Meetup Best Practices: Happiness Bar

At the WordPress Community Summit What the meetup? discussion, we created an action item to get meetupMeetup Meetup groups are locally-organized groups that get together for face-to-face events on a regular basis (commonly once a month). Learn more about Meetups in our Meetup Organizer Handbook. organizers to start sharing best practices. This is the third post in a series on Meetup Best practices for you to share what has worked for your meetup. Each post will pose a small amount questions for meetup organizers to answer. Out of these, I imagine some best practices will bubble up. At a minimum, the knowledge and background should help both current and future meetup organizers.

previously, we looked at:

• Venues
• Refreshments

This week, let’s look at Happiness Bars. If you’re not familiar with Happiness Bars, think of them as live help desks. If we were a fruit company, we might call them Really Smart People Bars (or a synonym of that).

1. Has your meetup done a happiness bar type event?
2. If Yes, how have you set up the experience? Any parts that looking back you think you need to change? How was it received by the attendees?
3. If No, Any particular reason why not?

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