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Welcome
I’m Kelly Stewart, and I run two meetups in Tennessee: Nashville Hiking Meetup and Chattanooga Hiking Meetup. Because of the success of the former (3,800 members and average of five events per week as...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name?
The name of your event matters…a lot. Quite often the NAME field is the only information that gets passed along to batch emails, site scrapers, and especially your own calendar of events. It’s the...
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Five ways to Recycle Content to Promote your Group on Social Networks
I love the connections that I’ve created between my main meetup site and outside networks such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and Flickr (and I don’t necessarily mean technology connections). I used to...
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Using Pinterest to Promote Your Meetup or online group
Pinterest, the visual social bookmarking site, seems to be everywhere in the blogs and industry articles. TechCrunch just reported that Pinterest has become the fastest independent site in the U.S. to...
View ArticleIf you want to borrow my audience…
With running a meetup of over 4,500 members, I receive many requests to promote other organization’s events and fundraising initiatives. I get it. You want to borrow my audience. Just keep several...
View ArticleMeetup turns 10 and we got a birthday present!
Today I received an email from Meetup HQ/CEO Scott Heiferman about the company reaching their diamond anniversary. For being one of the top 200 Meetup organizers in the world (based on total number of...
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Truth in advertising
By guest blogger Eve We’ve all seen Meetups that simply function as advertisements for a commercial endeavor. But there are plenty of other Meetups that, with the best of intentions, don’t offer what...
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Brand your events. You’ll be happy you did.
I joined Nashville Hiking Meetup in July of 2007. After several months of participating in hikes, leading hikes, and taking over the group in December of that year, someone suggested we have a social...
View ArticleMeetup changed the event description field (and I’m not happy)
On July 24, Meetup changed the formatting options in event descriptions. No longer do we have an HTML-like view of our descriptions, and many formatting options have been removed (this help post is no...
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