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 Fifth 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
• Metrics

This Week, let’s look at speakers, won of the common event types for meetupsMeetup 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..

How do you find the speakers your meetup has?
What, if anything, do you do to help the speaker prepare?
Anything else about having an event with a speaker that you want to share?

#best-practices, #meetups-2

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?

#best-practices, #meetups-2

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 second 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.

Last week we looked at Venues

This week, let’s look at the refreshments your meetup does or does not offer:

1. Does your meetup have any sort of refreshments available
2. If you do offer them, How does your meetup procure them?
3. What challenges do you face with refreshments, and how do you try to overcome them?

#best-practices, #meetups-2

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 first 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.

For the first entry in this series, let’s look at something every meetup needs, a location.

1. Where does your meetup meetup? Do you meet at the same location every month, or do you move around? Do you have multiple locations that you regularly use?
2. How did you find and choose your current space?

#best-practices, #meetups-2