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July 19, 2007 4:02pm
Subscribe [2]#1 / Jul 19, 2007 4:02pm
Anybody taken a leaf out of facebook/linkedin/et al, and integrated importing tools for gmail contact addressbook etc, to feed into ‘invite a friend’ site option?
This Get my contacts importer script looks interesting: http://www.getmycontacts.com/
Anyone used or could recommend?
#2 / Jul 19, 2007 4:50pm
Tell a Friend is meant to send an email to a single person with a link back to a specific post on your site. What you’re suggesting sounds like spam to me.
You could manually create a mailing list for a invitation to visit your new site. But again, I don’t think I’d use that option.
#3 / Jul 20, 2007 6:25am
hi sue
no this is definitely not a spam issue. i don’t hold any truck with that. like any software it could be misused.
it uses person-to-person recommendations, and doesn’t automatically send to the whole address list, but makes it easier for a person to tap into their address book to choose which friends to send ‘tell a friend’ to. But I take on-board what you say.
Maybe it would be better to have a ‘tell a friend’ link but with the option to put in a few addresses rather than just one.
thanks, matt
#4 / Jul 20, 2007 6:28am
oh, just as an addition to this sue, do you think the fact sites such as facebook and barackobama.com are using this script means they are spamming, because i’m sure this would be an issue for these organisations… Interested in your take, as this is a sensitive issue for people like us who care about such matters.
when does a recommendation/tell-a-friend system cross the line and become spam? A fuzzy area because I guess it depends on relevance of that email to each person, yes?
#5 / Jul 20, 2007 9:12pm
I don’t use Facebook, and haven’t looked at Barack’s site, so I have no opinion.
when does a recommendation/tell-a-friend system cross the line and become spam? A fuzzy area because I guess it depends on relevance of that email to each person, yes?
One person’s tolerance for spam differs from another’s. It’s a good topic for discussion, though.
#6 / Jul 21, 2007 11:09pm
hi sue
no this is definitely not a spam issue. i don’t hold any truck with that. like any software it could be misused.
it uses person-to-person recommendations, and doesn’t automatically send to the whole address list, but makes it easier for a person to tap into their address book to choose which friends to send ‘tell a friend’ to. But I take on-board what you say.
Maybe it would be better to have a ‘tell a friend’ link but with the option to put in a few addresses rather than just one.
thanks, matt
um yah. that still sounds like spam.