Sydney has 209 Meetup groups. The Sydney Online Bookclub Group has 280 members who meet in the city monthly but also communicate via the group page. Loads of other interesting groups exist - language, film, writing, business, technology, sport. If there isn't already a group in existence near you then by all means join and start one yourself.
Meetup is the world's largest network of local groups. Meetup makes it easy for anyone to organize a local group or find one of the thousands already meeting up face-to-face. More than 2,000 groups get together in local communities each day, each one with the goal of improving themselves or their communities.
Meetup's mission is to revitalize local community and help people around the world self-organize. Meetup believes that people can change their personal world, or the whole world, by organizing themselves into groups that are powerful enough to make a difference.
I'm so excited that this has taken off and shall be joining a couple that interest me and writing about the journey. I'd love to hear from members of meetup about their experiences in the comments.

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