Well, my intentions were good, I just misunderstood. Meetup.com looks great, it definitely has it’s uses. After signing up, you can create a group (costs about £17 a month) you pledge to get people together, beyond the computer, in the physical world. There’s Meetup groups for everything imaginable, and i should use it to get out more, meet people, get involved in different activities, find new friends, find a partner, that sort of thing.
Or i could start a group that would be popular, would get lots of members, and make some money out of it. Nothing wrong with that, if your providing a good service, why not? That’s what people do here. I attended a live drawing burlesque themed group. It cost £10 to participate, lasted about 3 hours, in the back end of a pub in Soho. It’s the only meetup i’ve been to, i went because a mate who’s an illustrator was going, not to lust over the model. I enjoyed it, drew lots of rubbish, but I really tried and one came out ok.
There’s also more local community orientated groups and, well, this is not an advert but they probably explain its potential better than i could:
http://meetupblog.meetup.com
My knee jerk reaction when i came across it was to create a group, get like minded losers together and create a cool band – making money was not the motivation. What happened was the people who joined the group tended to be outgoing, intelligent, mature types probably expecting a group leader with years of experience in theater and music, who would lead them to musical nirvana each week through impeccably organised 3 hour sessions, at the end of which everyone would agree that it was lovely, and would definitely attend the following week.
Nowt wrong with that sort of thing. I just misunderstood the meetup concept. I couldn’t lead these people . I don’t have the experience, people managing skills, if anything the only experience that comes near to being relevant for the role is maybe contributing towards a good jam between, at most , 4 people, providing some coherent musical direction whilst being stoned on class A weed.
So I never fulfilled my pledge. What was i thinking? The group is now closed.
Suburban Mysticism: What happened?
Well, my intentions were good, I just misunderstood. Meetup.com looks great, it definitely has it’s uses. After signing up, you can create a group (costs about £17 a month) you pledge to get people together, beyond the computer, in the physical world. There’s Meetup groups for everything imaginable, and i should use it to get out more, meet people, get involved in different activities, find new friends, find a partner, that sort of thing.
Or i could start a group that would be popular, would get lots of members, and make some money out of it. Nothing wrong with that, if your providing a good service, why not? That’s what people do here. I attended a live drawing burlesque themed group. It cost £10 to participate, lasted about 3 hours, in the back end of a pub in Soho. It’s the only meetup i’ve been to, i went because a mate who’s an illustrator was going, not to lust over the model. I enjoyed it, drew lots of rubbish, but I really tried and one came out ok.
There’s also more local community orientated groups and, well, this is not an advert but they probably explain its potential better than i could:
http://meetupblog.meetup.com
My knee jerk reaction when i came across it was to create a group, get like minded losers together and create a cool band – making money was not the motivation. What happened was the people who joined the group tended to be outgoing, intelligent, mature types probably expecting a group leader with years of experience in theater and music, who would lead them to musical nirvana each week through impeccably organised 3 hour sessions, at the end of which everyone would agree that it was lovely, and would definitely attend the following week.
Nowt wrong with that sort of thing. I just misunderstood the meetup concept. I couldn’t lead these people . I don’t have the experience, people managing skills, if anything the only experience that comes near to being relevant for the role is maybe contributing towards a good jam between, at most , 4 people, providing some coherent musical direction whilst being stoned on class A weed.
So I never fulfilled my pledge. What was i thinking? The group is now closed.