Valeria Maltoni’s blog Conversation Agent has a valuable post titled Why Start a Blog and 25 Tips to Make it Work. If you are now or are thinking about blogging, whether about voiceover or any other subject, there’s much to glean from this post.
And if you do start a voiceover blog, please leave a comment here or email me to let me know because I’d like to add you to my blogroll, which is an intentional effort to list every voiceover blog available.
The brilliant folks at Future Now, and in particular co-founder Bryan Eisenberg, have prepared a brilliant blog post with oodles of links, videos and guidance on how to setup and use Google Analytics.
Marice Tobas truly is an amazing voiceover coach. You’ll hear something like that from almost everyone who studies with her, which doesn’t make it any less true a statement. You’ll get some wonderful insights into Marice, her approach to coaching and her life through the podcast by Tracy Pattin on the Voice Registry blog.
Erik Sheppard and September Day Leach are a couple of very talented voice performers who have started a voiceover podcast that hosted at Erik’s blog. Episode One is now posted and features the lovely and talented Joan Baker.
Erik Sheppard is being driven to distraction by a spelling conundrum. To help him out, I’m posting this poll.
I look forward to seeing the final results in two weeks.
Doc Philips has been the driving force behing the voiceover blog carnival called Voices That Motivate, which he’s hosted on his blog each time thus far. He’s now open for submissions to the 4th edition.
You can make your submissions here. If you blog about voiceover you almost certainly have at least one post you’d like to highlight.
Chris Brogan has written an excellent post called 27 Blogging Secrets to Power Your Community. I highly recommend you spend the few minutes you need to read his post. My thanks goes to my manager Stacey Stahl for sending this link my way.
My dear friend Rowell Gormon and his wife Lisa have come by today to help me celebrate my birthday. Of course, we had to capture the moment digitally.
It’s ever so delightful to spend a day with friends and family.
Doc Phillips emails with news that the new, edition number 2 of the Voices That Motivate blog carnival is up and running today, November 10, 2008.
I’ve just added a new entry to my blogroll in the first section here to the right, because there’s a new blog that’s just been started as an extension and adjunct to Voiceover Universe. It’s called Meet The Bloggerz and I’ve been invited to be one of the contributing authors, along with my friend Dave Courvoisier. I imagine a few others will join in as time goes along. In any case, I’m thrilled to be included and hope you’ll plan to visit Meet The Bloggerz from time to time.
Bryan Eisenberg posts on GrokDotCom the 7 Signs you May be a Social Media Addict. It’s a humorous and interesting look at the Internet world.
Today I SumbledUpon an article titled How Often Should You Blog, with the specific focus of answering this question for people who blog for the purpose of promoting their own business rather than to generate income directly from their blog. Excellent information.
My friend Dave Courvoisier lives and works in Las Vegas, which is relevant to this post mainly because his location puts him in line to visit lots and lots of conventions and expositions when they come through town. Blog World and New Media Expo has just been there and along with several more topical posts, Dave has also prepared a wonderful post listing loads of resources, even providing a downloadable list of even more.
My friend Erik Sheppard emails this morning with news that he’s added a blog to his voiceover site. Erik is a brilliantly talented voice actor, has a good head for business, and is clearly a gifted writer as well, based in his first few posts. I’m looking forward to reading what you have to say, Erik. Thanks for letting me know.
Dave DeAndrea, a very talented voice actor, has joined the blogosphere. My very best to you, Dave. I’m sure I’ll enjoy reading what you have to say.
Check out this blog post by my friend Doc Phillips. He’d like to know if there is enough interest to get a board going for former radio folk, which sounds like it might be a lot of fun.
RadioCreativeLand has a new spot on my blogroll, not least because they were kind enough to say some nice things about me.
One of the major highlights of Dan O’Day’s Summit 2008 was the return of Dick Orkin to the event. Dick was co-founder and participant in the Summit for the first several years.
Dick is truly a creative genius of the first rank and it was inspiring to hear a number of examples of radio campaigns the Radio Ranch has created through the years, in the context of the initial challenges set by the clients and how they found solutions to those challenges through the commercials they created. But, before all that got started, Dan had to convince Dick to actually join him on the platform.
Eventually, Dick and Dan did reconcile.
The entire experience revealed a number of valuable nuggets of information. One of my favorites was that when the Radio Ranch is working on an advertising campaign they don’t just come up with one or two ideas, but actually don’t quit generating ideas until they get as many as ten. Only then do they start actually crafting commercials.
There are many more comments and photos from Summit 2008 to publish, but they will have to wait until after I finish a narration I need to do for one of my clients this evening.
However, I do want to note that I was able to take in a portion of VOICE 2008 today. Nancy Wolfson did a very interesting presentation on branding. And while I was there, I got a chance to catch up for a few minutes with my friend, Anna Vocino.
These have been a couple of simply incredible days and there are two more days of VOICE ahead of us. I’ll post more about both as soon as I can.
My oldest son Eric is working as my assistant and apprentice for the next year, having just graduated from High School in June. While he and I are in Los Angeles he received (slightly delayed) one of his graduation gifts, from Nancy Wolfson, a free voiceover lesson.
While Nancy directed from her desk …
Eric worked in her voiceover booth …
It was amazing to watch and listen and to hear how Eric’s performances grew during just this single 50 minute class with Nancy. As Eric and I drove back to our hotel room, he couldn’t stop talking about what a wonderful experience it was. I quite agree.
Tracy Pattin emails with news that while she’s been podcasting for a while, now she’s moved to a new level by posting on YouTube as well.
Very nice, Tracy and Doug. Good stuff.
By the way, you’ll find more info about Doug and the new voiceover opportunities in New Media at the VoiceRegistry Blog.
