Organizer Tools

As a Meetup Organizer, you have a plethora of great tools and resources at your disposal. And all of them are designed to help you run awesome Meetup groups. Here's a quick run down of your many tools:

Group Settings

• Your Meetup Control Panel...

Frequently Asked Questions

• Questions, meet Answers...

Organizer Center

• Articles and essays about running great Meetups...

The Main Meetup Message Board

• Savvy members and Uber-Orgs love helping you out...

Meetup Support

• When in doubt, ask for help...

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Group Settings

Group Settings is the motherload - it's your Meetup cockpit, where you'll do a lot of your Meetup organizing. Group Settings links to everything you need to run your Meetup group. To get there, sign in to your Meetup account, go to your Meetup group's Our Home page, and click the "Group Settings" link in the upper left corner.

What exactly can you do from Group Settings? Great question. You can:

1. Basic Info

Set up and control the nitty-gritty details of your Meetup group. Details like:

• Meetup Group name
• Meetup Group description
• List your Group in additional topics
• Meetup Group main photo
• Meetup Group headline
• Meetup Group topics

2. Your Members

Set up and control info about your Meetup group members

• What are members called?
• Custom profile questions
• Welcome message to new members
• New member notification

3. Optional Features

Cool things you can do if they make sense for your kind of Meetup group. You can:

• Automatic Meetup scheduling
• Membership dues
• Customize "What's new?" updates
• Mailing list options
• Message board options
• The Organizer's Checklist
• Meetup Places notifications

4. Privacy

• Make Meetup Group pages private
• How can new members join?
• Who can create new About Us pages?

5. Manage your PayPal account

Manage how your members pay their fees or dues.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Got questions about Meetup? Your first stop should be our Frequently Asked Questions page. From Meetup Basics to organizing Meetup groups, the FAQ page wants to answer your questions. To get there, just click the Help link on the upper right corner of the Meetup site.

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Organizer Center

Need some tips and advice on running your Meetup group? Visit our Organizer Center and read articles written by Meetup staff and experienced Organizers about everything from promoting your Meetup group to setting up great Meetups to news from Meetup HQ. The Organizer Center is updated every week, so check back every Monday for new information.

To get to the Organizer center, just go to http://orc.meetup.com. Get inspired and see what's new!

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The Main Meetup Message Boards

There are a number of different forums in the Main Meetup Message Board. As an Organizer, you'll probably use these the most :

1. Help and technical assistance for using Meetup.com


• Ran into a situation where you're not sure how to make things work? Having a problem with the site? Post your question in the Help and Tech forum. Meetup staff and experienced members answer your questions and solve your problems.



2. Organizers' Forum


• Speak directly with Meetup's savviest Organizers from all around the world. If you have questions about the ins and outs of organizing a Meetup, you couldn't find a better place to ask them. The Orgs in the Organizer's Forum are super-smart, super-nice, and love to help.



3. Suggestions for making Meetup.com better


• Got a genius idea for a new Meetup feature? Want to tell Meetup how to improve their site/service? Post your thoughts, suggestions, and requests in this forum.

To get to these and all the Main Message Board Forums, just click "Discuss Meetup.com" on the bottom of the Meetup site.

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Meetup Support

We have several dedicated support agents answering members' questions 7 days a week. We do our best to answer questions as quickly as possible and usually reply in less than 12 hours. If you ever need to contact Meetup Support, use our Contact Meetup Support form located here:

http://www.meetup.com/help/contactus

We can't wait to hear from you!

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