Wendy/lookin to lose has been Deactivated

I just noticed that she is no longer with us.  She is also not on the meetup site anymore.  Are we even going to bother with that site any more?

Lori- I just made the same observation.... I, personally, say bye bye to meetup.com- I think its a great concept BUT My concern is who will be the "chief" information officer to continue to keep it up-to-date and will there be NO EXCLUSIONS??? What are your thoughts- is it needed/helpful/hurtful/neutral? Sheila

I thought and still think that the meetup.com idea was a great one.

In practice, I personally found it both helpful and hurtful ... but, I don't think that it needs to be hurtful to anyone.

I didn't and wouldn't expect that anyone to be a gatekeeper, just a facilitator. I think that if it is used solely as a place to post/rsvp events across NC that would be great. I like the idea of being able to find things on a calendar basis instead of having to dig through the posts, especially since I haven't figure out any way to sort the posts. I think it could be a great planning tool.

I would love to see us continue to interact with one another face-to-face as well as online. (For example, I truly enjoyed meeting you, Lisa and Chareen when we made the trip to the beach.) So I think having a centralized place to post a myriad of events that could be attended by anyone who wanted to come would be great.

If we were to continue along that idea, I'd love to see it statewide, instead of just Raleigh. This could help us gather at the beach, the mountains, the lake, Charlotte, Raleigh, Ashville, Greensboro, etc... The nice thing about this forum is that we are making friends with people across the state, not just with those that live in our own neighborhood.

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Gee ... I wonder if we could just get the powers that be at OH give us a calendar for each forum so that we do the same here ... Might have to ping them about that.

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I thought about it, and did send OH a message letting them know that I think some sort of calendar feature that would allow us to post and view events w/o wadding through postings would really enhance the OH experience.

Hi Barb,  As suggested I believe you are the perfect person to organize the meetings and be the new CEO of the meetup.com website.  I am sure we can come up with $5 or $10 each to send you to start it up.  What do you think? DianeF

In theory, Meetup.com is a wonderful place.  I am a member of the Raleigh Jaycees and this is where we coordinate all of our events.  It is a beautiful thing. As for our OH community, we wanted to duplicate that enviornment here.  However, in my mind this has been an exhausting couple of weeks with Meetup.com.  Why don't we take time to recover and we can re-address this issue in a couple of months.  In the meantime, if someone has an event or meetup, they can post it on the main board.   Just my two cents worth... Please share any and all thoughts you have.

Funny how many of us are night owls!  It seems to me the whole meet up site has been cleared of all information.  Sheila?  You still feeling the love? lol. nancy

Whoo! Whoo! Are you a nite owl too?

Barb

 I'm a night owl, I'm a night owl...  Well not by choice but my work hours are 7pm to 7am, so here I am... lol!   I liked the concept of meetup but seems there were a lot of problems.  Could there be a calender type thing on our board here with OH?  I dunno, just throwin it out there.   Nancy, are you goin to Mare's on Friday?  I can't wait to meet everyone in our area!

Oops... guess I should have read the last line on Barb's post, she mentioned the calender thing with OH also... Yikes!!!