rcarter/kutoa-roadmap — Issue #2: Referral Mechanism
Author: rcarter
Created: 2012-02-15 01:43:41+00:00
State: open
Labels: High Priority

# Referral Mechanism
**Description:** a mechanism for handling referrals for users so they can share with their friends and have them linked back to the person that shared with them in the first place

* should we look into a bit.ly type link... something like http://k.to/j43k123 ? easier for sharing on twitter/etc. or do we want the "kutoa.org" brand shown on the link... find a shortened domain on http://domai.nr/
* when referred we could have a modal popup with the sharer's info... i.e. "Josh wants you to see this..."

## Future implications
* this needs to be able to be shown in the 'my impact' tree, so we need to make the user list a nested set. will likely use awesome_nested_set as the gem to do this.