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:

• A Film Festival Semi-Private Group -- the Lake Eola Film Festival starts a group set up a semi-private, so that only their staff get accepted as "members" able to publish Journals, photos and event announcements (although the group can be read by anyone in the community and non-members and participate in discussions in the forums.) Once their line-up is announced, they invite those filmmakers to also be a part of the group (and encourage them to post photos and share stories from their festival experience.)

• A Film Semi-Private Group -- the film "Revenge of the Poddogs" starts up a semi-private for the same reasons the Lake Eola Film Festival did: so that just their director, producer and what not can contribute to journals and events, but anyone in the community can read and discuss. They start listing their upcoming festival screening dates and times as group events, building out event photo albums from their festival circuit while bookmarking press reviews and posting Journals from the road.

• A Regional Public Group -- Maria Local, average indieWIRE user, launches a public group to outreach to other "Key North, Florida Filmmakers". As a group, they meet each other, share journal entries, photos and events from around the local scene and, in the process, give the rest of a glimpse into a unique wrinkle of the American independent film scene we wouldn't have otherwise.

• The Public Festival Premiere Event -- the film "Greenback Avalanche" decide to throw a public party at their premiere at the Lake Eola Film Festival in Key North Florida: their event listing starts getting RSVPs from other community members, thus spreading to other people's "My Friend's Events" screens. After the event, RSVPed attendees upload pictures to the event album.

• The Story We Must Link To -- we're already planning on doing Buzz highlights of things happening in the community: but imagine a story that made us as indieWIRE have to link to where it was happening, there in the community, like some combination of the above.

Meanwhile, there are a lot of firsts to be had, and a lot of opportunity for the community to become more and more connected to each other: it's all about incubating and highlighting the early great ideas that the indieWIRE community comes up with.