1.Mentoring/educating members
2.Career opp.
3.Cross group collaboration
1.Resource sharing
4.Dealing with “problem members”
5.Getting members involved
6.The “Virtual Element”
1.Handling finances – dues, incorp., out of pocket
2.Structuring the group – bylaws/etc
3.Subgroups/SIGs
4.Managing partners
1.Demographics
1.Which ones to avoid
2.Sponsors as speakers
1.Finding venues
2.Finding speakers
3.Special events
4.Creative catering
1.Mailing lists
2.Web sites/wikis/SharePoint
3.Notifying members
4.Cevent
1.Facilitating the meeting
2.Speaker evaluation & meeting feedback
3.Welcoming new members
4.Handling RSVP/drop off
5.Networking/building community
6.Social events pre/post meeting
7.Prizes and swag
8.Virtual attendees
Initial seed ideas
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Starting a new group
Recording meetings and sessions (+1)
Finding speakers (+2)
Promoting your group (+2)
Getting Sponsors (+2)
Getting prizes to giveaway; build relationships with publishers.
Legal issues with money and prizes
Building a user group web site (+1)
Setting up your Board or voting on a Board (+1)
Incorp/LLC
not for profit/tax excempt
Comments (1)
Cheyenne Throckmorton said
at 6:17 pm on Oct 21, 2009
I can use AtlantaUserGroups.com as a case study to talk about how to help unify a city/region of usergroups on the Ning platform. A lot of the way AtlUG has been built is to help with finding speakers, sponsors and spaces as well as dealing with RSVPs, announcements and even some integration with tools like Twitter. The site itself still has a long way to go and only launched at the end of May, but I think other groups could use the model to build similar sites for their regions.
Even down to the core Ning can be used for individual groups as well. Basically it can be used to unite any niche of people. MohawksRock.com is the first site I built with Ning and it unites almost 3000 mohawked people across the world. Now thats a weird niche.
If it wouldn't be a topic all itself, then maybe a platforms for group organization could be an idea too.
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