This week I was invited by Meetup staff to give a talk at Meetup Live, a series of online events launched during the pandemic and focused on topics like community building and meetup best practices. I gave a talk on Setting the Stage for Successful Events which was a (very) condensed version of our How To Organize Awesome Meetup Events course.
Before some career changes and becoming a father, I spent a lot of time organizing events for the tech and startup community in my region… altogether it was over a hundred events with thousands of unique attendees. For years I had always wanted to create a course or eBook covering best practices for organizing meetups and building community, it felt great to finally get it done. I’m a strong advocate of using community organizing as a way to build up your own skill set, you learn so much organizing events and other activities.
I was very honoured that the actual meetup.com folks themselves decided to invite me out to give this talk… my new life does not allow for very much event organizing anymore, but it kind of felt like a nice “bookend” of sorts to my old “career” organizing events.
Check out the talk below!