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Meetup embarks on a thirteen-city tour to meet community organizers NEW YORK, NY, June 17 – Meetup will be hosting events in thirteen cities from June 15th through June 25th that will bring together over 300 local community organizers to…

How Meetup Tore Up the Rule Book The popular Web site company's radical experiment is putting employees in charge CEO Heiferman (foreground) has let workers become their own bosses (Chris Mueller/Redux) by Heather Green BW Magazine The management revolt…

Holt Tries Meetup.com for Latest Promo by Rachel Deahl — Publishers Weekly, 2/4/2008 Holt marketing director Richard Rhorer hadn't heard of Meetup.com, much less thought of using it as a publicity tool, until a work project turned him into a…

Members of BabyMine Playgroup raised more than $5,000 for the March of Dimes Walk America in Hyde Park. The Poughkeepsie-based group for mothers and children was participating in the event for the second year. Last year, the group raised…

By SUZANNE CROW HAGGERTY For the Madison Spirit Meetup.com helps people find others in their area who share interests and hobbies. Most groups gather regularly at events called Meetups. While Meetup.com doesn't charge users to create an account, join a…

Independent wine consultant Alisa Hoffman, left, chats with Jade Edwards during the event. Hoffman says she created the group after she moved to the East Valley from Baltimore last summer and was unable to find an existing group. Photo…

photo by Paige Hilton GUELPH TRIBUNE Guelph, Ontario, Canada A local woman has formed a club for female motorcycle enthusiasts just in time for the first National Female Ride Day, Friday May 4. Sistas of the Road held its…

eBay, Meetup Meet Up By Alyce Lomax (TMF Lomax) April 13, 2006 If you've been listening to the news, you might have serious doubts about meeting face-to-face with people you first encounter online. eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) doesn't seem to…

eBay's Affinity for Meetup.com The online auctioneer has a lot in common with the virtual community site, so it took a nibble The online auction colossus has caught a dose of community activism. On Mar. 9, eBay (EBAY) joined…

Do Blogs Need Structure? Does a new push for standards for structured content answer a need, or does it represent a power struggle in the blogosphere? Some 30 startups announced the Structured Blogging Initiative on Tuesday evening at the…

Internet revolution: “The power to organize” Talking to CNET News.com's Charles Cooper, Meetup founder and CEO Scott Heiferman says Meetup is spreading beyond America. The service, Heiferman says, is helping “make the world a friendlier place.” Click here to watch…

VV Show #6 - Scott Heiferman of Meetup Entrepreneurs need community. This entrepreneur makes communities. An Illinois native, Scott Heiferman came to New York while working for Sony in 1994. He quickly joined the avant-garde of the Silicon Alley…

MARSHALL LOEB'S DAILY MONEY TIP Why join a money club? NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — If the 1990s was the decade for investment clubs, then perhaps the 2000s is the time for money clubs. Throughout the U.S., from small towns…

Songs of Sommer Dwight Frizzell builds a Bridge. By Rebecca Braverman, Annie Fischer, Megan Metzger and Andrew Miller Kids Today … Take me to your leader. SAT 7/9 Where are the leaders in this town? The Kansas City Young…

Sebastian: New group to support parents By Bill Valyo community correspondent May 12, 2005 A unique parent support group has been introduced to the North County. Geared for children up to the age of 3, the group incorporates existing…

Profile: Scott Heiferman, CEO of Meetup.com Link Meetup has been extremely successful by targeting the community aspect of the Internet and focusing on services that people need in order to connect. Interview conducted by Nathan Kaiser on Tuesday, April…

Payup, says Meetup By Andrew Orlowski in San Francisco Friday, 15th April, 2005 Scott Heiferman's Meetup.com - the site beloved by Howard Dean supporters, Segway enthusiasts, and Flame Warrior Coffee Klatches, is to begin charging for its services. A…

A group weblog by the sharpest minds in online media/journalism/publishing Meetup.com's Success Leads to a Decision to Charge Posted by Steve Yelvington Wednesday, April 13, 2005 Most local news organizations have been focusing their Internet efforts on hard news…

Meetup and Cyber Rabble-rousing CEO Scott Heiferman says websites like his that help people form social groups and organize events around common interests are becoming a ” vital” part of the democratic process. Thursday, April 7, 2005 By David…

Conservative Spotlight: Townhall.com by Robert B. Bluey Posted Apr 5, 2005 “Successful politics is about addition and multiplication, not division and subtraction.” —Robert H. Krieble (1916-97), former vice chairman, The Heritage Foundation “Ten years after the Heritage Foundation first…

THE HOTLINE YOU MEET, I MEET, WE ALL MEET FOR MEETUP Friday, March 11, 2005 Meetup.com announced 3/11 “the formation of a Politics and Governance Advisory Council” to “explore and encourage the rising citizen participation in governmental and electoral…

Interesting juxtapositions: The Nonprofit Technology Conference and the Digital Divide Network Meetup By Deborah Elizabeth Finn As I have mentioned previously in my blog, I am looking forward very much to the annual Nonprofit Technology Conference in Chicago later…

