Loopy Ambitions Plus 5 Free Ideas

The most exciting aspects to me about our new community indieLOOP are my high ambitions for what the indieWIRE community will end doing with it. As a community, we've also got the advantage that one group's not-quite-shameful self-promotion is almost always another group's valuable content: film festival deadlines and information are valuable to filmmakers, deeper information about film projects is of interest to others in the industry, etc. With a tool as complex as indieLOOP, though, it's going to take some smart innovative thinkers to build the "first of breed" that other independents look to for good ideas. I'm doing my part trying to get a public group about film blogging going, but if I could wave a magic wand and make six more examples appear that I'd be pointing people to, they'd be:

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The Point of the Loop

On Friday, we quietly launched indieLOOP (see my profile), our new social networking space at indieWIRE. Gone are the days of just providing classified and event announcements and a scattering of discussion boards: we've always wanted to provide the community something far more substantial than just that.

So for the next few weeks, I'm going to be blogging about indieLOOP and some of the cool things we hope the indie film community do with the tools inside it (and, hopefully, I can point out some good examples to give other people ideas.) The place to start, though, is with what the point of the LOOP is (as it helps to visualize some of the things we imagine people might do with it.)

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