tangent4ronpaul
05-29-2008, 10:09 PM
Last weeks list resulted in in 5 Adoptions!
There have been 84 adoptions from the past 8 lists!
This is now the 9th Adopt a Meetup list and we are noticing a very healthy trend in the number of Meetups at risk with each passing week. In sequence: 63, 68, 74, 74, 63, 55, 51, 53, 42. We are on the upswing and the movement is again gaining momentum!
With our chances to win the nomination starting to look fairly promicing, what with all the delegate wins we've had! It's worth another $72 to renew for another 6 months ? lest keep this movement ALIVE! For every one that drops out, we will loose, on average, 50 supporters. Every month, for the next six months roughly 250 Meetups will get that renewal notice. Some will renew - some will not. When a organizer fails to renew, Meetup sends out a notice to the remaining members offering them the position of organizer for 2 weeks, and if there are no bites - the Meetup goes away.
We need volunteer organizers to stem this tide. When an organizer gets a Meetup, you really get 3 for the price of one, and like the early seeder program, if you have less than 3, we would like you to adopt some of these Meetups that are going into oblivion - at least long enough to find a new organizer or direct members to other resources where they can stay in the loop till we find a more permanent solution.
You can now look up these Meetups on:
http://www.operationcatherder.com/index.php/State_by_State_Status to determine which Meetups are the most viable. That will tell you the number of members and the recent activity level. More members or more active means worth saving. Less active and less members, means join and try to contact and migrate supporters to a bigger group.
We need volunteers to join these Meetups and work them - explaining to the members that while we still have a chance at the nomination, other goals are just as important. Things like changing the party platform and rules, having a good delegate showing to establish viability of our message and gain media attention. The transformation of our campaign into a long term movement and electing our candidates to Congress and other positions (we have around 50 ppl running for office - it's not just about Dr. Paul).
While we will be looking at different projects and sites to send people to in the future, we suggest you send supporters to the 2 main web sites: http://www.RonPaulForums.com and http://www.DailyPaul.com Daily Paul as well as the per-state forums on Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo for now - as a stop gap measure. Two other good sites are http://www.ronpaullive.com Ron Paul Live and http://www.ronpaulpublic.com Ron Paul Public. That way we will know where to find them and direct them further when we are more organized. In addition, http://www.freedomfortress.net/ Freedom Fortress will let you mail to like minded supporters based on user adjustable distances from you. Many of these supporters are not connected to the movement beyond Meetup and we need people there to go to stay involved - even if you do not adopt their Meetup temporarily or permanently. Please focus on the Meetups with the most members or local to you first.
If you are a Meetup organizer, three of the 4 organizer groups, representing over 1/4 of the organizers have merged via a bridge. If you don't belong to ONE of these, please join! Just join one ? a post to one goes to all.
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/511/ National Organizers Group
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/158/ National Organizers Group II
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RPMeetupOrganizers/ RPMeetupOrganizers on Yahoo
Please also join:
http://www.meetupalliance.com/RonPaul2008 Ron Paul 2008 Alliance
This group is not currently bridged with the other 3, and is very limited in functionality, but is another way for organizers to communicate. Messages must be read on-line – there is no mailing list for this one.
If you want to be an organizer and are willing to cover the fees, look for an expiring Meetup close to you, join it and accept the organizer position - then join the network.
Remember, one person that does not want to pay the fees can cut off on average 50 supporters - some of which will be into the movement for the long term.
