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Meeting Invitations

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Sending Meeting Invitations


You can get easily a lot of people in your meeting with a small effort.

Contents

"Couch Search"

Start by locating the group of people you want to mail out to. Generally this active couchsurfers in a region.

  • Open Map surf

Go to http://www.couchsurfing.com/mapsurf.html

  • Select your region

Scroll to the bottom of the page in green: Location by selection Move from right to left narrowing the region you'd like to send to.

  • Select an area around the region

To the right of the "List Surfers on Next Page..." button, select a radius from the drop down menu. For most metropolitian cities, 40km/30miles is recommended.

  • List Surfers

When you click "List Surfers on Next Page..." you've just saved a search in your history. This, along with your last 10 searchs, will come up on the Send out Meeting Invitations page.

  • It is immoral and illegal to exclude based on race or gender

Refrain from including a single sex, age, etc. CS is an open community and normally (except for special reasons, such as a girls choir) the meetings are open to everyone and selection like just girls or nice boys are not in the CS spirit...

  • Do not spam

Remember also to choose just to the people who could be interested and do not spam the net, if you are making a meeting for 7 persons you would not send meeting invitations for 700 persons...


Send out meeting invitations

Once you've found the group you'd like to send it to, open your event page and click "Send out meeting invitations". If you haven't created a Meeting/Event see the Meeting HOWTO page

  • Write the meeting invitation

Be sure to indicate your the date and time of the meeting in the subject. It helps to be concise when you write a meeting invitation, stick to reason they might want to come and don't forget the basic details about the event, again Who, What, When, Where, and Why.

  • Select your groups

If you associated with a group that would also enjoy to know about this event, check the box(es) next to groups you've joined.

(Note that you must be a member of a group to post to it.)

  • Select your couchsearch

You'll see your past 10 searched, the number of people they result in, and the criteria used to select them. Check the search (or searches) that match your criteria.

  • Save and Send Message as soon as Possible

Once you've finished all the steps above, click the "Save and Send Message as soon as Possible" Button.

  • Wait for an Administrator to approve your message

Generally within 24 hours an Administrator will check your email and if is OK he will approve and post your Meeting message.


See also

Events

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