The third edition of the series. Part 1 is here, Part 2 is here.
Friday December 20, 2013 4:30PM EST--My books came today. Last week I decided to do some extra work and study on my own, so I turned in 40 credit card points and got a $50 Barnes and Noble certificate. With this I bought 2 books.
The Book of Audacity, by Carla Schroder. Now I can be an Audacity wizard!
Stella Adler-On The Art And Technique Of Acting, compiled by Howard Kissel (with a forward by Marlon Brando). This is widely considered to be one of the premier books on acting.
Thursday January 2, 2014 6:15PM EST-- Email from SAV, another storm, another delay in the seminar. Now it's Saturday, Jan 18th.
Monday January 13, 2014 2:15PM EST-- During last week's session, Angela and I went over a whole bunch of questions to help finalize the scripts for my demo. We went over my favorite things in all kinds of categories from travel, food, dream jobs and a slew of other subjects.
I just checked my email and my scripts are in! I have 5 commercials and 4 narrations.
Commercials: "Ellio's Pizza", "Garmin", "Miracle-Gro", "Hyundai Santa Fe", "LL Bean"
Narrations: "Blue Cross Blue Shield MA On-Hold Message", "Identifying Customer Need", "Physics Demonstration", "Iceland"
Saturday January 18, 2014 5:00PM EST-- After 2 postponements, we finally had our seminar. We started with 7 students, but one left after lunch.
It was a long, fun, informative day. We went over many aspects of V.O. from performance to script analysis, to the equipment you need for your home studio and briefly touched on marketing techniques and getting jobs. (Read more about it here.)
Wednesday January 22, 2014 7:00PM EST-- My 11th coaching session. Only 3 more to go. We started going over my demo scripts more in depth. And it's time to start working on my profile.
Wednesday February 12, 2014 7:00PM EST-- My last coaching session. Angela and I run through all the demo scripts and two extras. The extra scripts are one commercial and one narration from the lessons. For my commercial I chose "Disney Cruise Lines" and my narration is "Carteret Islands".
We also finalized my studio time. I'm going into Cyber Sound Studios in Boston (more on this in a later post.) Angela will be the producer of the demo. She has been a great coach!
The "performance" part of my training is now over. Time to start marketing, and thus enters the second part of my package with SAV, although my training with them is essentially done. It's really all on me now. Time to start setting up my business!
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Monday, February 3, 2014
Happy Anniversary, AKA, Who Reads This Thing Anyway?
One year ago today, Dude With Thoughts went live. Over the past year together, we've had many experiences--among them, we've endured breakups, visited places real and fictional, reunited with old friends, and even started training for a whole new career. Happy first anniversary, and thank you for joining me!
For this first anniversary post, as a gift to you, dear reader, I want to tell you about......you! Thanks to my Blogger statistics page, I have a lot of interesting information on my readers. (Don't worry, it's very general, aggregate information--nothing personal to anyone.)
There are two kinds of stats, which I'll call "People Stats" and "Post Stats". For most of these, I can only see the top ten, so there may be others.
People Stats
People Stats are statistics about the blog's audience. These include things like what browsers and operating systems you use. It also tells me what are the most popular referring URLs and referring sites.
But the most interesting to me is the "Pageview (PV) by Country" stat. Here, "country" refers to the country which hosts the website that the viewer uses to enter the blog. Turns out, there's an international audience--in fact, I've had views from 6 out of the 7 continents. (Come on, Antarctica, you know you want to!)
PV By Country
PV By Browser
PV By Operating System
Referring URL
Referring Sites
Popular Search Keywords
Post Stats
Post Stats are statistics about the postings themselves. These include the number of pageviews each post has, the number of comments, etc.
There are a total of 33 comments.
For this first anniversary post, as a gift to you, dear reader, I want to tell you about......you! Thanks to my Blogger statistics page, I have a lot of interesting information on my readers. (Don't worry, it's very general, aggregate information--nothing personal to anyone.)
There are two kinds of stats, which I'll call "People Stats" and "Post Stats". For most of these, I can only see the top ten, so there may be others.
People Stats
People Stats are statistics about the blog's audience. These include things like what browsers and operating systems you use. It also tells me what are the most popular referring URLs and referring sites.
But the most interesting to me is the "Pageview (PV) by Country" stat. Here, "country" refers to the country which hosts the website that the viewer uses to enter the blog. Turns out, there's an international audience--in fact, I've had views from 6 out of the 7 continents. (Come on, Antarctica, you know you want to!)
PV By Country
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United States
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1014
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Russia
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70
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Germany
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54
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Canada
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36
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Malaysia
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36
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United Kingdom
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27
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Serbia
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21
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Netherlands
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9
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Brazil
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6
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Spain |
6
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Internet Explorer
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791 (54%)
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Firefox
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253 (17%)
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Chrome
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177 (12%)
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Safari
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59 (4%)
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BingPreview
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37 (2%)
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Mobile Safari
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36 (2%)
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chromeframe
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33 (2%)
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Silk
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23 (1%)
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Opera
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20 (1%)
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OS;FBSV
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15 (1%)
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PV By Operating System
Windows
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1171 (80%)
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Macintosh
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117 (8%)
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Linux
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72 (4%)
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Android
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45 (3%)
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iPhone
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33 (2%)
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Other Unix
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7 (<1%)
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iPad
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7 (<1%)
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Windows NT 6.1
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3 (<1%)
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BeOS
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2 (<1%)
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iPod
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1 (<1%)
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Referring URL
69
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45
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41
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18
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14
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14
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13
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13
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Referring Sites
69
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69
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59
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48
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37
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34
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18
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16
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14
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Popular Search Keywords
dudewiththoughts.blogspot.com
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12
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baa 5k
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2
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dudewiththoughts.com
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2
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"halifax public gardens" (site:wordpress.com | site:blogspot.com | site:typepad.com)
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1
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25 year high school reunion attitude
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1
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americas ice cream and dairy museum
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1
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baa 5k 2013 blog
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1
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carnival cruise boston to st.john
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1
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carnival cruise to nova scotia advice
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1
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dude thoughts
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1
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Post Stats
Post Stats are statistics about the postings themselves. These include the number of pageviews each post has, the number of comments, etc.
There are a total of 33 comments.
The most read month was December 2013 (257 PVs), the least read was February 2013 (75 PVs). The average per month is approximately 121 PV's.
The most read post was on the WWII Museum (81 PVs), the least read was my Star Trek inspired poem (7 PV's). The average number of PV's is 58.36. Top 10 Most Popular Posts (PV)
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All in all, it's been a great first year. Thanks again for joining me, and looking forward to year 2!
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