ADVISORY/Authoria Webinar Series Demonstrates Better Way to Deliver Annual Enrollment Services.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

ADVISORY...for Tuesday & Wednesday (Feb. 17 & 25)

--(BUSINESS WIRE)

February 17 and February 25 Webinars Features

Insurance Giant Zurich North America and Thrivent Financial

WHO:    Authoria, Inc. headquartered in Waltham, MA (www.authoria.com)
        the world leader in personalized, Web-based human resource
        communication solutions, Zurich North America, Schaumburg, IL
        (www.zurichna.com), one of the world's leading commercial
        property-casualty insurance providers serving the North
        American multinational, middle market and small business
        sectors, and Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, Appleton, WI,
        the largest fraternal benefits society in the nation.

WHAT:   Zurich North America leads off with the first in a series of
        Authoria Webinars covering the scope, challenges and enabling
        technology for facilitating annual enrollment. This Webinar
        will let you hear how Zurich North America swapped out a major
        medical plan and managed their 2003 annual enrollment by using
        Authoria HR.

        The second Webinar in the series covers the Thrivent "Anywhere
        Access" program powered by Authoria. The program provided
        Thrivent employees with the tools to compare and select
        benefits information while at home with their families, any
        time of day. Thrivent Financial will share how, for the first
        time, the company had a practically paperless annual
        enrollment for its 7,000 employees.

WHEN:   Zurich -- Tuesday, February 17, 2004, 2:00 pm Eastern.
        Thrivent -- Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 2:00 pm Eastern

WHERE:  To register for the event, please go to:
        www.authoria.com/AEwebcasts