Power Of The Internet & Meet Up

One man to use the Internet as a method of political and social action was one of the democrat runners for the democratic presidential candiadte in the 2002 elections. Dean never became the candidate but was for a time its front runner. His campaign slowly gained steam, and by autumn of 2003, Dean had become the apparent frontrunner for the Democratic nomination, performing strongly in most polls and outpacing his rivals in fundraising.

Dean achieved this with the help of Meetup.com and hundreds of bloggers,

"We fell into this by accident," Dean admits. "I wish I could tell you we were smart enough to figure this out. But the community taught us. They seized the initiative through Meetup. They built our organization for us before we had an organization."

Meetup is a Web tool for forming social groups. In early 2003, Dean himself was lured to an early New York City meetup where he found more than 300 enthusiastic supporters waiting to greet him. Meetup quickly became the engine of Dean's Internet campaign.

21^st Century network is also using meet up because of its powerful networking capability.