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It’s a dog-meet-dog world Thanks to Meetup.com, the January weather won’t make your pooch peevish. By Jamie Murnane Dee Dee Sanford is one of many dog owners who detests Chicago’s cold, snowy winters. “All pug owners know that pugs do…

In the May 29 issue of Newsweek, Meetup CEO Scott Heiferman was interviewed by Steven Levy for the Enterprise Q & A section. It's a wonderful double-page spread — “See You Offline” — that can be found in all…

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Spanish Meetups lead this cover story in Solutions, a weekly magazine of The Dallas Morning News. Download the PDF…

Pass the word; BookCrossing Club offers volumes of reading opportunities As book networks go, BookCrossing is uncomplicated. The concept is “Read and Release” - read a book and pass it on. But there's a little more to it than…

The American Spectator Magazine references Las Vegas Townhall Meetup organizer Norman Yeager: “Norman Yeager, 64, is the president of Las Vegas Townhall Meetup Group in Nevada, a grassroots conservative political organization with 178 total members. In 2004, Yeager worked…

Knitting, dubbed “the new yoga” by some enthusiasts, lets you unwind your mind while staying productive and aware. With its soothingly repetitive motions and clicking sounds, knitting provides a subtle meditation tool; the magic of seeing yarn transform into…

In the current issue of Time Magazine, the cover story is all about “What's Next”. Click “Permanent Link” below for an excerpt from a discussion Time had with “the smartest people we know” where you'll read a summation of how…

The Get-Ready Men By Bryant Urstadt October 2005 We will run out of cheap oil, either now or later. The most pessimistic disciples of the late geologist M. King Hubbert believe that production will peak somewhere between 2000 and…

It's A Whole New Web And this time around it will be built by you “… At many new Web sites and services, the creative energy of countless souls virtually crackles off the screen. They're cobbling together…

The glue of society Americans are joining clubs again ON CHRISTMAS DAY 2004, Rick Warren, the pastor of Saddleback church in southern California, got a telephone call from Thailand. The caller, a pastor whom Mr Warren had trained, said…

Tour the Collectives of Cyberspace New technologies have people communicating and collaborating on an unprecedented scale. Here's a look at some of the hottest spots By Rob Hof June 20, 2005 ” The Internet isn't just about e-mail or…

Money clubs aren't just about stocks A new kind of self-help group won't make you rich, but it may make you smarter about your finances. By Jean Chatzky June 16, 2005 “…This new kind of financial support group helps…

Pierre Omidyar on “Connecting People”: “Everywhere, people are getting together and connecting. And using the Internet, they're disrupting whatever activities they're involved in. It's because it's a fundamental shift in power toward the bottom, toward the people as they…

The Global Clubhouse A new Web site lets people in more than 50 countries actually make friends in person. By Angie Latif May 2005 After a long day working at the United Nations in New York, Michael Riegelman dashes…

Will Meetup Users Pay or Leave? The social-networking site will start charging for its service, hoping committed members will stay and make it stronger — and profitable By Robert D. Hof April 13, 2005 Meetup Inc. made its name…

Faces: Scott Heiferman - Meetup.com February 2005 If you wanted to join a group to learn Portuguese or find other people interested in antique cars, it used to mean hours or days scanning through online posts or trying to…

A Starter Kit for Business Ethics Corporate cheating won't be stopped by regulation or legislation. That's why whistle-blowing is everybody's job. “…Use Meetup.com or a similar mechanism to start face-to-face discussion groups to share ideas about the best companies…

Politics, E-Mail And The Gift Economy Steve McGookin ” … far from the traditional hierarchical model of top-down information distribution, it is more likely to be ground-up, peer-to-peer networks—such as … MeetUp—using the principle of…

:newsweek: Farewell, Web 1.0! We Hardly Knew Ye Web 1.0 was making the Net for people. Web 2.0 is making the Internet better for computers By Steven Levy Are you ready for the new Web? It's getting ready for you….

Innovator of the Year: Scott Heiferman CEO of Meetup.com pioneered the disruptive idea of going online to go offline By Neil Savage September 30, 2004 In a season when bloggers, Internet polling, and online donations are reshaping presidential politics,…

Opinion: The Meetup Presidency   By : Jesse Gordon and Christine B. Williams An organizing tool guaranteed to triple donations. Proven to increase campaign volunteers by 30 percent monthly. Ready-to-use in all 50 states. Another McCain-Feingold loophole? No, it’s…

:time: Meetup.com A convenient, non-threatening way to connect to other people who share similar interests and live nearby. The gatherings are off-line — what a concept — and can take place anywhere, such as a coffee shop, bar, bowling alley…

Dumb and Dumber Why are campaign commercials so bad?   by Joshua Green   ….. This year, once again, a huge number of Americans will experience their most tangible encounter with politics not at a campaign rally, debate, or…

Click here to become an activist: ‘Gay rights’ ranks high among hot topics on MeetUp.com as amendment fights heat up By CHRISTOPHER SEELY May. 28, 2004 They showed up for various personal reasons, but their guiding purpose was the…

