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San Francisco's NetSquared group is the oldest and largest meetup in the network with 4,746 members. But the Bay Area is unique with its concentration of people who want to get involved in the #Tech4Good conversation, so we've decided to add regional sub-groups across the Bay Area and Silicon Valley in 2018.

When LA Tech4Good moved from infrequent events to hosting events every month like clockwork they saw a HUGE increase in growth of active and total members.

The takeaway: more events = more members = a healthier group.

Here's what happened when I put all prospective NetSquared organizers into a CRM, applied a sales funnel, and did consistent follow-up.

When I visualize which groups have held the most number of events Boston, MA; Mukono, Uganda; and Guatemala City, Guatemala emerge as the most historically active groups.

Where are NetSquared members based? There’s big concentrations in the USA in San Francisco, Seattle/Vancouver, BC and on the East Coast in Philly/DC/Baltimore.

There’s also hotspots in the UK and Cameroon.

Storify, a tool many of us have used to document our events, is shutting down (thanks for the heads-up Carolyn M. Appleton).

This is your reminder that you can export your storifys to HTML and that tools like Wordpress allow you to embed most social content without breakable embed code.

How does NetSquared grow so quickly? It's because of the networked structure of NetSquared’s community.
Local chapter leaders OWN their local groups, so the center is never the bottleneck.

Great NCTech4Good holiday social last night at Hope Valley Bar and Grill! Comments on the Meetup event include "Super conversations, people introducing one another to help facilitate connections." One of our newcomers said "It was a blast networking with great professionals, I really enjoyed it." https://www.meetup.com/NCTech4Good/events/240078036/

It's almost the end of 2017 and the best way to keep your group's momentum going is to post a full slate of topics for 2018.

I suggest setting a rough agenda and posting tentative dates and topics to your meetup as soon as you can. Not sure what topics to feature? Here's some suggestions that builds on the TechSoup Editorial Calendar.