[Volunteers] Darwin150: Last 24 hrs before kickoff?

[Phil Terry]

Folks,

As you know, The Darwin150 campaign officially kicks off tomorrow,  
Wednesday at 8PM Boston time at the Harvard Science Center with a  
lecture from prominent historian of science, Everett Mendelsohn.

What can you do in the last 24 hours before kickoff? We have only *26*  
live audience tickets left. And only *18* teleconference spots but we  
do have much more webcast capacity. So help us fill up the Science  
Center at Harvard and get more folks on the webcast!

1. Tell everyone you know in Boston to sign-up for the live event...

and, more importantly, tell everyone you know around the globe to sign- 
up for the webcast. post this on listservs and campus boards.

"The World Before Darwin"
8pm Boston time
Live from Harvard University's Science Center
Free registration: http://DarwinLecture1.Eventbrite.com

2. Put this in your Facebook status update, campus Facebook page or  
Intranet and Twitter

Facebook:
Darwin150 kicks off tomorrow, Wed 9/16 at 8pm Boston time with a live  
lecture from Everett Mendelsohn, Professor Emeritus and one of the  
founders of the social history of science. "The World before Darwin"  
is free to sign-up and watch via web from anywhere in the world:http://darwinlecture1.eventbrite.com

Twitter:
Darwin150 kicks off Wed 9/16 @ 8pm ET w live webcast from Everett  
Mendelsohn, Prof Emeritus: http://bit.ly/2xFXzX #darwin150

3. If you use Twitter, then please "live tweet" during tomorrow's  
kickoff lecture
Tweet with #darwin150 at the end of each of your tweets (this means  
you are commenting on or noting some of what Professor Mendelsohn is  
saying using Twitter).

4. Encourage friends - especially nonscience majors - to sign up for  
our free Darwin reading group
A Harvard professor will be leading a free phone-based reading group  
walking readers through Darwin's "On the Origin of Species." Free sign- 
up for this phone course here:http://Darwin2009-1.eventbrite.com

5. Join the Facebook group and invite all your Facebook friends
Join the group and then click on "Invite people to join" and invite  
all your friends. And get your friends to join and invite all their  
friends!

We have 250,000+ members and seek to reach 1 million by November 24.

Note: You should know that growth will be slow until we closer to  
November 24 and then it'll grow much faster (we saw that pattern for  
Darwin's birthday in February). This is not to be shared publicly  
necessarily - but I'm telling you to be patient as we see growth  
really start to pick up in early November.

6. Find new universities and campus representatives
We have a campaign to get volunteers at all the major universities,  
colleges, community colleges in the U.S. and around the world. To join  
the Darwin150 campus rep team, anyone can simply send me an e-mail and  
tell me they'd like be a campus representative. That's all! There can  
be more than one per campus.

Contact your friends at universities not listed below and ask them to  
join the Darwin150 campus volunteer team.

Universities that are hosting events or have a campus representative  
of the Darwin150 campaign:

Baylor University
Brandeis
Georgia Tech
Harvard
Illinois Wesleyan
Iowa State
Johns Hopkins
McMaster University
Middlebury College
The National Autonomous University of Mexico
San Jacinto College Central
Texas A&M
UNC and NC Botanical Gardens
University of California, Santa Cruz
University of Illinois
University of Maryland
University of Oregon
University of Texas, Austin
Wagner Free Institute
Washington University
Yale

7. Read the good press we've been getting
National Geographic:
http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/news/chiefeditor/2009/09/darwin-book-on-evolution.html

Science:
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/09/clock-ticking-for-millionmembe.html

8. Check out the great work at Texas A&M
http://www.bio.tamu.edu/darwin150/

Thanks for all your help.

"See" you tomorrow night for the kickoff lecture.

Best,

Phil

Phil Terry
CEO, Creative Good
Founder, Reading Odyssey & Darwin150
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www.darwin150.com

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