MEETUPS - Some Answers

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MeetUps website

WHY MEETUPS??

I have organized a couple of meetings without meetups and it is a LOT of

work

& it only happens in areas where there is a person willing to make it

happen. Using the website should help us to have more meetings more often

in more areas with less pain in organizing them.

The MeetUps website is a tool that allows meetings to be organized any month

there are at least 5 people in an area who’d like to get together on the

subject. I really think that IF and WHEN we have regular strong meetups

going in any given area – we might be able to move those meetings off the

meetups site – but we’re not anywhere near there yet.

USING THE SITE:

Once you’re signed up, you have a log on (your e-mail) and password.

You can set it to recognize you from your own computer – so you can just GO

to the meetups site & not have to log-on every time.

If you go to the main meetups home page you can enter “uterine fibroids” in

the search box near the top left – and it will find the uterine fibroids

page for you.

Once you’re logged on and have joined the “uterine fibroids” meetups, there

are tabs at the top of the page (“next meeting” is usually the main one).

They include “members” which allow you to see ALL geographical areas –

number signed up, etc. By clicking on any other geographical area you can

see how many are there – what they’ve posted, who has responded, etc.

If you want to change to another nearby area – click over on the left side

of the uterine fibroids next meeting page where it says something like “612

other cities” – I think “other cities” is a link – or maybe it’s something

about “nearby areas.” -- Anyway – you’ll see a list of areas near you & can

change which area you want to participate in.

You can sign up for as many “topics” as you like. Just make sure uterine

fibroids is one of them. For other topics – go to the page for that topic &

checking other areas, and changing areas works the same way.

You will get e-mails but ONLY about the meetups. You will get ones asking

you to vote on proposed locations each month, and telling you what place won

the vote (or that not enough people voted) – then you’ll be asked to CONFIRM

that you’re attending. Then you’ll get a final one telling you whether it’s

a “go” or not. When you log on to the uterine fibroids site you should see

whether or not you’re confirmed for this month & see the link to click in

order to confirm.

I find sometimes the LINKS from the e-mails they send about confirming do

not work well – get caught in a sort of infinite logging-on loop – but going

to the uterine fibroids page always works for me for doing anything I want

to do with respect to our meet ups – checking them out, voting, confirming,

etc., etc., etc.

NOW THERE ARE 4 CONFIRMED in SAN FRAN

WE STILL NEED ONE MORE !!!!!!

Main Meet Ups Page: http://www.meetup.com/

Uterine Fibroids MeetUps Page: http://uterinefibroids.meetup.com/

Hope this answers ???'s

Pat

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