'Two big VO conferences in two months. 'Gotta remember to pace myself. :)But, look... these gatherings are golden if you go in with an agenda, a promise to yourself to talk to targeted contacts, and to take lots of notes/pictures.At the Voiceover Atlanta event in March, I also hosted a panel...
...and it came from none other than George Whittam. Actually, that makes perfect sense now that I think about it. George understands the technical aspect of private studio recording probably better than anyone else on the planet.In fact, this week, George is staying over in Las Vegas after...
The folks over at the GVAA have been busy. You know, the Global Voice Acting Academy. Founder Cristina Milizia, and her amazing team of coaches and contributors grew tired of searching through the morass of confusing online resources for VO rates. What they DID find was either out of date, not a...
As I write this, the only business yet to handle from WoVOCon III is April's board meeting.People began arriving Wednesday, and some won't leave until the end of the week (the Nat'l Assoc of Broadcasters -NAB - convention is in town).At nearly 150 attendees plus spouses and friends visiting for...
...and I really hate picking out any ONE or TWO things, 'cause it's ALLLL gonna be just off-the-charts wonderful.From Marc Scott's session on CRM's, and Graeme Spicer's stance as a social media contrarian...to Joe Loesch's Master Class... and the mic shootout or Pamela Muldoon's session on...
...to the WoVOCon weekend.In a couple of days, members of our growing organization will be arriving.Their pilgrimage to the 3rd annual meeting in Las Vegas is testimony to the desire for VO community. After all, VO Atlanta happened a scant 6 weeks ago. That conference was 400 strong, and...
You may find this humorous, but I do my own make-up.No... let me back up.In my TV news anchor job, I wear make-up...and I do it myself every afternoon. Through numerous cosmetics consultants, trends, products, and shades, I've found what works best over the years. Luckily, I have good skin (I...
How often do you see in those pithy motivational sayings on Facebook that downtime is important to your uptime?I'm there. I've often encouraged "life intermissions" as a means of maintaining sanity. It doesn't have to be exotic. In fact, to me a vacation is anything that is a break in the...
It's a darn shame, doncha think?So tell me...what does the "it" refer to in the sentence above?It's crazy isn't it?(same question)"IT" has become the most overused, misunderstood, misused "crutch" word in the English language.You can look back over my 2700+ blog posts, and you'll see that I've...
Should I share this stuff or not? I have not really qualified any of the sites I'm about to list, but I was struck by the possibilities all landing in my mailbox in one day. I'll leave it to you to do the sleuthwork, and hope you'll get back to me to let me know if there's any meat on the bone...
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