Congrats on the opening, Brian... I started a Meetup back in August (several months after opening our 1st location) for 2 reasons: as another promotional avenue; and as an easy, central place to list events. We have several each month, in 2 locations.
http://www.meetup.com/BEAHIVE/ I push it to our members (of which maybe half or more have joined) as a way to more easily stay informed by telling them: "I continually hear folks lament missing one of our events because they forgot. Join the Meetup to get reminders of the specific events that interest you." It's been slowly growing and is now nearing 80 members, most of whom are not directly affiliated with BEAHIVE, several of whom have become actual paying members by discovering us through the Meetup. I use the Meetup RSS to feed into a Google calendar that is on our website: http://beahivebeacon.com/events.html I also put the Meetup URL in an events ad in a regional magazine that we partner with on our 2nd location (in addition to our BEAHIVE website URLs). Cheers, scott. - -- - SCOTT TILLITT PR yogi / writer / community catalyst [ [email protected] / 917.449.6356 / Twitter: @bluehwyflaneur ] BEAHIVE collaborative workspace + community sign up for BEAHIVE Bzzz [ www.beahivebeacon.com / Twitter: @BEAHIVE ] ANTIDOTE COLLECTIVE socially conscious communications for a better world [ www.antidotecollective.org ] - -- - t h i n k / f e e l - -- - ...an idea or product that deserves the label 'creative' arises from the synergy of many sources and not only from the mind of a single person.” (Mihaly Csikszentmihaly) On Jan 7, 2010, at 3:10 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Topic: How can I utilize Meetup for my Coworking Space? > brian difeo <[email protected]> Jan 06 03:25PM -0500 ^ > > Here at the Hive at 55 <http://www.hiveat55.com>, we are a little over one > month old and are considering ways to get potential members through the > door. One idea is creating a Meetup group - but for what? For our space? For > freelancers in the neighborhood? We are in the heart of Lower Manhattan, so > terms like neighborhood and community can sometimes seem so daunting, and we > don't want to limit ourselves to the immediate area. We are having a jelly > in the near future, FYI. > > I've been attending Meetups and contacting organizers to offer our space for > future meetups and this has been a great start. But I'd like to know how > other coworking spaces have utilized meetup.com in the past, specifically, > have you created a group and has it been successful? Do you have any other > recommendations beside what I mentioned above? Is there something else out > there that is a more appropriate place to look into? > > Thanks, > > Brian DiFeo > Community Manager - Hive at 55 > > 646.556.6805 > > 55 Broad Street, NY, NY 10004 > www.hiveat55.com > www.downtownny.com--
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