These are the Meetups in danger of going away in the next 2 weeks that need adoption or at least someone to join and encourage supporters to migrate to another nearby Meetup:
1 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1685/ (The Fond du Lac County Ron Paul 2008 Freedom Group) => -1 days left! (3 members)
2 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/108/ (Political Patriots) => 0 days left! (51 members)
3 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/538/ (The Athens Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 0 days left! (123 members)
4 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1027/ (Silver Valley (83810,37,46,50,73..) Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 1 days left! (20 members)
5 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1066/ (The Sandpoint Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 1 days left! (57 members)
6 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1200/ (The Magee, MS Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 1 days left! (17 members)
7 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/2/ (Hillsboro Ron Paul for President 2008) => 1 days left! (29 members)
8 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/863/ (Western Arkansas/Eastern Okla Ron Paul Friends of Liberty) => 1 days left! (78 members)
9 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1871/ (The Sydney Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 2 days left! (6 members)
10 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1120/ (The Sauk Rapids Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (45 members)
11 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1208/ (The Milledgeville Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (38 members)
12 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1309/ (The Port Orchard Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (25 members)
13 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1780/ (The Bakersfield Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (4 members)
14 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/219/ (The Bakersfield, CA Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (117 members)
15 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1408/ (WE Atlanta) => 4 days left! (29 members)
16 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1011/ (Closed for other uses) => 5 days left! (16 members)
17 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1153/ (Hopkinsville Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 6 days left! (23 members)
18 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1217/ (The Mize Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 6 days left! (9 members)
19 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/514/ (The Morristown Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 6 days left! (29 members)
20 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/703/ (The Athens Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 6 days left! (41 members)
21 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1104/ (Renton Kent Maple Valley Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 7 days left! (103 members)
22 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1300/ (Mercer County for Ron Paul) => 7 days left! (27 members)
23 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1359/ (The Moosehead Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 7 days left! (8 members)
24 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1737/ (The Hobbs Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 8 days left! (6 members)
25 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/993/ (The Southwestern Illinois Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 8 days left! (71 members)
26 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1065/ (Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group - Guilford College) => 9 days left! (17 members)
27 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1213/ (Howell County Champions of Freedom Ron Paul Meetup) => 9 days left! (31 members)
28 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1244/ (The Franklin Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left! (8 members)
29 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/255/ (The Piedmont Triad Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left! (154 members)
30 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1254/ (The Queen Anne Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 11 days left! (19 members)
31 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1488/ (Green County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 11 days left! (5 members)
32 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1296/ (The Central Wyoming Liberty Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (9 members)
33 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1382/ (Huntington Beach Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (34 members)
34 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1446/ (Columbia County for Ron Paul) => 12 days left! (22 members)
35 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1688/ (Bowling Green, OH/Wood County Ron Paul '08 Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (37 members)
36 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1275/ (The Pipe Creek/Lakehills Constitutionalists for Ron Paul) => 13 days left! (19 members)
37 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/503/ (Oregon Libertarian Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 13 days left! (11 members)
38 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/804/ (Oakland County for Ron Paul) => 13 days left! (170 members)
39 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1119/ (The Ignacio Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (4 members)
40 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/383/ (The Jackson, Hillsdale & Lenawee Area Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (72 members)
41 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/573/ (The Gardner Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (24 members)
42 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/96/ (The Capital Area Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (162 members)
There have been 84 adoptions from the past 8 lists!
This is now the 9th Adopt a Meetup list and we are noticing a very healthy trend in the number of Meetups at risk with each passing week. In sequence: 63, 68, 74, 74, 63, 55, 51, 53, 42. We are on the upswing and the movement is again gaining momentum!
With our chances to win the nomination starting to look fairly promicing, what with all the delegate wins we've had! It's worth another $72 to renew for another 6 months ? lest keep this movement ALIVE! For every one that drops out, we will loose, on average, 50 supporters. Every month, for the next six months roughly 250 Meetups will get that renewal notice. Some will renew - some will not. When a organizer fails to renew, Meetup sends out a notice to the remaining members offering them the position of organizer for 2 weeks, and if there are no bites - the Meetup goes away.
We need volunteer organizers to stem this tide. When an organizer gets a Meetup, you really get 3 for the price of one, and like the early seeder program, if you have less than 3, we would like you to adopt some of these Meetups that are going into oblivion - at least long enough to find a new organizer or direct members to other resources where they can stay in the loop till we find a more permanent solution.
You can now look up these Meetups on:
http://www.operationcatherder.com/index.php/State_by_State_Status to determine which Meetups are the most viable. That will tell you the number of members and the recent activity level. More members or more active means worth saving. Less active and less members, means join and try to contact and migrate supporters to a bigger group.
We need volunteers to join these Meetups and work them - explaining to the members that while we still have a chance at the nomination, other goals are just as important. Things like changing the party platform and rules, having a good delegate showing to establish viability of our message and gain media attention. The transformation of our campaign into a long term movement and electing our candidates to Congress and other positions (we have around 50 ppl running for office - it's not just about Dr. Paul).
While we will be looking at different projects and sites to send people to in the future, we suggest you send supporters to the 2 main web sites: http://www.RonPaulForums.com and http://www.DailyPaul.com Daily Paul as well as the per-state forums on Facebook, MySpace and Yahoo for now - as a stop gap measure. Two other good sites are http://www.ronpaullive.com Ron Paul Live and http://www.ronpaulpublic.com Ron Paul Public. That way we will know where to find them and direct them further when we are more organized. In addition, http://www.freedomfortress.net/ Freedom Fortress will let you mail to like minded supporters based on user adjustable distances from you. Many of these supporters are not connected to the movement beyond Meetup and we need people there to go to stay involved - even if you do not adopt their Meetup temporarily or permanently. Please focus on the Meetups with the most members or local to you first.
