[Volunteers] Darwin update and help promoting our first lecture!

[So Young Park]

Hi everyone: Thank you again for all that you're doing! Just wanted to send
an update on a few important new developments and ask you to help promote
our first lecture.

1. Help promote the first lecture
We need your help to sell-out the auditorium at
Harvard!  We want more webcast sign-ups and more *LIVE* sign-ups (the
room is not yet sold out up at Harvard). Below my signature is an
e-mail template you can send out to everyone you know

2) Science Magazine covered our quixotic quest!
This is a big deal - share it with everyone you know. Put it in your
Facebook status and Tweet about it (we recommend you do that Tuesday or
after given the Monday U.S. holiday)
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/09/clock-ticking-for-millionmembe.htmlor
http://bit.ly/6zO6g

3) Our sponsor list is growing and we are getting marketing and operational
support from several new partners:
* Campaign Monitor (making all of our e-mail campaigns possible)
* The National Center for Science Education
* The New York Academy of Sciences
* Squarespace (who is now donating the cost of our Darwin150.com site!)
* The upcoming Creation movie

4) 5th lecture!
In partnership with The New York Academy of Sciences, we now have a fifth
lecture! It is on the night of Tuesday, November 24th, so it won't conflict
with our afternoon lecture and will help extend the celebration! Here are
the details:

Lecture 5: "Celebrating 150 Years of 'Origin of Species'"
Nobel Laureate and neurobiologist, Gerald Edelman, renowned psychologist
Paul Ekman, and UC Berkeley neuroscience and biological anthropology
professor, Terrence Deacon
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
6:00PM EST/3:00PM PST
Register here to participate: (Ticketed event live at The New York Academy
of Sciences or via free webcast)
http://www.nyas.org/provocativethinkers

The template for the Boston invites is below. Please help us sell it out!

Thanks!

So Young.
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Template for Boston invites

To: Your friends and contacts
Subject: Join us live at Harvard (or via webcast)?

I wanted to invite you to attend live (or via webcast) the kickoff for
Darwin150 - which I'm helping to organize. I'm on the volunteer team of this
great lecture serise and Facebook campaign.

Please join me and my fellow volunteers at Harvard Wednesday, September 16
at 8pm.

Will you join us for this wonderful (and free) evening at the Harvard
Science Center?

If yes, then register for free here: (and we'll send you the exact
directions)
http://Darwinlecture1.eventbrite.com <http://darwinlecture1.eventbrite.com/>

Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Speaker: EVERETT MENDELSOHN
Professor Emeritus, Harvard University
Lecture 1: The World Before Darwin
Harvard Science Center
8:00 PM EST

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology and the
Reading Odyssey, Professor Mendeloshn's talk will draw from his
popular undergraduate course, "The Darwinian Revolution" as well
as his many decades studying the history of science and the
impact of Darwin.

Thanks to our sponsors for helping to make this campaign
possible: National Geographic, Harvard Museum of Comparative
Zoology, Citrix Online and their HiDef teleconferencing division,
Campaign Monitor and our advisor, Harvard Professor John Dowling.

I look forward to your response.

I hope you can join us!

Best,

[Yourname]

[Yourname]
Volunteer, Darwin150 Campaign
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=53320310123
http://www.Darwin150.com <http://www.darwin150.com/>

P.S. Science Magazine just covered our quixotic quest!
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/09/clock-ticking-for-millionmembe.htmlor
http://bit.ly/6zO6g<http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/09/clock-ticking-for-millionmembe.html>
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