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Welcome to Ask Mr. Cloud!
In this video I'll show you how to send electronic invitations using your
computer.
So, open Chrome
New tab
and we're going to look at
Evite.com
Evite.com
I just registered for this site
and signed in
You'll need to do the same to use the invitations.
I don't have any events upcoming so let's 'Create Invitation'
as you can see you can choose invitations for
a wide variety of
events and occasions.
Just about anything you could think of -
game night, girls night, family gatherings, parties, holidays,
baby showers
Let's look at Thanksgiving.
this is the design that came up by default.
Let's see if there are some other Thanksgiving designs.
Sure there is
quite a lot actually
let's pick this one.
So this is the design template
and we can fill in the details
Thanksgiving dinner at Cirrus' house
host
okay
choose the date
you get a calendar dropdown
Sunday at
Let's make it earlier so we can watch the game
how about
2 pm
2
again the same day - if you want to make it an overnighter you can choose the
28th
We'll make it in the evening so that everyone can take a little nap
sleep off that turkey.
and for our message
come on over folks
We're having a great big dinner
and here 'where is this on my invitation'
and you can see it's right here in the 'message from host'
Click the little X to close that box
down here let's preview.
and here is our message
signed by yours truly
Cirrus
and you will have the option so the guests can confirm
yes, no, maybe
can look at the map
they can print it, they can add it to their calendar.
So we'll close this tab with our preview
and continue.
The next step
is to enter
the email addresses of our guests.
You can do this by adding commas
You can add your contacts
to the Evite website
so that next time that you're having an event, you can just add them directly
for now i'm just going to invite Missy Ray
comma
and Blackshoe. comma.
'add to the guest list'
and for the next step
We're ready to send
and these will be the reply headers - default, who's coming, yes, no, maybe.
This would be my profile.
I can add a photo of myself
and a few things that
I'm interested in - my likes.
No we are not going to allow guests to invite other people
Allow guests to bring other people
i suppose Missy Ray can bring a guest
and allow
to indicate the number of children
notify comments, notify reservations
You can set the maximum number of guests.
Let's preview it one more time. alright.
'Close Window' we can do that here
or here
Send
oh my goodness
approval
uh...
was I right?
I was
Evite allows you to create invitations like we just did
E-cards
which are nice
i'm sure they have some beautiful designs
Oh look, it took us to American Greetings
most likely you would have to register for American Greetings also.
Back to the Evite 'Home'
and Evite knows that I sent invitations for Thanksgiving dinner
even more occasions.
Under my name here
we can do my profile, which was the photo and the interests that we saw a minute
ago
events - I'd imagine these are the events that i have sent invitations for already.
Contacts
I have the two contacts that i've used already.
'imports contacts'
from your Gmail account, Windows Live, Yahoo, or AOL Mail.
and that will import your contact list making it simpler for you to invite
people next time.
Very good.
Back to 'Home'
and then, as people respond with their yes, no, or maybe, you will get those in
your email so you'll know exactly who is planning to come to your party.
we're back at the Mr. Cloud inbox in Gmail
and I had Blackshoe
forward the invitation to me so that we could have a look at what it looks like
in Gmail, to get images you need to click 'display images' or 'always display images'
I'd like them always to be displayed
so Blackshoe did
click 'yes'
I wonder if they'll let them do it twice
'Replying as Blackshoe'
one adult
no children
So then they would like to gather some information about Blackshoe
and have Blackshoe register.
It's not a bad thing, that's how they gain customers in business and there is
certainly nothing wrong with that.
So we need to sign in.
Okay we're at Evite, here's the event
we can see that we have
2 yesses
that would be from the host Cirrus and one from Blackshoe
'Not yet replied' - Missy Ray hasn't replied.
Okay, so Blackshoe commented 'I'll be there'. You can comment back or you
can remove it, whatever.
and that's how that works
Pretty slick, pretty sweet and all for FREE
Thank you
for watching Ask Mr. Cloud!
have a lovely holiday! See you on Thanksgiving!