Here is kind of a way to contact meetup groups:

[colecrowe]

Important: this still only gets about one third of the meetups. This is not good enough, though it sure will help.

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Tell every group to BE SURE to make the Feb. 1st moneybomb an EVENT! So that way people can RSVP for it and its front and center and it can be commented on, etc.

I was just browsing around ronpaulmeetup.com looking for a way to mass contact the meetups about the Feb 1st moneybomb when I noticed a page called "meetup alliance". This alliance consists of 333 meetup groups and 36782 members. It provides an e-mail address that can be used to contact the organizers, who could in turn contact all the meetup groups in this alliance.


here is the alliance address - http://www.meetupalliance.com/RonPaul2008



the e-mail to the alliance directors - RPMeetupAlliance@gmail.com


This seems like it would be an effective way to contact about 1/3 of the all the meetup members and notify them about Feb 1st.

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We cannot do the same things we did with MLK. There was a huge lack of orginization and effort.

With this, we need to make sure, IMMEDIATELY, with great urgency, that certain things get taken care of:

1. MOST IMPORTANT! Make it an EVENT for every meetup group. This never got figured out last time and it must be done--the results could be great, and it would be so easy, it seems: Every meetup coordinator and group needs to be emailed or notified somehow of this, and then it must be made AN EVENT for every meetup group--that way it is front and center and people can RSVP for it and post about it. This was done for like maybe a quarter of the meetups on Dec. 16th. So HOW do we make sure every coordinator/leader gets this message?

-----There has to be an administrator or someone that can send a blanket message to every meetup leader, right?

2. the Nov. 5th, Dec. 16th, Dec. 31st, and Jan. 21st lists get ONE email NOW, and ONE email early in the morning of Feb 1st. TWO EMAILS ONLY. But we must do this. The subject line must be good and it must link to a site with great videos, etc.

3. the Myspace people need to get ONE bulletin NOW with the link to the sight AND A VIDEO, and then ONE bulletin on the day of Feb 1st. Facebook people need to be told and it needs to be made an event on Facebook.

 

[colecrowe]

update: I sent this to the meetup alliance coordinator--so a THIRD of the meetups might get taken care of. Waiting to here back. How are we going to get the rest of them?

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Ron & Carol Paul 51st ANNIVERSARY official money bomb site:http://www.paulfamilyvalues.com/
Honoring the PAUL FAMILY VALUES! Donate $51 OR MORE (or less--whatever you can afford) to the RP Campaign 02/01/08
Ron Paul 51st Anniversary Money Bomb youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcuDazE1T_U

Hi, Thanks in advance for your time. I have a suggestion for something I think is very important, and could have big results with little effort. Could you please send an email to every group leader telling them to make the Feb. 1st, 51st Anniversary money bomb an EVENT, and to put the url in the event description: PaulFamilyValues.com. So, don't just put it on their calendar or message people about it, but be sure to make it an EVENT that people will see front and center, they can RSVP for, comment on an talk about, etc.

And please tell them to spread the youtube video and post it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcuDazE1T_U

Thanks very much,
Cole

PS, If I'm not mistaken, you're able to get a hold of about 1/3 of the meetups. Is there any way to easily get a hold of the rest?

 

[dbhohio47]

the Meetup organization has a couple of default settings designed to prevent "spam" email that limits the # of emails from one person. This applies to emails directly to the organizer or to the "contact me" setting. I believe it is something like 12 in one day.

Just something to be aware of.