How do you find free events?

Well, its a follow up question to the last one.

how did you find out about the seminars in the first place (i.e. where did you look or hear about them in order to sign up to attend)?

So I guess its all part of the networking stuff.

I am a member of the BCS and attend its branch meetings.
I'm also a member of a reasonably number of LinkedIn Groups and connected to over 200 people on LinkedIn.
And an alumni of Glasgow and Strathclyde universities.

Because of those contacts I get a continual stream of emails coming through.
The local ones I check carefully for what's on, the Linked-In updates will also show events that contacts are planning to attend.

And then I have a diary, when I hear about an event I'll look it up on the web and if remotely interesting write it down in the diary. As we get closer to the date I'll check if there's anything else conflicting and book in.

Another way to find events is when you find a new organization (for instance Scottish Developers) look up their events list, look up their links to other organizations. And if they are using a local booking tool (like eventbrite or something like that) then see what other events are available.

There are events on LinkedIn, but I've not found that too successful.

And once you've found an interesting source, keep checking it.

John