ADVISORY/Authoria Executive to Present 'Successful eWorkforce Communications: Reaching Employees Through Technology' at the LOMA 2001 Systems Forum.

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ADVISORY...for Wednesday (March 28, 2001)

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)

      Who: Ganne DeSomery, executive vice president of Authoria, Inc.,
        the world leader in personalized, dynamically generated,
        Web-based communication, and Carol Johnson, manager, HR
        service center projects, Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC)

      What: Will present "Successful e-Workforce Communications:
        Reaching Employees Through Technology," a discussion on the
        imperative nature of employee-as-customer communication, the
        importance of personalization, and the effectiveness of
        Web-based communication applications as a channel for reaching
        employees

      When: Wednesday, March 28, 2001, 9:15 a.m.

      Where: Bally's Las Vegas, March 26-29, 2001. For more information
        please visit the LOMA 2001 Systems Forum Web site at
        www.loma.org/sf.htm.

      Details: Today's eWorkforce lives a fast-paced life, armed with
        Web browser access and ready for employers to reach out with
        dynamic, personalized communications, anytime, anywhere. Wells
        Fargo utilizes Authoria HR to make this connection with team
        members. Authoria HR empowers team members with personalized,
        dynamic answers to important HR and benefits questions. This
        presentation, given by experts in Web-based communications and
        HR management, will cover the way that Wells Fargo has
        implemented a communications channel to keep its team members
        informed following its merger with Norwest, and how it is
        implementing the next step: using Authoria HR as its platform
        for employee self-service (ESS).

About Authoria, Inc.

Authoria, Inc. delivers the kind of personalized, high-touch support that employees and benefit plan members need when they need it and where they need it. Millions of people rely on Authoria's products through leading outsourcers such as Buck Consultants, Inc. and Exult and at Global 2000 industry leaders such as McDonald's Corporation, T. Rowe Price, Weyerhaeuser and Wells Fargo. Headquartered in Waltham, Mass., Authoria has been ranked twice by Inc. Magazine as one of America's fastest-growing private companies and by Deloitte and Touche in the New England Fast 50 and National Fast 500. For more information, visit the Company's Web site at www.authoria.com or call 781 530 2000.

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