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To get started, simply use the “Create book club” link in the “My book clubs” box on your Connections profile. Enter a title and description for your club (you can change these later):
Once you've entered these, you'll be taken to the “edit settings” screen where you can choose the main setup for your book club:
Click “update” when you're done. To return to this page at any time, just visit your book club and click the “edit settings” button.
If you choose to leave your book club open, anyone will be able to join it simply by visiting the club and clicking the “Join book club” button.
If you choose to set your club to “invitations only”, you will have to invite users to become a member. Within the “Edit settings” page there is an “invited users” link, which will show you all invited users (and whether or not they have accepted the invite) and where you can also search for more users to invite.
If your book club is visible publicly, a user might still see it in the book club list and request an invite if they're interested in joining. You will receive a message to alert you, and again within the “Edit settings” page, you'll see a “Requested invites” link (showing the number of requests in brackets) where you can accept or reject the request.
When a user joins a book club you have created, you will receive a message within Connections telling you who has joined.
One other action you can take is to ban users - if they are leaving offensive comments, for example. You can view a list of banned users, and ban further users, in the “Edit settings” page with the “Banned users” link.