The Internet has forever changed how everyone communicates on a global level. Email revolutionized communication, but we have come a long way to evolve with real-time interactions such as instant messaging, tweeting, waving, status updating, live video, and numerous other ways. YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn and many other social sharing sites have contributed one way or another to make everyone more accessible while virtually eliminate our privacy. Love it or hate it this is just the beginning of what we can expect from the ever evolving social web.

We now not only just consume media content but participate in it as well to help shape it from a consumption standpoint, and influence what the creator produces in the future. This explains why TV, magazines, and radio are facing real challenges as they continue their focus on broadcasting or pushing content out rather then engaging their viewers, readers, and listeners to pull ideas and content from them.

The film and video production industry is now starting to realize the potential of this new social movement, leading to some very good quality yet low-cost online video entertainment. The ability for talent to connect to form collaborative production teams, is not only speeding up the overall process but vastly improving it as well. Production teams don’t have to be all located in one central location anymore, a team can consist with members located across the planet which is exceptionally beneficial for creators in remote areas or small towns. So even if you live in Grand Bend, Ontario, Canada with a population of just 2,000 people it’s possible to collaborate with talent located in Hollywood, or even far east in Bollywood.

Our dream for Spidvid is to have thousands of individuals producing video content together which wouldn’t have otherwise been produced. By leveraging our platform, there is now a simple solution to make that possible and then some. This is still a very new concept so our challenge now to make this a reality is to educate people through content, email, social media, face to face contact and whatever else it takes for anyone who’s interested to truly “get” how special things can be for video production.

We aren’t saying to completely change how you currently produce videos, but haven’t you wondered how talent outside of your city, personal network, or Craigslist could benefit your projects and content? If you are even slightly interested you should get yourself a Spidvid account so it’s ready whenever you, or someone else who wants to collaborate and add you to their team is.

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We’ve been getting the same type of question lately from potential future Spidvid members, and individuals who already have an account. Users are getting into their accounts, uploading their picture, and filling out their profile but then wonder, what is next?

It’s easy when you log onto Facebook or MySpace because you upload pictures and/or videos and then you are well on your way. While Spidvid is a type of social network, it’s also a platform for connecting with other like-minded individuals to form on-demand production teams, and producing videos together. This process is a bit more involved than uploading a picture so it’s understandable that it’s taking awhile for users to understand how to get started.

If you are a creator think up a production project, or better yet write a script for it and then post it on our site outlining the talent you need, what stage the project is in, and your goals for the video.

If you are an actor, videographer, or another type of talented professional wanting to join a production team, hang in there because projects are coming soon. Our creators are in the learning stage right now. In the meantime why not engage with others to see what they are interested in for working on in the near future, you may find some common ground to create a new project.

Nothing happens in life without taking initiative, so don’t be shy, learn to become a leader and just get started. Starting something is scary because we are all afraid of failing so we can be reluctant to try something new, but life is all about failing and then learning from those failures to do bigger and better things. We’re not saying you will fail in your first few projects on our site, but over time you will certainly understand how to improve your experience, and become an elite Spidvid member.

If you a current Spidvid member why not start making use of your account and start producing video content you couldn’t otherwise do alone. If you don’t have a Spidvid account then you should quickly grab one and show others how it’s done.

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