Face-to-Face Meeting
From Social Patterns
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What
The user wants to meet offline with people from their network, in a nearby location.
Meetup facilitates people meeting in their local areas for a variety of events.
Use When
Use to help facilitate an in person meeting.
How
- Allow users to create events and invite participants.
Pre-event creation
Event creation form on upcoming
- Allow users to enter full details of an event including: location, time, date, details, special considerations.
Calendar picker on upcoming
- Integrate a calendar (see Calendaring) for scheduling time-based events.
Privacy options on upcoming
Privacy options on socializr. Secondary text clearly articulates what each choice means.
- Allow event creators to mark an event public or private.
- Allow users to select locations from a list of places; from city guides, yellow pages or other directories.
upcoming provides a map indicating the venue of the event and shows nearby parking, restaurants, ATMs or a user entered item.
- Consider indicating nearby establishments, like restaurants, parking, coffee shops, ATMs, or other relevant businesses, which allows for comprehensive planning.
- Provide full address, phone number and other relevant details like costs, hours, restrictions, or ambiance.
Pre-event attendees
upcoming shows who from your network is also attending or thinking about attending an event.
Facebook offers three choices of RSVP for events.
- Allow users to RSVP to events.
- Consider showing RSVPs to others and indicating attendees from a viewers network.
Showing attendees can encourage others to RSVP yes if they see someone they know in the list.
- Showing attendees can encourage others to RSVP yes f they see someone they know in the list.
- Consider allowing public events where users invite themselves or follow an event.
- Consider adding wiki software for collaborative content creation.
- Integrate maps for selecting and displaying locations. (see Geo-Mapping)
- Allow users to indicate method for receiving alerts or reminders for events. (see Reminding)
Facebook presents a user’s network in order to easily create a guest list. The interface also offers the ability to add email addresses for those not on the service.
- Allow users to easily invite their network or a subset of their network to an event. Consider a batch invite process, like multi-select, for sending invites.
Post-event attendees
Upcoming creates a “scrapbook” for each event attended or watched. Photos from the event are associated with the event through a mashup with flickr.
- Allow users to attach photos to the event.
- If the user attended (or RSVPed yes), show the event in their calendar of past events.
Meetup offers a rating option to attendees of recent events.
- Consider asking the attendees to rate the event afterwards.
Public Events
upcoming filters events by date first.
- Allow events to be searchable by keyword/category, tags, and date.
- Allow users to browse through events and filter by keyword/category, tags and date.
Friend’s events on upcoming sorted by date first.
- Show users a list of events being attended by friends in their network.
Semi-public events
Meetup combines small interest groups with public events. Users must join the group first in order to RSVP for an event or activity.
- Indicate if the user must be part of the network in order to RSVP or attend the event. (Meetup)
