{"id":3257,"date":"2017-02-02T17:38:22","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/womens-march-turns-its-site-into-a-meetup-com-for-the-movement.html"},"modified":"2017-02-02T17:38:22","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T17:38:22","slug":"womens-march-turns-its-site-into-a-meetup-com-for-the-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/womens-march-turns-its-site-into-a-meetup-com-for-the-movement.html","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s March turns its site into a Meetup.com for the movement"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Social media plays a large role in politics today, from the election of Donald Trump to those now resisting his policies, such as through the grassroots-born movement that was the Women\u2019s March on Washington. The movement began as a Facebook page for frustrated voters, then morphed into an event that drew in an estimated<\/a> 5 million participants, thanks to its sister marches beyond D.C. and around the world. Now, the organizers of the Women\u2019s March have launched a feature on their website\u00a0in an attempt to harness the power of social media for their own purposes, outside of Facebook\u2019s walls.<\/p>\n

The organizers this morning announced the launch of Next Up Huddles, community gatherings that\u00a0will be held from February 2nd through 12th, 2017. The goal with the huddles is to turn first-time activists into committed participants across a range of issues, including civil rights, healthcare and the environment.<\/p>\n

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Instead of Facebook pages, events or groups, interested participants are being redirected<\/a> to a new page <\/a>on the Women\u2019s March site, which has you first enter\u00a0your zip code in order to locate\u00a0the events nearby. If none are in your area, you can also choose to host an event yourself. It\u2019s basically a bare-bones version of Meetup.com for the Women\u2019s March supporters.<\/p>\n

The organization will announce actions and activities that these smaller groups\u00a0will help to carry out, including things like building out local action networks and working toward specific state and federal agendas, it says.<\/p>\n

When you find an event you want to attend, you click a button to RSVP and register. But this all takes place directly on the site. Facebook isn\u2019t involved.<\/p>\n

Whether or not the Women\u2019s March can capitalize on the nascent power of its movement without the network effects of Facebook, however, remains to be seen. The March itself gained exposure and attention through the organic sharing that takes place naturally on the social network \u2014 a site\u00a0that now has 1.86 billion users<\/a>. It\u2019s a risky move to\u00a0relocate both the event-finding and sign-up process off of Facebook, where these registrations and \u201cinterest\u201d\u00a0will no longer show in the News Feed.<\/p>\n

Plus, as\u00a0Facebook Events, marches could take advantage of built-in Facebook features, like Notifications, reminders, discussion boards, Messenger and more.<\/p>\n

According to the organization, however, the transition is going well. The feature only launched this morning, but there are already 378 of these \u201chuddles\u201d registered on the new\u00a0site. The huddles are one of the 10 Actions in 100 Days that the group has promised. The first, \u201ccontact your elected officials,\u201d is already live.<\/p>\n

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