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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Spidvid was recently written about and reviewed by Harpreet Singh. I thought the platform and community was captured quite well, so I re-posted the blog article below and made some minor edits so the content reads like other content on our blog. Thanks Harpreet for taking your time to learn about Spidvid, and to write a story.

The start-up scene is always sprawling with action. Individuals keep coming up with brilliant ideas to tackle a problem at hand. If you ever heard of YouTube, you can relate to the fact that the online video sharing platform is filled with low quality videos. Enter the new service round the corner; Spidvid. It’s a platform which brings together video creators and professionals, who ultimately create quality entertaining videos. The offering doesn’t end there, it goes further to distribute the videos and generate compensations for the team members who contributed to each production project.

It’s an inventive concept accented by a beautiful user interface. It’s easy to use and very responsive. You may be a video creator, a professional who can act, write, edit, or may be a viewer who has video ideas that you would like to see created by others. Being part of this community you can connect to others who have similar interests to yourself, learn from their past experiences, and team up with them on future production projects.

Spidvid will raise the bar for online video production. The framework brings together people from different corners of the planet, who share a common goal of creating better videos than they normally get the opportunity to do. Right now, Spidvid is offered as a beta service, but as more and more users jump on the bandwagon, the more valuable the talent network gets for others to draw from.

Getting projects and content onto the website is a task which the marketing team needs to pay attention to. I would like to have a section to see some clips of the videos created on Spidvid.

Overall, it’s a good beginning to a new frontier in video collaboration. Spidvid has given users the tools which they need to connect and develop videos outside a single fortified studio. By making it open to the public, the content will cross geographical boundaries and be enjoyed by a wide range of viewers.

So let’s get started and create some videos!

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So I’ve been thinking for awhile about how much I love writing text posts here and hearing back from the readers of Spidvid’s community, but feel I can do more to connect on a more personal level. Over the past months (and in some cases years) I’ve enjoyed watching video bloggers do their thing because it almost seems like the person is looking right at me, and the impact feels much greater than from any text I can possibly read.

If you haven’t really seen a video blog (vlog) before, or if you are looking for some new content to add to your blog reader, my favorites are listed below.

• Daisy Whitney’s New Media Minute is fantastic because she is a top online video analyst who has a fun and bubbly personality.
• Steve Garfield pioneered the space years ago before the format even had the now standard vlog label. He also recently released the book Get Seen: Online Video Secrets to Building Your Business.
• Chris Brogan is fairly new to creating video blogs, but a long time social media maven.
• Rocketboom is a high quality show discussing Internet culture.
• Last but certainly not least iJustine is one of the very best as she exudes passion, creativity, and consistently creates at a very high level.

The initial plan for the Spidvid vlog is to start out fairly basic (like Chris has done above) creating one video blog per week beginning next week, and hopefully even more over time as I get comfortable with the creation process. I will talk about the story and vision behind Spidvid, questions/feedback/ideas from the community, new projects seeking out talented team members, freshly released videos and films, platform features in development, business challenges, and pretty much anything relevant to the growth and success of Spidvid.

So I look forward to soon appearing on your computer, net book, tablet, mobile screen or wherever you want to have me appear. I will do my best to keep each video very short, roughly 90 seconds in length to respect your limited time and attention.

If you have been vlogging for awhile now and have some beginner advice or tips for me, don’t be shy to reach out on Facebook, or connect with me on Twitter.

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