If you review the Mixergy invitation process and give me feedback, I’ll post it here and link to you. Paul, Brandon, Michael and I have been working hard to make Mixergy.com the invitation site that helps guests mix. And we could use your feedback.Here’s who gave us feedback this week.
kevinmlynch.org went through the whole site and give it a thorough review. Here are some excerpts:
Once your invitation is created, you can also share your invitation to friends on facebook or MySpace. This seems to be a token effort at tapping into the power of the social networking scene because you don’t gain any advantage in terms of guest or event management by doing this. Yes, if you use contacts from plaxo, you get this advantage but plaxo is not up on my list of the most popular social networking sites. I really wish there was some way to incorporate friends from facebook into the import option for contacts. Since most of my daily social networking is via facebook, the lack of this feature means that I have to ensure that I have all my facebook contacts and their email addresses are listed in one of my other contact locations.
I think you’re right. We allow hosts to invite their Facebook contacts, but we need to make it easier.
There is a “people you should meet†pane which the host can activate. … You can then set some criteria at a very high level in terms of the work you do and general interests and people in other lines of work or interests you want to meet. If someone else is going to the same event that meets your criteria, that person will show up as a match in “people you should meetâ€.
That’s the heart of what we want to do. We’ll keep testing new ways for guests to get to know each other. Paul created this guest matching feature. Next week, Brandon will test a new game to help guests mix.
All in all, I like the site and the prospects of using this tool for networking events or singles events is high. It is a cleaner and crisper interface than evite. Both sites have their advantages over the other but evite is geared for the masses and is rather bland in terms of functionality and its ability to share or be “socialâ€. Mixergy would be my tool of preference.
Thanks!
Jessica Santana didn’t like the site, but her email was very helpful because it addresses a critical part of the site: the event creation process.
I went to Mixergy to create an invite after I saw your post on Lunch 2.0. Unfortunately I’m not going to be using it right now. I was testing it out and found that I couldn’t save the invite and return later to finish it. Then to my unpleasant surprise, I received an email saying that my invite was live! You need to add a feature where users can save the invite and return later. Also, it shouldn’t be automatically live – the user should decide when it goes live. The profile link doesn’t always work either. Final jab and I’ll leave you alone – your picture search should be more user-friendly (more browsing capability) with a lot less pictures of random people at private events like weddings, graduation, parties, etc.
Evite sucks. Mixergy is a new website for managing event invitations online. Try it. Rejoice.
Blog your review of the site or email it to me, Andrew Warner: mail |at| awarner.com