Florida Creatives - Creating a Community of Innovation

Today a friend of mine sent me an email asking him to help him find some resources (like money) for a film project he's working on. I thought, as I often do, that the best way to chase down opportunities like making money is to get involved with the community. Therefore, I got him in touch with several film types, and pointed him to some film resources with a brief explanation of why he should get involved.

When I had finished writing the email, I realised the opportunity to add a creative guide to the FLCreatives Wiki. The idea with this is that any of our members can write or re-post a how-to, something they feel might be useful to folks browsing for information, sort of the ultimate FAQ for Florida Creatives. Because it's listed on the wiki, other folks can edit and re-structure the guides to make them more useful, or add pictures, video, slideshows, web links and more useful or up-to-date information.

The first such guide I wrote was a re-posting of my talking points from BarCamp Orlando and BlogOrlando about Podcasting Theory. I don't think this has received any edits since October, but the wiki makes it easy to find out - every page keeps a full history of all the edits and who made them.

Here's today's new creative guide:
Getting into Florida Film

Right now the first part of this guide mentions that there's a Film Industry Professionals Meetup (7PM) tonight at McRaney's Tavern on Fairbanks Ave - that's one of the first edits that should be made, of course, because normally they meet on the Second Thursday of the month, not Wednesdays. I just posted the text as it was in the email.

Please help us have a great resource for folks new to town, students or just curious people by adding your own Creative Guides to the list. We're the locals, so we have a different way of noticing what's important, we've been in the trenches.

I also edited a few pages - like the Orlando Networking, Orlando Events and Orlando Resources lists. Almost anything that deserves a bullet point on this wiki deserves a full wiki page, so that's another way to contribute - write up the history of your group or a place you like to visit in town. I promise to give it a feature here on the blog and in the mailing list.