6 Must-Dos When Hiring a Voiceover Artist | Elance
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Do you want to record a radio ad for your business, a voice greeting for your inbound customer service phone number, the names of your employees for a dial-by-name company phone directory or audio for your sales demo? Then you’re probably in need of a voiceover artist. Elance asked top voiceover providers for project posting tips and here’s what they had to say:
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Matter Network
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Lunch w/ Matter Network – covers emerging green technologies and clean energy and their economic, political, and lifestyle impacts. In addition to creating original content, Matter Network aggregates the leading editorially-independent sites that cover topics including green building, alternative energy, cleantech and SRI.
Network Members include Inhabitat.com, the Environment News Service, TriplePundit, CleanTech.com, Sustainable Industries and EcoGeek.org.
While keeping its audience on top of the issues and technologies emerging as the most compelling of our time, Matter Network works behind-the-scenes as a strategic partner for its publishers. Leveraging the revenue-share opportunity offered by the traditional advertising network, Matter Network offers a diverse – and expanding – suite of services including advertising, video and written content distribution, audience building widgets, and customizable marketing programs that together form our publishing business backbone.
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Pricing Tables: Examples And Best Practices | Design Showcase | Smashing Magazine
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Pricing tables play an important role for every company that offers products or services. They are a challenge from both a design and usability standpoint. They must be simple but at the same time clearly differentiate between features and prices of different products and services.
A pricing table should help users pick the most appropriate plan for them.
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Open Source Rails
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Open Source Rails features an easy to browse gallery of the best open source / freely available rails projects.
Each project features screenshots plus community driven comments, ratings, and bookmarking.
If you have a Rails project that you're considering to release to the community, please let us know and we'll help you get featured, and hopefully build up a community to help build and extend your project.
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Ecoshield iPhone 3G – Sustainlane
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Review of a Phone Protector Case made out of recycled plastic bottles
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Rails for PHP Developers – Reference
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Finally, this is a great resource for PHP programmers switching to Ruby like me. This function reference covers commonly used PHP libraries to their closest Ruby equivalents. The reference is structured very closely against the PHP reference library.
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Communicate Sustainability through the Five P’s of Green Marketing
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In the article Denis DuBois suggests examining green marketing from the perspective of the 4 P's of marketing — product, price, placement and promotion — plus a 5th P, "prove it."
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Poor Man’s TimeMachine: rsync
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I want to try this method for snyc-ing filesystems between my mac and my ubuntu media center
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50 Ideas on Using Twitter for Business
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We really can’t deny the fact that businesses are testing out Twitter as part of their steps into the social media landscape. You can say it’s a stupid application, that no business gets done there, but there are too many of us (including me) that can disagree and point out business value. I’m not going to address the naysayers much with this. Instead, I’m going to offer 50 thoughts for people looking to use Twitter for business. And by “business,” I mean anything from a solo act to a huge enterprise customer.
Tags: Bookmarks, marketing, socialmarketing, socialmedia, twitter
RailRoad diagrams generator
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RailRoad is a class diagrams generator for Ruby on Rails applications. It's a Ruby script that loads the application classes and analyzes its properties (attributes, methods) and relationships (inheritance, model associations like has_many, etc.) The output is a graph description in the DOT language, suitable to be handled with tools like Graphviz.
Tags: Bookmarks, diagrams, object-model, oop, ruby
