Exorcising the Stage Fright Demon
Posted on | February 22, 2007 | No Comments
Where: Colorado Springs, Cottonwood Arts Center
When: Tuesday, March 20, 2007 6:30 PM
What: Write Brain Session: How to Do a Reading, with Todd Fahnestock, Barb Nickless, and Yours Truly…
This will be a great program to help prepare writers for readings, pitches, public appearances and other situations where you have to talk about yourself and your work to others. (Even reading for a critique group can be intimidating.)
Barb and Todd will present a lot of tools and techniques for the reading, and I will concentrate on dealing with that old bugaboo Stage Fright.
Free to Pikes Peak Writers Members… non-members may attend one session for free, subsequent sessions are $10… more information at the Pikes Peak Writers website.
Please see the PPWC website for details and RSVP information.
Ron
Pikes Peak Writers Conference
Posted on | February 17, 2007 | No Comments
April 20-22, 2007 Colorado Springs Marriott.
The Pikes Peak Writers Conference started in 1993 and each April, brings the New York publishing industry to Colorado Springs, Colorado for a weekend packed with workshops, pitch meetings, read & critique sessions and much more. Writer’s Digest Magazine voted Pikes Peak Writers Conference one of the top ten writing conferences in the US. Guest speakers have included Nora Roberts, Stephen Coonts, Diane Mott Davidson, Robert Crais, Jennifer Crusie, Rupert Holmes, David Morrell, Susan Elizabeth Phillips and Jim Butcher.
The conference also sponsors the Paul Gillette Writing Contest which runs annually and whose winners are recognized at the conference. Past winners who went on to publication include: Carol Berg, Margaret Coel, Colleen Collins, Kimberly Willis Holt, Robin Owens, Leslie O’Kane and Ralph Wetterhahn.
I’m happy to say that I’m participating on staff this year in a coordination role.
For more information, or to register Pikes Peak Writers Conference
Get Ready for Valentine’s Day
Posted on | January 16, 2007 | No Comments
Ever been tongue-tied at a romantic moment? One of those times when the exactly right turn-of-phrase could change the course of the evening. We have a solution with our new ChaliceMedia web presence…. Quick, Say Something Romantic
 qssr.mobi !
A few quick keystrokes and you have an intelligent, romantic rhyming couplet or four line poem to win his/her heart!
AND IT’S SET UP FOR MOBILE!!!!! Get it on your cell phone, pda, or other wireless internet device IMMEDIATELY.Â
GO ON, give it a try!
Ron
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Our first publication for 2007
Posted on | January 6, 2007 | No Comments
The Boomersaurus Band has a new calendar for 2007. It features pictures from live performances and a lot of interesting dates related to 60s rock and roll. (Beatles at Shea Stadium, Wilson Pickett’s birthday, etc…)
See it HERE. Special price through January 15!!!!
Ron
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New Looks – Part Deux
Posted on | January 6, 2007 | No Comments
In addition to the cosmetic rework in December, we’ve added brand new logos to the following brands:
- chalicemedia
- chalicetech
- boomersaurus
and have added a new brand for a completely new media adventure… BlogSpook. No, BlogSpook has nothing to do with the intelligence community. More on BlogSpook coming shortly.
We’ve posted the new graphics below.
 
More soon,
Ron
A lot of new looks floating around
Posted on | November 24, 2006 | No Comments
If you’ve been visiting some of the ChaliceMedia websites lately, you’ve likely seen some new looks. As part of the establishment of the ChaliceTech brand, we’ve been redesigning all of the websites, and integrating new tools. Most of the sites were originally written using Microsoft FrontPage. For many reasons, (one of which being Microsoft’s discontinuation of support for FrontPage) we’ve decided to implement a change to the technical underpinnings of the sites.
Phase 1 is the elimination of the requirement for FrontPage server extensions, we are about 80% complete in this phase. Aside from Miscrosoft’s discontinuation of the product, the server extensions don’t necessarily play well with some of the php plug-ins and application components we’re currently using. Phase 1 also includes the implementation of several Open Source portal environments.
Phase 2 is the conversion from FrontPage generated HTML to W3C validated HTML 4.01. (in reality much of this is being converted to XHTML 1.1 simultaneously). Phase 2 also includes the implementation and integration of numerous open source (GPL) tools.
Phase 3 is the completion of the transition to XHTML 1.1 and validation to W3C HTML 1.1 standards.
read more…
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