Hi Albert, I just joined ChamberForge and I noticed you posted this a year ago but I thought I would respond anyways. Virtual is not my favorite because I always prefer in-person but I found that it had many benefits for meeting people that I would have never been able to meet without. I was in a BNI chapter for 1 year and every meeting with that chapter was virtual for me. It is difficult to get to know people that way so I scheduled more 121s in my chapter than anyone else and made it work for me. I also co-hosted a the South Carolina Happy Neighborhood Project virtual meeting for a year. It was going really well and I got to have virtual 121s with people from Hawaii to Canada. When most things started opening back up our number continued to drop just about every week. I started a network group in February 2021 and I now have 5 chapters which is why I need ChamberForge.

Thanks Jimmy! Appreciate your input. We've also noticed that there are definitely some trade offs, both good and bad, to the virtual environment. Congratulations on launching 5 chapters! That's awesome. If you're open to it I'd love to get on a 1 to 1 over zoom to learn more about your networking organization and what's working well. Feel free to email me: albert@nexconational.com Best, Albert

Thank you. Absolutely. I will email you.