Is there any method to communicate with LGs who have completed their registration through RSVP for Connect Meet UP?.
Even, is there any method to identify the “Connect ID” of the RSVP LGs, so that we can TAG & alert them, through posts?
Many a times, we see quite a large number RSVP registered LGs; but, we are not able to promote the Meet up with those LGs, resulting in poor number of Attendees.
Kindly suggest a process & guide us - this will definitely help to conduct meaningful Meet Ups, with larger number of LGs…
sure you can adress the attendees. Once you create a Meet-Up, which is approved, and people start to confirm their participation - you see the list of them clining on the attendees list. You can then write a post on connect and tag them (as I did with your nickname at the beginning). So you can start a discussion or get into contact virtually.
Actually you can communicate with the Local Guides who registered for the meetup through an email, directly from your meet-up pages.
The host can send up to three message. It is an one way communication and, no, there is not a direct way way to find a Connect profile starting from a Google Maps profile.
But of course on the Meetup page there is a link to the post in Connect, @TravellerG
Everyone of us is suffering about the bad habits that many local guides have, to register to an event even if it is on another country, and they already know that they will not attend.
Kudos for your suggestions dear friend @TravellerG
I see some new ideas in your posts such as
A prospective attendee should also create a profile on connect.
The list of attendees must mention maps as well as Connect profile name.
Still, sending an alert through Connect may not work as these members would continue to be passive and may not even respond to an email.
A better way would be to get the phone numbers.
However, that would be impossible knowing the utmost stress on maintaining privacy.
Nevertheless, we can make a request to share the phone number to the organizer, through private messaging. Those who honour that request would be the obvious attendees.
@ErmesT When you click “Attend This Meetup”, is there any question to confirm your action? Or you just click “attend this meetup” and then you are done? I ask as I haven’t attended any meetup.
I welcome your idea, Those who are Registered RSVP and showed their interest to attend Meetup, in final stage 40 percentage of the LG’s not confirming their presence. Not even participating any communication and also not cancelling their respective RSVP. Final part of communication is very important to make success every Meetup. At present communication with LG’s is very difficult.
You just click, @Ant_Bad_Yogi , and you are registered. You receive a confirmation email and the event is also added on your calendar. A few days before the event you receive an automated email, to remember to you that you are having a meet-up soon.
So a local guide who registered for a meet-up is perfectly aware that the Meetup is coming.
What I have personally noted is that there are local guides who are registering to every Meetup, just for fun.
O personally considered this action like spamming, and this is the reason why I would like to have the possibility of reporting that kind of actions, removing eventually points to them
@TravellerG Great question and as you’ve seen in your comments, there are no clear and easy answers!
There are workarounds by using other apps to keep in touch but even then, you need to get them to join your chat and if you are lucky, folks will use very similar usernames for their Google account as they do for Connect so you may eventually find them… and then hope that they are active on Connect!
And I totally agree with @ErmesT that there should be some mechanism to deter folks from RSVP’ing a meetup when they have no intention/ability of attending. Hopefully, Google can and will do something about that.
My tips:
In the text that you provide for your meetup, be very clear about how and why you want to communicate with your attendees. Hopefully, when folks are reading about what your meetup is all about, they will also read that you want to get in touch with them and so they really need to leave a comment on the Connect post that gets generated by the meetup submission process, and check it regularly!
You are given 3 announcement emails that will be sent to all RSVP’d attendees. I usually use the first one a few days before the meetup to remind folks to check the Connect post if there are any discussions going on there and to provide updates about the meetup too. The second email I would use on the day of the meetup, an hour before the meetup to let folks know what I’m wearing and remind them where I will be waiting. Include any last minutes changes too. The third email is a backup in case you need an extra one. If you don’t, you can use it to inform your attendees of when your recap post is out (provide the link) and thank them again for their participation.
Build your ‘contacts list’ from each meetup. The first meetup is always going to be tough but you can use the opportunity to tell your attendees about Connect, that they should register, that they can check the Connect post about the meetup etc. And you can even get their contact details then and their preferred choice of staying in touch. Again, I would steer them towards Connect. So when you’re organising your second meetup, you can contact them to let them know that you’ve got a new meetup that they might be interested to attend. For me, I also actually use the opportunity to discuss future meetups so that I can pick a date that suits as many people as possible.
I won’t provide any details on workarounds… I’m sure you can figure out something but I’m not keen to use them as my priority is to get folks to check the Connect post and use that as a point of information. It becomes too messy when I start using multiple ways because I have to check them all. It’s bad enough that I use social networks to advertise my meetup and then the discussion start happening on the social meetups rather than on the Connect post.
@C_T Folks who RSVD’d will get a reminder since the event is added to their Calendar. There’s only so much hand-holding a host has to do… attendees need to be responsible too and not depend on the host sending out a reminder on top of the Calendar reminder!
Hi @Ant_Bad_Yogi You can click attend and after sometimes you feel you can’t make it to the meetup you can still click cancel meetup.
@TravellerG Through your meetup page from chrome you can send an email, all the attendees will receive the email information automatically by doing so you have communicated to them. I guess only you can send an email about an updated information in the meetup where you’re the organizer.
Please LGs and Moderators correct this information if I am wrong.
Thank you very much for your response LG @KseniaM ,
Unfortunately, the IDs we get in RSVP is NOT Connect ID - it is Google Map profiles only; For you - in my case you were lucky, because my ID, globally, everywhere is the SAME [TravellerG - I am a Level 10 LG from India] - Google Map or Connect or many other platforms, my ID same. - so, you did not have the problem… but otherwise, to get Connect ID from RSVP is next to impossible - just for your info.
Many of us are aware about the 3 (three) announcement for every, approved meetup; our problem is that we are not able to communicate directly with the Local Guides - we don’t even understand whether the RSVP LGs have read the Announcement sent by Google.
Communication is surely needed to promote & motivate the LGs to attend the meetups.
I understand that you, @ErmesT , have first hand experience of what we all are suffering.
“… Kudos for your suggestions…” Thank you very much for your support & involvement, dear @C_T
“…may not even respond to an email…” You meant Announcement Email by Google = If yes, you are true.
“…request to share the phone number to the organizer, through private messaging…” - Sorry, we don’t have the Connect ID; the “Profile Given in RSVP Attendees is just their Google Map Profile” - hence this is also not possible.
Hence we are requesting Google’s help - hope we will get some attention.
“…The percentage of attendees that who participated in my meet-ups without any feedback (privately or on Connect)…”
In India, after our Asia One and few other major meetups, the situation has changed a bit, dear @ErmesT . The percentage of attendees who are not promoted (Not communicated) has increased to some 10 to 20% recently.
However, many of have wasted lot of money in the recent past.
“… will contact you privately, if is a friend…” absolutely right.
“…Reporting is for me the only solution, to stop the bad habits of subscribing to every Meetup…” agree… but the reporting should have some action from Google, to STRICTLY warn such Local Guides.
