Meetup Best Practices: Metrics

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 Fourth 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
• Happiness Bars

This week’s subject grew out of a twitter conversation with Doug Stewart and Edward Caissie.

What are the metrics and stats you as a meetup organizer track and care about for your meetup? Have you found any metrics that have been good indicators of the overall health and strength of your meetup? How do you track your metrics?

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