2008 November 30 | Dave Courvoisier's Blog

A Word About… Words

November 30, 2008 By CourVO 6 Comments

Have you any clue how important YOUR writing is to your online personna?!

My original thought was to blog briefly here about do's an don't's of good writing, and quickly realized this is a deep and wide and controversial subject, so I promise not to dump all my pet peeves into this bucket.

I'm actually going somewhere with all this, and having fun along the way, so I hope you stay with me. As voice actors, we all appreciate good writing, and well-chosen words.

In defense of….

November 30, 2008 By CourVO Leave a Comment

…Twitter.

Unbelievably productive and viral internet idea…(I just feel queer saying it. Especially all the fruity spinoffs that use an iteration of the word: tweets, twits, TwiTip, twitteroo, tweeter, twiturly, twittervision, twitbin…endless!)

But don't take my word for it, read this blog by Tim O'Reilly , who currently has over 15,000 followers.

THEN, read my blog below naming the 10 top voice actors to follow on Twitter.

CourVO

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10 Voice Artists You Should Follow on Twitter

November 30, 2008 By CourVO Leave a Comment

This idea I stole right off a Twit by the guy who writes Pro-Blogger: Darren Rowse…but it makes great sense.

More and more of the best minds in our business are dropping great ideas all day, every day on Twitter.

So, OK…here's my list (no particular order):

1) AnthonyVO [always thoughtful]
2) David Houston (ThatVoiceGuy) [get past the football stuff, and it's all good ;-}]
3) Karen Commins (KarenVoices) [posts are few but golden]
4) AmySnively [funny, timely]
5) Karaedwards [whimsical, honest]
6) Doug Turkel (UNnouncer) [excellent observations]
7) Juan Carlos Bagnell (SomeAudioGuy) [sharp contributor]
8) David or Stephanie Ciccarelli (great insight in running a Subscriber site while running a family]
9) KitzieStern [brief, but top link referrals]
10) CourVO [hey, I had to put MYSELF in there!]

Honorable mention: Peter O'Connell, Liz de Nesnera, Moe Egan, Connie Terwilliger, Donna Reed

Lots of great stuff being contributed by these folks, and many who are not in voice-acting, but on the internet, marketing, SEO, entrepreneurship, an so so much more.

CourVO