From rstiegel at rstiegel.yahoo.invalid Sat Jul 1 21:24:04 2006 From: rstiegel at rstiegel.yahoo.invalid (Rachael) Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2006 21:24:04 -0000 Subject: Snapecast Episode 2 is up! Message-ID: Snapecast Episode 2 is available here: http://www.snapecast.com/ This one's a bit longer than the last one, but, hey, it's a holiday weekend, right? Rachael From heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Sun Jul 2 22:23:10 2006 From: heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (heiditandy) Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:23:10 -0000 Subject: Spellcast #3 - Luna, Demelza House & the Hogwarts Express Message-ID: It's a bit late, but the third episode of FictionAlley's SpellCast is now is now available for download! This week's show includes: - Heidi sits down with Jenna of Danradcliffe.com and talks about their upcoming plans for Dan's 17th birthday. - Heidi also had the chance to talk with Jeff of HPANA about Beyond Boundaries' upcoming trip on the Hogwarts Express. - In the Writer's Corner, Sidney and a couple of authors take a deeper look into Luna Lovegood. - For the Fan Fiction Review, Sidney and I talk about B. Bennett's A Certain Point of View. We have an in-depth discussion on shipping references in the fic and ... Milk Duds? You can download the show directly from http://www.spell-cast.com or by subscribing to our feed on iTunes (or just get this episode from iTunes) at http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=156422019 ! Also, a rather large thank you is in order to Lowlands Girl, who supplied this week's music for the podcast, thank you! Be sure to check out our forum on FictionAlley Park http://forums.fictionalley.org/park/forumdisplay.php?s=fd393df86b7fc0a6beefd15b8a9ff57a&forumid=232) for more information regarding SpellCast. We hope you enjoy the show! Heidi for FA From press at phoenix_rising_hallie.yahoo.invalid Wed Jul 5 23:43:57 2006 From: press at phoenix_rising_hallie.yahoo.invalid (Hallie Tibbetts) Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 23:43:57 -0000 Subject: Phoenix Rising Announces Artists and Authors Night Message-ID: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JULY 5, 2007 Contact: Kayla Castille, Phoenix Rising public affairs coordinator, press at ... Phoenix Rising and FictionAlley to present fandom showcase Artists and Authors Night in New Orleans Evening will feature fanfiction readings, fanart displays, live SPELLcast and more Phoenix Rising, a Harry Potter conference, and FictionAlley, the fandom's largest Harry Potter-only archive, are thrilled to announce Artists and Authors Night, a featured event at Phoenix Rising in New Orleans. Artists and Authors Night, which occupies all of Saturday evening on the Phoenix Rising schedule, will highlight and explore the creativity of the abundantly talented Harry Potter fandom. "Artists and Authors Night is a unique opportunity to incorporate the online fan community into an academic conference on a large scale," says Hallie Tibbetts, a Phoenix Rising lead event organizer. "We've chosen to dedicate an entire evening to this event in order to recognize the valuable and exciting contributions that fans have made to understanding Harry Potter." Attendees of Phoenix Rising, scheduled for May 17-21, 2007, are invited to present their writing or artwork in a variety of ways during Artists and Authors Night, including fanfiction readings, art gallery displays, creative booths, and drabble and sketch challenges. Also, as attendees roam the ballroom of the Sheraton New Orleans, they will be able to visit tables hosted by other online archives and fan sites, as well as meet published authors of young adult novels, fantasy literature, or other works related to Harry Potter. Additionally, attendees are invited to several featured events, though the focus of the evening is the myriad interactive opportunities for fans to demonstrate their work. First, world-renowned fandom scholar Henry Jenkins will join several founders of the Harry Potter fandom -- including Melissa Anelli of The Leaky Cauldron, Heidi Tandy of FictionAlley, and Ebony Thomas, formerly of Pumpkinpie.org and Harry Potter for Grownups -- in a keynote presentation discussing the creation of an online community from both academic and historical perspectives. After the presentation, FictionAlley will host SPELLcast, the official FictionAlley podcast, featuring fanfic reviews, fandom news, tips and thoughts for artists, a Writer's Corner, and other types of creativity - from knitting to vidding to event organization - straight from the conference. Phoenix Rising's online submissions system is now open, and authors, artists, editors and others can submit their work for presentation at http://www.thephoenixrises.org/submissions/exploratory. More