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jackI'm juggling several things. I wanted a christmas party, I'm wondering if I can squeeze one in on Friday (Mum and I will probably be off on sat, so I won't go to peter's on saturday.). I've invited people on facebook, livejournal, and usual suspects email list.
It's interesting how they differ. Usual suspects definitely gives the best invitations; everyone who receives the email feels personally invited, but I don't have to mail merge to achieve this. The drawback being, any friends of rjk et al who have moved to oxford or I don't know, etc, are welcome, but I'm sure don't want their inbox filled with invitations to only partially overlapping parties :)
Livejournal is fine, but very easy to miss invitations. Facebook is good because it has a "yesnomaybe" response built in, but slightly suffers in that invitations are binary: I'd like to distinguish between "I'd love to see you, but I know you're busy then, don't go out of your way to come to Cambridge" and "This is important, it'd mean a lot to me if you could come" :)
And I need to organise a birthday party for next year -- last year becky and sonic nearly did for me, which was really sweet, but it didn't work out. And last year I had a games afternoon too, I might do something similar again.
We played bridge in the Carlton on thu, and I had a run of hands like a never do, not perfect, but knocking down a run of 4s contracts like dominoes. Which was clearly actually frustrating for Clive and Peter, I don't know how to handle that well actually, despite being on both sides. Make a joke of it, but it always comes off stilted.
It's interesting how they differ. Usual suspects definitely gives the best invitations; everyone who receives the email feels personally invited, but I don't have to mail merge to achieve this. The drawback being, any friends of rjk et al who have moved to oxford or I don't know, etc, are welcome, but I'm sure don't want their inbox filled with invitations to only partially overlapping parties :)
Livejournal is fine, but very easy to miss invitations. Facebook is good because it has a "yesnomaybe" response built in, but slightly suffers in that invitations are binary: I'd like to distinguish between "I'd love to see you, but I know you're busy then, don't go out of your way to come to Cambridge" and "This is important, it'd mean a lot to me if you could come" :)
And I need to organise a birthday party for next year -- last year becky and sonic nearly did for me, which was really sweet, but it didn't work out. And last year I had a games afternoon too, I might do something similar again.
We played bridge in the Carlton on thu, and I had a run of hands like a never do, not perfect, but knocking down a run of 4s contracts like dominoes. Which was clearly actually frustrating for Clive and Peter, I don't know how to handle that well actually, despite being on both sides. Make a joke of it, but it always comes off stilted.
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Date: 2007-12-17 01:55 pm (UTC)As you say, LJ is a poor medium for invites. It does mean when I am bored I see more invites than when I am busy, but as they are usually invites for things several weeks in the future it isn't even self-correcting.
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Date: 2007-12-17 02:56 pm (UTC)As you say, LJ is a poor medium for invites.
Yeah. It generally works out, people pick up the vibes somewhere and then go back to check the details. But it's not very push.
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Date: 2007-12-17 02:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-17 02:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-12-17 05:51 pm (UTC)Also, The game, not just normal conversation.
The game, not just normal conversation.
Date: 2007-12-17 05:54 pm (UTC)Re: The game, not just normal conversation.
Date: 2007-12-17 05:55 pm (UTC)It's like that bit of my memory was randomly overwritten with something else.
Re: The game, not just normal conversation.
Date: 2007-12-17 05:59 pm (UTC)