Adding a Meetup Badge to Blogger

Meetup.com provides ways to promote the groups you are a member of. One of these ways allows you to add a Meetup group "badge" to a blog. The "badge" is an image with the group name on it and a count down to the next event. The "badge" is clickable and directs the web surfer to the groups home page. You can add a "badge" to Blogger by using the HTML/JavaScript page element.


Preparation Steps

1. First go to your Meetup group
2. Click on "Promote!" or "Meetup Badges" (If you are not the organizer of the group.)
   
3. Under the "Put this badge on your MySpace or blog…" select and copy the text for the Meetup badge

Adding to your Blogger Site

1. Go to your Blogger
2. Click "Customize"
3. Click "Add a Page Element"
4. Click "Add to Blog" for the HTML/JavaScript element
5. Paste in your Meetup badge HTML

You should be able to paste in multiple badges under this one element.

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Adding Meetup Events to your Blog

Meetup.com provides RSS feeds for group events, RSVP notifications, new information, and other stuff. You can add these RSS feeds to your Blogger so that others can see what you are up to in Meetup.

Steps to add RSS feed to your Blogger (Google Blog) site.

Preparation Steps

• Go to http://www.google.com/reader - you can make an account with your Google Account
  
• Go to your Meetup group's Event List, click on the RSS link and copy the link location (i.e. http://www.meetup.com/RDUSingles/calendar/rss/The+Raleigh-Durham+Singles+Meetup+Group/ )

Version 1 - RSS Feed

1. Go to your Blogger
2. Click "Customize"
3. Click "Add a Page Element"
4. Find "Feed" and click "ADD TO BLOG"
5. Copy your RSS feed URL into the form field and click "CONTINUE"
6. Change any of the preferences and click "SAVE CHANGES"
   

Version 2 - Google Reader output

• Back in Google Reader, click on Add subscription
  
• Paste in your RSS feed url
  
• The feed will be added, click on that feed
  
• Click the "Share" icons for the events you want to share (you will have to go back to this when you add new items)
  
• Click on "Shared Items"
  
• Click on "put a clip of your shared items"
  
• Click on the "Add to Blogger" button, it will ask you for your blog and then add the widget to your blog
  

To update the list

• Go to http://www.google.com...
  
• Click on that feed you want to share
  
• Click the "Share" icons for the events you want to share