Basics

Beyond our brand tone of voice, writers can use this section to review our writing guidelines for spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.

What's in a name?

Members sign up for Meetup and join groups. Meetup groups host Meetups so members can meet up.

• Meetup is our company, brand, and product, while meet up is a verb. As a noun, Meetup always begins with a capital M, contains a lowercase u and no spaces. Not MeetUp or Meet Up or, our personal favorite, Meetup.com. We own the trademark on Meetup but we do not protect it.

• As a verb, it’s “meet up” as two words.

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Style Guide

Generally, we follow the Chicago Manual of Style and the Merriam-Webster dictionary. We use American English (plus emojis!) in global channels (e.g. social media) and local spelling in local channels whenever possible (e.g. email, notifications, etc.).