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Five Ways Filmmakers Can Use Pinterest

03.22.12 @ 10:52PM Tags : lanceweiler, networking, pinterest, promotion, selfpromotion, socialmedia, tedhope, transmedia

It’s more likely than not that you’ve heard of Pinterest — the fast growing social media network that lets folks create an online scrapbook of images they can share or re-share with others.  Being such a visual medium, it’s no surprise many filmmakers are exploring ways in which they can put this new social media tool to use.  With that in mind, here are 5 ways filmmakers can use Pinterest to their advantage: More »

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Tips for Building Buzz for a Web Series

07.18.10 @ 3:09PM Tags : promotion, webseries

If short films should be replaced by web series as the indie filmmaker’s go-to calling card, what replaces a film festival’s aggregated audience for promoting said calling card? Tubefilter, one of the top web sites focused entirely on web series, recently posted an articled titled How to Build Buzz For a Web Series. I could probably write a much longer post on the same topic, simply by pointing out all of the things we didn’t do on The West Side (such as making videos embeddable and posting them to sites like Vimeo, YouTube, and blip.tv). But for now, here are some tips from Tubefilter for building an online audience, including this passage on hitting the message boards: More »