Helping Your Small Business Find Its Voice
Yannig Roth is a PhD student in Paris who’s working in crowdsourcing and customer creativity. He wrote a blog post today about whether “Crowdsourcing” as a medium delivers on its promise to creatives to bring them recognition and fame, or leads to larger, more prestigious paid work. He Tweeted me to ask me my thoughts […]
I’ve been reading a lot about how bad too much sitting can be for one’s health. And for my work, I sit a lot. I mean a lot. Video editing, social media consulting, animation, voiceover… All sitting at my desk. And my 42-year-old body is starting to feel the effects. Welp, this week, I had […]
Over the last five or six years as a freelancer, I’ve submitted a lot of spec work to various contests, projects, and assignments – mostly in video, but some in copywriting and audio as well. Work done “on spec” means there’s no guarantee of payment out of the gate: You submit the work, and if […]
Since launching in 2007, video crowdsourcing company Poptent recently paid out their 5,000,000th dollar in awards. I was one of the first freelancers to start working with them when they started, and I also happened to be the recipient of that five millionth dollar when Olivieri Pasta purchased an animation I did this spring. Even […]
I’m a big fan of Nick Bertke, whose professional handle is Pogo. He’s a VJ/producer who creates songs using music and sounds from films like Disney’s Alice in Wonderland. Recently, Pogo hosted a contest inviting people to provide video to accompany a song called “Mellow Brick Road,” which uses audio from The Wizard of Oz. […]