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<DIV>Here is the story-MY story of Interactive
Organizations Gathering in Istanbul.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Jo and Michael had asked me if i would like to host 3rd IAO
gathering in November 2005,</DIV>
<DIV>i had accepted and started thinking about it.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I had been exchanging thoughts, ideas, suggestions with many friends
from the OSlist </DIV>
<DIV>in and outside the list and with many friends around me since January
2006.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In April 2006 i started preparing the invitation. Can
Uludag made the pictures.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>You can still have a look at the invitation on the turkish ost web site :
<A
href="http://www.acikalanteknolojisi.com">www.acikalanteknolojisi.com</A></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Starting from June and until September 2006 i worked on the text
of invitation, exchanging ideas</DIV>
<DIV>with various friends.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In September 1000 invitations have been printed.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>From september till the event ( 24-26 nov.) i disributed invitations by
post and by e-mail. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I sent invitations by post to everybody who heard about the event and/
or who heard about ost </DIV>
<DIV>from me. I distributed them to cafees, to universities, to friends,
relatives etc. In total</DIV>
<DIV>i distributed around 700 printed invitations and more then 1000 invitations
including the ones i sent by e-mail.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>A school friend who runs a public relations company helped me to
announce the event through the</DIV>
<DIV>media. An interview with me about ost was published in a business
newspaper. In adddition, an annoucement</DIV>
<DIV>about IAO event has been published on several news web
sites, magazines and newspapers.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>In september i visited the multinational company that Gail also was
referring to in her message. I knew how much</DIV>
<DIV>OST contributed to their work ( i didn't work there with ost but i knew
someone who was in charge of the use of ost).</DIV>
<DIV>I asked them to be the sponsor of this event and/ or to
paticipate in the event.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Unfortunately they couldn't support the event financially,
they couldn't participate in the event neither.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>1 week ago from the event i heard that mmp and jo couldn't
participate.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There were few people who had registered to the gathering.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I extended a final invitation to all my close friends saying </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>" I gave you too much headache with my obsession to this thing called
ost, now i invite you to take part in iao istanbul </DIV>
<DIV>so that you can experience it. I owe you this invitation as i took your
time and energy. Moreover i need your</DIV>
<DIV>support. The door will be open come whenever you want to. It's better if
you are there at least for the opening.</DIV>
<DIV>Please feel free to join us and don't worry if you can not"</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Around 50 people were confirmed they would be there at least for the
opening.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>25 showed up at the opening. The others: someome had forgetten,
some had crises at work, some had other things to do,</DIV>
<DIV>some couldn't come because of traffic.....whatever</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I just said few words as the sponsor. Mia opened the space
wonderfully.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Then perfect!.....they started raising up issues so quickly and such deep
issues and questions!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>There is no word to describe my feelings about being with
all these people who are very important to me and to my life in an</DIV>
<DIV>ost meeting. </DIV>
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<DIV>We were 13 at the closing session. Everbody came up with many projects
and ideas. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>At the closing, i told about YOUR support , i told them how
much i felt your eyes</DIV>
<DIV>were watching us and your hearts were beating with ours during the
event. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I invested one year of time for the event. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I invested around 3500 euro.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>I did this because i believe in OST and i aslo believe in the
power and use of the </DIV>
<DIV>"InterActive Organizations" as a concept.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The pictures will be uploaded to some web site, i will later share them
with you.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>All the best,</DIV>
<DIV>Funda</DIV>
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