These services tend to sling messages back and forth with lightning speed and allow texting to groups as large as 100 people, which is good for organizing gatherings.
Hezbollah staged a show of force, organizing gatherings of men clad in black as a message that it was well within its ability to seize the capital, parts of which it occupied in May 2008.
She appeared before a group of about 30 women at a quickly organized gathering, held after a breakfast fund-raiser at a nearby country club for her husband.
After the organized gathering — part news conference, part airing of grievances, part planning session — broke up, four or five people returned to a tent marked with a sign reading "Direct Action".
The group also organizes gatherings that combine the social with the financial.
Mr. Henley, 40, is a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism, a group that organizes gatherings, usually in the wilderness, where people pretend to live as if in the Middle Ages.
They were told to organize gatherings with friends and neighbors at which they were to present a Labastida video and elicit vote pledges, she said.
Steven Dean, who organizes gatherings in New York for self-trackers — people who collect data about everything from their caffeine intake to their number of smiles — said we were in the early stages of information gathering and analysis.
Previous proceedings have been packed with Mr. Hashmi's supporters, and many have attended organized gatherings outside the federal jail in Lower Manhattan where he has been held in solitary confinement and under other highly restrictive measures.
In recent weeks, OUR Walmart has organized gatherings of 10 to 80 workers in Dallas, Seattle, Los Angeles and other cities, meeting inside churches, fast-food restaurants and employees' homes, where the workers chewed over how they would like to improve Wal-Mart.
From costume parties in his Woodstock studio, to the beginnings of the Artists Equity Association, where he served as its first president, Kuniyoshi organized gatherings attended by well-known personalities like Gypsy Rose Lee, Milton Avery and Philip Guston.
