Re: [UG-ADMINS] Promoting your PUG

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Tim Lytle <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Joe Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> In Memphis, most of the User groups have started using a shared
>> meetup.com account.
>>
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> There's been talk about doing something like this locally (as well as
> turning the PHP meetup into something more like a web dev meetup, which I'd
> rather not see). My concerns have been identity (people looking for the
> *php* meetup now need to find it inside of another group), and the annoying
> amount of email meetup sends out. For the former, do you do this in
> addition to your own meetup group (so the meetup is listed in two places)?
> For the latter, I'm assuming the shared meetup group is just various
> language (or similar) user groups? For example, locally our general tech
> meetup (I also help organize) cut back on a few meetups (pushed them out to
> their own group) after the email noise grew and the topics of the various
> meetups were too disparate.
>
> Tim
>

You bring up points that are the exact reason why we haven't merged yet.
I'm trying to work out with my Co-Organizer on how we want to integrate. We
may very well keep our separate account just for the sake of already having
an audience built. The shared group is actually all sorts of local user
groups (Ruby, Wordpress, .Net, Java, Python) Here's a link:
http://www.meetup.com/memphis-technology-user-groups/

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- Joe Ferguson
http://www.midsouthmakers.org
http://www.memphisphp.org

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