From: DeepGreene
To: mitto
Date: Mar 23, 2011 @ 3:58am
Subject: Tell your Groups about Meetup!
Hi Ahmad,
As a Group Admin, you can help us build stronger chess communities!
You may already know that we have a new Meetup.com channel to help chess players everywhere connect in local groups. The focus now is on a big event April 16 - but that's just a start!
Strong groups like yours already provide a sense of community for many members. That's why we would appreciate your help to encourage participation in the Meetup experience.
Your assistance could be as simple as posting a short News item about our Meetup page/event - or even just asking a question in your Forum about who's participating!
Here are some useful links, in case you want to help:
»The Chess.com Meetup Page - This is where people sign up!
http://www.meetup.com/chesscom/
»The Official Announcement in our Blog:
http://blog.chess.com/webmaster/announcement-1st-world-wide-chesscom-meetup
Any light you can throw on this initiative is much appreciated! Thank you!
Regards,
Michael Greene (Projects & Social Outreach)
Announcement: 1st World-wide Chess.com Meetup!
To help make this happen, we've created our own page over at Meetup.com - a great tool for helping local groups coordinate without noise from groups in other areas.
Here's how it works:
1. Hit our Meetup page
2. If there are Chess.com communities in your area, you'll see them on the map
3. If there aren't, you can create one by clicking "Start a new community" and giving it a name
4. From the Community page, you'll see details for the first meetup day "Let's Play Chess!" on April 16, 2011 - click the orange button that says "Count me in"
That's about it - and yes, it's entirely free to use the Meetup service for these events!
The community is basically a local forum for chess-lovers who can then join up & use the tool to suggest/select meeting places, confer about who can bring clocks/sets, etc. On April 16, there's nothing left to do but show up and play!
So, if you're interested in meeting chess-lovers near you, please jump over and start building your community today!
Cheers!