information about Artists and Authors Night programming and preparing for a submission can be found here: http://www.thephoenixrises.org/programming/exploratory/aanight/. Artists and Authors Night is one of several unique aspects of Phoenix Rising, a Harry Potter conference with themes celebrating rebirth and the rise of the hero, set in a city that is herself being reborn. For more information about the event, visit http://www.thephoenixrises.org, or e-mail info at .... FictionAlley.org, a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, was founded in the summer of 2001 as an archive for Harry Potter fanfiction, and now hosts over ten thousand stories and chapters by thousands of authors. The site includes message boards for discussion of the series, writing and art, and fan news, and presents a bi-weekly podcast, SPELLcast, on fan creativity. In the summer of 2005, FictionAlley was invited to be part of the MINERVA project at the Library of Congress; the Library now archives all of the contents of FictionAlley for its permanent collection. FictionAlley can be visited on the web at http://www.fictionalley.org. Phoenix Rising is a presentation of Narrate Conferences, Inc., a Colorado non-profit organization dedicated to creating conferences focused on academic and exploratory programming that appeals to scholars, students, professionals, and fans. Narrate Conferences can be contacted at http://www.narrateconferences.com. Phoenix Rising is an unofficial event and is not endorsed, sanctioned, or any other way supported, directly or indirectly, by Warner Bros. Entertainment, the Harry Potter book publishers, or J. K. Rowling and her representatives. ### [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] From coriolan at coriolan_cmc.yahoo.invalid Mon Jul 10 21:39:43 2006 From: coriolan at coriolan_cmc.yahoo.invalid (Caius Marcius) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:39:43 -0000 Subject: Harry Potter Filks: Summer Update Message-ID: Harry Potter Filks was updated tonight, with 22 new filks by 11 different authors, including such veteran filkers as Ginger, Allesandra C., The Final Stillness of Saturn, Salazar, Red Scharlach, Prankaholic and Salazar. We've also added several new illustrations by Red Scharlach and Tealin. Stop by for a visit today! - CMC HARRY POTTER FILKS http://home.att.net/~coriolan/hpfilks.htm From ssteplana at ssteplana.yahoo.invalid Wed Jul 12 23:18:24 2006 From: ssteplana at ssteplana.yahoo.invalid (Svetlana) Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 23:18:24 -0000 Subject: =?iso-8859-1?q?Please_take_=93Online_Community:_Member_Satisfaction=94_Survey!?= Message-ID: Hello, everyone! You are invited to participate in "Online Community: Member Satisfaction" Survey conducted by Purdue Tourism & Hospitality Research Center (PTHRC) with support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Purdue Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). We are asking for your insights on what factors contribute to satisfaction of online community members with their communicational and/or transactional experience. We ask you to take the survey only if you are a REGISTERED MEMBER of any online community, discussion group or forum, 18 years old or older. The questionnaire is one-page and will take approximately 5-7 minutes to complete. Your willingness to take the survey is very much appreciated. You can access the survey via the link below: http://www.htmresearch.atfreeweb.com/svetlana/DIMindex.htm Please be assured that your responses are anonymous and will be used for research purposes only. This project has been reviewed and approved by Purdue University Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects. You can also request the results of the survey or ask any questions related to this study by writing to svetlana at ... . We are thankful to the administration of this community for their permission to post this participation request. Sincerely, Svetlana Stepchenkova, Ph.D. student, College of Consumer and Family Sciences, Purdue University E-mail: svetlana at ... Juline E. Mills, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. College of Consumer and Family Sciences, Purdue University Tel.: (765) 496-2084 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] From heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Thu Jul 13 21:59:18 2006 From: heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (Heidi) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 17:59:18 -0400 Subject: SpellCast Needs Staffers (On Air & Behind the Scenes) Message-ID: <5913e6f80607131459r814de24uc0033dee3c947585@...