Meetups and community building — page 5
Starting, growing and retaining a community — from a first meetup to a recurring chapter program.
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Walking Meetups: How to Choose the Right Route, Pace and Group Size
Learn how to plan successful walking meetups by choosing the right route, pace and group size. Discover practical tips for organizers and participants to create safer, more engaging walking experiences.
How to Organize a Community Yoga Session: A Complete Guide
Learn how to organize a community yoga session with practical planning steps, participant management tips, event promotion strategies, and ways to create meaningful connections among attendees.
Run Clubs Are the New Networking Event: How Run Club Networking Builds Real Connections
Discover why run clubs are becoming modern networking spaces, how professionals build meaningful relationships through shared activities, and how event organizers can create better attendee connections.
How to Start a Running Club That Lasts: A Complete Guide
Learn how to start a running club that attracts members, builds a lasting community, and creates meaningful connections with practical steps for planning, organizing, promoting, and managing a successful running group.
Why Your Meetup Skews 28–35, and How to Fix It: A Guide to Age Diversity at Events
Learn why many meetups attract mostly 28–35-year-old attendees, how age diversity impacts event value, and practical strategies organizers can use to create more inclusive communities.
Free Tech Conferences: How They Work, Who Pays, and Why They Stay Free
Free tech conferences can offer high-value talks, workshops, communities, and networking without charging attendees. This guide explains how free tech conferences fund themselves through sponsors, employers, grants, vendors, memberships, partnerships, and other models—and what attendees and organisers should know before joining or running one.
Community Health Score: Definition, Formula, and Key Community Health Metrics
Learn what a Community Health Score is, how the formula works, which community health metrics matter, and how organizations can measure engagement, participation, and long-term community growth.
Event Volunteer Report: Who Runs Communities and Why
Explore how community volunteers power events, strengthen communities, and create meaningful connections. Learn how volunteer-driven initiatives are organized and how event platforms help manage participation.
Sponsorship Benchmark Report for Community Events: Metrics, Trends and Best Practices
Discover how community event organizers can evaluate sponsorship performance with benchmark frameworks, measurable KPIs, partnership strategies and practical insights for building stronger sponsor relationships.
Community Manager Salary & Budget Survey: 2026 Pay and Planning Benchmarks
A data-led guide to community manager salary benchmarks, compensation factors, team budgets, and community program costs. Compare pay by experience, region, company profile, and role scope, then use the findings to plan a realistic community budget.
What MeetWho Stores, For How Long, and Why: A Data Retention Guide
What data does MeetWho store, why is it needed, and how long is it retained? This guide explains the data lifecycle across event registration, professional profiles, networking, messaging, notes, reminders, check-in, account management, and operational records—plus what happens when data is deleted or an account is closed.
We Asked AI to Plan a Meetup. Here's What Broke: Lessons from an AI Event Planning Test
An AI event planning test reveals where artificial intelligence can help organize meetups and where human judgment, attendee insights, and meaningful networking still matter.
Ask a Tax Advisor: When a Community Becomes a Business
Learn when a community may become a business, how legal structures affect tax obligations, and what founders, organizers, and professional networks should consider before turning a community into a formal organization.
Interview: An Accessibility Consultant Audits a Typical Meetup
An accessibility consultant reviews a typical meetup experience and explains how organizers can identify barriers, improve inclusion, and create more accessible events for every participant.
What Ten Community Managers Do in the Last 24 Hours Before an Event
Discover the final 24-hour event preparation checklist from ten experienced community managers, covering communication, attendee engagement, networking readiness, and last-minute execution strategies.
Community Revival: How to Recover a Community After a Six-Month Gap
Learn how to achieve community revival after a six-month gap with practical strategies for re-engaging members, rebuilding trust, and creating meaningful connections through smarter community management and networking.
Case Study: How a Coworking Space Turned Members Into a Community
Explore how a coworking space transformed individual members into an engaged community through intentional networking, meaningful connections, and smarter member engagement strategies.
How a 40-Person Meetup Grew to 300 in Nine Months: A Community Growth Case Study
Discover how a small 40-person meetup can scale into a 300-member community in nine months through intentional community building, attendee experience design, networking strategies, and smarter event management.
The MeetWho Event Index: 12 Months of Community Event Data
Explore the MeetWho Event Index, a 12-month view of community event data and insights for understanding event participation, networking trends, and smarter event experiences in 2026.
From Meetup to Conference: When You're Ready to Scale
Learn when and how to scale a meetup into a successful conference. Discover planning strategies, attendee management approaches, networking improvements, and tools that help organizers create meaningful event experiences.
When to Kill an Event Series: A Practical Sunset Guide
When should you stop running a recurring event? This practical guide shows event organizers how to distinguish a temporary slump from a series that has reached the end of its useful life, evaluate attendance, engagement, strategic fit and organizer effort, and choose between fixing, pausing, repositioning or sunsetting the event.
Handing Over a Community You Built: A Practical Community Succession Guide
A practical guide to community succession for founders, organizers, and community leaders. Learn how to choose a successor, document responsibilities, transfer trust and access, communicate the transition, manage risks, and support the community after the handover.
Community Organizer Burnout: Signs, Causes, and Practical Fixes
Community organizer burnout is a growing challenge for people managing events, communities, and social initiatives. Learn the warning signs, root causes, prevention strategies, and how smarter event management can help organizers build sustainable communities.
How to Build a Personal Board of Advisors From Events
Learn how to build a personal board of advisors through conferences, meetups, workshops, and professional events—by identifying the right people, starting purposeful conversations, and turning promising connections into long-term relationships.