I tried a search on Twitter to find voiceover artists. The search worked surprisingly well. Searching "Voice over artist" was useless though. Ok, now I've got a list of Twitter users that I want to put my request in front of. But I can't reach them. I could follow each and hope for a follow-back. I could @mention each of them and ask. I can't DM them because they're not following me. Not very easy on Twitter.
I tried a search on Facebook. I can find pages for individual voiceover artists, but not a "Freelance Voiceover artists of the world unite" page that I was hoping for. So now I can message each artist individually or like each of their pages and write on the wall of their page. Not very easy on Facebook.
I tried repeating their Google+ search. Not only do I get a list of voiceover artists on Google+, which I can add to a circle and message (though they'll have to add me to a circle or check their Incoming to see it), but there's a "VoiceActors onGPlus" Google+ profile already that 105 people have added to their circles.
Unless I'm missing some Twitter or Facebook tricks, Google+ clearly wins that contest and I don't think it's just because it's new and people are checking it, though that certainly helped in this case.
The problem is that that profile is against TOS and will probably be deleted for that. It's not Google+ that helped you, it's people who abused it for something it's not. (At least, not yet.)
Twitter probably also has lists of voice over artists... Yup, a quick google search for 'twitter voice over artists' provides a few directories that have been compiled by people.
Facebook probably has groups.
There are forums out there specifically for that, I'm sure.
So there isn't really anything specific about Google+ that made it easier. (Again, at least not yet. I'm hoping they add those features soon.)
I agree. Being in the voice over business, I really like the fact that a business like DocTape.com can do a search and find my company, give me a call-out, and we can turn the project around in an hour, paid in full using PayPal. He's in Germany and I'm in the U.S. Gotta love Google+ for this feature!
I tried a search on Twitter to find voiceover artists. The search worked surprisingly well. Searching "Voice over artist" was useless though. Ok, now I've got a list of Twitter users that I want to put my request in front of. But I can't reach them. I could follow each and hope for a follow-back. I could @mention each of them and ask. I can't DM them because they're not following me. Not very easy on Twitter.
I tried a search on Facebook. I can find pages for individual voiceover artists, but not a "Freelance Voiceover artists of the world unite" page that I was hoping for. So now I can message each artist individually or like each of their pages and write on the wall of their page. Not very easy on Facebook.
I tried repeating their Google+ search. Not only do I get a list of voiceover artists on Google+, which I can add to a circle and message (though they'll have to add me to a circle or check their Incoming to see it), but there's a "VoiceActors onGPlus" Google+ profile already that 105 people have added to their circles.
Unless I'm missing some Twitter or Facebook tricks, Google+ clearly wins that contest and I don't think it's just because it's new and people are checking it, though that certainly helped in this case.