Workplace: Denis Dougal

Denis I met in San Francisco. He does things that I do not know - the music, the promotion of its online webinars. After immersion in the subject Denis lost his chance of avoiding participation in our regular "jobs."

What do you do in your work?

Recently, more and more of my activity is reduced to the management and development of internet projects. My main project www.musicgenerationonline.com - consulting project for the promotion and monetization of online music content. In other words, we are working with musical projects and help them to sell their music on the Internet, using tools Internet marketing, create a variety of digital products and conduct training webinars on music and okolomuzykalnyh themes. Actually rapidly developing areas of the publishing digital.

Plus, the last 8 months, I live in San Francisco and study of Multimedia Communications is the direction in connection with the than began to be related to the video production, and the creation of various forms of media content and digital journalism. What's really, really fun, but started doing recently.

What hardware are using?

Six months ago, namely the move to the United States, completely passed on the Mac. Something indescribably happy ☺. Previously I was a favorite netbook Lenovo x100, but the beginning of the study at the Academy of Art University, where virtually all work on Macs, I bought a MacBookPro 13 last configuration and content. I ordered on Amazon, and took him two days later. Just brought and put under the door - take - I do not. But it returns periodically to its Lenovo, although less and less. Despite the fact that earlier on the Mac is not working - it was reconstructed quickly and comfortably.

Also, quite often working for the iMac great, especially when you have to sit on the editing of the video or audio.

I have a very compact HD camera Kodak PlayTouch, which rented a lot of interesting stories, and mainly to record video podcasts.

Using a special microphone buttonhole Audiotechnica ATR 3350, two tripod: Flip Video Action (he very small and compact) and standard aluminum, which is easy to carry, and it also compact. Quite often in the studio with a teleprompter (teleprompter) and record different video is not a green background. The experience is invaluable and a lot of fun :).

Who is going to buy a compact DSLR camera, leaning more towards the Canon EOS T3i and want to equip a home video studio with a set Cowboy Lighting Kit.

What software use?

Since I use the Macintosh, and it just created for what is connected with my work, then the program use fairly standard, but still tested and discovering a lot of new programs periodically.

At the latest iOS Mountain Lion has not yet passed, and at this point I have is version 10.7.4 and is completely satisfied. Thanks to the Academy of Art University, I have access to the license package Adobe Creative Suite 6.0 and Final Cut Pro software. Actually, it is also extremely happy.

As always I spend webinars and record podcasts, then to work with sound using Audacity and Adobe Audition. Audacity is a very simple, fast and easy to use, but the downside is that it periodically flies, and this is very inappropriate. But on the whole satisfied, even though all the audio is also duplicated on the Adobe Audition (it, by the way, is used in virtually all radio stations in the US). To edit and work with the video using only Final Cut Pro.

I often need a simple, basic installation, and I honestly do not use all the features of the program, and previously little video was linked, so long as only mastered the basic techniques of the program.

Constantly I use mental maps, and then cool to help free Xmind.

Long time to use Chrome as the primary browser, but with the latest Safari update turned on him and is very happy.

Constantly I am using your Gmail and Google Web client documents. I do all my mail, personal or business, tied up in Gmail. I do not like the standard e-mail clients and mail Gmail is very happy. Tie up Google Calendar to your mobile phone and plan all meetings and events through the calendar, and get SMS notifications on your phone.

Generally I try to check e-mail twice a day - morning and evening, even though it sometimes happens that a window with an almost open throughout the day.

Honestly, to start the day by checking email or social. networks - not the best option, so always try to start the working day just to read RSS in Google Reader, to keep abreast of the latest news. Not to say that the news of life is important, but the specifics of my work is that you should always keep an eye on what is happening in the field of music and internet businesses. Always read resources such as Hypebot, Music Think Tank, Digital Music News, TopSpin Blog, Far From Moscow, the Technicum, also subscribed to the Internet businessmen - Jeff Walker, Eben Pagan, Frank Kern, Ryan Deiss. Then I move on to the email client. It usually takes 30-40 minutes, but sometimes it sucks to longer.

