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A change, the good kind, is coming

Blogging, General, People

A change, the good kind, is coming to InteractiveVoices.com. They are changing their name to Voices.com. You can read all about it through this post on their voice-over blog. There’s also information online through this press release.

As I’ve mentioned in other posts on this blog, I like this service. I’ve made back my $200 investment several times over in the months since I signed up for their service. I like about these guys, especially the fact that they don’t post jobs with a rate of less than $100.

In the interests of full disclosure, I’ve made more money through Voice123.com; but I’ve also had to sort through and delete many more marginal or low-paying job leads from Voice123.com, so working with both of these services has on balance been beneficial and positive.

Further, I should note that I learned about this name change in an email from Stephanie Ciccarelli as well as seeing it in a press release and in her blog post, linked above.

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My first blogiversary and I missed it

Blogging, History

The second of May 2006 was my first blogiversary and I failed to take note of that event that day.

Thankfully, I’m better about remembering more important dates like my wedding anniversary and the birthdays of my wife and children.

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Comments no more

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I’ve been slammed with hundreds of comment spam messages in the last week, so I regret to say that I have turned off comments on this blog.

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Voice-over success in any market, yes!

Blogging, Career Advice, People

In my last post on this subject a couple of days ago, I gave a thank you to my friend Charlie Glaize for pointing me to an article in a Utah newspaper about folks who are making a career of voice-over while living in that western State.

That post prompted a comment from Stephanie Ciccarelli of InteractiveVoices.com, which you’ll find in the comments section of that post, just below this one. Stephanie has also posted some thoughts about that article, which you can read on the InteractiveVoices.com blog here. Stephanie was nice enough to give me a “thank you” in her post, which I only just discoverd this moment while looking at her post.

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Further updates

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I just added a ping to http://www.technorati.com/ for this blog. So, this is a test post, in a manner of speaking.
The other change is that I’ve linked to my Voices.com page and my Voice123.com page on the right, so you can hear my all various demos by just clicking through to one of those sites. (updated to correct location on this page and adding Voices.com link)

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Sharpening my voice talents through writing

Blogging, Career Advice, General

A big part of the reason that I started this blog, and continue to post to it however sproadically, is because I firmly believe that writing is one of the keys to being able to do voice work well.

Why? Because writing, at least good writing, requires finding a voice or a character, and then expressing that voice or character in thoughts and words. Because thinking about the way I want to string words together helps me think about, and understand, the way they are strung together in the scripts I read. Because writing exercizes at least some of the same parts of the brain where all language is processed and understood; thus furthering my ability to express myself verbally. Those are a few of the reasons. I’ll post more as I think of them.
So, what are you writing?

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Upgraded my blog software this evening

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And, as you can see, I changed the theme for the site as well. This is a bit more simple. I may change things again, but in the meanwhile, I think I’ll stick with this for a while.

If I can figure out a place to put Day by Day back up, I’ll add it back in. Meanwhile, I’m getting ready to leave for Manila, so blogging will probably continue to be light for a bit longer.

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