We are having our 1st get together Saturday (4th) @1pm. if you are interested in coming please pm me for the location.
I'm going
Our 1st meeting was a success, informative, & comfortable.Thank you again for taking the time to come out and meet us! We will be meeting again in February & the date/time will be posted when decided on & anyone who would like to join us could then pm me for the location.
sorry i didn't get back to you sooner my next Saturday off is Feb 15 and will have the next 3 Saturdays off, and first Sunday off would be Feb 23 and have the next 3 off after that. thanks. it was really great to meet others in our community who are like minded,thanks for the awesome meeting. bigred
FYI, you can post events and meeting on our new meetup group. Anyone and everyone in the group can RSVP. As the event founder, you can message all RSVP'd members, inform them of location changes, etc. Hope Meetup.com helps out! Below is the generic post for information on the new Meetup.com page.
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We have successfully launched our new meetup group for Plan "C" Emergency Preparedness Alberta. Please refer to the link below to join and RSVP to events. Currently the next meeting is listed on the front page or simply click the following link http://www.meetup.com/Plan-C/events/162592822/ . Please RSVP if you are going to attend out next meeting in Deer Run.
Furthermore, if anyone needs assistance with creating a Meetup.com account please contact me or post here.
Here are a few Q & A I encountered.
Q1: Does meetup cost anything to join?
Q2: What does Meetup enable us to do, in comparison to PreppersNetwork.
A1: To join meetup.com is free. Once you join the site, there are countless "groups" like ours. Some groups charge to either join or are free but charge for events, but 95% or more are completely free like ours. Once you join a group with your account you are basically subscribing to their channel or feed. This allows you to receive automatic email feeds for scheduled meetups, events, updates, new members, etc. The best way to look at it is like the PreppersNetwork blog. All it does is generate a creative hub to bring people of the same interest to one location, then enhances your abilities to communicate and schedule with those people. Meetup is PreppersNetwork/a blog on roids with its own group calendar.
With that said, to create the "groups" (not your personal account, but the actual groups or hubs that you can join) does cost. The founders of the groups are charged about $70 for six months. I discovered a nice 50% off coupon so I only paid $35 for the first six months.
A2: Decisions as a group - Like I said, the meetup group allows us to have a preppersnetwork on roids. This enables us to take donations online prior to any actual events, network with other like minded groups and scout for members, advertise sponsors or perks for the group (example: 10% off at shooting range for members, 5% off Bob's Solar etc). It is also an excelent hub to offer various blogs from our members. For example, I already uploaded tons of official documents from the Govnt of Alberta in regards to disaster preparedness. So when anyone joins, they have easy access to these files that are actually kinda difficult to find, in turn creating our own knowledgebase. There are tons of other features too, including an event calendar shared by all members. In general, it allows the group to be efficient at startup level, and easily expand as far as possible without any limitations. Unlike the PreppersNetwork, which lacks certain features that would enhance our ability to organize events, etc.
That is not necessary for us Tucker but thanks
The Brooks/area group will be getting together on Feb 15th at 12:30, pm me for the location if you would like to join us.
Hi I would like to join you for a visit if your open to having a guest sit in.
Will be great to see you!!!!
It was good to get together for a meeting for Brooks/area this last Saturday & will be posting when next meeting will be in March in Brooks.
Its great to hear that this came off successfully!
Hopefully you'll get a few new lurkers each time 😀
so far only 3 people have attended but it is a start & hopefully others will join us soon. I am preparing a class that I am wanting to present the college with (continuing education-evening class) on food preservation: water bath & pressure canning, dehydrating, making dry mixes/meals. I am going to see if our small group (so far that is one other woman and me) would like to get together once a month, share in the cost for products and spend the day doing these things for our food storage.
That sounds awesome... and like a great summer event, hint hint wink wink
That sounds awesome... and like a great summer event, hint hint wink wink
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You doing a teaching/demonstration event at one of the spring/summer education seminars... 😉