I don’t understand… are your events less than 30 minutes long (because it says that they now happen more than once a month)? It seems like most of the time in running our group doesn’t go into social media promotion and reminders, but into the group meetings, discussions, and activities, and the socializing before and after that makes people stick around.
I felt like this post was a misleading because the author appears to spend more than 30 minutes, as any group leader should expect. I am concerned that the author used a surprising title to get attention but then added lower-value, common-sensey content.
Hi Claire, sorry if the post and the title were unclear. (I will edit to make it clearer). I can totally see why this is misleading as I did not count the time spent at events.
I think the very basic principle I wanted to get across here is that the only thing the organiser NEEDS to do on an ongoing basis is to take the responsibility to choose a time and place and post an event online, somewhere where a group of members can grow, once every month or every other month, and this does not take long.
I personally do not consider the events as work. Almost all the events are socials so there is very little to do to host the event (be nice and make sure people can find us) and I would attend the events anyway if someone else was doing the organising.
Also I have not even attended all of the events that I have organised and have on occasion asked others to host.
I hope that helps. Thanks for the feedback on my post.
PS. Also I wanted to add that if you are putting in and can put in more than 30 min a month (+ time at events) of organising events that are better than just social events then that is amazing and you should keep doing that. Running a group on a very minimal basis is not ideal—but, in London at least, it can be done when needed—and such a group can grow!
I don’t understand… are your events less than 30 minutes long (because it says that they now happen more than once a month)? It seems like most of the time in running our group doesn’t go into social media promotion and reminders, but into the group meetings, discussions, and activities, and the socializing before and after that makes people stick around.
I felt like this post was a misleading because the author appears to spend more than 30 minutes, as any group leader should expect. I am concerned that the author used a surprising title to get attention but then added lower-value, common-sensey content.
Hi Claire, sorry if the post and the title were unclear. (I will edit to make it clearer). I can totally see why this is misleading as I did not count the time spent at events.
I think the very basic principle I wanted to get across here is that the only thing the organiser NEEDS to do on an ongoing basis is to take the responsibility to choose a time and place and post an event online, somewhere where a group of members can grow, once every month or every other month, and this does not take long.
I personally do not consider the events as work. Almost all the events are socials so there is very little to do to host the event (be nice and make sure people can find us) and I would attend the events anyway if someone else was doing the organising.
Also I have not even attended all of the events that I have organised and have on occasion asked others to host.
I hope that helps. Thanks for the feedback on my post.
When I saw the title I understood it to mean “30 minutes of overhead,” not that the author was accomplishing something physically impossible.
PS. Also I wanted to add that if you are putting in and can put in more than 30 min a month (+ time at events) of organising events that are better than just social events then that is amazing and you should keep doing that. Running a group on a very minimal basis is not ideal—but, in London at least, it can be done when needed—and such a group can grow!