The first elite event she attended in Taipei was at an art studio where they were given a blank canvas and art supplies and told to just get creative. Strom first started using Yelp in San Francisco in 2009 and became an elite member in 2010. “I will know that my community has a lot of dog owners so I can do a doggy park event and bring frisbees,” Lo says.Įlite user and expat Eifeh Strom says she enjoys events that are interactive. She’s had the opportunity through these meetups to get to know the users personally, as well as meet their family members and pets. “One of the benefits of an offline community is that it helps validate our persona online,” Lo tells me. Whereas the community events are casual and give people a chance to stop by after work for a drink, Lo says the elite events are more like monthly reunions. So far, Lo has taken Yelp users out to catch shrimp, ice skate and Zumba.Įlite members have also learned how to pick coffee beans and make soup dumplings. It is part of her job to cultivate an offline community while growing Yelp Taipei’s online presence. She says that she also loves wandering in alleys and discovering cool stores, such as a wine shop with board games. She introduces herself as a “heavy app user” when we meet at a French bistro tucked away in a bohemian alley near National Taiwan University. Yelp Taipei’s community manager, Roxanne Lo, is well aware of how addictive smartphones can be. Yelp’s elite members at an “artistic experimentation” workshop last August.
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