Re: [UG-ADMINS] Meetup.com & Custom Domain changes

Thanks for all the replies. I think I agree with most of you on focusing
time/energy into Speakers / Sponsors / Venues rather than the website. I
also created Google+ and Facebook page for us today to help spread our
social media reach.


On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Chris Stone <[email protected]> wrote:

> I agree with Keith about a group website.  We have a website for Baltimore
> PHP and managed to keep it up to date for the first few months it was
> around.  After that, priorities changed and it fell to the bottom of the
> list for the group.  With everyone's time restraints, it came to what do we
> have to do vs what do we want to do.   I'm always pushing to renew the
> effort, but there are things like finding speakers, etc that are more
> important.  I do think that getting someone dedicated to handle the website
> and the social networking aspects can be a huge help to any group.  I'm
> always looking for folks to help with overall group organization and am
> using that as a path to get more people involved with the planning and
> organization efforts.
>
> Re: Meetup:  I think they ended up disabling it because of SSL used in
> different portions of the site.  We used it for Baltimore PHP, but it
> wasn't a huge loss when they shut the feature down.
>
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> On Jul 22, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Patrick Schwisow <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > I'm kind of pissed at meetup.com for making that change but not enough
> to
> > have done anything about it.  I don't really see what they gain by it
> other
> > than irritated organizers.
> >
> > One important thing to note.  If you unset your custom domain, you will
> not
> > be able to re-enable it later, so you'll always need to have a host that
> > sends redirects to the correct pages on meetup.com.
> >
> > -Patrick
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Brian Moon <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> Like Keith says, its better to spend your time working on meetings and
> the
> >> group than working on the web site. If you have someone(s) that will
> >> dedicate to that, then sure, sounds great. But, we barely have time to
> >> organize speakers and are lucky our company sponsors things and lets us
> use
> >> the office manager to organize the events. Taking the time to build a
> web
> >> site for it would only take away from the events.
> >>
> >>
> >> Brian Moon
> >> Sr. Director of Engineering
> >> ------------------------------
> >> When you care enough to spend the very least.
> >> http://dealnews.com/
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 7/22/13 8:35 AM, D Keith Casey Jr wrote:
> >>
> >>> I own AustinPHP.net and DCPHP.net and just direct to the meetup pages.
> I
> >>> just use an index.php with a header redirect to the right page. :)
> >>>
> >>> Unless you have someone dedicated to the CMS, I'd recommend against it.
> >>> We had one for DCPHP for years and it was pretty good if someone
> >>> remembered to add the monthly meeting.
> >>>
> >>> kc
> >>>
> >>> On 7/22/13 9:11 AM, Joe Ferguson wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> My Co-Organizer, David and I inherited MemphisPHP last year and it has
> >>>> always used a custom domain (memphisphp.org) to point to our
> >>>> meetup.compage (
> >>>> meetup.com/memphisphp). Not long ago Meetup.com changed how their
> custom
> >>>> domain feature worked and now all custom domains forward to
> >>>> meetup.cominstead of staying on the custom domain.
> >>>>
> >>>> I was wondering how everyone else that is using Meetup.com is handling
> >>>> this. Did this affect you at all? I think I'm leaning towards putting
> our
> >>>> base domain on a CMS and then using the Meetup.com API to pull in
> events.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
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>


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