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I finally understood why our neighborhood watch meetings kept falling apart
About three years ago, I was running the monthly meeting in our community center and only two people showed up. The problem was we always sent out a paper flyer, but most folks just threw it away. I switched to a simple email list and a text reminder the day before. The next month, we had fifteen people. Has anyone else found a better way to get people to show up for local stuff?
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avery_stone9519d ago
Totally feel that, and @keith943 is onto something with the social pressure. We started putting a little agenda in our emails with people's names next to topics they wanted to talk about, like "John - pothole on Maple St." It made folks feel called out in a good way and our attendance doubled.
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keith94320d ago
Our block tried a potluck sign-up sheet at the meeting itself. People would commit to bringing a dish next time, and it created this weird social pressure to actually show up. We went from six regulars to a steady twenty because nobody wanted to be the person who signed up for potato salad and then didn't come.
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