by Bonnie Sayers
Member since:
August 6, 2006

Suggestion for Inviting members to groups

September 19, 2006 12:18 AM EDT
views: 90 | rating: 5/10 (4 votes) | comments: 15

I own several groups and would like to be able to invite members that I am not connected to, to join my groups that are in existence or those that I will be creating.

For now when I read an article that is perfectly suited for one of my groups I mention in a comment that in case the person is not a member they can join XYZ group and post this article there as well. 

It would be nice if there was a button there to click on to invite member to one of my groups, and then it takes me to a listing of my groups where I can check off which ones I would want to invite said member.

Also as a member of other groups I would like to invite my connections, yet when you click on to invite members it seems like the connections are that of the group owner.  Can anyone confirm this?  I did not recognize any of them when I wanted to help get traffic to a group, but just closed out the window since I did not know any of the people.

The search function only gives you one page when looking for latest groups, new members or doing a specific search for say members who reside in a certain city or state.  Would like to see that give more page options.

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Comments: 15

Sonia M. Sep 19, 2006, 12:28am EDT
I too have tried inviting people to other groups beside mine, Bonnie, but gave up as I could not figure it out either.......:-(
Shaunee C. Sep 19, 2006, 12:36am EDT
sounds like a good idea to me
Same here, I didn't recognize the names either, I don't think we're getting our connections when we click invite on anothers group. I think we're getting theirs, and those folks are already there!
I'd like to see those buttons and an Edit button for an article as typos, bad wording, etc's happen and it would be great to fix them without deleting the entire thing and starting over --- same would/could apply to when you reply, like now ;)
Granny Janny H. Sep 19, 2006, 12:54am EDT
good idea!
skyler t. Sep 19, 2006, 12:58am EDT
I agree... inviting people is tricky, because I don't want to spam people, but it's hard to find people who might be interested unless they've written something about it. I've searched for keywords to find people, then I have to look up their username to invite them. It's a pain, so I haven't done it much, and my groups don't have very many people.
Mark Linehan Sep 19, 2006, 3:00am EDT
I agree. When I created my Song Sharing group looking for people who would want to post articles containing links to songs they have recorded I searched slowly but surely for names that contained such words as song, sing, guitar, music, etc.. It took a while and did not turn up as much as I would have hoped.
Carol Roach Sep 19, 2006, 5:41am EDT
what groups do you own?
Emily F. Sep 19, 2006, 7:55am EDT
Very good ideas, Bonnie.
Susan *. Sep 19, 2006, 8:35am EDT
...this does sound like an interesting idea...gather, are you listening!?! ;-)
Emt Mom Sep 19, 2006, 8:38am EDT
I'm not sure how to invite someone to a group that you do not own. However I do wish people would take the time to read a persons profile before sending out blanket invites. I have been invited to groups that if somone read my profile they would know not to invite me to.
I would say if you know someone who would be interested in a group message the owner and ask them to send the invite, or message your connection and send them to the group page to join.
Stephanie A. (On vacation) Sep 19, 2006, 9:52am EDT
I agree, a button to invite a person posting something appropriate for your group would be nice.
Bonnie Sayers Sep 19, 2006, 10:34am EDT
When you create a group you get another page showing it has been done and then a invite to your group page that lists all your connections, so it is not like someone can go to look at all profiles when doing this and I have never been sure if I can just leave that page without inviting anyone as there is no way to do it besides doing that or closing the window.
Sandy (back in Ohio...blah!) Sep 19, 2006, 1:22pm EDT
I agree..It is hard to do.....I will go post a question about sending your other group link sthrough on a certain day. Be on the look out for it.
Emt Mom Sep 19, 2006, 8:23pm EDT
I didn't notice that when I created mine Bonnie. I just looked at peoples posts and invited the people I thought might enjoy the groups. I spent several days just hunting around when I first joined, reading peoples profiles.
Bonnie Sayers Sep 21, 2006, 11:03am EDT
Cami - I find your barrage of emails borderline harassment. You forwarded someone else's email to me, and that is not how to handle communication with people. I have stated many times in my articles and in comments that I am on dial up and constantly losing my connection. I can only have one window open when on gather and I admitted on one article yesterday that I make mistakes when it comes to posting on gather specific groups.

Someone yesterday posted two pages of images to three of my groups and lots of their off topic articles. I had to remove everything and ban the member and then when I got your email I was already exasperated and decided to let you know how I felt about forwarding other peoples emails and the constant private messages you send.

But this comment takes it over the top. Please do me a favor and remove my articles from member resources and I will remove you from my adoption group.

You have some nerve making assumptions on people you do not know. Iwill not discuss this further, but do stop joining my groups and refrain from posting comments on my articles.

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