland State University

July 15, 2005

WebVisions 2005 at Oregon Convention Center

September 9, 2005

Found Footage Festival at Varsity Theatre

October 29, 2005

Business Blogging 101 at Bell Harbor International Conference Center

March 3, 2006

Pillow Fight PDX at Pioneer Courthouse Square

March 9, 2006

SXSW Interactive Festival at Austin Convention Center

March 9, 2006

Interactive Playpen @SXSW at Austin Convention Center

March 10, 2006

Break Bread with Brad at Ginger Man Pub

March 10, 2006

BlogHer SXSW Meet-Up at Ping Pong Gallery

March 10, 2006

ScreenBurn Beta Festival at Austin Convention Center

March 10, 2006

Friday Night Mix at Six

March 10, 2006

Austin Bloggers pre-SXSW get-together at Mongolian Grille

March 11, 2006

AMODA 5th Anniversary Digital Showcase at Copa Bar

March 11, 2006

Wordpress/blogging meetup during SXSW at

March 11, 2006

SXSWi University Social at Buffalo Billiards

March 11, 2006

BarCamp Austin at Thistle Cafe

March 11, 2006

South by Northwest at Iron Cactus

March 11, 2006

The Austin on Rails Happy Hour at Buffalo Billiards

March 11, 2006

Milkshake Media Party @ SXSW at Lucky Lounge

March 11, 2006

frog design SXSW Opening Party at 1305 East 6th St

March 12, 2006

SXSWi Web Awards After Party at Club DeVille

March 12, 2006

Flickr, Upcoming.org, and Del.icio.us in the company of Yahoo! at Iron Cactus

March 12, 2006

Fray Cafe Austin 6 at Red Eyed Fly

March 12, 2006

SXSW Web Awards Ceremony at The Hilton Austin (Downtown)

March 12, 2006

Dooce Reader Meetup at Halcyon

March 13, 2006

Lifehacker.com Drinks @ SXSW at Side Bar

March 13, 2006

Blogger Party @ SXSWi at Club DeVille

March 13, 2006

20x2, version 6.0: "What's the Secret?" at Tambaleo

March 13, 2006

The Avalonstar Bowling Extravaganza (@ SXSWi) at The Texas Union Underground

March 13, 2006

Nuclear Taco Night @ SXSWi at Brush Square Park

March 13, 2006

EFF/Creative Commons SXSW Party at Elks Lodge #201

March 13, 2006

Adaptive Path + Consumating + Odeo SXSW Party at The Velvet Spade

March 14, 2006

Media Temple SXSW Closing Party at The Foundation

March 14, 2006

Digital Convergence Initiative (C3) Party at Ballet Austin Theatre

March 14, 2006

C3 Party @ SXSW at Ballet Austin Theatre

March 22, 2006

The 2006 Nonprofit Technology Conference at Westin Hotel

March 23, 2006

IA Summit 2006 at Hyatt Regency Vancouver

March 28, 2006

Seattle Ruby Brigade at Red Line Cafe

July 20, 2006

WebVisions 2006 at Oregon Convention Center

September 18, 2006

A Happy Hour and a Half at The Alibi Room

September 18, 2006

An Event Apart at Bell Harbor International Conference Center

September 22, 2006

Webmaster Jam Session at Adams Mark

October 10, 2006

Generating Successful Interactive Marketing Strategies at Sheraton Center City Hotel

October 19, 2006

Enterprise IA Seminar at Seattle Public Library, Central Branch

October 19, 2006

Usability and IA Happy Hour at Fado

October 20, 2006

Don’t Make Me Think: The Workshop at Seattle Public Library, Central Branch

October 23, 2006

IDEA 2006 / Information: Design, Experience, Access at Seattle Public Library, Central Branch

February 13, 2007

Ignite Seattle 2.0 at CHAC ( Capitol Hill Arts Center)

March 1, 2007

Refresh Seattle Social at Hales Brewery

March 8, 2007

Interactive Playpen @ South by Southwest Interactive Festival at Austin Convention Center

