...
In addition to the information in this guide, you may also find these resources from meetup.com to be a helpful:
- meetup.com's quarterly webinar series for Hyperledger organizers
- October 8, 2019
- Part One (video) and (slides): Covers tips on how to promote your group, contact your members and gives a status update on using WeWork spaces for meetups
- Part Two (video) and (slides): Amol Kulkarni discusses how the community ran the National Indian meetup and how others can do the same and Adrian Avendano talks about how GST runs their meetups and demos a tool they are building to help organizers connect with speakers
- June 4, 2019 webinar (video) and (slides): Recaps tips from previous webinar and includes tips on how to transition leadership when an organizer steps down and engaging group members between events
- March 27, 2019 webinar (video) and (slides): Covers how to get people to show at events, how to find speakers, how to build a leadership team and meetup.com product updates.
- October 8, 2019
...
Meetup organizers are encouraged to consider running virtual meetups online when that makes sense for your local community members. The tools provided by meetup.com for organizing in person meetups will also help you promote a virtual event, handle registration and communicate with attendees. For more about using meetup.com's tools to organize a virtual meetup, see their support article Hosting an online event on Meetup. And note that creating an online event on Meetup is a little different than creating an in person one – in particular, make sure when creating an event that you select the box for "Online Event" and add the video conference link.
Hyperledger has Zoom accounts that we can make available to organizers to use for running a virtual meetup. Please contact us to request account information – we'll need information from you about when Before requesting access to a Zoom account, please read our Managing Zoom Meetings guide. To request access to a Zoom account, contact us with information about the day and time you are hosting the virtual meetup and we can . We will then schedule the Zoom account for you and send you details on how to dial-in and record your events. Zoom offers two options – they have a meeting mode which provides an open call that allows for attendees to take part in discussions and a webinar mode that is more focused on one person presenting information out to a group.
...
For tips for running effective meetups, we encourage organizers who have done this before to please share ideas and suggestions on the meetup organizer's mailing list and we'll add good ideas here. We'll also link to useful resources . For example, the article below:
- Meetup Webinar: Bringing Events Online
- Meetup Webinar: Strategies to Increase Your Online Event Show-ups
- Supporting a Community When Real Life Events Aren't Possible
- A Comprehensive List of Tips, Tools, and Examples for Event Organizers During the Coronavirus Outbreak
...
- 20 Ideas to Engage Virtual Event Attendees
- Virtual Conferences & Events: A Comprehensive Guide to Doing It Right
Streaming and recording live events
...