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AudioBoo

CourVO — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:06:58 +0000

Unique name, but a nicely-devised program that marries the best of social media with audio.

This London-based company makes AudioBoo available on your browser, iPhone, or Android smartphone. Regardless, the functionality is the same.

Record audio, match it with a picture, a place, some words…upload, post, cross-post to other social media platforms. Share, podcast, follow, comment, get followers. The program is pretty intuitive and it does a lot. You really need to visit and watch the video where they introduce its features.

BTW, my thanks to VO colleague Terry Daniel for tipping me off to this. He, like me, wonders what AudioBoo could do for my VO brand, how it can help market my freelance voice acting business, how it can help to garner clients.

My guess would be much the same way other social media sites work in your favor: you have to be consistent, personal, helpful, and interesting. Your content has to be as good as your talent in delivering the goods.

I’ve blogged before about TweetMic, and how it could conceivably be used to build awareness of your VO brand…also FaceMic (same as TweetMic, only for FaceBook), but AudioBoo goes many steps beyond that.

The site seems to be pretty busy with a lot of traffic from Europe, and non-English speakers, but I’m fairly new to the site, and want to reserve judgement as to whether I can find kindred souls, or even client prospects on the app.

Check it out. .99 on your iPhone…free on your PC browser.

CourVO

VO Makes Osgood

CourVO — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 08:12:01 +0000

Funny that being on TV, I almost never watch it.

One glaring exception is the CBS Sunday Morning News. In my mind, it’s TV’s best regular programming, probably ’cause I started with Charles Kuralt, whom I considered a news God… and now with another “Charlie” — Charles Osgood…also a CBS stalwart.

A recent program had a brief story about Voiceovers by Nancy Giles.

Here’s the YouTube version for your enjoyment:

(props to my VO-BB chums for clueing me into this, ’cause once again…I wasn’t watching)

CourVO

CourVO’s Twitter Updates for 2010-05-28

CourVO — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:00:00 +0000

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Free, Loaded, PDF Reader

CourVO — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:04:09 +0000

Gee, ‘hope I’m not going to get into trouble for spreading this around, but it seems like a pretty good product, and they’re giving away the software.

Sure, you’ve got Adobe Reader installed, but can it do what the Nuance PDF Reader can do?

From their website:

“Nuance PDF Reader enables you to do much more than just view PDF files. You can convert PDF files to Word®, Excel®, and RTF via a hosted web service. Use annotation tools to highlight, cross-out, and underline text for more effective collaboration. Even fill out and save PDF forms. Nuance PDF Reader takes up less disk space, is more secure than Adobe® Reader®, and works with virtually any PDF file.”

I don’t know about you, but that part about converting to Word and Excel sounds mighty handy for some of the VO projects you get from time-to-time….’cause why the heck doesn’t Adobe (or Nuance for that matter) offer a word-counter integrated into the program?

Click on the picture above or HERE to go to the Nuance site for that free download.

CourVO

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CourVO — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:00:00 +0000

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CourVO — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0000

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CourVO — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:00:00 +0000

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CourVO — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0000

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CourVO — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0000

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CourVO — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 07:00:00 +0000

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