Voiceovers And Online Security, Part 2

A few weeks ago I talked about the importance of online security.

You can read that blog entry here.

How do you reconcile your level of online security and privacy with making your job and life easier? It depends on how accurate your want targeted ads to be and how worried you are about your data being harvested/stolen/sold for malicious intent. Some would say that collecting data for the purposes of advertising is malicious, but I think that’s the case only when they collect data without your consent.

TIP OF THE WEEK

Here are some of things the article recommends to improve your online security and privacy:

Do a Facebook Privacy Checkup: (desktop version) go to Facebook, click on the question mark at the top right hand of your screen, and click Privacy Checkup. I didn’t see the Privacy Checkup button on the mobile version, but you can still check your Privacy Settings there. I disconnected all of the apps I’ve used Facebook to sign in with.

Check your Google Ads Settings: https://adssettings.google.com. It shows you all of the topics Google thinks you’re interested in and they’re easy to adjust.

Check your Google Personal Info and Privacy Settings: https://myaccount.google.com/privacy. I recommend doing the Privacy Checkup. I deleted my Google+ account as well. That felt good! I never use it, anyway.

NEWS AND NOTES

Sunday, April 22nd @1:30PM EST: I will be one of six teachers at the Community Teach-a-thon hosted by the VO of NYC Facebook group at Arts on Site in Manhattan. The list of teachers are:

1. Kristin Price Wilson- Casting (from the other side of the table.)

2. Tom Dheere- VO Business and Marketing

3. James Romick- Home Studio Building Essentials

4. Anna Garduno- Animation VO

5. Carin Gilfry- Making the Most of Auditioning and Working from Home

6. Gayatri Patel Bahl- Your VO website!

And it’s free to attend!

Tuesday, April 24th @7PM EST: Having trouble getting everything done? Don’t know how to organize your day? I will teach the seminar ‘Time Management for your VO Business’ about how to prioritize your, um, priorities!

Thursday, April 26th @8PM EST: my next “Marketing 201” webinar topic will be ‘Keeping Clients Coming Back’. We’ll talk about the most important (and simple) marketing technique of all!

November 9-11: MAVO is coming!

I will be one of the guest speakers and it’s going to be a blast.

HAPPY HAPPYS

Happy Eggs Benedict Day and Blah Blah Blah Day!

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

From my village to yours; this is Tom Dheere, The H is Silent, but I’m Not.

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Tom Dheere is a 30-year veteran voice actor specializing in corporate narration and commercials. Known as a "street-smart professor," he blends his theater-based training and guy-next-door performance style with mastery over voice over project management .

When he isn’t in the booth, he provides strategic business consulting at VOStrategist.com and produces the comic book Agent 1.22.