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Welcome to WordPressMeetUps.com – the FREE alternative for your meet-up group which provides you with power, flexibility and control to manage your own Social Networking Group website

WordPressMeetUps.com is a collaborative effort to provide an alternative solution for your social network group, allowing you to organize events where your members can meet up to take part in social activities.

At wordpressmeetups.com we’ll show you how to create a WordPress website with a flexible theme which will allow you to customize the layout and appearance of your site, including full control of your menus so that your Members can click directly to those important Contents Pages.

We’ll also show you which plugins you need to provide you with a powerful and flexible Event Management System for Registrations / RSVPs for your group meet ups, and also for providing the all-important social networking functionality for your members to communicate with each other and feel part of the community which you are providing for them with your wordpressmeetups website.

We’ll do our best to get this project off the ground and help explain how to set up a WordPressMeetUps type website, but input from other Users will always be welcome and appreciated.

WordPress is an incredibly powerful and flexible system – here’s some of the things which you will be able to do with a wordpressmeetups system…

  • you will have total flexibility to create your own look and appearance
  • you can customize menus to provide links directly to important pages
  • you and your members can upload avatars
  • you can customize member profile info, setting new fields to optionally or compulsorily solicit info from new members
  • members can easily change / edit their profile info
  • you and your members can view other members public profile info
  • you and your members can send messages to other members
  • you and your members can online chat with each other
  • you and your members can make “friends” with other members within the main Group
  • you and your members can make Groups within the main Group (maybe useful for large meet-up groups)
  • you and your members can view and comment on the activity feed
  • you can see the number of online visitors, display their avatars, or display visitor maps and recent visitor avatars
  • you can send notifications to members and Groups
  • you can display Event (meet-up) information anywhere on the website
    …for example you can display your Events Calendar in a widget in a column on the home page, and/or a list of upcoming and/or past meet-up Events
  • you will be able to set RSVPs for Events, allocating a limited number of places if you wish
  • members will be allowed to RSVP for themselves and guests (if you allow this option)
  • you can even opt to allow any member to make their own events and manage the RSVPs and bookings for that event
  • coming soon… the Event functionality will allow charging for Events, and online payment with Paypal
  • organizers and members will be able to upload photos, and you may display them anywhere on the site, in posts, pages, events, sidebar widgets, etc
  • you can display online photo albums from Picasa, Flickr, etc anywhere on the site using slideshows or Cooliris Photowalls
  • you can display online Video from Youtube and other providers anywhere on the site
  • you can display online Slideshare Slideshows anywhere on the site
  • you can display map info in Google Maps window anywhere on the site
  • you can display map info in Google Earth window anywhere on the site
  • you can set Google Analytics stats for your site so that you can track visitor stats

In fact there’s really nothing much that you will not be able to do with a wordpressmeetups system, and if the BASIC functionality above isn’t enough for you then you can add functionality by adding further plugins to the system.

It’s going to take us a few weeks to get this website together, and to create all of the Contents Pages which will show you how to set up your own wordpressmeetups website, so in the meantime, please visit one of the sites which is already being set up with the wordpressmeetups system….

http://www.thailand-motorcycle-touring.com

…and by all means join Thailand-Motorcycle-Touring.com to see the extra functionality on the menus available to members.

[N.B. It looks as though due to my rush to get this site up and running we have a problem with user registration at the moment - please bear with me and I'll fix it in the near future so visitors to this site can register and become a member, since the email confirmation to activate the account has a problem at the moment - it's working fine on www.thailand-motorcycle-touring.com though]

What about the Facebook alternative to Meetup?

By admin, on February 8th, 2011

Facebook is a FREE system, one which you can create Events on, and one which handles online chat with other “friends” etc. so why not just use Facebook for organizing your group?

Well, the problem with Facebook is that once again you are not in control and you are at the mercy of those who lay down the “terms and conditions” of use. Let me give you an example…

I took quite a bit of time and trouble to set up a Facebook Page for my World Motorcycle Tourist Map (WMTmap), which is a Google Earth map which links over 180 motorcycle related Google Maps….. all these maps are publicly available to view on Google Maps, all the WMTmap does is to make it easier to click and view them within the Google Earth program.

The WMTmap Facebook Page had been on Facebook for several months, and had hundreds of “fans”, until one day, without warning, Facebook deleted the Page.

