making an evite for mailing lists and groups

Recently, a bunch of evites that have gone out where a mailing list got invited and it had instructions for people to invite themselves to the party and then RSVP to the invite that they send themselves. That works, but it’s complex and usually a couple of people end up RSVPing for the mailing list as a whole and other craziness ensues.

Here’s some instructions on how to use evite’s suggested method for doing this — giving the event a URL of its own, and then mailing the URL to people.

1. choose the ‘Change Reminders/Include Event Link’ option. This is usually on the right side of the website’s content a ways down. Depending on your template, it will look something like this, but may vary slightly based on the graphics in the site and other things.

2. Enter the name of the party at the end of the URL. After you select that, it will cause a new area to appear further down on the screen where you can schedule reminders and insert a party name at the end of a URL.

If you put something there (like gradparty) as seen here, you’ll then be able to mail people a link to the URL for the party, and they’ll just be able to rsvp there, and they won’t have to go through the RSVP process.

3. Profit For example, for this (non-existent party), you can send out an message with
http://www.evite.com/app/publicUrl/evite@corprew.org/gradparty

in it and people will be able to RSVP.