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The way I (and others in my group) used Meetup was this: 1. Schedule a meetup to meet players ( soccer, in my case) and organize a game at the local ground. 2. Repeat Step 1 for 3-4 months 3. We now have enough regulars and switched over to Whatsapp. Easier to coordinate, schedule games, manage rosters and because Whatsapp is so ubiquitous, you don't need to download/track one more app/website. 4. Exit Meetup. It was…
I haven't followed Meetup in much detail, but it seems like they lost their way. "Meetup" has become a common noun in many circles tech-related and beyond...i.e., most people know about meetup.com and what it does. But despite this ubiquity, what happened? I stopped going to meetups a while ago because most just didn't seem worthwhile. A lot of people I know did the same. If this trend persisted across the service, d…
TL;DR is WeWork just an open office but for (way too many imho) many companies/people in one space? Are Wework spaces similar across the world? I have to work in a central London one sometimes and I find it horrendous; it is almost literally good for nothing; way too noisy and loose for meetings (even in the closed spaces; they are glass and not soundproof) or actual concentrated work (with noise cancelling headphone…
Having run Meetups for the last ~4 years or so, with my current one being a nice size (~100/month attend), I can tell you the absolute biggest challenge for myself and for others is getting a good affordable/free space to run the events. As WeWork has so much prime real estate, I can easily see the Meetups being a natural feeder to get more people exposed to their spaces, and also to create community events for those…
As far as finding spaces, I've found that local bars/restaurants/coffee shops are usually quite happy to host events during off-times like Monday through Wednesday nights. I always ask nicely, thank them in the event description, during the event, and in an email after, and try to go out of my way to make things easier for them (checking in with estimated attendees a few days before, helping put chairs back in order…
I am running a Web Engineering Meetup in Düsseldorf, Germany [1] since more than 4 years. This group is quite big (~1.600 people) with 40 up to 100 people per Event (depends on the weather, the topic, the day, if side events happen in the city or not). We run it 100% non profit and community driven. No money is involved for paying speakers or accommodation. This is a fact where we are really proud of, because we beli…
Our big idea is simple ..... we don't compete with meetup.com!
We are a event listing service only. We work hard to list events and make the resulting data Open Data so many people can reuse it (and they do!).
We do not sell/do tickets - if organisers want that they use the service of their choice and we link to that. We do not do members lists - organisers can use the email list or whatever of their choice and we link to that.
Your point about it being hard to organise events - so true. To support event organisers in Scotland, we run a private email list and private real life discussion events to make connections, allow discussion and share resources but it's always hard.
As for your goal - we would love to help you list all your local events :-) Anyone can add - you don't have to be the event organiser to do so: https://opentechcalendar.co.uk/event/new
Would love to hear from others who run groups/events on Meetup and/or Eventbrite. I used to love Meetup, but the interest has been dwindling and the pricing for Meetup is very odd. You can't run a multi-city Meetup from a single account, which makes it very difficult to expand your Meetup without greatly increasing your costs. Meetup then came out with https://www.meetup.com/pro in order to help you wrangle your clus…
> I'm not sure I see the point in using Meetup at all anymore. Just like any social platform, I think the advantage of using Meetup is that you'll get to a different audience than Facebook. In my case I've found the audience for Meetup to be smaller (i.e. far fewer RSVPs) but much more engaged, perhaps as a byproduct of the sheer volume of things on Facebook making it harder for yours to stand out. The breakdown of w…
Having run Meetups for the last ~4 years or so, with my current one being a nice size (~100/month attend), I can tell you the absolute biggest challenge for myself and for others is getting a good affordable/free space to run the events. As WeWork has so much prime real estate, I can easily see the Meetups being a natural feeder to get more people exposed to their spaces, and also to create community events for those…
As far as finding spaces, I've found that local bars/restaurants/coffee shops are usually quite happy to host events during off-times like Monday through Wednesday nights. I always ask nicely, thank them in the event description, during the event, and in an email after, and try to go out of my way to make things easier for them (checking in with estimated attendees a few days before, helping put chairs back in order…
I don't really understand the WeWork valuation of $20 billion. I guess they buy all their properties so they greatly profit from the rising property prizes in capitals around their world. I work a lot in coworking spaces and they usually don't seem like a cash cow for the owners. Now WeWork seems to target the B2B and luxury segment of coworking with prices 1,5x-3x of the competitors'. Interesting strategy. So is the…
I gave up on coworking early this month. I've been using a coworking space for nearly 2 years, tested out various spaces and realized that they're just bad for productivity. Far too many people at coworking spaces seem to be there for networking, or are simply not serious enough about work. I moved to a 'business center' (like Regus) which has a much quieter and more professional environment. Couldn't be happier.
I haven't followed Meetup in much detail, but it seems like they lost their way. "Meetup" has become a common noun in many circles tech-related and beyond...i.e., most people know about meetup.com and what it does. But despite this ubiquity, what happened? I stopped going to meetups a while ago because most just didn't seem worthwhile. A lot of people I know did the same. If this trend persisted across the service, d…
In my experience sports, board games and language exchanges work well.
The way I (and others in my group) used Meetup was this: 1. Schedule a meetup to meet players ( soccer, in my case) and organize a game at the local ground. 2. Repeat Step 1 for 3-4 months 3. We now have enough regulars and switched over to Whatsapp. Easier to coordinate, schedule games, manage rosters and because Whatsapp is so ubiquitous, you don't need to download/track one more app/website. 4. Exit Meetup. It was…
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