Meetup Topics Related to Ayn Rand

I need feedback!

For the PROPEL(TM) project, I use Meetup with Ayn Rand as the main topic. Meetup allows up to three supplemental topics to accompany the main topic. For now, I use Atheists, Agnostic and Philosophy as the three supplemental topics.

However, I think other topics like Self-Improvement might offer a richer mine of interest. Witness the success of the Nathaniel Branden books on self-esteem as well as the millions of other self-improvement books published each year.

Entrepreneur and Book Club might also show promise.

So if you could take a few minutes to browse topics at

http://www.meetup.com/topics/

and suggest other topics that might draw new people into reading Ayn Rand, I would deeply appreciate the effort.

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 2/12, 12:13pm)

Post 1

Monday, February 12, 2007 - 3:31pm

I learned of some numbers representing Meetup members globally interested in these topics and sorted them from highest to lowest:

Entrepreneur        -- 57,526
Book Clubs         -- 30,307
Atheists               -- 14,528
Philosophy          -- 9,274
Self-Improvement -- 8,058
Brights                  -- 4,296
Agnostic              --   3,971
Ayn Rand           --   1,889
Psychology          -- 1,291

Post 2

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 8:05am

New numbers accounting for Humanism, Secular Humanism and Pantheism:

Entrepreneur         -- 57,526
Book Clubs          -- 30,307
Atheists                -- 14,528
Philosophy             -- 9,274
Self-Improvement -- 8,058
Humanism              -- 4,904
Brights                   -- 4,296
Agnostic                -- 3,971
Secular Humanism -- 1,953
Ayn Rand             -- 1,889
Pantheism               -- 1,409
Psychology          -- 1,291

(Edited by Luke Setzer on 2/13, 8:39am)

Post 3

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 2:09pm

So far, I am hearing Entrepreneurs, Atheists and Philosophy. Any comments?

Post 4

Tuesday, February 13, 2007 - 4:01pm

I think I understand the attraction to the Atheist topic, but wonder if the Book Clubs topic would actually be better. My limited experience with Atheist related groups makes me believe that they may only share that one common item - atheism - with this group. Listing Ayn Rand as a topic under Book Clubs could pull a more targeted audience. Since I am new here, you may have already tried that, but this is what comes to my mind.

As for the Entrepreneur topic, they seem to be a fantastic demographic to target. The only potential issue that I see is to emphasize the goals of the PROPEL(TM) project and that the Meetup is not meant to be just another marketing venue for entrepreneurial projects.

Post 5

Wednesday, February 14, 2007 - 6:09am