The use of project management services and smartresponder.ru mailchimp.com for e-mailing meil on their own subscriber base. The number of subscribers has already exceeded the possibility of free services, so I use the paid version smartresponder.ru. I generally like e-mailing meil and I consider it one of the most effective communication tools. Yes, someone says that it is old school, but I'm in such cases always stand by my opinion, since I know my numbers and letters readability% conversion. It is therefore very pleased.

Use the service to create a signature pages - landerapp.com, there is a great split testing and for very detailed statistics.

Constantly I use Skype to communicate. He has also set itself Skype To-Go Number and can make calls to mobile numbers of CIS at very low rates directly from your mobile US number. Very convenient service.

Most recently I translated all sites hosting Amazon EC2 and S3, and as ftp client and using Cyberduck Fileziila. I love sites on WordPress. Several times was wrong and ordered the CMS websites on their own, because I thought that they are much paraktichnee. As practice shows - they are just more expensive and useless. I was completely satisfied with WordPress, and it seems to me that this is the best solution if you want to create a simple website and not particularly bother. Actually, for this I had to learn basic html, but still give the basics of working on the outsourcing to freelancers.

the process of finding an adequate freelancer, in fact, very funny. I think, who faced - he knows. The first resource that is used to search for - free-lance.ru. But there were a few times sorvanye projects and deadlines, and people in general are disappearing. Then I began to look for people who can work with WordPress, through the recommendations of friends, and this method is much better. But still it seems to me that the programmers - it is a special type of people and they need a very "subtle" approach, as they often are able to disappear into the right moments, several times rework everything, even taking into account the precise TOR and the task and consider it their duty to charge for time spent instead result. So we had to find someone with whom I work, building on the result.

Very fond of the service WizIQ for webinars.

Use Keynote to create presentations, and it works fine in conjunction with Screenflow to record what is happening on the screen. After Keynote work in PowerPoint is simply impossible.

To encode video using MPEG Streamclip.

To create a variety of 3D boxes and covers using a program from BoxShot 3D.

Constantly listening to music through Spotify, since he works well and quickly in the US, though also like to listen to iTunes Radio and especially AH.FM.

To automate the online sales and use services justclick.ru e-autopay.ru. They are very much easier to work and some processes can be brought to a complete autopilot. Especially processes such as receiving payments, sending out emails with links to access to the products, obtain various reports sales statistics ...

And not to forget all the most important, use Evernote and generally consider it one of the best notes.

More recently I discovered for myself TeuxDeux - a very simple service to create todo lists.

Sometimes you have to leave the included laptop overnight to convert the files or records on ScreenFlow, and in such moments a very useful application - it is an alarm clock. I use a very simple alarm clock Alarm Clock 2.

By the way, as my Mac I bought in the United States and, accordingly, there is no Russian keyboard layout, it still does not stop typing in Russian without any problems. I remember once I was fighting very hard with the program "Solo on the keyboard." Frankly, it has not reached the final, only to eighty some level, but has since been completely blind can print both in Russian and English languages. Therefore strongly recommend this program. It certainly will make you nervous, but you'll be grateful to her for it, and then save a lot of time for yourself by typing the text.

Is there room paper?

Yes, there is definitely a place of paper. To do this, I use a red Moleskine. I do believe that the thoughts on paper material, so I bring back information and notes rather selectively. And there, of course, very cool to plan future projects. I use not often, but it aptly.

Is there a dream configuration?

But somehow all happy. There are various gadgets that appear from time to time, and you want to buy them. I can say that over time, buy a MacBookPro 15 the Retina, since it is not much easier to work with video. I also want to buy e-reader for books. As I mentioned above, a DSLR camera with a pair of lenses and gizmos needed for a home studio. All very modest, in fact, and I no longer need. I am in favor of minimalism.

In general, I support the idea of ​​not being tied to one place, and for only need a laptop and internet access. Office - this is conditional.

I personally love to make it habitual place of work, but it might just be a good point in the city where you feel comfortable, or house. One more thing - the table is always important, as it works in a chair and sofa - all nonsense.

And indeed I am for the 4 hour work week Tim Ferriss and believe that the information the internet business will save the world :)