MEDIUM - David Siegel, CEO of Meetup, emphasizes the negative health effects of loneliness among young people and its correlation with depression, anxiety, and physical health issues. He suggests proactive approaches to addressing the loneliness epidemic, such as engaging in face-to-face interactions, joining community groups, and participating in outdoor activities. Siegel discusses how technology, like Meetup's AI-powered tools, can encourage real-life connections and overcome the challenges posed by social media and remote work.
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David Siegel, CEO of Meetup, Discusses Solutions to Youth Loneliness
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MeetUp: an Alternative to Dating Apps?
AARP - Ed Baig is the former tech editor at USA Today and is now at AARP. He asked me for a non-conventional 'social' alternative to dating apps for seniors, and I suggested Meetup. Here's the excerpt from a list of 50 recommended apps.
Meetup lets you mingle with people who share your interests and can match you with 300k groups and 100k weekly events. You can find a nearby book club, hiking group or someone you want to spend more time with. "This is a great place to meet like minds outside the explicit context of dating," says CEO Mark Brooks of Courtland Brooks, who consults with dating services. "Then count on serendipity and put some effort into meeting new friends through the friends you just met by inviting them out to your own group events."
by Edward C. Baig
See full article at AARP
This post also appears on Online Personals Watch
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Meetup Gets Into Crowdfunding With Launch Of “Contributions”
TECH CRUNCH - Nov 5 - Meetup is rolling out its own crowdfunding platform called “Contributions.” The new feature allows Meetup group members to fund various projects managed by group organizers in order to pay for things like meeting space, supplies, equipment, drinks and snacks and more.
by Sarah Perez
See full article at Tech Crunch
Mark Brooks: This is always such an awkward area of planning meetings. Taking dues and contributions should be handled in advance.
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Meetup Becomes A Messaging App
TECH CRUNCH - Aug 12 - Unlike most mobile messaging apps, Meetup’s Messages is designed to keep your personal contact information guarded while you get to know new people. The new Messages feature will offer a safe alternative to share information in a group setting– allowing group members to reach out directly both on the web and in the app. The company also launched its own take on crowd funding with a “Contributions” feature, and a Group Discussions feature that will allow group members to chat with multiple other members outside of group meetings is in the works.
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Meetup.com Hacked And Refused To Pay $300 Hacker Ransom
PCMAG - Mar 3 - Meetup.com was battling a massive cyberattack over the weekend and on Monday against hackers who are demanding $300 to call off the assault, which has kept the site offline for much of the past four days.
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Meetup Buys Dispatch
TECH CRUNCH - Oct 9 - Meetup, a platform for organizing real world get-togethers, is acquiring Dispatch, a company focused on email-based collaboration. The acquisition terms were not disclosed. Dispatch founders Jesse Lamb, Nicholas Stamas and Alex Godin are now joining Meetup. They will focus on improving communications within Meetup Groups.
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How To Make Friends While Travelling
THE GLOBE AND MAIL - Jan 14 - A new wave of “travel social network” apps are designed to help turn wallflowers into social butterflies.
- Here on Biz - This app works with LinkedIn to connect business travellers visiting the same area.
- Highlight - Working with Facebook accounts, it shares information about other users nearby, alerting you to any shared friends and interests.
- SupperKing - Extremely social hosts offer to prepare a meal that any user can attend for a reasonable fee.
- Meetup - The international social network is a collection of community groups, divided into different interests.
- Polyglot Club - The best way to integrate into local society and make friends is to improve your language skills. The idea is to let both globetrotters and locals practise their language skills at social soirees.
by Domini Clark & Vivian Song
See full article at The Globe and Mail
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New Social Networks Helping People Meet Offline
CBS LOCAL - Mar 30 - A number of new, online services are helping people connect offline for unique face to face experiences such as sushi rolling, beer brewing or yoga. Some sites, like Meet-Up and Group-O-Matic, allow users to create their own local circles for free. Other sites, like Lifecrowd, Grubwithus, and Urban Girl Squad partner with restaurants, retailers, experts and more for a slew of unique, curated activities.