March 8, 2007

SXSW Interactive Festival at Austin Convention Center

March 9, 2007

SXSWi Mario Kart DS Rally at Austin Convention Center

March 9, 2007

Porter Novelli Friday Night Mix at Six at Six

March 9, 2007

SxSW Eve Karaoke at Opal Divine's Penn Field

March 9, 2007

BlogHer SXSW/Austin Meetup at Freddie's Place

March 9, 2007

Geeks With Guns II: Electric Boogaloo at Red's Indoor Range

March 9, 2007

Refresh "World" Meetup During SXSW at Bourbon Bar

March 10, 2007

Dorkbot at Brush Square Park

March 10, 2007

frog design SXSW Opening Party at Fox & Hound Smokehouse and Tavern

March 10, 2007

SXSW Opening Night Happy Hour at Whisky Bar

March 10, 2007

Fox Interactive Media Pre-Party at Six

March 10, 2007

AMODA Digital Showcase at The Mohawk

March 10, 2007

BuzzFeed + Ze Frank + Juiceboxxx SXSW Party at Molotov Lounge

March 10, 2007

8-bit at Red's Scoot Inn

March 11, 2007

Film Baby Party at Whisky Bar

March 11, 2007

Fray Cafe 7 at Red Eyed Fly

March 11, 2007

Metafilter Meetup - SXSWi Austin, TX at Opal Divine's Freehouse

March 11, 2007

10th Annual SXSW Web Awards Ceremony at The Hilton Austin (Downtown)

March 11, 2007

Come Mashup with Us at Austin City Limits Studio

March 11, 2007

Worldchanging at SXSW Interactive at Opal Divine's Freehouse

March 11, 2007

SXSW Web Awards Pre-Party at Brush Square Park

March 11, 2007

Web Awards After-Party at Club DeVille

March 11, 2007

CHOW / Consumating / Webshots Party at The Mohawk

March 11, 2007

SXSW BlogNetworkCamp at Opal Divine's Freehouse

March 11, 2007

Happy Hour Sponsored by Microsoft Expression Studio at Austin Convention Center

March 12, 2007

Austin On Rails SXSW Happy Hour at Buffalo Billiards

March 12, 2007

Nuclear Taco Night at Brush Square Park

March 12, 2007

20x2 v. 7.0: "What If?" at The Parish

March 12, 2007

PayPal's 2007 SXSW Showdown - March 12th at Lucky Lounge

March 12, 2007

Mozilla Firefox & Democracy Player at Brush Square Park

March 12, 2007

GOOD Magazine / Creative Commons Party at Uncle Flirty's

March 12, 2007

EFF/EFF-Austin SXSW Futures of the Past Steampunk Extravaganza at Scholz Garten

March 12, 2007

South by Northwest at Iron Cactus

March 12, 2007

HeatherGoldShow@SXSW: Each guest, 1 beer. Continuous Partial Attention at The Ritz

March 12, 2007

Bootstrappers and Beers at The Cedar Door

March 12, 2007

Godbit Dinner - SXSW 2007 at TGI Fridays

March 12, 2007

The Great British Booze-up at Lava Lounge

March 12, 2007

Gawker/Lifehacker @ SXSW at Side Bar

March 13, 2007

fluffertraX Party at Lucky Lounge

March 13, 2007

Media Temple Closing Party at The Foundation

March 13, 2007

AIR Interactive Wrap-Up Party / Dewey Winburne Ceremony at Rio Grande Mexican Restaurant

March 22, 2007

IA Summit 2007 at The Flamingo

April 5, 2007

Ignite Seattle! 3.0 at Capitol Hill Arts Center (CHAC)

April 30, 2007

Refresh Seattle - Bridging the Designer and Developer Gap at Ballard Public library

May 3, 2007

WebVisions 2007 at Oregon Convention Center

May 3, 2007

Nemo Design / WebVisions Opening Night Party at The Ace Hotel

May 3, 2007

Digital Web Magazine dinner at Kells Irish Restaurant & Pub - Portland

May 4, 2007

Drilling Down: A daylong series of discussions exploring the latest developments in online publishing at Seattle Post-Intelligencer

