Mad About Meetup!

Meetup as a social networking platform is a powerful tool for connecting our online world with the real one.  Chances are you haven’t checked it out yet. According to Meetup.com, there are 7.2 million members with over 6 million monthly visitors, 79,000 local groups in 45,000 cities. They host 250,000 monthly Meetups attracting 2.2 million monthly RSVPs.

Not bad.

Here’s what they say:

Meetup is the world’s largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.

Meetup’s mission is to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize. Meetup believes that people can change their personal world, or the whole world, by organizing themselves into groups that are powerful enough to make a difference.

Check it out.  At Integrated Alliances, we host several meetup groups and hold monthly meetings at the Denver WordPress and Social Media Meetup Group. If you’re in town, check us out.  If not, search Meetup.com for topics that interest you and see where and when the locals gather. You’ll be glad you did.

And if you host or attend, leave a comment with your favorite Meetup group. Telling people about it is the point of social media!

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