> FictionAlley's SpellCast podcast is looking for more staffers as we grow from a twice-a-month show to a weekly event! Two main hosts: Responsible for the planning and recording of the majority of SpellCast's audio, along with the three other hosts Robert Standring, Sidney Parker and Andrew Perry. We have much fun recording the intro, the interviews, the fanfiction review, the closing and any segment necessary. To apply as a main host you will need Skype and *good* recording equipment (microphone & headphones) as well as the recording software Audacity. If you have previous experience in radio or any other type of broadcasting, that's great, otherwise no worries. Spellcast takes up a lot of time, especially for recording, therefore we are looking for people who are online a lot - we're hoping to bring on one guy and one woman in this position. 8 alternating Writer's/Artist's Corner hosts: Same as the main hosts, although they are only responsible for recording the 10 minutes Writer's/Artist's Corner segment and therefore should have enough knowledge about HP fanfiction and/or fanart to be able to discuss characters and ships. For each episode, only 3 hosts will take part to discuss either a particular type of fanfic (time travel, post-hogwarts, etc), a character or a ship, which they are familiar with and prepared to research the topic in the HP community. You will also need the same audio and software equipment although any microphone will do to start with. Being a Writer's/Artist's Corner allows you to take part in Spellcast without it taking up all your time as you will only be recording one or two shows a month. If you are interested then please apply by emailing us at sidney at ... or robert at .... The description should cover everything you need to know, but if you have more questions, please do not hesitate to either contact Sidney and Robert at the above email addresses From dan at DanTheWebmaster.yahoo.invalid Fri Jul 14 00:29:51 2006 From: dan at DanTheWebmaster.yahoo.invalid (Daniel R. Tobias) Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 20:29:51 -0400 Subject: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Re:Please_take_=93Online_Community:_Member_Satisfaction=94_Survey!?= In-Reply-To: <1152828939.624.95833.m20@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <44B6AD3F.5134.7FC1F69@...> On 12 Jul 2006 at 6:41 pm (PDT), ssteplana wrote: > You can access the survey via the link below: > > http://www.htmresearch.atfreeweb.com/svetlana/DIMindex.htm > There were actually two different links there (as seen above; the exact rendering probably differs in the digest version which I get vs. individual messages, and plain-text vs. HTML), one of which went to a survey regarding the image of Russia as a travel destination. Your subject line also has invalid 8-bit characters (probably) from the proprietary windows-1252 character set in it, which render as rectangles in my mail program (Pegasus Mail). -- == Dan == Dan's Mail Format Site: http://mailformat.dan.info/ Dan's Web Tips: http://webtips.dan.info/ Dan's Domain Site: http://domains.dan.info/ From ssteplana at ssteplana.yahoo.invalid Thu Jul 20 00:28:17 2006 From: ssteplana at ssteplana.yahoo.invalid (Svetlana) Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2006 00:28:17 -0000 Subject: Member Satisfaction Survey - Link has been fixed! Message-ID: Hello, everyone! I apologize for a defected link to the survey, it has been fixed! THANK YOU VERY MUCH, IF YOU HAVE ALREADY TAKEN THE SURVEY! If not, please consider participating in the survey. "Online Community: Member Satisfaction" Survey is conducted by Purdue University Tourism & Hospitality Research Center (PTHRC) with support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Purdue Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). We are asking for your insights on what factors contribute to satisfaction of online community members with their communicational and/or transactional experience. We ask you to take the survey only if you are a REGISTERED MEMBER of any online community, discussion group or forum, 18 years old or older. The questionnaire is one-page and will take approximately 5-7 minutes to complete. Your willingness to take the survey is very much appreciated. You can access the survey via the link below: http://www.htmresearch.atfreeweb.com/svetlana/DIMindex.htm Please be assured that your responses are anonymous and will be used for research purposes only. This project has been reviewed and approved by Purdue University Committee for the Protection of Human Subjects. You can also request the results of the survey or ask any questions related to this study by writing to svetlana at .... We are thankful to the administration of this community for their permission to post this participation request. Sincerely, Svetlana Stepchenkova, Ph.D. student, College of Consumer and Family Sciences, Purdue University E-mail: svetlana at ... Juline E. Mills, Assistant Professor, Ph.D. College of Consumer and Family Sciences, Purdue University Tel.: (765) 496-2084 From