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You've got a new group setup and you're ready to invite some people to join you.  Convos gives you a couple of options when sending group invites. Here we'll cover the easiest way.

Click the green "+ Members" button

Type or paste email addresses

Click the "Add to List" button

Add some text to the invite and click "Send Invite"

An email will go out to new users that looks like this:

Hello,

Bob Smith has invited you to join the Smith Family Group on Convos.

To view this invitation, simply click here http://live.convos.com:8080/group_websites/signup...

or

paste the following URL into your browser:

http://live.convos.com:8080/group_websites/signup...

To learn more about creating your own groups or using your account, visit the Convos Help Center at http://help.convos.com.

When your user clicks the links in the email, they will be able to sign up for Convos and your group!

For a complete guide on this and the other ways to invite members to your group, visit this section of the Convos Help Center.

 
You just signed up for Convos and you started your very first group. Now it's time to put your Convos group to work for you.

We just updated the default group welcome page (shown left) with some pointers on how to get your new group off the ground. In the welcome page, we have outlined some of the key things you'll want to do.

We have listed them here below with links to our help center.

Create Content - With the "Group Item" dropdown you can add new pages, upload photos & files, create events, and more. This way when members join your group, you'll have some content for them to

Invite Members - What's a group without any members?  To invite members simply click the "+ Members" link in the middle panel (next to your group name)

Customize your welcome page - When group members join the group, you can greet them with a custom welcome page. If you need some help designing a welcome page, check out our pointers or contact us. We'd be happy to help.

For a comprehensive guide on how to start a group or use group modules, stop by the new Convos Help Center.

Since Convos is now live and we've got quite a few new visitors to the blog, we've gone ahead and turned comments back on.

Feel free to leave comments by clicking the "Post a Comment" link at the bottom of every post. We're looking forward to hearing from you!

 
When you create a group on Convos, a Page is displayed in the rightmost panel. This is your default Group Welcome Page (shown left) and the first thing members will see when they access your group.

Why not take some time to make this welcome page unique before inviting members to the group? It's easy to do and can really make your new members feel welcome.
 

Get Creative!
As an admin, you have the ability to customize this page to display whatever you would like your group members to see when they access the group. Below are some examples of how a dinner party group might use a Group Welcome Page:

 Group Name                   Quote Board                   Letter from the leader 

Schedule                         Recipes                            ASCII Art

It's easy to customize!

Ready to customize your group's welcome page? Simply click the "Group Welcome Page" in the middle panel (in Pages) and your welcome page will display some simple WYSIWYG controls at the bottom.

Need some help?

Stop by the Convos Help Center for a step-by-step guide to setting up your group welcome pages.

Not feeling creative?  Contact us here and we would be happy to help you to make a nice welcome page for your group.

Currently, when a group message is sent from an external email address, it takes some time for the message to be sent to everyone in the group. This is because Convos has an automatic, periodic process of collecting group emails and sending them out to the group.

If a message is sent from the Convos interface, it is sent to the group right then and there, eliminating the lag that one currently experiences when sending from an outside email address.

We are working on updating this timing so Convos sends the messages on a more frequent basis. Thanks for your patience on this and we will have this resolved in the next few days.