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Meetup Seeks International Product Manager
MEETUP -- Oct 30 -- Meetup is looking for a "Champion of Everywhere"
(a.k.a. Product Manager, International). The Goal of the CoE: More
& more people at Meetups in more & more places (on-path to
Everywhere) People currently
pay for Meetups in 119 countries, but it's 90% US. We just launched our
first non-English spin of the site (Italian) and we're gearing up to
launch four new languages soon. READ THE DETAILS HERE
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A Dog Run On Meetup.com
NY TIMES -- Aug 23 -- The terrier club, which claims 400 members, is just one example of how Meetup.com allows users with shared interests to meet in person. Within a 25-mile radius of Manhattan, for example, nearly 4,000 groups have formed on the site since 2002. Meetup.com was founded in 2002 by Scott Heiferman, who was running an online advertising agency. FULL ARTICLE @ NY TIMES
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Candidates Use Social Networking To Get Out Their Message
STATESMAN.COM -- Nov 3 -- Dennis Kucinich has 32,835 MySpace friends. Joe Biden has 6,535 Facebook supporters. Nearly all of the 17 Presidential candidates link to their profiles on MySpace, Facebook and YouTube as well as using other smaller sites. Candidates use Flickr to chronicle the campaign trail. Eons.com, a baby-boomer social networking site is used by Obama, Giuliani, Clinton and Dodd. Candidates are even on Linked In, Second Life, Meetup, Twitter and Virb. FULL ARTICLE @ STATESMAN.COM
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Online Networking Leads People To Meet Offline
THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR -- Aug 6 -- Meetup, with 3 million members and 27,000 "Meetup groups" worldwide, helps people with similar interests form local organizations that regularly meet face-to-face. For a $19 monthly fee, a local group gets an online site and interactive discussion group that are accessible to current and would-be members. Similar in concept, but slightly more cerebral are World Café gatherings, in which anything from global warming to the role of the arts in daily life are discussed in small, local groups. FULL ARTICLE @ THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR
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Real Friends Offline
BUSINESS WEEK ONLINE -- June 24 -- Getting offline is growing. MeetIn.org, which intros friends, not lovers, has nearly doubled this year to 75,000 people in 90 cities worldwide. Launched five months ago, nightclub-oriented MingleNow.com already boasts 1 million users. MeetUp.com has doubled RSVPs in the past five months. In a survey of 3,357 MySpace users between ages12 and 21, 22% use the site for event information, according to Forrester Research. So do 30 percent of Facebook users. Making money is the hard part, MeetIn.org, scrapes by on $8,000 a year in unsolicited donations from members. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH NEWS WORLD
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MySpace Top Social Site; Others Growing Faster
THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER -- June 2 -- MySpace saw 49% growth in April compared with the same month last year (Nielsen//NetRatings). Far less than Facebook, which saw a 152% jump, and Bebo, up 109%. The fastest-growing sites were ZoomInfo and LinkedIn, which saw 276% and 210% growth, respectively, compared with April 2006. According to Hitwise, Facebook is second to MySpace with an 11.5% market share of social networking sites in the U.S. for April, dwarfing Bebo, the next-closest competitor, which had a 1.3% share for the month. As the 2008 election heats up, Meetup.com has seen a 149% increase in unique traffic compared with last year, NetRatings said. FULL ARTICLE @ THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
Mark Brooks: Zoominfo is a great resource for researching people’s online bio’s and reputations. It pulls together information from press releases and bio pages. The company that became ZoomInfo was started by Jonathan Stern, who started Corex up in the U.S.A. Corex makes the best card scanners. MySpace is still growing faster if you consider the absolute number of people joining the service rather than the % growth.
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About Social Networking
CHIBUS -- Jan 25 -- Wikipedia says the first social networking site was Classmates.com, started in 1995. Merill Lynch forecasts social networking sites will receive $1.1 billion this year ($2.8 billion by 2010). Yelp and MingleNow are centered around bars and restaurants. Meetup extends the idea to everything from movies to politics. Meetro connects you with those nearby. Mobile social networking is supposed to take off (it's been supposed to take off for like two years now) with companies like Dodgeball. This month Piczo raised $11m. MomJunction raised $1.5 m. Meebo, the web-based IM tool, raised $9m in a Series B funding. Yahoo picked up MyBlogLog for ~$10m, and Wetpaint is ~$9m richer. FULL ARTICLE @ CHIBUS
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