I was having one of my visionary daydreams yesterday about Spidvid as it is today, and what it will one day become. For some reason KickStarter was on my mind, and somehow I made the connection between the two platforms. KickStarter is where the aggregation of money happens for video/film projects, and Spidvid is where the aggregation of talent happens for video/film projects. Sounds like a match made in heaven doesn’t it?! This was an interesting “ah ha” moment for me.

I’ve been invited to speak on a prominent media podcast tomorrow, and will be talking more about this analogy, and other related topics. I will be sure to share the podcast here with the Spidvid community, and hope that it inspires the next generation of video creators and filmmakers to work with us in building the web’s open and collaborative video production ecosystem. We are starting a powerful new movement, and hope you decide to join our growing army.

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The definition of “crowdsourcing” according to the collaborative writing community over at Wikipedia is: a neologistic portmanteau of “crowd” and “outsourcing” for the act of outsourcing tasks, traditionally performed by an employee or contractor to a large group of people or community through an open call. In a simpler form I would say it’s the aggregation of talent completing a task together as a team without corporate restriction.

However you want to interpret the meaning of crowdsourcing is up to you, but just understand that the model is changing every form of business in today’s world. Need to crowdsource to raise money for your film, or another important project? Then check out KickStarter. Need an answer to a question you have? Tap the community at Yahoo Answers, or if you have an engaged following then Twitter can work quite well for this too.

If you want to crowdsource video production where do you turn to? I was at an event last night called Startup Drinks which brings together investors and entrepreneurs, and I was trying to explain what Spidvid was all about to a lawyer. I kept my explanation fairly simple (or so I thought) but the concept still alluded him, so I simply said “Spidvid uses a crowdsourced like approach so individuals can create entertaining videos together.” He pretty much picked up on that right away, so I thought what better post to write today than sharing that story.

If our community, and the media want to think of Spidvid as a crowdsourcing platform for video production that’s fine with me. All I care about is that the idea of Spidvid is understood well enough so that it can be effectively spread from one person to the next, and eventually become a meme.

If a crowdsourcing approach interests you for your next video or film project, then quickly grab a Spidvid profile and tap into our production community for the talent you need.

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