October's MeetUp was with MeetUp! We were joined by Charles Baker, Strategy & Community Development Manager at Meetup. Charles talked about how online communities can maintain the connection offline and how people can find communities via the Meetup network, as well as the intricacies of managing offline communities online.

1. Mobilizing Social Networks 1 [email_address] @charles_baker

6. Meetup Groups are started by individuals to create community about something in their town, while Meetup Everywhere is for organizations, companies, and movements to enable their fans/followers/customers/audience to create community about them, everywhere.

7. How does Meetup Everywhere work? 8 Setup a free Meetups page, get the word out, challenge your users to Meetup Users organize offline Meetups big & small in their towns You celebrate, stoke & curate the offline communities your users create Mashable Meetups Everywhere Simple, powerful and free way for organizations to have Meetups Everywhere

8. New York fans of the blog Apartment Therapy have been meeting up locally since 2007. Apartment Therapy’s founder Maxwell recognized the value of those meetings, saying, “While we’ve grown as an online community, there is no replacement for real face to face meetings OFFLINE.”

9. The Huffington Post sparked 435 Meetups across the world..

12. 9 Talk Strategy

15. Pick a day (any day) 12 Tell everyone to meetup everywhere on one day Worlds Ocean Day: Organization’s Birthday: Flag Day: Or even…. Anniversaries, holidays, a big event, made up holidays…

20. Pick a simple hook 17 What’s your theme? Layout a few ideas for what people can do when they meetup in real life.

22. Get the word out 19 Blog it up and promote on your site

23. Get the word out 20 Social

24. Get the word out 21 Social: Your followers will follow your lead

26. Celebrate 23 Social strutting

27. Celebrate 24 Social strutting

28. Celebrate 25 Blog it up

29. Celebrate 26 Send an email

31. Repeat 28

32. Resources…. 29 Meetupeverywhere.tumblr.com Meetup.com/everywhere [email_address]