Mehmet Onur has often come to the States for VO conferences. He's a prolific Turkish voice actor, TV Producer, and all-around talent. My pathway to Mehmet is Andy Boyns, a British Voice Talent who lives and works in Istanbul (known to many of you). He's also an associate of Michael Minetree....
Hopefully by now, you've found a cloud storage plan you're comfortable with. Many is the time I've blogged about cloud solutions. It's one of the true promises of the digital age that has met it's potential at a good price. How does the cloud help your VO business? By making your essential files...
Woe is me for missing FaffCon5! I've regretted my misfortune ever since, but have been working to make up for the loss. First of all, I got myself into a stand-up group, and of late, I've been familiarizing myself with VoiceZam. The founding force behind this innovative tool for voice actors --...
You wanna talk the global nature of the voice over business? I found the ultimate example (and it's not Bodalgo). Meet DirectVoices.com...a site that has yet to reach full functionality. So, why would I say it's a global site? Because even in development, the team producing the site works from...
Remember VOAT? Well, somebody else did too...in a way I had not expected. My September promotion (Voice Over Awareness Today) offers a new VO question each week, seeks answers from the VO community, and some respondents win prizes on a random basis. Hundreds participated, and I do believe a lot...
More often than not, I'll tell my clients I prefer a check in the mail. Yes, I take credit cards, and yes, I accept PayPal...but I grind my teeth anytime I see a merchant institution get even a small percentage of the sum, just for facilitating the transaction. And...I guess there's still a thrill...
What role will you assume today to make your voice over business work? We need to be audio engineers, to be able to convert documents, keep out own books, run a business, know hardware 'n' software, be public relations experts, marketers, and the list goes on and on... it's our challenge and ......
March of last year, I published a long article and interview here on this blog with CEO Dan Caligor about his foundationally unique internet sound recording solution called SoundStreak. (see SoundStreak - From the Top). Not ISDN, not Source-Connect, and decidedly an approach that in Dan's words...
...is in Las Vegas this week. The annual Consumer Electronic Show (CES) started Tuesday. Roughly 150,000 people are attending from all around the globe. It's not open to the public, but any working journalist can get in, and it doesn't hurt that the Las Vegas convention center is a 3-block walk...
Warning: Totally geeky blog! Screen capture programs are becoming more and more handy. And I’m talking about programs that can capture everything happening on your screen…video, sound, with highlights, graphics, arrows, circles, zooming…not just the capture of a still pic. All those...