12/21/09 – Make Your VO New Year Resolutions Stick! Print & Commit to This Declaration

Have trouble sticking to New Year Resolutions? Well, maybe the problem is that they get lost somewhere. So here’s your solution to a better, more productive voice-over year: Print, complete and tape this Voice Over 2010 Resolution Declaration to your studio/office wall. And consider sharing it with VoiceOverXtra …

Ask Rudy #3 – Casting: What’s Your Process For Selecting Voice Talent? by Rudy Gaskins

Top creative director/producer Rudy Gaskins works with clients to find the best voice for a product. Scale or celebrity talent – who gets the nod and why? Rudy explains in Part 3 of this exclusive VoiceOverXtra series …

world news with diane sawyer evidently DOES have a new announcer

Well color me surprised and perplexed. I did not expect that with so many changes NOT being made (set, theme) that ABC News would replace Bill Rice with a new announcer for World News with Diane Sawyer. I said so. I meant it! This made me feel that we would be in good taste running our unofficial audition for the announcer job for World News with Diane Sawyer. It would be fun, harmless fun which is the point of the whole exercise. I didn’t see the first show tonight but reports are

dani’s agency president to led arizona production association board in 2010

Nice news for my Arizona agent Dani Green of Dani’s Agency. She was elected by her peers on the Arizona Production Association (APA) board to be the new President for 2010. Dani has been an APA Board member for the past 6 years, has operated Dani’s Agency for over 22 years and been my agent for I believe 3 years, most recently booking the O’Rielly Chevrolet campaigns for me. The APA is in good hands for 2010. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

The new edition of “bridges” is now live

For the last few years it’s been my joy and delight to narrate the podcasts for “bridges” the online journey published by the Office of Science and Technology at the Embassy of Austria in Washington, DC. The latest edition, Vol. 24, is now live. I hope you enjoy.

Auditions On the Internet: ‘Like Mini-Acting Classes All Day Long!’ by Connie Terwilliger

“I have never auditioned so much in my life as I have since Internet casting and remote recording came in vogue,” says voice actor Connie Terwilliger. “Auditioning is actually like taking mini-acting classes all day long!” It wasn’t always so for this industry veteran, who began her career in the 1980s as a radio station staff announcer. Terwilliger remembers those days, and shares recent auditioning experiences – including what happened for a spot that

Courvo on Social Media

Head over to Voiceoverdirectory.com for a free download of Dave Courvoisier’s recent tele-seminar “Leveraging Social Media in your Voice-Over Career.”  Filled with a ton of useful tips on how to promote your voiceover career on the many social media sites, Dave is one of the most knowledgable people in this area and it will be well worth your time to give it a listen. Great job Dave!

Week In Review

Random Thoughts About the Week In ReviewSo, here I am scrambling for some original content. I’m pressed for time, like most of us at this time of year.  So How can I be unique and clever? I guess, by simply stating what’s happening around here. Nobody else can experience the same, except in a parallell universe, right? Of course, who ever would like to read this stuff, too may think this is all so clever as well. A week in the Life. I’m just stating the facts as

Quote for today

From Roy H. Williams, near the bottom of one of the Monday Morning Memos that I’ve been behind on reading: “May you live all the days of your life.”- Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver’s Travels Maybe it would be more accurate to say this is the quote of the century?

Twitter updates from Karen on Sun 13 Dec 2009

While @DrewCommins does a dive narration for @GeorgiaAquarium, I wrote about legal narration for HearTheBill.org: http://tinyurl.com/y94xojp I’ve also used some of the sites mentioned in that NY Times “DIY economy” article (http://bit.ly/75VJAR) to create short videos for clients. Voice talent/Voices.com in the mix RT @pkedrosky NY Times: The Great Recession & the rise of the Do-It-Yourself economy http://bit.ly/75VJAR Follow me on Twitter