Updates from December

I have decided that if a non organizer wants to host an event and myself or an AO are not able to assist we can either post it as a note on the calender or as a message board thread so it doesn't diminish the great work my team puts into the group.

Steve

I do the same.
And I agree.

The purpose of checking the organizer is to make sure someone is responsible for the event.

AGAIN this would be an optional thing, it would still have the organizer or ao's listed but for those of us who run moms groups and others that we routinely have people host inhome events or they are the host for a venue it would be beneficial.

I am not saying take it away but it wouldn't be that hard to ignore the Other box if you aren't using it.

And also I have 88 members, we have over 40 to 50 events a month it is impossible for an Org to be at every event and it's not something my members expect anyways. The majority of them have been in the group for 2 yrs now. For me it's not a trust issue of making them an AO we do not and should not have to make them an AO in order to "host" events.

Hi Sherri -

That's a great suggestion. We'll update this in the next release.

-Rush

Thank you soooooo much for promptly restoring our rsvp comments! Whew! And I agree that having to click on 'change your rsvp' to change your rsvp comment is less than desired. I have seniors in my group who had a hard enough time with this....can you at least reword the link to read something along the lines of: 'change your rsvp and/or comment'?

it would still have the organizer or ao's listed but for those of us who run moms groups and others that we routinely have people host inhome events or they are the host for a venue it would be beneficial.

You can put the house hose name in the "How to find the organizer" section.
Even if the Organizer or AO can't make the event, the setting is to allow any e-mails or contacts to go to a person in charge.


I have 1400+ members in my group. Suggestion to have an "Other" or droplist to select any member would be pointless. There are so many John, Jennifer, etc.. in my group that I would just see names repeat.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU for restoring our RSVP comments to the way they were before!!! You guys are awesome!

Regarding Estimated No. of Attendees: why does it show as zero after an event? Everyone who rsvp'd yes showed up at the event, and some of us have rated the event, but the Estimated no. of Attendees still shows as "0"

it would still have the organizer or ao's listed but for those of us who run moms groups and others that we routinely have people host inhome events or they are the host for a venue it would be beneficial.

You can put the house hose name in the "How to find the organizer" section.
Even if the Organizer or AO can't make the event, the setting is to allow any e-mails or contacts to go to a person in charge.


I have 1400+ members in my group. Suggestion to have an "Other" or droplist to select any member would be pointless. There are so many John, Jennifer, etc.. in my group that I would just see names repeat.

The point I am trying to make is that it's an optional thing that I have seen others request as well. It doesn't have to be used by your group, you can continue clicking the organizer or ao. How it would be pointless to be there when there are hundreds of groups who could use it doesn't make sense. Sure it may be pointless to you, just as the rsvp comments vs the talk about the event was pointless to alot it was still a big change and it's up to you to use or not.

I am not trying to be rude but seriously if its an option to use or not there shouldn't be an issue if its pointless to you or other organizers. If the need is there and it's requested so be it.

I don't know if this has been said or not, but I really don't like the member names so small and not in bold on the RSVPs. The names are harder to see than they used to be.

Can you please BOLD the names and make them larger! :-)

Also, can you add the link back to HIDE THE PHOTOS. I don't need to see everyone's photos. Thanks! !!

Dionne
Organizer of Mercer Moms and Mercer County Croppers

I think the site looks good but someone needs to be a contact person and provide a phone number for the numerous questions that go into these meet-ups. For instance, are we going to be right outside the mall doors...driving entrance to the mall? Do we have signs, is someone bringing extras...I assume someone does have the malls permission to do this? And a million other things that are simply but a pain once you arrive and realize that you're lacking something.

Very helpful esp for the groups that are private and require this info before accepting them etc!! ROCK ON!
Here's what we did NOT do:

1. Organizer-less events. If someone is hosting an event, they need to be either the Organizer or an assistant Organizer. We understand that this isn't ideal for some Meetups (eg play dates) but we're not going to change this right now. Many of you have suggested some clever partial work-arounds on this board, such as using the "where can you find the Organizer" field to explain. Another possibility is to make the playdate host an assistant Organizer temporarily.

I really wish we could just add a box that says others, that would satisfy probably 100% of the members of every meetup group. There are sooo many that have host that are not organizers regardless of if they are moms group, hobby group, movie group etc that it would be beneficial to have an other and fill in the box with the name.

I do think it would be incredibly ridiculous to make someone an asst org every time they had a playdate. I have 89 members and they have to host 2 events a year, thats to much.

Anyways I keep hoping and wishing that meetup would really consider adding just the optional box, don't have to do away with the current but giving an other so they know NOT to look for that organizer.

AGREE!!! Though I'm not a mom's group, on a post on the other thread I mentioned how about 50% of my girls' group meetup is planned by a non-organizer, it's the beauty of our group, and what has allowed us, in just over a year of the group's creation have over 200 meetups. It's VITAL to the success of our groups, as I'm sure it is for many other groups as well.

Making these people "temporary" organizers is ridiculous way to manage it. We have anywhere from one to 4 meetups a week, imagining all these people as temporary organizers? It would create confusion and would be a great interruption to our structure. Make it OPTIONAL if you don't want to change it then. We always had our organizers sign the meetup and always had a link to the host's profile and even then I constantly get emails to meetups I'm not hosting. With my name there would make it even MORE confusing. Why do that, or create extra steps to keep explaining the situation when they are not needed?

I have a full-time job, as I'm sure most of the meetup organizers, it takes a lot of my free-time as is to manage my groups. I haven't even been able to participate on an event in months because of everything else I have going, but the group remains strong because of these great members who are willing to host and create new events, all I do is post the information, and you are making it more and more time consuming then it was or it should be. This is ridiculous.

I've been a meetup member for over 2 years, and though some improvement is always welcome, as someone previously mentioned, please do not remove features that we previously had, and understand that for some of us, the success of our meetup groups is exactly the way we let members feel part of the group and being directly involved and responsible for such success.

And by the way, I just now noticed that ALL my events are now listed as Organized by Carla, even though I only posted one myself, and the rest were posted by one of the Assistant Organizers. Geez, would it be too hard to have at the very least linked it to the organizer who posted the event???

Since some of our members are hosting these events, I do not know which organizer actually posted it and now cannot change it without either wasting MORE time contacting ALL organizers, or making a "guess"