Bigfoot Partners with Harris Publishing to Give Alumni E-mail for Life.WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 14, 1997-- Bigfoot Provides its Permanent E-mail Services to Members of Harris' Alumni Connections On-Line Communities Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company Inc. today announced that Bigfoot(SM), the leading provider of enhanced E-mail services, has agreed to provide, assign and manage permanent E-mail addresses for members of Harris' Alumni Connections(SM) On-Line Communities. The alliance with Bigfoot allows Harris, the leading builder of communities for alumni and associations, to offer its members personalized, free E-mail See Internet e-mail service. addresses with domain names such as yourname@alumni.youruniversity.edu. Under terms of the agreement, Harris' Alumni Connections members receive Bigfoot's complete customer support and access to their standard and premium E-mail Premium e-mail - term used for professional grade e-mail services that charge a fee as opposed to free e-mail services that are supported by advertising. Premium e-mail is used to indicate a higher level of professional care and service. features and services. With a Bigfoot-managed lifetime E-mail address, Alumni Connections members can utilize a single permanent address as their main reference point, regardless of Internet Service Provider Internet service provider (ISP) Company that provides Internet connections and services to individuals and organizations. For a monthly fee, ISPs provide computer users with a connection to their site (see data transmission), as well as a log-in name and password. changes, career changes or the use of multiple E-mail accounts. Bigfoot also offers Alumni Connections members an easy-to-use anti-spamming feature and access to Bigfoot's premium services, including McAfee E-mail virus A virus that comes within an attached file in an e-mail message. When that file is opened, the virus does its damage. Macro viruses can come in Microsoft Word documents that are sent as e-mail attachments. protection and a consolidation service that forwards E-mail messages from multiple accounts to a designated inbox. "E-mail is the cornerstone of community and one-on-one interaction on the Internet," said Paul Gangi, general manager and assistant vice president of online communities, Harris Publishing. "By joining forces with Bigfoot, our Alumni Connections members receive premier E-mail features and service -- helping us create lifelong communities that extend across all time and geographic boundaries." Using the convenience and immediacy afforded by the Internet, Harris developed Alumni Connections On-Line Communities to serve as virtual "campuses" for colleges and universities. Building on Harris' almost 35 years of experience, each community is a secure, members-only site offering an array of services and features designed to meet the needs and interests of its members. In addition to the permanent E-mail managed by Bigfoot, Harris provides a comprehensive and searchable online directory of alumni, a Career Center with job and resume postings, bulletin boards, personal home pages, alumni business yellow pages and more. A sampling of schools already on board include (with more participants being added continually): Cornell University Cornell University, mainly at Ithaca, N.Y.; with land-grant, state, and private support; coeducational; chartered 1865, opened 1868. It was named for Ezra Cornell, who donated $500,000 and a tract of land. With the help of state senator Andrew D. , Cornell Society of Engineers; Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government The John F. Kennedy School of Government, colloquially known as the Kennedy School of Government (KSG) or simply the Kennedy School, is a public policy school and one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ; North Carolina State University History
UConn's main campus is in Storrs, Connecticut. ; and University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). , Berkeley-Walter A. Haas School of Business. "By providing permanent `on-campus' addresses with Harris, we're helping to create a community atmosphere among alumni," said Leonard Barshack, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-founder of Bigfoot. "These free addresses not only offer members convenience, but a way to identify themselves with their schools." Founded in 1995, Bigfoot is the worldwide leader in comprehensive E-mail and Internet directory services. With its Bigfoot for Life free permanent E-mail address service, the company offers a secure and trusted gateway and comprehensive tools for management of consumer and business E-mail. Through its Bigfoot Directory services, Bigfoot offers consumers the most complete and updated people directories on the Web. Company headquarters are located in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. . Bigfoot's World Wide Web address is http://www.bigfoot.com . E-mail should be sent to info@bigfoot.com . Bigfoot is a service mark of Bigfoot Partners, L.P. Founded in 1963, Bernard C. Harris Publishing Company Inc. has helped alumni groups and associations build extended communities by creating and delivering high quality products across traditional print and new media platforms. Founder Bernard C. Harris initially focused his efforts on the needs of the college and university markets, later broadening his company's scope to include prep schools, public and private high schools and associations. Harris Publishing serves more than 4,000 institutions and the company produces more than 600 directories each year. Harris Publishing is based in White Plains, New York For other places with the same name, see White Plains (disambiguation). White Plains is a city in south-central Westchester County, New York, about 4 miles (6 km) east of the Hudson River and , with branch offices in Norfolk, Virginia, Austin, Texas, and Nashville, Tennessee. For more information, call 1-800-326-6600 or visit their Web site at http://www.bcharrispub.com . CONTACT: Connors Communications Scott Blue, 415/217-7500 scott@connors.com or Shandwick Sean Conway, 212/529-1717 sean_conway@bigfoot.com |
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