{"id":3570,"date":"2012-04-11T23:30:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T23:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/help-o.ning.com\/?p=3570"},"modified":"2019-09-06T06:10:32","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T06:10:32","slug":"what-is-the-invitation-link-how-does-it-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/help\/what-is-the-invitation-link-how-does-it-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing an Invite Link to Attract New Members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can invite people to join your network if you are the Network Creator or if the Network Creator has extended this ability to members.<\/p>\n<p>Members can invite people by importing friends and addresses through Facebook or Gmail or other integrated and enabled services, or by entering an email address directly. If the Network Creator has additionally shared an invitation link with their members, then members will also be able to in turn share this invitation link with their friends.<\/p>\n<p>One advantage of using an invitation link is that it only will ever expire if a new invitation link is created in the meantime. For this same reason, only the Network Creator and administrators have access to the link by default, though it is easy to share.<\/p>\n<p>To find the link, click on the &#8220;Invitations&#8221; link in the dashboard. You can also find this same invitation link if you click on the Invite tab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8451 size-full\" title=\"share this invite link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/share-this-invite-link-e1342647844308.jpg\" alt=\"Sharing an Invite Link to Attract New Members 1\" width=\"585\" height=\"415\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you want to send the invitation link to multiple people, just click on the &#8220;Copy to Clipboard&#8221; button and copy the link URL. Paste this URL into an email, an IM or website!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8453 size-full\" title=\"paste the URL\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/paste-the-URL1-e1342647959714.jpg\" alt=\"Sharing an Invite Link to Attract New Members 2\" width=\"585\" height=\"485\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If at some point, you want the invitation link to expire, you can create a new link by going to My Network &gt; Settings &gt; Invitation. Once there, click the &#8220;Create New Invitation Link&#8221; text.<\/p>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8455 size-full\" title=\"create new invitation link\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/help\/wp-content\/uploads\/create-new-invitation-link1-e1342648034472.jpg\" alt=\"Sharing an Invite Link to Attract New Members 3\" width=\"585\" height=\"486\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Creating a new invitation link will disable the current link, as well as any outstanding invitations containing that link.<\/strong> People will now need to have the new invitation link in order to join your Ning Network.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can invite people to join your network if you are the Network Creator or if the Network Creator has extended this ability to members.<br \/>\nMembers can invite people by importing friends and addresses through Facebook or Gmail or other integrated and enabled services, or by entering an email address directly. If the Network Creator has additionally shared an invitation link with their members, then members will also be able to in turn share this invitation link with their friends.<br \/>\nOne advantage of using an invitation link is that it only will ever expire if a new invitation link is created in the meantime. For this same reason, only the Network Creator and administrators have access to the link by default, though it is easy to share.<br \/>\nTo find the link, click on the &#8220;Invitations&#8221; link in the dashboard. You can also find this same invitation link if you click on the Invite tab.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to send the invitation link to multiple people, just click on the &#8220;Copy to Clipboard&#8221; button and copy the link URL. Paste this URL into an email, an IM or website!<\/p>\n<p>If at some point, you want the invitation link to expire, you can create a new link &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[42,40,46],"tags":[419,301,124,189],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v16.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Sharing an Invite Link to Attract New Members | Ning Help Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Sharing an Invite Link to Attract New Members | Ning Help Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ning.com\/help\/what-is-the-invitation-link-how-does-it-work\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" 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