Free Forums for the Voice Industry & Community     Sponsored by NEW V123 FEATURE "TAG ANOTHER TALENTS DEMO ANONYMOUSLY& Goto page Previous  1, 2, 3 ... , 14, 15, 16  Next          Voice Over Savvy Forum Index -> GENERAL CHIT CHAT View previous topic :: View next topic   Author |Message Greg Houser Talent and/or Voice Producer Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 174 Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008, 05:26 (GMT)    Post subject: Connie Terwilliger wrote: Yikes - you are so right - anyone who is new to the business will be flumoxed and misinformed. (Agent/Ad Agency). It relates to what Lee was saying about their "way with words." The whole site reflects a lack of a copy editor with a dash of English as a second language. I remember early "conversations" with customer support that included a lot of back and forth just focused on understanding each other. Lately the people running tech support get what you are saying, but due to the complex nature of what they are trying to do with the site, it is still hard to figure out if they heard your concerns. I'd counter that argument considering several of the issues I've found are still around when it comes to noticeable attack vectors on the site. In non-geek speak, the site has some holes that still need to be fixed. Back to top Connie Terwilliger Talent and/or Voice Producer Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 409 Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008, 15:46 (GMT)    Post subject: I'll clarify - they seem to "get" what I contact them about - which isn't security holes - which I wouldn't know are there in the first place. They have "fixed" typos that I've found, and perhaps some of my questions. comments and suggestions still simmer as they prepare to release the next version of the software. _________________ Connie Terwilliger - New Yorker Cartoon SaVoa #07013 Member MCA-I since 1987 www.mca-i.org Back to top Dina Monaco-Boland Talent and/or Voice Producer Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 671 Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008, 16:50 (GMT)    Post subject: Lee Gordon wrote: Diane Havens wrote: They don't allow you to tag your own demos, Deby. That's just what they're trying to avoid. They don't have us tagging our individual demos but Voice123 certainly does allow us to "tag" our profiles. Any descriptive terminology we include under "Voice Description," "Voice Genders and 'Ages' I Can Perform," "Accents and Dialects," "Additional Skills," etc. are, for all intents and purposes, tags. I believe the whole point of tagging is to allow a fresh set of ears to augment what we have said about ourselves with a term or two we may not have thought of. Yep, I think Lee's got it right all the way around including his previous post regarding tagging to be used for descriptive terms to be found in searches and not a critique. I mean, really, does anyone really think that V123 wants us to weed anyone out? That just doesn't make sense. _________________ Dina's Voice To go! SaVoa No. 07015 www.SaVoa.org www.airwavetalent.com Back to top Diane Havens Talent and/or Voice Producer Joined: 09 Jun 2006 Posts: 1281 Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008, 17:53 (GMT)    Post subject: Well, that very well might be the case. But I can't see how it will improve the search function, since seekers use the same 5 to 10 common words to search that they always have, and I see no reason for them to start refining their research skills and vocabulary now. Someone might tag a voice "phantasmagorical" and that is a lovely, descriptive word -- but no one will ever use it in a search. How will these tags then help us to be found easier? _________________ Diane Veni, Vidi, Voci http://web.mac.com/dbhavens Back to top Doug Parks Talent and/or Voice Producer Joined: 06 Jul 2007 Posts: 227 Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008, 19:11 (GMT)    Post subject: They won't. This is just mondo ill-conceived. Back to top Greg Houser Talent and/or Voice Producer Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 174 Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008, 19:20 (GMT)    Post subject: who ever said that the idea was to help you come up better in a search? That's just crazy talk... /actually it will, but not as much as the parent site which has 1000s of pages linking directly back to itself using these terms. //again, look at the tags on your V123 page (look at the source document), there's a reason V123 adds an additional set of tags to each & every site Back to top Maxine Dunn Talent and/or Voice Producer Joined: 25 Apr 2004 Posts: 675 Posted: Tue Jun 17, 2008, 19:45 (GMT)    Post subject: Doug....I just LOVE the word Mondo. Totally great descriptive word. :~) And Greg, you know how much I appreciate your intensely tech-driven mind...but please....for those of us that are light years behind your technical jargon, can you put your stuff sometimes in laymen's terms? For example: "Look at the source document.” What source document? What IS a source document? How can I look AT a source document? Where do we see our tags? You are so helpful but sometimes you remind me of my motorcycle racer ex-boyfriend who was trying to describe to me how to drain the carbs on my CBR, over the phone…. Dumb it down for me please. xoxoxo Back to top Greg Houser Talent and/or Voice Producer Joined: 12 Mar 2008 Posts: 174 Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008, 04:12 (GMT)    Post subject: Max, I hate to say this, but that is dumbing it down for me... /embraces his inner Dilbert Seriously though, it's no biggie. Go to any Webpage (using the Web Browser of your choice). Go to the EDIT menu, then select SOURCE or VIEW SOURCE. That will open a page that looks like the Word document from hell. Near the top, you'll see nifty stuff like a