Remember when you first read your audition script off the computer monitor, instead of printing it out and reading the words off a piece of paper? The first time I read an audiobook from my iPad instead of fumbling with the noise of turning pages was an epiphany. Why did I wait so long? There's...
YouTube makes it so easy to share, embed, email, or otherwise post the videos you love to your fave social media sites. In fact, they make it so simple it's scary. But what if you wanted a COPY of that video? Maybe a friend asked you to edit it for them, or you need to move it from one account...
Online, Google is like air. You must have it to breathe. Or at least it's like water, which is essential to life. So, whatever thoughts you have about Gov't surveillance, Edward Snowden and the NSA...forget it. Google is the omniscient, Big Brother, all-seeing eye of Sauron (Lord of the...
You should've gotten an email from the folks at SoundStreak by now.... because -- let's face it -- you should be TRYING SoundStreak by now! The notice basically says that by the time you read this, the SoundStreak team will have already had a few hours to take down the site, make the necessary...
Last Wednesday I got on my high-horse about the importance of keeping metrics with all you do in your VO business. See: Metrics, Numbers, Stats Like many of my blogs, I write for myself as much as for you. Somehow stating all these things publicly prompts ME to do them, too. It puts it "on the...
You've gotta respect someone who has the resilience to follow a goal, stay the course, and persevere over time...a long time. Dan Caligor is that guy...the driving force behind SoundStreak...one of the best up-and-coming innovations in hi-quality remote recording since soup cans and string. A...
Digital document management is the new pencil sharpener. To be truly paperless, you sometimes have to resort to more and more esoteric software programs. "The Cloud" used to be fringe, now it's mainline, and one of the tools that helps us save paper and the cost of printer cartridges But more...
....and their data is at your fingertips for free! I don't know about you, but that sounds like a pretty rich vein of golden prospects to mine, and no pack horse or picks 'n' shovels needed. LinkedIn recently announced the milestone of 3-million companies now within company pages on their...
Bob Merkel is the founder and force behind VoiceZam. He and I have never met in person. That unfortunate circumstance will likely be remedied at FaffCon6 in San Antonio this October, but until then, there exists this comfortable fellowship that results in today's exclusive announcement here on...
First iterations of software programs can be buggy. I'm still waiting to see if that OS Steve Jobs came up with a few years back is going to stabilize sometime soon. (Kidding!!) Once, in the middle of a demo session I was paying good money for, the producer exclaimed that I should "...just get...
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