May 5, 2007

Portland Indie Wine Festival at Urban Wine Works

June 9, 2007

Seattle BizJam: A business-building marathon of ideas, inspiration and innovation at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

June 21, 2007

An Event Apart Seattle 2007 at Bell Harbor International Conference Center

July 1, 2007

MindCamp 4.0 at Tukwila Community Center

July 10, 2007

Adobe on AIR Bus Tour Mini Conference at Elysian Fields

August 1, 2007

Helvetica Film Premiere at Kane Hall

August 2, 2007

KOMO-TV / Blogger Meetup at Fisher Plaza

August 8, 2007

Ignite Seattle 4 at CHAC ( Capitol Hill Arts Center)

August 9, 2007

Gnomedex at Bell Harbor International Conference Center

August 20, 2007

Refresh Seattle - Web Accessibility in Three Acts at Seattle Public Library - Ballard Branch

August 22, 2007

IxDA SF: Communicating Concepts with Comics at Cooper

September 20, 2007

Webmaster Jam Session 2007 at Adams Mark

October 13, 2007

Info Camp at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

October 24, 2007

Refresh Seattle - Refreshing Digital Web Magazine at Ballard Public library

November 4, 2007

Seattle Classic Guitar Society at Frye Art Museum

November 8, 2007

World Usability Day Seattle 2007 at University of Washington

November 9, 2007

Seattle Flickrites Show at Cafe Vega

November 12, 2007

New Found Glory at The Showbox

December 11, 2007

Seattle Open Coffee Club for Entrepreneurs - every Tuesday at 8:30AM since 4/17/07 at Louisa's Coffee

December 20, 2007

Seattle User Experience (SUX): Social Group Meet and Greet at The Triangle Lounge

January 19, 2008

Mind Camp 5 at Tukwila Community Center

March 6, 2008

Screenburn 2008 @ SXSW Interactive (South by Southwest) at Austin Convention Center

March 6, 2008

SXSW Interactive (South by Southwest) at Austin Convention Center

March 6, 2008

SXSW - Attending Videobloggers at Austin Convention Center

March 7, 2008

3rd Annual Austin Chocolate Festival at Arthur Murray Dance Studio

March 7, 2008

Coworking Meetup at SXSWi at Hotel San Jose

March 7, 2008

UX at UT at University of Texas at Austin campus

March 7, 2008

SXSW outing to the Star of Texas Fair & Rodeo at Fairgrounds

March 7, 2008

SXSW Friday Night Mix at Six at Six

March 7, 2008

Refresh at SXSW at BD Riley's Irish Pub

March 8, 2008

Google Party at Light Bar

March 8, 2008

GameTap Party at Parkside

March 8, 2008

Bike Hugger Beer & BBQ at Austin Convention Center

March 8, 2008

BlogHaus at SXSW Interactive 2008 Sponsored by AMD at Austin Convention Center

March 8, 2008

Avenue A | Razorfish Happy Hour at Six

March 8, 2008

SXSW Worldwide Flickrite Meet-up! at Cathedral of Junk

March 8, 2008

AMODA Digital Showcase at The Mohawk

March 8, 2008

South By Southwest (SXSW) ScreenBurn Arcade at Austin Convention Center

March 8, 2008

Opening Conversation with Henry Jenkins at SXSW Interactive

March 8, 2008

Kick! 2008 at Palm Park

March 8, 2008

SxSW • _Reformat The Planet_ documentary film world premiere at Dobie Theatre

March 8, 2008

frog design SXSW Opening Party at Mexican American Cultural Center

March 9, 2008

The 2008 SXSW ABX at 300 Austin

March 9, 2008

SXSW Web Awards Pre-Party at Brush Square Park

March 9, 2008

11th Annual SXSW Web Awards Ceremony - Presented by Adobe at The Hilton Austin (Downtown)

March 9, 2008

Web Awards After-Party Hosted by Popular Science at Emo's

March 9, 2008

SXSW - Portland Web Innovators in Austin at Jo's Hot Coffee and Good Food

March 9, 2008

The People Powered Party: SxSWi Party by Moo, Etsy, Timbuk2 and Threadless at The Tap Room

