Run a regular online roundtable
Looking to start your own online roundtable?
Portalry makes it simple.
Create one simple page for your meetings—so people know when they’re happening, where to go, and who’s coming.
Invites, reminders, calendar signup, shared links, and attendance - all in one place.
Every portalry starts with a free 30-day trial. No card required.
Example roundtable
FrameFest
Open page
A quarterly roundtable for educators using metaverse tech—with the next meeting, RSVP, join link, and resources all in one place.
What is an online roundtable?
A small, regular meeting for fantastic conversations
For consultants and agencies, it’s a simple way to bring the right people together around a specific area of expertise. It is not a webinar and it is not a big community platform. It is a focused live discussion people can join every month or every week.
Done well, a roundtable helps you build relationships, test your thinking in public, grow trust in a new topic, and stay close to future clients and collaborators.
A good starting shape
- Pick one hot, narrow, niche topic people genuinely want help thinking through
- Invite a small group of peers, clients, and useful adjacent contacts
- Run it weekly or monthly so people know there is a next conversation coming
- Keep the meeting link, notes, and follow-up links in one stable place
Choosing the right tool
When you’re starting out, this is the setup that works
A calendar invite won’t scale. A full community platform is too heavy. Portalry hits the sweet spot for a new online roundtable.
Option 1
Calendar only
Fine for the first invite, but weak once the roundtable starts to grow.
- Hard to manage with multiple admins
- Awkward for weekly or monthly changes
- No simple subscribe or unsubscribe flow
- People keep asking for the link again
Option 2
Portalry
Just enough structure for a real online roundtable.
- One page for the meeting and shared links
- Self-serve subscribe and unsubscribe
- Easy to share with a friend
- Works with the apps you already use
Option 3
Full community platform
Powerful, but usually too heavy when you are just trying to get a new roundtable going.
- More setup than most new groups need
- Encourages signups without attendance
- Adds another platform to manage
- Too much ask for an early-stage group
What changes with Portalry
What you get
Everything people need to join the next meeting and come back for the one after that.
A meeting people can actually find
One clear place for the next date and join link, instead of digging through old emails and message threads.
A roundtable that feels real
A visible next meeting, reminders, and RSVPs make it feel like a real group people want to return to.
One home for everything around the meeting
Keep notes, WhatsApp, slides, and shared resources attached to the meeting itself, not scattered across tools.
When the next meeting is easy to find, people are far more likely to turn up and come back.
The Psychology of roundtables
People return when the roundtable feels like a real community forming
A visible next date, a clear join link, and signs that other people are going make attendance build over time. This is why:
The next step is obvious
People can immediately see when the next meeting is happening, calculated to their timezone and how to join it.
Momentum becomes visible
A simple RSVP list helps people see that the roundtable is active and worth joining.
There is less friction between meetings
The join link, reminders, and shared resources stay together, so people do not have to piece things together each time.
Next steps
How to get started
Start small and grow at your community's own pace.
Step 1
Set the rhythm
Set the first meeting date, and choose weekly or monthly for the next one.
Step 2
Add the links people need
Put the meeting link, chat group, and notes links all on the same page.
Step 3
Share one page - your 'portalry'
Let people RSVP, subscribe, and come back each time without needing a fresh invite.
Start a roundtable and build an engaged community today
Portalry gives you one page for the meeting and the useful links around it, so people can find it, join it, and come back next time.
Start your roundtable