How does a video creator or filmmaker get maximum value out of Spidvid’s community and platform? A great question that we’ve been getting a lot lately, and a question that certainly deserves a public answer to. So without further ado…

6 ways to win on Spidvid:

1. Create your Spidvid profile. Before anything can happen you need to get an account, and spend a few minutes on it to make sure it’s complete and interesting for our community to visit. If it doesn’t kick a** and inspire other filmmakers to connect with you, then you need to improve it ASAP! Here’s a good one to check out.

2. Post a project. Now that you have your remarkable profile created you can post a collaborative video project. The project should tell its unique story, communicate to our community who you’re looking for, where the project is in development, and the other important details that everyone needs to know about.

3. Bid on a project. If you aren’t a filmmaker, but are an actor, screenwriter, editor, or another type of talent then you can bid on Spidvid projects. Be sure to pay attention to where the core team is creating the video. For example, if you’re an actor that’s based in Miami but the shoot is in LA, then you will need to travel for the live shoot to be part of the project. But if you’re an editor based in London then you can perhaps be part of the post-production team.

4. Connect with our community. Our Spidvid community is full of award winning filmmakers, actors, writers, and directors so there is lots of remarkable individuals out there to connect with, learn from, and perhaps collaborate with on future projects. Get some conversations started today!

5. Connect with us. Follow us on Twitter, fan us up on Facebook, subscribe to our blog, or email us (community@spidvid.com) to get the most out of your Spidvid experience. We will point you in the right direction, try to hook you up with project funding or donate to your Kickstarter campaign, connect you with talent you need for your project’s success, or whatever else you may need, we exist to empower our community to thrive in new media filmmaking!

6. Complete a project, ship a video. By building your team on Spidvid, collaborating on the video project, and completing it so you can upload the video for distribution is the ultimate success and win on our site. Every time a project gets posted we always do our best to help teams form which are capable of reaching viral success upon successful execution.

Will update this post as other’s give us a #7, #8, and hopefully one day #100.

Also, we’re looking for someone to design an infographic for Spidvid which beautifully displays current accomplishments by our community to show our overall progress to date. If you can design art like this please get in touch.

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A couple weeks ago we tweeted that we were looking to seed fund and produce original video entertainment projects, in collaboration with our talented community. We have had many conversations to date with a few filmmakers, and have given the green light to two collaborative projects so far.

The first one is a 5 episode (minimum) web series named “Gen Y” by filmmaker and film festival organizer Sasan Shabrou. And the other one is a short film by the creator of the 3 million+ viewed web series “Spellfury” Travis Gordon. Both are young, up and comers in the filmmaking industry, and both made great project pitches to us.

We are proud to be collaborating with these two passionate film guys and their teams on these exciting new projects. Look for their Spidvid projects in the coming weeks ahead, as Sasan and Travis will be looking for talent from our community to collaborate with to successfully complete their projects. If you don’t have one yet, get a Spidvid profile so you’re ready for these projects and others from our community.

If you have a proposal for a web series or short film, please contact us to see if a partnership opportunity makes sense. Look forward to hearing from you to learn more about your creative ideas and scripts that are begging to become successful realities.

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St.Patrick’s Day is here yet again, so if you can, enjoy a nice cold, tall pint of green beer and raise your glass to the Irish. On a side note, if you find a four leaf clover be sure to buy a lottery ticket choosing at the very least, the number 17.

In regards to a well produced video project based on St.Patrick’s Day, if you were going to do one it would have likely been started a month or so ago. If you are still working on one and need help with something to successfully complete it, be sure to get a Spidvid profile and post your project on Spidvid to tap into our talented community to assist you in making your content the best it can be.

Below is an adorable St.Patrick’s Day kitten video to watch. Enjoy it, and if you celebrate it be sure to make St.Patrick’s Day 2011 the best ever. Be safe and have fun!

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If you don’t yet follow our tweets @Spidvid on Twitter you should because we are always looking to provide value to our followers with video production tips, resources, advice, entertainment, and other 140 character golden nuggets. Here’s our best over the last few days.

• When did he stop acting, he’s in politics after all! 3 Confusing Things About Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Return to Acting
• 3 tips to help your films get seen
• Top Tips for Short Filmmakers
• Acting Tip: Focus on the “other”
• You Can’t Stop Online Video Production
• Q: Are you into online video? Then you HAVE TO attend the SXSW party by TubeFilter
• @CharlieSheen says who needs TV when you have the Web! Sheen’s Korner Already Raking In the Dough
• How to make your very own Film Noir videos
• Humor! The newest YouTube partners video with the Smosh guys
• The ABCs of Tripods: Video 101
• Interested in attending the YouTube Creator Institute?
• Get 33 Final Cut Pro and After Effects Plugins from CoreMelt for Free
• Tutorial – The Basics of Flash Animation

This week’s top video produced by Spidvid’s community is by Thirsty Girl Films with a sweet, romantic, and remarkable stop motion video, enjoy!

A Lost Love Story from Thirsty Girl Films on UnleashVideo

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Have you ever heard the term “social graph” before? Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder and CEO of Facebook made the term famous on May 24, 2007 at the Facebook f8 conference. The social graph has been described as “the global mapping of everybody and how they’re related.” Since then “_______ graph” has been getting thrown around the web for other websites, including Quora being called the “interest graph” and Hunch being called the “taste graph.”

I thought about what kind of “_______ graph” Spidvid is becoming many months ago, and came up with “video production graph” or “video project graph.” I suppose either term could mean “the global mapping of everyone’s videos, and the connections between the individuals for the original production projects.” I actually bought VideoProductionGraph.com and VideoProjectGraph.com because Jason Calacanis has me obsessed with buying new domains.

Facebook helped us get our connections online which ultimately led to the social graph, and my vision for Spidvid is to get every video creator’s projects online to become the video project graph or video production graph.

This is just something that came to me and I merely decided to throw it out there to see if it sticks. I don’t believe every huge Web company needs to become a “_______ graph” to be the dominant player in any given space, I think the terms are for reference and association more than anything else.

If you have something to say regarding the “_______ graph” phenomena the comments below are all yours!

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