March 9, 2008

Socialthing! Party at the PureVolume Ranch at PureVolume Ranch

March 9, 2008

Library/Info Science SxSWi 2008 Hoedown/Lunch Redux! at Las Manitas

March 9, 2008

Get Weirdly Wired at Austin City Limits Studio

March 10, 2008

Lime Wire's SXSW Interactive Party at Club DeVille

March 10, 2008

Adobe Sneak Peek Party at Dirty Dog

March 10, 2008

Kraut By Southwest at Scholz Garten

March 10, 2008

Austin Tech Happy Hour at The Marq

March 10, 2008

20x2 v. 8.0: "What's the Difference?" at The Parish

March 10, 2008

The Great British Booze-up at Shakespeare's Pub

March 10, 2008

SXNW - South by Northwest 3rd Annual Geek Fest Party at SXSW at Iron Cactus

March 10, 2008

Austin On Rails SXSW Happy Hour at Buffalo Billiards

March 11, 2008

Get Satisfaction Meetup @ SXSW 2008 at PureVolume Ranch

April 9, 2008

IA Summit 2008 at Hyatt Regency Hotel Miami

May 22, 2008

WebVisions 2008 at Oregon Convention Center

May 28, 2008

Refresh Seattle: Onionskin; Peeling Back the Layers of Design at Fremont Public Library

June 4, 2008

MIT Enterprise Forum - The Business of Personal and Public Data at Hyatt Regency

June 4, 2008

Talk on “Context, Content, and Community: Inventing the Future of Mobile Media” at the DUB Meeting at University of Washington

June 4, 2008

SMX Developer Day at Bell Harbor International Conference Center

June 12, 2008

UPA Seattle: Table-4-Eight with Nick Finck at La Spiga

June 13, 2008

Seattle Lunch 2.0 @ Blue Gecko - Happy Hour at Blue Gecko Inc

June 14, 2008

BarCampSeattle at Adobe Systems - Fremont

June 18, 2008

WTIA June Technology in Focus Series: Profits & Privacy: Exploring the Boundaries of Digital Marketing at Westin Hotel

July 8, 2008

Clarion West Presents Cory Doctorow at University Book Store

July 9, 2008

BizJam Seattle 08 at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

July 9, 2008

Power of Email Marketing at Marysville-Tulalip Chamber of Commerce

July 12, 2008

Creating a Shopping Dig in Web 2.0: An Archeology of Curated Shopping for Retail Professionals at World Trade Center

July 12, 2008

Social Media Camp at Hotel Monaco

July 17, 2008

Development of Typography Through World History at Tacoma Art Museum

July 17, 2008

Presenting Data and Information: a one-day course taught by Edward Tufte at Westin Hotel

July 17, 2008

Optimizing for Universal Search at Renaissance Seattle Hotel

July 23, 2008

Refresh Seattle: Lessons Learned Designing Onehub at Fremont Public Library

July 25, 2008

Seattle Startup Drinks at Stumbling Monk

July 30, 2008

Introducing Web 2.0 at Community Center at Mercer View

August 1, 2008

Seattle Lunch 2.0 @ Whitepages.com at whitepages.com

August 2, 2008

iPhoneDevCamp Seattle at Adobe

August 4, 2008

UPA Puget Sound Chapter Formation Event w/guest speaker Arnie Lund at Google Seattle Engineering Office

