Events & community

Events, communication, and building a community members show up for.

Events & community

Your event planning checklist - every job, in the order it needs doing

Every job from six months out to the thank-you emails after the doors close, written for a volunteer committee rather than a hotel events department. Budget shares, an access checklist, and a plan for when something goes wrong.

13 Aug 2026 18 min read
Events & community

The monthly meetup, and how to get it past its third year

Regular meetups rarely die of a dramatic failure. They die of one person getting tired. Here is what makes a recurring event survive the people who started it.

24 Jul 2026 7 min read
Events & community

People who said yes and did not come

Free events in a chat group attract an enthusiastic yes and a quiet absence. Here is why that happens, what it costs you, and the handful of changes that turn a maybe into a chair with someone in it.

23 Jul 2026 7 min read
Events & community

Running a bilingual organisation without doubling the work

Plenty of Indonesian organisations have members who read English and members who do not, and translating everything twice is how good intentions turn into nothing being sent at all.

22 Jul 2026 7 min read
Events & community

The events people remember, and the ones they quietly skip

Event ideas are never in short supply - picking the handful you can actually keep running is the hard part. A grouped, honest menu for member organisations, with the effort each one costs weighed against what it gives back.

19 Jul 2026 11 min read
Events & community

How to run member event registration

Registration is just knowing who's coming before the day. Here's the simple version - capacity, member or guest, free or paid, reminders and check-in - without the elaborate form nobody finishes.

19 Jul 2026 10 min read
Events & community

Running something online that is not a worse version of the real thing

Online events won't replace a good night in the room, but they reach the members who can't get there and fill the quiet gaps. Here's what actually works, and the honest catch with hybrid.

19 Jul 2026 10 min read
Events & community

Selling event tickets to members (how-to)

Member vs public pricing, early-bird, QRIS payment and a name list at the door. For a small gig, a QR code beats an expensive ticketing platform almost every time - here's how to run it.

19 Jul 2026 10 min read

Run your whole membership in one place

Anggota keeps your members, renewals, payments and events together, so the admin looks after itself and you can get back to the community. Have a go - it is free to start, no credit card.