Meetup meets a milestone: 100K meetings March 4, 2005 Meetup.com's just passed 100,000 meetings! Not only that, they're evolving tools for organizer, building a services-based business model, and tweaking the back end a bit, says Myles Weissleder, Communications VP. Oh,…

ICT Etcetera - Announcing Digital Divide Meetups By Andy Carvin February 27th, 2005 Hi everyone, I've got some exciting news… Some of you may remember the podcast I posted a couple of weeks ago when the Digital Divide Network…

Red Hat and Meetup.com Cross Roads By Sean Michael Kerner February 3, 2005 “Usually on the first Thursday of every month, they gather at up to 326 different points around the globe from Mumbai to Boston to discuss code…

Online Communities: Alloys of Silicon and Flesh Citizen reporter Inkyu Kang ponders how the Internet has changed the world in the past 10 years Meetup,” an online community in which members with the same hobbies or interests meet in…

Kerry, MeetUps, and House Parties “Fascinating back and forth over at Kos about Zack Exley’s role in the failure of the Kerry campaign to use the Net as a p2p tool. Here’s Zack’s response to Kos. At the Harvard…

:foxnews: Bowlers Win It for Bush Meetup.com recently sponsored the Great American Meetup Bowl-Off, in which supporters of President Bush schooled John Kerry backers on the art of hitting a strike. Nearly 2,000 people in over 40 states set aside…

:abcnews: Meet the Top Innovator of the Year Who is the top innovator of the year? The researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology along with the editors of the university's Technology Review magazine put their heads to come up…

JOHN FUND ON THE TRAIL Caught in the Web How Democrats mobilized online and other campaign tales [Excerpted] … Despite the bursting of the Dean bubble, Mr. Trippi's team did change campaign politics in fundamental ways. “If…

‘Let’s meet and discuss…’ Panelists in Washington last week discussed the benefits of people meeting informally through sites like Meetup.com. From left, Scott Heiferman, CEO, Meetup.com; Sean Murphy, COO, Capital Advantage; Susan Sarfati, CAE, CEO, Greater Washington Society of…

Net brings activists out in force By Matt Wells New York With politics in America more polarised than any time since the 1960s, there is one thing that all the parties can agree on this crucial election year -…

:salon: Storm warnings for Bush in Ohio The John Kerry campaign offices may still be dark in this key battleground state, but an invisible tidal wave is growing here against the president. - - - - - - - -…

The Patriot's Guide To The Revolution VIEW FROM THE RIGHT Adam Sparks, Special to SF Gate “… The din is deafening. How does a small group of individuals effectively gain a voice anymore that rises above the…

Commentary Community.com Churches shouldn't ignore the meetup phenomenon. by Jesse Holcomb You probably heard a lot of buzz surrounding Howard Dean’s innovative grassroots campaign (amassing more than $45 million in donations; half were for $200 or less). But you…

:natj: More than 7,000 people have registered for nationwide meetings next week to oppose a U.S. constitutional amendment against gay marriage, according to Meetup.com and the gay rights organization Human Rights Campaign. Since Meetup and the campaign formed a partnership…

:hotline: NATIONAL CAUCUS NIGHTS? Later this month, both presidential campaigns will, essentially, be hosting national caucus nights or so believes MeetUp's Don Means. The Bush campaign on 4/29 is calling it “National Party for the President Day.” To date, the…

:abcnews: The Puzzle of Politicking Online Why Massive Online Support Doesn't Equal Political Victory By Paul Eng ABCNEWS.com March 3— Political candidates are discovering a harsh lesson about the Internet during this year's presidential election bid: Technology is a double-edged…

Interior Design Affinity Group Grows Dave Platter Interior Design — 3/3/2004 The Web site that played a crucial role in this year's Democratic presidential nomination, www.meetup.com , is also organizing a Work & Career segment for interior designers in a monthly “International…

In cyberspace, no one can hear you scream By Elizabeth Heichler, IDG News Service The famous anguished howl that marked the beginning of the end of Howard Dean's pursuit of the U.S. presidency in 2004 may have reverberated loudly…

:abcnote: A final thought: One of the questions about the Dean legacy is to what degree did he leverage existing political trends — or did he forge them himself? A Note to us from Meetup's Myles Weissleder provides one answer:…

:slate: Howard's Web: The Internet couldn't save Dean, but it could still help Kerry. By Paul Boutin Slate offers its end-of-term report card on Dean's Web strategy… Media Buzz: B This one's a wash at best. Only one…

By Leigh Shelton   The Reveille (Louisiana State U.)   Ice cream flavor promotes voting… 02/17/2004     (U-WIRE) BATON ROUGE, La. - From ice cream giveaways to “Meetups” at coffee shops, political activists are pulling out all the…

:foxnews: Online Friends 'Meet Up' in the Real World Wednesday, February 11, 2004 By Laura Rich NEW YORK — The first Tuesday of every month, Elvis fans are likely to be gathering near you. So are crochet lovers, people who want to…

