Local User Groups Work

I recently posted that local user group meetings should be the focus of AIIM.  One of the comments I received was that local meeting don’t work.  While I could have referenced other industries I wanted to find something more relevant.  I found it from a Tweet, about a Content Strategy Meetup.

There are at least 37 active meetups totaling over 20,000 members.  These meetups are occurring around the globe on every populated continent in big cities and small. Granted these Meetups are focused on web content but I think we could see a similar responses in ECM.

List of Content Strategy Meetups

• Antwerp, Belgium – 338 members, next meetup March 30^th
• Atlanta, Georgia – 370 members, last meetup Sept 2015
• Auckland, New Zealand – 642 members, last meetup March 2^nd
• Barcelona, Spain – 230 members, next meetup March 30^th
• Boise, Idaho – 192 members, last meetup June 2014
• Boston, Massachusetts – 685 members, last meetup July 2015
• Brisbane, Australia – 516 members, next meetup April 26^th
• Calgary, Canada – 117 members, last meetup March 22^nd
• Cape Town, South Africa – 263 members, last meetup 2012
• Chicago, Illinois – 1,219 members, last meetup Dec 2015
• Cleveland, Ohio – 81 members, last meetup March 15^th
• Colombo, Sri Lanka – 701 members, last meetup February 18^th
• Copenhagen, Denmark – 154 members, last meetup March 3^rd
• Denver, Colorado – 340 members, last meetup August 2015
• Fargo, North Dakota – 346 members, meetup today
• Frankfurt, Germany – 47 members, last meetup Feb 23^rd
• Geneva, Switzerland – 171 members, last meetup Sept 2015
• Grand Rapids, Michigan – 77 members, next meetup April 6^th
• Kansas City, Missouri – 52 member, last meetup July 2013
• Madrid, Spain – 329 members, last meetup May 2015
• Melbourne, Australia – 728 members, next meetup March 29^th
• Milwaukee, Wisconsin – 27 members, just forming
• Minneapolis, Minnesota – 927 members, last meetup Feb 23^rd
• New York, New York – 2,206 members, next meetup April 5^th
• Oslo, Norway – 290 members, last meetup June 2015
• Paris, France – 330 members, last meetup Jan 21^st
• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – 842 members, next meetup March 29^th
• Portland, Oregon – 1,512 member, next meetup March 30^th
• San Diego, California – 94 members, next meeting May 10^th
• San Francisco, California – 2,674 members, next meetup April 7^th