Every healthy community has regular times when everyone comes together, whether its your annual conference, your weekly church service, or your monthly book club. Talkbeat is a place for regular scheduled gatherings.
In an in-person gathering, the real magic happens in small private conversations. Its hard to really connect to people when everything you say is broadcast to a large audience. A Talkbeat gathering consists of multiple small private conversations.
Talkbeat makes it easy to stay in touch with the people you care about, without the awkwardness of broadcasting everything thats going on in your life to everyone you know.
In an in-person gathering, you can see which groups of people are talking, and overhear small parts of what is being said. This allows you to know which conversations you might want to join.
While Talkbeat conversations are private, you can choose to "publicly broadcast" a subset of the messages you send, allowing others to track the highlights of what you are talking about and know if they should drop in.