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Walk Through the Coals
The good only feels so because of the bad you’ve just endured. Do it.
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Tuesday Freebies
What else are we going to do while “sheltering at home”? Cruise the internet, right? Here’s some free stuff I found.
This Day/Week/Month
The AA Creed has never had more meaning than our current circumstance.
Tables Turned
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Secretly, You’ve Wanted This
Be careful what you wish for? The relief you wanted is being handed to you on a platter. Take it.
Give Yourself Five Minutes
You can do this one thing today, and every day for the next month to bring your head back.
Pandemic Marketing
Courtesies. Sensitivities. Diplomacy. Nuances in this extraordinary time. Not just any old marketing ploy will do.
Voice Over Education
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World Voices #WoVochat
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VO Business & Compensation
Blog Snow Day
Go ahead... Call me a wimp. Snowing in Vegas Wednesday night. 'Second time this week. I think in the nearly 30 years I've lived here, I've seen this happen maybe 5 times? Now twice in one week?...
Relational Diplomacy, Part 2: Epic Fail
Anger is the new currency. That, or rampant self-importance. Why it never works.
Why VO Ebb & Flow?
You’re a freelancer with only so much control over work flow. How to maintain your sanity in that environment.
Voice Over Education
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Voice Over Hardware & Software tools
Best Donation You’ll Ever Make
When I was in college, I bought a full set of Encyclopedia Britannicas. 40 volumes. As a student, it nearly broke me, but I was convinced I had the most complete compendium of human knowledge in existence. (BTW, I still have them, but I'm a packrat, and...
VO Demo Safe
Maybe this notice landed in your mailbox yesterday. It did mine, and it was from Bob Taylor Productions. Bob has devised an answer to a question that’s always bothered him. He states on his new site: VO DEMO SAFE: “… Over the many years I've been a VO talent, there...
Fixing Your Demos on the “New” LinkedIn
Most of you know I'm a big LinkedIn fan. Of all the social networks, LinkedIn offers the most rich feature set for searching and researching your business prospects. Oh, and they've got hundreds of millions of members, too. ;-} One of the nice things about LinkedIn...
New…More Social SoundCloud
Everybody's doing it. EVERY internet presence is being leveraged into any and all social networking opportunities. SoundCloud too. Everybody's favorite online audio storage and sharing site adds a new slick user interface, improved search, and the ability to...
VoiceRegistry’s Russo: Big Things Coming!
VoiceBank, and it's twin sister: VoiceRegistry are a 1-2 punch-of-a-resource for voice actors. No other site offers what they do, and it'd be easy to forget they're there. Of late, they've upped their profile as the sponsor of many a voiceover event, notably their...
Why The FBI Doesn’t Want You to Have ISDN
Personally, I figure I'm already in a file cabinet, or a list, or a hard drive somewhere in the J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, D.C. Aren't you? 1) When I saw that the recent resignation by CIA director David Petraeus was being handled by the FBI, my...
Under the Surface
In the exploding tablet wars, one new entry stands out...and it's from a familiar name: Microsoft. The global computing giant made it's fortune on software...not hardware. The most serious hardware offering it had heretofore was a series of keyboards, mice, and...
Scene & Herd
When the 5th annual NYC VO mixer happens this weekend, I know I'm gonna wish I had spent the money to go...but honestly, it's the time, not the money that I can't afford. I told my VO friend Terry Daniel to take lots of pictures, and speak kindly of me if and when my...
Cyber Monday Deals Worth it?
Yes. But it's kinda like shopping CostCo or Sam's Club. You haven't really saved money if you bought something on impulse that you really didn't need...even if it WAS at a great price. Cyber Monday started in 2005 with the support of shopping trade group (shop.org)...
Passwords are Passé
Like most of you, I use the same password too often on too many sites. I DO take care to use complicated passwords (combination of upper/lower case, numbers, symbols, and long strings) for my crucially important sites such as financial information. Luckily I have an...
Voice Over Events
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On Cam Tips
EVERYBODY’S on camera these days. Here’s how to do it right.
Tuesday Freebies
What else are we going to do while “sheltering at home”? Cruise the internet, right? Here’s some free stuff I found.
This Day/Week/Month
The AA Creed has never had more meaning than our current circumstance.
Voice Over Hardware & Software tools
Make Your Own Cloud
Don't get me wrong...I love DropBox, and Box.net, and SugarSync, and ZeroPC, Cubby, SkyDrive and any of about 30 other great "cloud" solution for saving, backing-up, sharing, and accessing your data. I love the idea of "cloud" so much I've blogged about it several...
Preaching to the Choir
When this blog grows up, it wants to be just like VoiceOverXtra. Actually, nothing is quite like VoiceOverXtra, and that's what makes it great. Founder and administrator - John Florian - with his publishing background, has created probably the greatest single...
Geeky Christmas Buying Guide for VO’s
You can see the holiday shopping buzz building already. If ever a price was going to be knocked-down on hardware items it's between now and the end of the year. Below is a brief collection of some stuff I've noticed in just the last day. Tools like this can make...
Skate Past “8”?
Windows 8 is in release. Will the new offering from Redmond: a) convince current Windows users to upgrade? b) convince current MAC users to switch? c) be a better OS for my VO business? Windows 7 was perhaps Microsoft's most robust and stable OS ever. Those who never...
Reaper
Ya think after you've been around a while, you kinda know what's out there...the equipment, the coaches, the agents, the producers, the software, the hardware. Sometimes a mic or pre-amp comes across my radar that I missed before. but for the most part when people...
Sony Comes to Mac
Most voice actors are pretty loyal to their audio editing software. It's nearly impossible to pry the fingers of Pro-Tools advocates from their keyboards. Others like the various iterations of Adobe's Audition software (Cs6.0 is the latest version). There's also...
15+ Top Sites to Shop for VO Equipment
C'mon...admit it! The thought of adding a new...er... something ...to your audio chain holds a magic allure. It may, in fact, actually improve your sound, but even if it doesn't...the effect it has on your morale and attitude is worth the price, no? Well, not...
Ngram Viewer
Voice Actors bring a lot of skills to the table...much more than just raw talent, but at the core of things, we're adept with words, and words are formed by culture and history...trends and civilization. We HAVE to know the meaning of a word or phrase...the...
The Mighty Triumvirate
God Bless Apple, Google, and Microsoft. In the global scheme of things, these three tech giants keep us ahead of the also-rans and the copycats. Everyone who is a voice actor uses products from one, two, or all of these tech giants. Apple was recently ranked the most...
7 Best RSS
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I think RSS beats just about any other digital gateway for digesting daily content quickly. I check my RSS (really simple syndication) feeds everyday with my Google reader. Over years, I've acquired a list of around 175 sites that round...
Vanessa Hart <3
Vanessa Hart; loved by many...audiobook narrator par excellence, VO coach, friend, and lover of life has reached the end of her Earthly path. You may leave messages for her family on her FaceBook page, which is being handled by her sister....
Final Stop…
Funny how often things run their course despite our feeble efforts at change. The ISDN train is coming into the station for the last time, and soon, it's final passengers will wonder why they ever bothered with the old thing, now that all those brand-new shiny...
Almost There….
Have you missed me? Actually, I've enjoyed a bit of a hiatus from daily blogging. It's given me time to work on my taxes, and think about some changes I'm making to my business plan. The blog/commercial website (what you're on now) is almost done. The next big move...