:natj: Technology Daily - Campaigns People interested in handicapping the rest of the 2004 Democratic presidential primaries should study the rise and fall of registrations for political events made via Meetup.com, according to a new report by George Washington University's…

:wsjo: Hot Topic The Internet may have boosted John Edwards and John Kerry ahead of the Iowa caucus. According to a study from the Institute for Politics, Democracy & the Internet at George Washington University, which tracked gatherings through Meetup.com,…

:wsjo: Meetup Expands Election Listings Meetup Inc. said Monday that it will create and promote monthly local gatherings for every presidential, congressional and gubernatorial candidate in the 2004 election. Closely held Meetup Inc. (www.meetup.com) of New York will use the…

:natj: Meetup.com Pushes Internet Into 2004 Election Spotlight by Ted Leventhal      Meetup.com, a politically neutral year-old Internet startup that arranges face-to-face meetings for devotees of everything from politics to poodles, has reinvented the political campaign and put the Internet squarely…

:natj: Meetup.com's Spontaneous Political Combustion by Ted Leventhal One of the biggest online political movements of the 2003-2004 campaign cycle came as a surprise to the people who founded the site. “We did not think about politics at all when…

:wirednews: Nonprofits Move On in Fundraising  By Katie Dean In the early days of the Web, nonprofits hoped to rake in the dough through shop-for-charity sites and “donate now” buttons. The money didn't roll in. Now, the groups are turning…

:wsjo: Tech Briefs Ebay Founder Joins Meetup Board Meetup Inc. announced that Pierre Omidyar, founder and chairman of eBay Inc., joined the company's board of directors and invested an undisclosed amount in the company. Closely held Meetup Inc. (www.meetup.com) of…

BY JAMES TARANTO Meeting of the Minds? Along with MoveOn.org, MeetUp.com is one of the twin pillars of Howard Dean's online campaign. MeetUp allows people to find others in their area who have similar interests and set up gatherings….

:msnbc: Mortman: Those crazy Democrats This word just keeps popping up along the campaign trail By Howard Mortman …    Lunatic fringe, indeed. The Chicago Tribune had a senior aide to another Democratic campaign saying this about Dean:…

Clark's Run: Net Made Him Do It  By Suneel Ratan Gen. Wesley Clark's decision to enter the Democratic presidential race is another sign of the Internet's growing influence on American politics, political experts and campaign officials say. Clark apparently…

“Dean's All-White Appeal Getting Attention” Posted by the ChronWatch Founder, Jim Sparkman Monday, September 15, 2003 Governor Dean made a point of bragging in the last debate that he was the only candidate talking to whites about blacks. While…

:foxnews: Dean Reaches Out to Blacks, Hispanics Tuesday , September 09, 2003 WASHINGTON — Democrat Howard Dean has drawn new faces to politics, many of them young, middle-class Web surfers. Few of those faces are of color. The presidential candidate…

:salon: Clark's Web warriors The Draft Clark movement started on the Internet, and could challenge Dean's machine for online dominance — if its rival factions can stop fighting. - - - - - - - - - - - -…

Clark's Web warriors The Draft Clark movement started on the Internet, and could challenge Dean's machine for online dominance — if its rival factions can stop fighting. - - - - - - - - - - - -…

:msnbc: Where the Democratic race stands By Tom Curry … In a speech to about 200 supporters at a Meetup.com gathering in Santa Fe, N.M., Wednesday night, Dean offered himself as a centrist who could bring disaffected Ralph…

My big fat mea culpa By Joan Walsh Aug. 11, 2003  |  It was just before 7 last Wednesday night, right after Arnold Schwarzenegger transformed the California recall election from a fiasco into a certified freak show (OK, Gary…

:msnbc: Democrats make pitch to unions ANALYSIS By Tom Curry … In an age of Internet fund-raising and the Meetup.com Web site that allows a candidate’s supporters — principally Dean’s — to spontaneously organize at the grass roots, who needs…

:msnbc: Too young to make a difference? Campaigns ignore conventional wisdom, target young voters By Rachel Elbaum MSNBC …With a Web site dedicated to student activism, downloadable “buddy icons” for AOL instant messenger with Dean’s slogans and a…

By Mark Halperin, Lisa Todorovich, Marc Ambinder, David Chalian and Brooke Brower Kerry: Senator Kerry's first REALLYBIG Meetup night - that's Thursday - has attracted hosts in 106 cities according to Meetup's Myles Weissleder. Locations range from Mona No…

WHITE HOUSE 2004 — THE PRIMARY CLARK: BIGGER THAN ELVIS? WELL, AT MEETUP.COM, AT LEAST DraftWesleyClark.com announced 7/17 that it had “reached significant milestones on multiple fronts, dramatically ramping up its effort to draft” ex-Gen Wesley Clark (?-AR) into…

Peer-to-Peer Politics Should Howard Dean be a little bit afraid of the Internet? By Chris Suellentrop It's too early to say for certain, but Howard Dean may turn out to be the Napster of presidential politics: the force that…

My date with the Bushies In which a young Brooklyn writer goes in search of savvy, cosmopolitan Manhattan residents who admire the president. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Michelle Goldberg July…