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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Hi -</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I had written:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in;text-autospace:none'><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS"'><<i><span
style='font-style:italic'>the core/host team may need to send out
differently-crafted messages / announcements to speak to different kind of
groups</span></i>.></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Michael, you wrote – and I’m thinking you were responding
to what I wrote?:</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><i><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>< i do
think that one event can have only one invitation. first</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><i><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>because
it's too much work to write more than one. more importantly,</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><i><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>thought,
it seems that all ppts should show up for the same thing. </span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><i><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>if, like
in this case, there isn't common language for writing an</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><i><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>single
invitation, then that just becomes part of the task/purpose for</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><i><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>the
meeting itself. having various groups come for different</span></font></i></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:.5in'><i><font size=2
face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-style:italic'>invites/purposes
seems like real trouble</span></font></i>.></p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I’m guessing I should have provided some examples to be clearer
as to what I was thinking.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I am not saying the different forms of outreach to different groups you
want to invite name different *<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>purposes /
tasks / reasons</span></b>* for the meeting or conference. </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>What I am saying is about culture, and cultural forms of expression,
and about invitation – how different kinds of people or cultures respond
to different ways of invitation and different vocabulary and such. So for an OS
with diverse participants, for example one flyer or email announcement that has
the graphics and energy and words that speak more to youth, one that speaks
more to business leaders, going in-person to parent groups because maybe that
is what speaks more to them, and so on. Not always necessary, given the
event – sometimes very necessary, given the mix of people you want to
have in the room and what their lives/cultures/codes/ways of communicating are
like.</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Diverse outreach/invitation to invite diversity. Everyone’s
message includes the same reason / purpose for the gathering. But
everyone does not have a common language, or common access to information
streams/methods, unless you know you are inviting only a certain kind of people
(which may indeed be the case for your event, Ted and Michael…but I can’t
tell – perhaps you are seeking to invite people who speak in a specific language,
visit on-line and respond to – for example – wiki/mashup
vocabulary, codes and culture?)</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>I think it’s worth the work (not to imply that you don’t
think it’s worth the work, Michael – just to clarify the context of
my response when you say ‘it’s too much work’ ). One of
the things I tell my clients is that the burden of work for them indeed *<b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>is</span></b>* in the invitation – to craft it /
them well, to invite and keep inviting, to figure out who is not there and –
if one is welcoming diversity, to find ways and resources to make it just as
easy for people in minority culture to learn about the event and get there as
for the others, and so on…</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>(again I think that I’m only reading a bit about your event as
this conversation unfolds so your greater knowledge of your particular event
and your particular constituency may result in you sending one clear message in
one form to one sort of people)</span></font></p>
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10.0pt'> </span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Lisa</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>___________________________</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>L i s a H e f t</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>Consultant, Facilitator, Educator</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>O p e n i n g S p a c e</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>lisaheft@openingspace.net</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Trebuchet MS"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt'>www.openingspace.net </span></font></p>
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