August 13, 2008

Battle in Seattle 3 at Lake Union Armory

August 21, 2008

Gnomedex 8.0 at Bell Harbor International Conference Center

August 30, 2008

Bumbershoot 2008 at Seattle Center

September 3, 2008

Introducing Web 2.0 at Community Center at Mercer View

September 7, 2008

Technology Exhibits at Pacific Science Center

September 13, 2008

Seattle Video Production Conference at Red Lion Hotel on Fifth Avenue

September 17, 2008

Marketing 101 at Seattle SCORE

September 19, 2008

Fremont Oktoberfest at Fremont Ship Canal

September 24, 2008

Refresh Seattle: Inclusive Universe 1.0 at Fremont Public Library

September 27, 2008

InfoCamp Seattle 2008 at Youngstown Cultural Arts Center

October 3, 2008

2008 Webmaster Jam Session at Loudermilk Conference Center

October 28, 2008

October Seattle Startup Drinks at Prost! Tavern

November 28, 2008

Seattle Startup Drinks - November at Ballard Loft

January 15, 2009

Seattle Lunch 2.0 Happy Hour @ Cooley w/Icebreaker at Cooley

January 28, 2009

Corvallis Beer and Blog @ Cloud9 at Cloud 9 Restaurant and Bar

January 30, 2009

Seattle Startup Drinks - January at Dad Watsons

February 5, 2009

interaction09 at Simon Fraser University, Downtown Vancouver

February 6, 2009

Startup Weekend at N/A

February 17, 2009

UIE Roadshow - Portland, OR at Portland Marriott Waterfront

March 12, 2009

South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Conference at Austin Convention Center

March 13, 2009

97bottles Happy Hour at The Gingerman

March 13, 2009

SXSW User Experience & Interactive Designer Gathering at SXSW - Austin Texas - Convention Center - Lego Area

March 13, 2009

Coworking Meetup - SXSW 2009 at Hotel San Jose

March 14, 2009

OK! Happy Cog'aoke, Presented by Happy Cog at Red's Scoot Inn

March 14, 2009

Bike Hugger After Party at Mellow Johnny

March 14, 2009

Polaroid breakfast at Katzs Deli

March 14, 2009

Boagworld Live From SXSW at Austin Convention Center

March 16, 2009

20x2 v9.0: What's It Gonna Take at The Parish

March 16, 2009

The Great British Booze-up at Shakespeare's Pub

March 17, 2009

SXSW (mt) Media Temple Interactive Closing Party at La Zona Rosa

March 19, 2009

Information Architecture Summit at Peabody Hotel

April 9, 2009

Seattle & ExpressionEngine at Pike Pub and Brewery

April 29, 2009

Ignite Seattle 6 at King Cat Theatre

May 3, 2009

Refresh Seattle: What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive? at Adobe Conference Center

May 4, 2009

An Event Apart Seattle 2009 at Bell Harbor International Conference Center

May 20, 2009

Webvisions 2009 at Oregon Convention Center

June 8, 2009

UPA 2009 at Portland

June 14, 2009

UX London at The Cumberland Hotel

June 23, 2009

UIE Roadshow - Seattle, WA at Renaissance Seattle Hotel

June 25, 2009

Refresh Seattle - Pop Your (Web) Copy at Fremont Library at Seattle Public Library - Fremont Branch

June 26, 2009

Seattle Lunch 2.0 @OfficeNomads at Office Nomads

July 23, 2009

Refresh Seattle - Making Your Interface Invisible with Dan Rubin at Fremont Public Library

August 3, 2009

Ignite Seattle 7 at King Cat Theatre

August 20, 2009

The Type Divide - Refresh Seattle at Seattle Public Library - Fremont Branch

September 3, 2009

Refresh Seattle: Community Mod-Fu Secrets Revealed: The 2x4 of Kindness at Adobe

September 15, 2009

Ad Club Seattle: User Experience Utopia: Where Are We and Where Are We Going? at Quinn's Pub

September 16, 2009

Refresh Bellingham at Extremes Bar & Grill

October 10, 2009

InfoCamp Seattle 2009 at Cleveland High School building

November 12, 2009

Refresh Portland November: Nick Finck on The Mobile User Experience at Jive Software

December 16, 2009

Coworking Seattle at Office Nomads (Capitol Hill)

July 12, 2010

UIE Web App Masters Tour - Seattle at Bell Harbor International Conference Center

July 12, 2010

IXDA Seattle: The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions at The Watercooler

August 18, 2010

Refresh Bellingham at Extreme Sports Bar & Grill

October 2, 2010

InfoCamp Seattle 2010 at Seattle University - Pigott Building

May 19, 2012

MobileUXCamp Seattle at University of Washington, Mary Gates Hall