Message-ID: <MAC.961205111221@maine.maine.EDU> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 1996 11:12:21 EST From: Dennis McConnell - Maine Business School <mailto:mac@MAINE.MAINE.EDU> Subject: CEEMAN-L Internet List: An Invitation To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
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CEEMAN-L Internet List: An Invitation
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Greetings to list members from the Maine Business School. I have
often posted announcements to this list (and several others), and
thank you for your past patience and courtesy. I am now in the
process of simplifying my "internet life" by focusing more on the
CEEMAN-L list I manage for the Central and East European Manage-
ment Development Association. Happy to report that I have retired
from UMaine, and hope to spend as much time as possible
skiing/sailing, depending on the season. When in my office, I
will continue to post items - primarily to the CEEMAN-L list.
Attached to this note is a brief outline of CEEMAN-L purposes and
objectives, a list which shows the number of members in each
country, and instructions indicating how you can review recent
CEEMAN-L postings if you have access to NetNews. The target audi-
ence of CEEMAN-L is noted in the attached outline. However,
anyone interested in the CEE/NIS region is welcome to join the
list. If you know of colleagues who might be interested in the
list, I would be happy to add them to CEEMAN-L.
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* Dr. Dennis McConnell * TEL: +1.207.581.1988 *
* Eastern European Enterprise Network * FAX: +1.207.581.1956 *
* Maine Business School * TLX: 62955628 *
* University of Maine ************************
* Orono, Maine 04469-5723 U.S.A. * mailto:MAC@MAINE.MAINE.EDU *
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CEEMAN-L Internet List
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CEEMAN-L is an internet discussion list sponsored by the Central
and East European Management Development Association (CEEMAN),
located in Slovenia. The CEEMAN-L list currently has about 390
members in 32 countries. A significant majority of members are
representatives of business schools/economics programs in the
CEE/NIS regions (Baltics, Central/Eastern Europe, Central Asia,
and Russia) and the U.S. The list also includes representatives
in the CEE/NIS regions from organizations such as the Interna-
tional Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) and the Soros Founda-
tion, NGOs in both the U.S. and the CEE/NIS regions, and Peace
Corps volunteers in the CEE/NIS regions.
The primary purpose of CEEMAN-L is to provide information to
academics in CEE/NIS business schools/economic programs who have
been isolated from information sources for many years. The list
serves more as a bulletin board than as a traditional internet
discussion list. The list is "moderated" - which means that all
messages to members of the list are first screened by the list
manager - a feature which protects the e-mail budgets of list
members who must pay fees to receive e-mail at some CEE/NIS
sites.
As the list manager, I monitor a large number of internet lists
to learn of new publications and information resources, confer-
ences, publishing and consulting opportunities, funding programs
and academic exchange programs. Any information that would seem
to be of interest to CEE/NIS members is posted to CEEMAN-L. Some
of the information may be useful and/or interesting to list
members in other regions. But the primary purpose is to serve the
information needs of CEE/NIS list members.
The secondary purpose of CEEMAN-L is to link CEE/NIS business
schools/economics programs with similar programs in the U.S. and
other regions. At the moment, we have well over 100 U.S. academic
sites on the list. Exactly how that linkage function will operate
in the coming months is not entirely clear at the moment. Howev-
er, as the list expands, my hope is that individual list members
will initially identify interesting academic links through the
list, and subsequently cooperate/communicate directly rather
through the list.
Representatives of business schools/economics programs in the
CEE/NIS regions can be added to the list by sending a message
directly to my e-mail address (mailto:mac@maine.maine.edu). It would be
helpful if the message included full name, e-mail address, insti-
tutional affiliation, postal address, and academic interests.
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* CEEMAN-L MAILING LIST DECEMBER 5, 1996 *
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* Country Subscribers
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* Albania 2
* Australia 1
* Austria 3
* Azerbaijan 1
* Belgium 2
* Bulgaria 15
* Canada 17
* Croatia 9
* Czech Republic 9
* Estonia 7
* Finland 1
* Great Britain 11
* Hungary 14
* Kazakhstan 1
* Latvia 1
* Lithuania 4
* Moldova 5
* Netherlands 1
* New Zealand 1
* Pakistan 1
* Poland 8
* Romania 19
* Russia 15
* Slovakia 7
* Slovenia 9
* Soviet Union 32
* Sweden 2
* Taiwan 1
* Turkey 1
* Ukraine 6
* USA 180
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* TOTAL NUMBER OF USERS SUBSCRIBED TO THE LIST: 390 *
* TOTAL NUMBER OF COUNTRIES REPRESENTED: 32 *
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CEEMAN-L Postings on Netnews Newsgroup
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Most of the items posted to CEEMAN-L are also posted on the
UMaine newsgroup "maine.international-funding" on the Netnews
system. On occasion, I also post items to the newsgroup that I do
not post to CEEMAN-L. Thus, if you have been recently added to
the CEEMAN-L list, you can review the postings for the past 30
days.
For members of the list who have access to Netnews on their
system, you can access Netnews, then use the search function to
locate the newsgroup by name. Then follow the function-key in-
structions on your system to open the newsgroup, scan the list of
announcement titles, open files, and save (download) files to
your computer.
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