Network of East-West Women's Online Bulletin

The Network of East-West Women is proud to announce the publication of our new bulletin, called "Best of the Season," which will be available both electronically and in paper copy. The bulletin is a compilation of the most pertinent informational resources to be found on NEWW's electronic conferences/mailing lists and on other electronic forums addressing issues of gender in post-communist societies. To appear quarterly in both English and Russian, the bulletin will include announcements of events, fellowships and publications, news alerts, country and organizational reports.

Several NEWW members and mailing list users helped us recognize the drawbacks to electronic networking and the need for an online digest. For instance, the sheer volume of information that is transmitted via email is often intimidating, and understandably so. Sorting through 100s of email messages can be a confusing, unappealing task -- especially if English is not your native language. In addition, email costs can be very high in some countries, where users are charged for the number of pages sent and received.

In our attempt to address these problems, we decided to produce a seasonal digest of online information -- for which we would select, edit and categorize postings to our various electronic conferences, and in this way, save our users time and energy.

With funding support from World Learning, Inc., NEWW is able to produce a quarterly bulletin in both English and Russian, for distribution via email and regular postal mail.

NEWW's conference facilitators in Moscow, New York, and Washington, D.C. selected, categorized, and summarized the best informational resources posted to three of our conferences, women.east-west, neww.rights, and glas.sisters from May through July. Messages originally in Russian have been translated into English, and vice-versa.

Those of us who selected and summarized "the best" were excited anew at all of the events, publications, and activities that women are doing throughout the region, and at the contacts being made among women, east-east and east-west. We hope you will be, too.

The Bulletin is produced in both paper and electronic form. Our Moscow staff will produce a Russian version, to be distributed via e-mail, postal mail, fax, and the World Wide Web.

The first issue of the English version of the Bulletin will be distributed to NEWW members by e-mail or postal mail beginning on September 23. It will also be posted to the mailing list. If you are not on the mailing list and are not a NEWW member, you can request a copy of the Bulletin by contacting Victoria Vrana above.

To obtain a hard copy of the Bulletin, please send $5.00 to the NEWW, D.C. office to cover the cost of postage and production. A year's subscription to the Bulletin (four issues in all) costs only $15.00.

Last updated:    January 1997

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