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Hello Social Entrepreneurs and Seekers of Interesting Meetups.
My name is Don Nasca. I organized this Meetup many years ago and we did live speed networking events at a place called Hatch in Portland. I have developed a process where all participants sat at tables of three and each could actually meet eight to twelve different people during the 1.5 to 2 hour event.
I met over 1,000 of the most interesting people in the Portland area at these events. Everyone went home smiling with new contacts and interesting ideas on how to grow their dreams into sustainable organizations.
Since the pandemic and the very sad closing of Hatch, I tried moving to a Zoom format, but it takes many hours of work and marketing dollars to generate a consistent stream of new online participants. Zoom simply can't replace a live interactive event.
One common struggle with networking is to develop a shared database that folks can refer back to when new ideas or needs arise. I did finally create an online member database so folks could find others with common interests, but it was hacked by Russian's and flooded with garbage a few months ago and I didn't notice; they even took out the login page and I don't have a backup old enough to restore it.
It's located at https://socialentrepreneurs-pdx.com/register-for-member-directory. However, I need to get the login working again.
Looking forward to seeing you in our directory.
Don Nasca