Video Island targets movie buffs with Meetup film quiz May 17, 2004 Jennifer Whitehead  LONDON - The online DVD rental service Video Island has teamed up with Meetup.com to help film fans get together across the UK. Meetup.com is the…

Excerpted: … Yet it's still the big bucks and influence peddlers that count most. Bush and Kerry each have gotten more than 65% of their money from $ 1,000-plus donors. But Kerry is catching up fast to…

Wired Rave Award Winners POLITICIAL FORCE • Scott Heiferman – CEO, Meetup           • Joe Trippi – Former Campaign Manager, Dean for America See full size (pdf)…

SPECIAL REPORT; WEB SMART; Number 3876; Pg. 102 CLICK THE VOTE By Stephen Baker; With Heather Green in New York and Robert D. Hof in San Mateo, Calif. In the age of Internet politics, the Web can make or…

Web Politics: “It's Just the Beginning” The Business of Online Campaigns You might think tech companies would be jumping into this burgeoning market, but for most it's merely a sideline Scott Heiferman, 31-year-old co-founder of Meetup, runs one of…

:newsweek: Dean's Net Effect Is Just the Start Imagine if a national leader decided to exploit the power of the Internet in an effort to bring affordable health care to millions of uninsured families By Steven Levy March 29 issue…

Please, Ralph, Not This Year Seven reasons why progressives shouldn't support the candidacy of a progressive hero. By Micah Sifry … “[Ralph Nader] is not even in a two-way conversation with the public I've long picked up…

:time: Howard's End? Dean and Trippi started a new style of campaigning. Will the movement outlast the candidate? … Yet it was Trippi, a veteran political strategist who had previously worked on a number of losing presidential campaigns, who came…

:rollcall: Meetup.com Web Service Now Seeks Paying Political Customers By Nicole Duran, Roll Call Staff Executives at Meetup.com — the online service that brings people with common interests together, such as Chihuahua owners or druids — think Congressional campaigns are…

Campaign '04: How the Internet is Changing Politics Ann M. Mack JANUARY 26, 2004 Old Glory sways limply in the breeze from a hardware store just west of The Grand Saloon, an old-school pub on East 23rd Street in…

Howard's Web : The Dean camp's Internet impresario. by David Skinner IF HOWARD DEAN'S VAUNTED Internet campaign has a guru, it's arguably Howard Rheingold, author of “The Virtual Community,” “Smart Mobs,” and other works of techno-sociology. Rheingold, once called…

The Real World By Cade Metz Sites like Friendster, LinkedIn, and Ryze feed off real-world relationships. They grab social networks you've forged with handshakes and face-to-face conversations and move them online, using the Web to fine-tune and expand them….

RUNNING ON INSTINCT by MARK SINGER Excerpt: “Last January, three months before an interactive Dean Web page came into being, supporters on both coasts were discovering each other online through Yahoo.com. The same month, Meetup.com, a new Internet service…

Linux Journal Goes Public Posted on Wednesday, December 31, 2003 by Doc Searls    Well, not exactly, but we're meeting in public on the second Wednesday of every month. Linux Journalism no longer has to be a solitary profession….

How the Internet Invented Howard Dean Forget fundraising (though his opponents sure can't). The real reason the Doctor is in: He listens to the technology - and the people who use it. By Gary Wolf It is 83 days…

:time: Joe Klein: “Indeed, [Dean Supporters] seem to have replaced religion with cybercommunity; the monthly Meetup is their church.” Link … and in NATION/CAMPAIGN '04; Pg. 20: “…So far, Dean's lack of a broad policy vision hasn't bothered his growing…

Emerging Technology Internet-Era Democracy Can the World Wide Web give ordinary people a shot at true populism? By Steven Johnson DISCOVER Vol. 25 No. 01 | January 2004 | Technology Presidential campaigning is being swept into a new era…

THE YEAR IN PR … PR SHAPED THE STORIES OF 2003 To supplement the Book of Lists, PRWeek asked four industry insiders with very different careers what the biggest PR stories and trends of the year were….

Conservative Spotlight: Townhall.com By Joseph A D'Agostino As the Internet has taken off, so has Townhall.com, an early player in the burgeoning conservative web sub-world. “This year has seen the most significant growth rate in our history,” said Jonathan…

:nytimes: Cover Story: Sunday : The New York Times Magazine. By SAMANTHA M. SHAPIRO The (mostly) young people behind Howard Dean's campaign — the brokenhearted, the techno-utopians, the formerly apolitical — come together because they like the candidate. But…

ZEITGEIST - MEETUP.COM WEBSITE AIMS TO HELP LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE TO GET TOGETHER TO SOCIALISE On the one hand, meetup.com could be about the most banal use of high technology you could wish to imagine; on the other hand, it…

:newsweek: “Campaign 2004 will be fought less in the air and more on the ground, less on TV and more on “GOTV” (get out the vote). This is good news for democracy: 30-second ads are alienating; a nice knock on…

The Marketing of a President By Edward Cone … The two most effective tools for Dean have been a Web site that allows users to set up meetings with individuals of similar interests, known as Meetup.com; and the…

