Choosing A Website
There are many web sites available online that allow you to organize your parties and events by sending out invitations and making plans for the party online. These web sites include Evite, Mypunchbowl, and Socializr --- just to name three of the many options. You can use these web sites to plan birthday parties, graduation parties, retirement parties, or even simple events like a backyard cookout because you want to get your friends together. Each one has its own graphics and options, which can allow you to get very fancy with your invitations. If you become familiar with one of these web sites, it's easy to learn use the other two.
Setting Up Your Online Guest List
You don't have to worry about typing all of your guests' e-mail addresses into an address book, and then importing them into your invitation. Instead, the first time you add a guest to an invitation, the web site will recognize if you have that e-mail address in your computer's address book. If it's not there, the web site you are using will add it to your address book. Then, in the future instead of typing in addresses, all you have to do is click on your address book and on the website when creating your invitation and then click on the people's names that you want to invite.
Tracking
Instead of worrying if someone has received your party invitation, as often happens when you use traditional e-mail or the U.S. Postal Mail, you can use online invitation web sites such as these three. These web sites will show you who has read the invitation and when they read it. You can even send reminders to people who have not read the invitation yet. You can also choose to send messages to everyone who has chosen to attend, not to attend, or is undecided, based on their responses to those three answers.
Organizing
If you want to have a potluck dinner, each of these web sites offers a way for you to have your guests sign up for items to bring to the party. You can set the amount of each item you need at your party, and once enough people sign up, it won't show up on the list as an option for other guests to bring. This can help you avoid the problem of way too many bags of chips and no dips to dip them in at your party.
Polling Your Guests
The web sites also allow you to poll your guests if you have any questions you want to have them answer before the party. This might include questions such as the music they want to listen to, what time they would like the party to end, or what games to play at the party. Using these online invitation web sites can save you the time of calling or e-mailing each guest individually. The web sites will even give you poll totals!
Receive Alerts
You can choose track your guest list on each of these web sites. You can either visit the web site yourself on a regular basis and see the totals of who has responded and how they responded, or you can can choose to receive an e-mail each time an invited guests responds to your invite.
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