I received an email which suggested that I had somehow contravened their “terms and conditions”, but the email did not explain exactly how, nor did it provide any detail of the offense.

I tried to contact Facebook and appeal against their decision, since I was baffled at what it was that should have caused offense to anyone, but I was greeted with silence… no replies whatsoever…. and no explanation for why they had taken this decision and deleted all of my hard work.

So, before you put a lot of your own hard work into building a social group on Facebook, understand that your Group or Page could be deleted at any time with no recourse whatsoever.

If this article was in anyway not true, then Facebook could successfully sue me for libel, which they most certainly can not, since I have their email and also my appeals recorded.

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Welcome to WordPressMeetUps.com – the FREE alternative for your meet-up group which provides you with power, flexibility and control to manage your own Social Networking Group website

By admin, on February 2nd, 2011

WordPressMeetUps.com is a collaborative effort to provide an alternative solution for your social network group, allowing you to organize events where your members can meet up to take part in social activities.

At wordpressmeetups.com we’ll show you how to create a WordPress website with a flexible theme which will allow you to customize the layout and appearance of your site, including full control of your menus so that your Members can click directly to those important Contents Pages.

We’ll also show you which plugins you need to provide you with a powerful and flexible Event Management System for Registrations / RSVPs for your group meet ups, and also for providing the all-important social networking functionality for your members to communicate with each other and feel part of the community which you are providing for them with your wordpressmeetups website.

We’ll do our best to get this project off the ground and help explain how to set up a WordPressMeetUps type website, but input from other Users will always be welcome and appreciated.

WordPress is an incredibly powerful and flexible system – here’s some of the things which you will be able to do with a wordpressmeetups system…

  • you will have total flexibility to create your own look and appearance
  • you can customize menus to provide links directly to important pages
  • you and your members can upload avatars
  • you can customize member profile info, setting new fields to optionally or compulsorily solicit info from new members
  • members can easily change / edit their profile info
  • you and your members can view other members public profile info
  • you and your members can send messages to other members
  • you and your members can online chat with each other
  • you and your members can make “friends” with other members within the main Group
  • you and your members can make Groups within the main Group (maybe useful for large meet-up groups)
  • you and your members can view and comment on the activity feed
  • you can see the number of online visitors, display their avatars, or display visitor maps and recent visitor avatars
  • you can send notifications to members and Groups
  • you can display Event (meet-up) information anywhere on the website
    …for example you can display your Events Calendar in a widget in a column on the home page, and/or a list of upcoming and/or past meet-up Events
  • you will be able to set RSVPs for Events, allocating a limited number of places if you wish
  • members will be allowed to RSVP for themselves and guests (if you allow this option)
  • you can even opt to allow any member to make their own events and manage the RSVPs and bookings for that event
  • coming soon… the Event functionality will allow charging for Events, and online payment with Paypal
  • organizers and members will be able to upload photos, and you may display them anywhere on the site, in posts, pages, events, sidebar widgets, etc
  • you can display online photo albums from Picasa, Flickr, etc anywhere on the site using slideshows or Cooliris Photowalls
  • you can display online Video from Youtube and other providers anywhere on the site
  • you can display online Slideshare Slideshows anywhere on the site
  • you can display map info in Google Maps window anywhere on the site
  • you can display map info in Google Earth window anywhere on the site
  • you can set Google Analytics stats for your site so that you can track visitor stats

In fact there’s really nothing much that you will not be able to do with a wordpressmeetups system, and if the BASIC functionality above isn’t enough for you then you can add functionality by adding further plugins to the system.

It’s going to take us a few weeks to get this website together, and to create all of the Contents Pages which will show you how to set up your own wordpressmeetups website, so in the meantime, please visit one of the sites which is already being set up with the wordpressmeetups system….

http://www.thailand-motorcycle-touring.com

…and by all means join Thailand-Motorcycle-Touring.com to see the extra functionality on the menus available to members.

[N.B. It looks as though due to my rush to get this site up and running we have a problem with user registration at the moment - please bear with me and I'll fix it in the near future so visitors to this site can register and become a member, since the email confirmation to activate the account has a problem at the moment - it's working fine on www.thailand-motorcycle-touring.com though]

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