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IMPORTANT MEETING REGARDING THE U.N. WOMEN'S CONFERENCE

My name is David Siegel. I am co-producer of the VIRTUAL BEIJING web site
for the upcoming U.N. Conference on Women. I want to invite you to our
first volunteer event. We will have a meeting of people wishing to help get
the site online by August 1, in preparation for the Conference, which takes
place in Beijing, China, Sept 4-15. Volunteers, staff candidates,
interested people, and supporters are encouraged to attend.


PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON TO TEN FRIENDS!

The meeting will take place in San Francisco at 7pm on Wednesday, May 24,
at the Embarcadero 4, 3rd floor level, where the UN50 exhibit is set up.
Chips and Soft drinks will be served. If you have questions, call me at 415
326-3936.

Please send me a quick RSVP by e-mail so I know how many people to expect.


PLEASE FAX THIS MESSAGE TO SOMEONE WHO DOESN'T HAVE E-MAIL!

We need a big turnout at this meeting to establish our volunteer base and
choose our staff members for VIRTUAL BEIJING. We will need people to do all
kinds of things, including Web page design and production, writing,
editing, artwork, scanning, programming, PR, translation, phone calling,
general assistants, art show curators, user-interface work, signage,
photoshop editing, photography, faxing, more HTML work, UNIX help, computer
maintenance, file organization, more PR, and much more.

People fluent in Chinese or who know Beijing well are especially
encouraged. Women and girls are especially encouraged.


PLEASE CALL THREE PEOPLE AND INVITE THEM TO THIS EVENT!

I have two immediate needs:

        Funding. If you know people who can help me raise $50,000 from a
company,
        please call me. I have a whole sponsor program and am looking for good
        companies to work with.

        Graphic Designers. Good designers who want to help make the core pages
        for the web site. HTML not necessary, good design abilities and
experience
        with user interfaces and event graphics are. Contact me and I will
send you
        a note on what I'm looking for.


PLEASE TRY TO BRING TWO PEOPLE TO THIS EVENT! WE NEED BLOWOUT ATTENDANCE!

I have included a description of the web site and the Stanford Multimedia
Project.

Thank you for your enthusiastic support! See you on Wednesday, May 24!

Sincerely,

David Siegel.


PLEASE PRINT THIS OUT AND POST IT WHERE YOU WORK!

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PROJECT BACKGROUND INFORMATION

I have taken on the responsibility of funding, planning, and implementing a
large site on the World Wide Web for the upcoming United Nations' Women's
Conference in Beijing, China. This is a very excting opportunity, as the
Web has taken off and the conference will only physically be attended by
some 30,000 delegates from organizations around the world. The broadcast
media coverage will be limited. My goal is for the Web site to become the
premiere showcase for the Conference to people around the world.

This huge site will (if things go as planned) get around half a million
visits a day and be the best venue for many groups whose voices will
otherwise go unheard. The Web site has become more important as the Chinese
are being very difficult about who can go and what they can say when they
get there. Many groups have been excluded (for wanting to talk about human
rights). For instance, on the grounds of the site, people will be able to
say anything they want, but outside the official venue, speech will be
severely restricted by the Chinese authorities.

Part of the Web site will be an informative multimedia piece I will produce
with the help of Stanford students over the summer. It will be a video tape
to be sent to 5,000 schools around the country, a large installation on the
web site, and a follow-up CD-ROM. I am presently looking for a corporate
sponsor for this project. We will have our first meeting at Stanford on May
18. Please send e-mail if you would like to know more about the Stanford
project.

We hope to have CNN on board to provide the news feed. We hope to have a
full-page ad in WIRED and ads in Time and Newsweek. I have several large
companies interested in helping.

There is much more information on my personal web site. The entrance to my
personal site is:

http://www.best.com/~dsiegel/

Or, if you like, go straight to my Women's Conference information center:

http://www.best.com/~dsiegel/women/

Thank you for your generous help!

David Siegel
Palo Alto - Telluride - Greenwich Village

http://www.best.com/~dsiegel/
          "Killer Casbah!"
                -The New Yorker

dsiegel@best.com
365 Forest Ave #4E
Palo Alto, CA 94301
415 326-3936
fax 326-6027