Social Media VO
The Latest VO Social Media Articles
Freefer Friday
Why people think Social Media is a lost cause I don't understand. I get that it's a time-suck if you don't watch it, but if you're an info junkie like me, there's no better place to SPEND your time. Below are links to three sites from posts to my Voice-Over Friends...
A List for the Ages (well….a month at least)
I consider myself a STUDENT of social media. There are no social media experts in my POV. (OK...maybe Chris Brogan or Brian Solis). Not everyone in voice over land believes social networking is a valuable way to market, promote, find clients, or build valuable...
Attach Me
Have you noticed how just about every online site you've ever signed-up for is becoming uber-social? Voice Over people seem to like social, so we fall victim about as much as anybody to the promise of social networking. Plaxo started out as a place to sync your...
My Five Fave Sites This Week
(1) Love love love LinkedIn for it's powerful, deep, and broad search tools, but LI has just a fraction of the population of FaceBook. What if you could do similar custom searches on FaceBook as you do on LinkedIn? You can with the techniques explained in the...
SoundCloud & Pinterest
My gratitude to voice actor Karen Commins for her tip that forms the basis of today's blog. Despite the points I made in my previous article on "A VO's Place on Pinterest", Karen was still skeptical about the value in this new Social Network for her VO business. But...
Your Presence Needed….
...or is it? You get to decide...and at some point, you really HAVE to, or you're wasting your time. Remember the question I posed a couple of weeks ago: Can VO Be TOO Social? The question has also since cropped up on (of course) a FaceBook Group, with a wide...
Original VO for Social Media Guidance
These tips were first built in 2011! Some advice holds up today and some might be a bit of a time capsule.
How would you approach it differently knowing what you know today?
Voice Actors make great Social Networkers. This site is designed as a Social Media resource specifically for Voice over people. Take what you need and contribute as you’re able.
2011
In August of 2011, VoiceOverXtra’s John Florian organized a series of webinars utilizing the talents of the biggest troika of online VO geeks he could find:
Daniel, Courvoisier, and Basanyi. He called us the “Super Socials”, and the name stuck.
2012
For 2012, we worked hard to out do ourselves in a planned presentation at VOICE2012.