COOL NEWS OF THE DAY Reveries Meetup. Cool News of the Day is joining the ranks of one of the most fascinating concepts since Google. It is called Meetup, and it enables people with similar interests (like marketing, for…

:newrep: JOE TRIPPI REINVENTS CAMPAIGNING Organization Man by Noam Scheiber … Trippi is often credited with bringing the Dean campaign into the information age. In fact, it's the other way around: It was Dean's rapidly growing Internet support…

The Presidential Primary Goes National Edited by Richard S. Dunham; By Alexandra Starr This is the time when Presidential hopefuls normally spend most of their waking hours at house parties in New Hampshire and country cafés in Iowa. So…

:amprosp: October, 2003 SPECIAL REPORT; Youth and Politics; Pg. A6 Virtual Politics; How the Internet is transforming democracy BY GARANCE FRANKE-RUTA; GARANCE FRANKE-RUTA is a Prospect senior editor   Retired four-star Gen. Wesley Clark seemed a very appealing fellow to…

A Four-Star Candidate? From the September 29, 2003 issue: Wesley Clark announces for president. by Matthew Continetti 09/29/2003, Volume 009, Issue 03 …Clark's major strength, meanwhile, is similar to Dean's: He excites people. This is evident in…

Taking America Offline Meetup.com uses the web to get people off their computers and talking to one another. In the process, it's revolutionizing American politics. By Maggie Overfelt Scott Heiferman, the 31-year-old co-founder of meetup.com, doesn't act like the…

Web Changes Campaign 2004 … And the Reporters Who Follow It By Joe Strupp Dick Polman's coverage of the Sept. 4 Democratic presidential debate in Albuquerque, N.M., began when The Philadelphia Inquirer veteran attended a Howard Dean “meetup” the…

General Election There is a certain kind of voter who, perpetually discontented with the available candidates, projects his hopes onto some white knight. Inevitably, the prospective hoped-for savior declines to run (Mario Cuomo, Colin Powell) or, worse still, runs…

Instant Arnolds swarm the Net Recall spurs freelance flood of pic parodies, barbs BY: Paul Bond Team Arnold has been bragging that more than 3,500 Californians registered at Meetup.com to attend Schwarzenegger-for-governor meetings across the state and that the…

:hotline: WHEN MEETUPS COLLIDE Dean “has asked” retired Gen. Wesley Clark (D-AR) “to join his campaign” if Clark does not enter the WH '04 race himself, and sources say “the two men discussed the vice presidency at a weekend meeting”…

:hotline: WHITE HOUSE 2004 — THE PRIMARY GRAHAM: WHO KNEW MEETUP PEOPLE WERE SWINGERS? A poster on Sen. Bob Graham's (D-FL) blog writes: “Well, the first round of Graham Meetups were a blast. I attended the meetup in lovely Gainesville,…

:time: Howard Dean Broadens His Message With the Democratic left secure, the candidate tries to extend his national appeal By PERRY BACON, JR. …Talking about race may not win the south for Dean, but discussing issues like affirmative action could…

Meet-up at the White House?; All of a sudden, the anti-war Howard Dean looks a serious candidate for US president. By Edward Miliband Flashmobs are the fad of the summer. Groups of young people, prompted by the internet, gather…

Business Technology: Instant Campaign (Just Add Internet) By Jim Nash Seven weeks. What if that was all the time you had to sell a new product online? And you had to have the site up today. And there were…

Dean's List Can the Vermont guv flash mob his way to power? Jeff Taylor … Dean's campaign is setting a new standard for integrating the Internet into the overall campaign and is using a number of free…

E L E C T I O N 2 0 0 4 The Dean Factor: He's got money, momentum, excitement. But is that enough to take him to the top? By KAREN TUMULTY/BURLINGTON [excerpt] DEAN'S LEGIONS A little more…

The Left’s Mr. Right? By Jonathan Alter, Newsweek Consider two voters motivated to contribute to Howard Dean's presidential campaign: one is a supporter; the other is a … “supporter.” KEVIN O’CONNOR, A 53-year-old investment banker, went to Denver’s first…

From the K Street Corridor Grassroots Grit One of the Internet phenomena of the 2004 presidential cycle — Meetup.com — has inked an alliance with Grassroots Enterprise, the online communications company chaired by former Clinton White House press secretary…

The Web Wires the Movement By Andrew Boyd, The Nation July 25, 2003 The Battle in Seattle brought to the world's attention a new global resistance movement that was not only made possible by the Internet but, as Naomi…

Local gatherings get press for Meetup.com Written by Douglas Quenqua WASHINGTON: Reports earlier this month that dark-horse Presidential candidate Howard Dean had raised $7.5 million in a single quarter with the help of the barely year-old website Meetup.com placed…

CAMPAIGN JOURNAL Dean's List by Ryan Lizza … The [Kerry] campaign recently inked a deal with Meetup.com and now regularly implores supporters to sign up for the service. And, while Dean still has ten times more people signed up…

How Dean Is Winning The Web The Democrat's ability to win fans and raise cash online has taken his party by surprise By CHRIS TAYLOR/SAN RAFAEL Howard Dean is hardly what you would call a high-tech guru. The former…