seuferer at shanti_50130.yahoo.invalid Wed Jul 26 16:45:01 2006 From: seuferer at shanti_50130.yahoo.invalid (Lisa) Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2006 16:45:01 -0000 Subject: Blogathon Snape Fanfic This weekend Message-ID: If this is not okay, I hope one of the admins will please delete without banning me from the community! I normally just harmlessly lurk here, and have for ages. My very dearest online friend is doing the Blogathon this weekend, and her charity is Association for International Cancer Research. Her blog will be a Harry Potter Fanfic ? in ? progress. It will be COMPLETE by the end of the blogathon, so you don't have to worry about being left `hanging' on yet another WIP! (grin) What the Blogathon is, is an online charity event where participants choose the charity they want to support, seek sponsors, and then commit to `blogging' for twenty-four-hours, in which they have to post in their blog at least once every half hour. In this case, my friend is going to make her `blog' a Harry Potter fanfic in progress. The rating of this fic will not go above PG-13, since the Blogathon is a multi-ages event. It will have Snupin (Snape/Lupin) as one of its core pairings. (Though not its only pairing, it will not be entirely slash, and will not have a rating exceeding PG-13 due to the multi-ages event.) So, for those of you who are able and willing and do that sort of stuff, please consider sponsoring her. Even if you can't sponsor her, please come to read and play with her while she and her partner blog for these 24 hours ? having `company' helps make those wee morning hours ? especially those last four or five hours ? not seem quite so interminable. There will be trivia questions and prizes and all sorts of fun stuff in addition to the fanfic, all Harry Potter related. There are all sorts of prizes for sponsoring, including getting to add a challenge for them to work into the fic at the $5 sponsor level all the way up to a $25 Amazon Gift certificate for sponsoring at the $50 level! Whee! If you want to have your challenge worked into the fic, you need to sponsor and submit your challenge before `hour 16', which would occur at 12 midnight on Saturday night, Central-Standard-Time, so they have plenty of time to work it into the story. This is a really great cause, and a fun thing to do - not to mention it will be really fun to watch a fanfic-in-progress! The Blogathon is this weekend, starting at 8:00 a.m. Saturday Morning, July 29th, and they will be posting every half hour through to Sunday at 8:00 a.m. Central-Standard-Time. Here are the links: The main Blogathon site and information: http://www.blogathon.org Her Blog and complete prize information can be found here: http://blogathon.esoteric-renaissance.com/ --this will also have the link where you can sponsor her. The Association for International Cancer Research Website is here: http://www.aicr.org.uk And for the record ? from an admittedly not unbiased source, this friend, JL is a brilliant writer. I've known and role-played with her for years ? she plays Remus at our Live Journal game, `Fiery Inception', where I play Snape. It will very definitely be a fanfic worth reading! For samples of her writing style, you can look at these: Remus' personal journal at the game: http://m4moony.livejournal.com/ Game entries where Remus has been involved: http://community.livejournal.com/fiery_inception/tag/remus+lupin I hope you guys will check it out and sponsor her if you are so inspired!! Shanti Fiery Inception http://community.livejournal.com/fiery_inception/profile Snape's Journal http://subtle-simmer.livejournal.com/profile [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] From heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid Mon Jul 31 17:49:53 2006 From: heidi at heiditandy.yahoo.invalid (Heidi Tandy) Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:49:53 -0700 Subject: FA-sponsored pre-JKR-reading Meet-Up August 2 in NYC Message-ID: <1154368199.1168A32E@...> At 4:30 on August 2, FictionAlley will be hosting a meetup at Iguana's (read more here) at 240 W. 54th Street, just a few blocks from Radio City. We'll walk over to Radio City at a little before six, so we can get inside and settled in good time. We're going to have wristbands and the new celphone eGrips for you to purchase in support of FictionAlley's Katie O'Brien Scholarship Fundraiser, and there will be chips & salsa provided for all. You can also order other snacks, drinks or even dinner for yourself and enjoy it at our tables. RSVP-ing isn't required, but it is appreciated. Please post here or on FA if you're coming, and if you're bringing extra people, just let us know. You don't have to be going to the JKR reading either - if you're in NY and want to join us, just RSVP and we'll be thrilled to see you! Heidi for FictionAlley