How to Run a Successful Book Club
Running a book club can be a relatively low-cost and high-value experience. To help, I thought I'd document how I tend to prefer book clubs.
Posts tagged “meetups”
24 posts.
Elixir Book Club: Testing Elixir, Starts November 13th
I read this back in April of 2021 and thought well of it. It's a good overview of the various testing tools available and how to apply them to Elixir scenarios and patterns (OTP, Ecto, Phoenix).
Finding Volunteers for Your Meetup Group
The easiest way to find volunteers for your meetup group is to ask for help. Be specific and define meaningful, approachable tasks that are easy for group regulars to take on.
Providing New Member Onboarding for Online Meetups During COVID
Draft a plan, automate the execution, share the responsibilities, learn how to better serve your members.
Goal-oriented Side Event Ideas for Technical Meetups
Goal-oriented events are the magnets that help attract members. Social bonds and community come through these events.
Evolve or Die: It's Time to Rethink Meetup Groups
While meetups have lots of individual and social benefits, many have not evolved and are on a declining trajectory. In today’s video we’ll ponder as to the causes of this decline and how you can evolve your own meetup …
Android Book Club Update
We are moving from our Kotlin book to the Android book. Great time to join us!
Actionable Ideas How Meetups Can Evolve When Forced Online Only
Today I recorded some thoughts regarding the challenges meetups are facing as they've been forced online and ideas how those challenges can be met.
Help Me with an Introduction to Your Meetup Organizer
I'm trying to schedule some more customer research (not selling anything) phone calls (30m) with other meetup organizers.
Kotlin Tools for Android Book Club
A quick tour of some of the tools you'll want to use to help learn Kotlin.
Finding Speakers to Present at Your Event
A few ideas to help you keep your stress low and your speaker confirmations flowing.
An Android Book Club for iOS Developers
I am hoping to attract current iOS developers who are looking to expand their knowledge and use their current experiences with Swift and iOS to help shape the conversations at the weekly meetings.
How to Brainstorm Presentation Topics for Your Events
What do you do when no one submits a presentation for the monthly meeting? You make it work and plan something yourself.
Video: Nurturing Your Community During Lock Down (7m)
My Project: Club House Hosting
Meetup Finds New Owners and I Welcome the Competition
For a long time I’ve felt Meetup’s service offerings were pretty mediocre and stale. In 2017 they were purchased by WeWork and things only got worse. I’ve been a long time group organizer and feel very …
Philly Elixir Meetup is Rebooting
After too long of a hiatus, the Philly Elixir Meetup group is rebooting! https://www.meetup.com/PhillyElixir Elixir is a functional programming language that is popular for building web apps and services using a library …
New Project: Group Leadership Club
Today I’d like to share a new project I’ve been working on called Group Leadership Club, Helping People Build Successful Technical Meetups. This site is dedicated to group leaders. Our goal is to help them …
Network Design Talk at Philly CocoaHeads
I’m going to be giving a talk at the local CocoaHeads next week. If you are in Philly area you should stop by. Thursday, January 10, 2019 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM IndyHall 399 Market Street, Suite 360 Meetup RSVP …
Meetup.com Survey Links
Someone has breached Meetup.com security and been sending out links to some sketchy surveys. I saw some more yesterday so I figured I’d post a warning. Meetup.com seems to be aware of it (as the messages are being …
Philly Blockchain Tech Meetup
Local geek friend Ben DiFrancesco is starting up a new meetup called Philly Blockchain Tech: Don’t miss the first ever meeting of Philly Blockchain Tech! Special thanks to our gracious hosts, Elsevier, for providing the …
How We Record Talks at Philly CocoaHeads
I came across this post from Rico Jones on how he records the Portland Ruby Brigade’s monthly meetings and thought I’d do something similar for how we record the Philly CocoaHead presentations. Why Only Main Talks This …
Philly CocoaHeads: History
Being the lead organizer of the Philly chapter of CocoaHeads, I always welcome the opportunity to chat with members of other meetups. It’s great to compare notes on how we run our groups, what’s worked and what’s failed. …
Philly CocoaHeads Website Relaunch Project
I haven’t had an active side project in the last few months. When asked I would tell people looking for a new job was my side project. Now that I have that new job search (and my Girl Develop It class behind me it’s time …
Philly Craftsmanship
Software as Craft Philadelphia A community of professionals dedicated to well-crafted software Was very happy to attend the inaugural meeting of this group last week. Was a great mix of discussion and hands-on …