If you are a Meetup organizer, three of the 4 organizer groups, representing over 1/4 of the organizers have merged via a bridge. If you don't belong to ONE of these, please join! Just join one ? a post to one goes to all.
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/511/ National Organizers Group
http://ronpaul.meetup.com/158/ National Organizers Group II
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/RPMeetupOrganizers/ RPMeetupOrganizers on Yahoo
Please also join:
http://www.meetupalliance.com/RonPaul2008 Ron Paul 2008 Alliance
This group is not currently bridged with the other 3, and is very limited in functionality, but is another way for organizers to communicate. Messages must be read on-line – there is no mailing list for this one.
If you want to be an organizer and are willing to cover the fees, look for an expiring Meetup close to you, join it and accept the organizer position - then join the network.
Remember, one person that does not want to pay the fees can cut off on average 50 supporters - some of which will be into the movement for the long term.
These are the Meetups in danger of going away in the next 2 weeks that need adoption or at least someone to join and encourage supporters to migrate to another nearby Meetup:
1 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1685/ (The Fond du Lac County Ron Paul 2008 Freedom Group) => -1 days left! (3 members)
2 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/108/ (Political Patriots) => 0 days left! (51 members)
3 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/538/ (The Athens Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 0 days left! (123 members)
4 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1027/ (Silver Valley (83810,37,46,50,73..) Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 1 days left! (20 members)
5 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1066/ (The Sandpoint Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 1 days left! (57 members)
6 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1200/ (The Magee, MS Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 1 days left! (17 members)
7 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/2/ (Hillsboro Ron Paul for President 2008) => 1 days left! (29 members)
8 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/863/ (Western Arkansas/Eastern Okla Ron Paul Friends of Liberty) => 1 days left! (78 members)
9 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1871/ (The Sydney Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 2 days left! (6 members)
10 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1120/ (The Sauk Rapids Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (45 members)
11 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1208/ (The Milledgeville Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (38 members)
12 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1309/ (The Port Orchard Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (25 members)
13 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1780/ (The Bakersfield Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (4 members)
14 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/219/ (The Bakersfield, CA Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 3 days left! (117 members)
15 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1408/ (WE Atlanta) => 4 days left! (29 members)
16 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1011/ (Closed for other uses) => 5 days left! (16 members)
17 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1153/ (Hopkinsville Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 6 days left! (23 members)
18 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1217/ (The Mize Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 6 days left! (9 members)
19 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/514/ (The Morristown Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 6 days left! (29 members)
20 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/703/ (The Athens Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 6 days left! (41 members)
21 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1104/ (Renton Kent Maple Valley Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 7 days left! (103 members)
22 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1300/ (Mercer County for Ron Paul) => 7 days left! (27 members)
23 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1359/ (The Moosehead Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 7 days left! (8 members)
24 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1737/ (The Hobbs Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 8 days left! (6 members)
25 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/993/ (The Southwestern Illinois Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 8 days left! (71 members)
26 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1065/ (Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group - Guilford College) => 9 days left! (17 members)
27 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1213/ (Howell County Champions of Freedom Ron Paul Meetup) => 9 days left! (31 members)
28 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1244/ (The Franklin Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left! (8 members)
29 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/255/ (The Piedmont Triad Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 10 days left! (154 members)
30 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1254/ (The Queen Anne Ron Paul 2008 Meetup) => 11 days left! (19 members)
31 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1488/ (Green County Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 11 days left! (5 members)
32 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1296/ (The Central Wyoming Liberty Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (9 members)
33 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1382/ (Huntington Beach Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (34 members)
34 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1446/ (Columbia County for Ron Paul) => 12 days left! (22 members)
35 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1688/ (Bowling Green, OH/Wood County Ron Paul '08 Meetup Group) => 12 days left! (37 members)
36 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1275/ (The Pipe Creek/Lakehills Constitutionalists for Ron Paul) => 13 days left! (19 members)
37 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/503/ (Oregon Libertarian Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 13 days left! (11 members)
38 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/804/ (Oakland County for Ron Paul) => 13 days left! (170 members)
39 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/1119/ (The Ignacio Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (4 members)
40 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/383/ (The Jackson, Hillsdale & Lenawee Area Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (72 members)
41 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/573/ (The Gardner Ron Paul 2008 Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (24 members)
42 http://ronpaul.meetup.com/96/ (The Capital Area Ron Paul Meetup Group) => 14 days left! (162 members)