AW: interactive organizations gathering in istanbul-the story-my story

[Funda Oral]

Douglas,

These people i invited in the last minute were all my close friends
who also work in different organizations.

They knew about ost for long time through me, it has been maybe
2 years i had been telling them about it.

They also knew about the iao conference for longtime.

They were aware of and they were also interested in ost.

The problem in Istanbul is that it's a highly populated city, the traffic is 
terrible,
the speed of life and competition are high.

These people i contacted are very busy all the time.

So considering all these information, here are the answers to your 
questions:
i invited 70 people at the last minute without payment, 50 said that they 
would come at least for the opening,
25-30 people showed up at the opening, we were 15 the second
and the third day.

I see this as a successful ost event as one of the very first steps.

Funda




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "douglas germann" <76066.515 at compuserve.com>
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Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2006 3:31 AM
Subject: Re: AW: interactive organizations gathering in istanbul-the 
story-my story


> Catherine and Funda--
>
> In Funda's report it looks like you contacted a lot of people personally
> at the last minute and got some good attendance from them. What per cent
> of the people you contacted either over the telephone or in person
> actually showed up?
>
> Catherine, you mention almost entirely the use of mailing and
> publication--How many people did you invite face to face?
>
> My working hypothesis in these public events is that face to face in
> person invitations get people to the event, but newspapers and mailers
> generally produce 1 or 2 people, especially for a new event. (I am
> thinking of continuing professional education events which happen every
> year, and those probably produce 99% of their attendance from mailings.)
>
> :- Doug. Germann
>
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