Meetup.com - A Site for Organizing Communities
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Here are a few GREAT resources for developing communities online and connecting and organizing constituents to each other.
For a small monthly fee, you can set up an online community that regularly meets offline for all sorts of topics and interests. This is an invaluable solution for capacity building at your project.
Benefits include:
- shared filing system
- event calendar
- automatic event notification (set by you)
- photo sharing
- poll creation
- your own listserv
Start a coalition for rural housing, connect with other VISTA Alumnis, start an electronic music meetup. There are endless possibilities.
here's the site:
http://www.meetup.com
here's a map to visualize ones close to you:
http://americorpsalumni.meetup.com/about/
2 examples started by a a former VISTA are:
http://lgbtfriends.meetup.com/58/
http://electronicmusic.meetup.com/49/
