event management

Refresh Detroit: Creating a More Usable and Accessible Experience

I’ve been a Meetup.com event organizer for something like 10 years.

During that time, I’ve managed events for five meetup groups. I estimate I hosted 400+ events in the past decade with the Meetup.com platform.

When Meetup.com first came out, I was ecstatic to have a unified event management tool.

It was free, over time they started charging low fees. Which I didn’t mind, because it offered what I needed for managing meetup events. Continue reading Refresh Detroit: Creating a More Usable and Accessible Experience

With this week’s announcement that Meetup.com was changing its pricing policy, many meetup organizers are looking for alternatives to using Meetup.com for their event registration.

While the decrease in cost to organizers at $24/year was welcomed, the $2.00 fee for attendees was not. Continue reading Event Registration Alternatives to Meetup.com

Imagine you’re signing up for a new online service and their signup form is asking for your username and password.

Seems pretty straightforward, right?

You enter your preferred username and use an online password generator to add your secure password with letters, numbers, and symbols.

And select their Signup button.

You wait a few seconds, only to receive a warning message that your password doesn’t fit their requirements.

You can’t use the backslash or ampersand symbol in your password.