Our activities produce a huge amount of beautiful footage of Focallocallers making the world a brighter place, and creating happiness. That footage has the power to spread hope in humanity to the many people in this world questioning it, and also to bring crowds of people into our community to join in our Movement for a friendlier, happier and more peace filled World.
That footage achieves nothing without editors and producers capturing the magic of our Movement and telling it as an engaging story to viewers around the World. It is something harder to find - i’m glad you’re here!
Here you can:
discuss what needs to be edited
tell others what you’d like to create
find others to collaborate with
get advice and learn new skills
ask for feedback
arrange meetings (online and in person)
You can find suggested videos needed and footage needing editing in ‘Tasks’.
Tips:
If its an interview, ask that person for three others they follow in the same sphere. We can then research them and reach out for a future interview.
Note: The Getting Started Guide here is generic, and the team does not have its own Mission Statement in the banner yet.
Please discuss changes here to customise this guide to make it easier for new people joining to feel welcome and understand how to contribute.
Also, when you feel comfortable here and there are at least 3 other active users please create a new post where you can all design your Mission Statement, inspired by the main Mission Statement for our project ‘to bring more peace and well-being into the World, and to have a ton of fun on the way’
Which makes it much easier to stay up to date with what’s going on in discussions and tasks you’re working on.
Intro
Welcome! In this category, we work to produce videos documenting Focallocal projects in the pursuit to spread hope in humanity to many people in this world, and to have crowds of people join our movement for a happier, friendlier, and more peace-filled world.
Mission Statement
Anyone or any group who share our vision and Community Values are welcome to join us. Your mission is to capture the magic of our movement and tell it as an engaging story to viewers around the world through video production.
Tag Pages
Here is your tag page, which will replace this category in the near future: Topics tagged stats. Tags will supersede categories in the Beta version of this platform so please put extra attention into the tags you use. You can create your own tags which will have their own tag pages. These will blow your mind when we switch the site to navigate by tag-intersections in Beta launch.
Ethos
Please focus your efforts onto encouraging and inspiring others into taking action to create a world with more peace and well-being in, and joining our Movement. Creating change should always look fun. Please steer away from pumping out positivity quotes and memes on our channels as there are plenty already doing that and it too often comes across as cringey.
Teams on our platform are skill based and mean other members can reach out to you when they want feedback on their work and suggestions, or to ask if anyone can help with a related task to your skills. If you want to be actively engaged in projects going on, or gain experience in a skill, you should join their team (or ask for one to be created if it’s missing). You will receive more notifications if you are in a team as other users can reach out to you.
These should be broken into self-contained actionable slices of 30mins to 1hr so people from around the world can contribute in bite-sized time contributions, rather than excluding those who aren’t able to commit large amount of time. They can be strung together, just move them all over and assign to yourself if you plan to tackle them in one sitting.
Please try to keep to this rule when posting tasks. If the tasks are large and can’t be self contained, then use add [Discussion] at the beginning of the title, and add tags for all the groups needed to break it up into self-contained tasks.
Individual:
These accounts are for personalities and public figures who are part of the story of our Movement and can be grown and leveraged to spread awareness of our community, mission and individual projects. Each account has their own personality characteristics which should be reflected in posts.
Wiggles on Instagram Our Mascots Insta channel, being grown to share videos he features in and show him joining in our activities to bring more users in.
Personality: A friendly loving sassy superstar
Public Happiness Andy on Facebook
Personality: Prefers to be in the background supporting others, but occasionally bombastic when the situation requires
Reddit Culture
Reddit users dislike advertising and self-promotion. Posts to our subs should be directly relevant to the sub in question, or subtly guiding users to areas of our platform that are related to the topic of the sub-reddit. The purpose of what we are doing should be clear as users are very hostile to disingenuous communication which is standard in normal marketing/social media… and its not who we are.
r/randomactsofkindness. Here users post random acts of kindness they’ve completed or witnessed to spread the positivity further
r/happiness. Celebrating happiness and those creating more of it.
r/artbattle. Being set up as a place where non-profits and good causes (small ones, not big charities) can post something arty they want like a poster and artists wanting to practice battle with each other to create the best interpretation of it. Note: requesting revisions is not allowed.
r/brightertomorrow. Partnered with our Brighter Tomorrow project. Users post ideas for actions others can take to help people who are homeless nearby, and creative projects they can be build to provide support.
r/socialmovements. A bit messy, neglected and in need of love, but set up to help positive social movements like ours gain more exposure
r/behappier. A guide of resources for people wanting to learn how to live happier and more fulfilling lives
r/webdevjobs. Used to help web developers in our teams find jobs via a stickied post with their profiles and a message of thanks. Also as a pull mechanism to bring more developers into our community
r/filmvideo_jobs. Currently inactive. Used to help video creators in our teams find jobs via a stickied post with their profiles and a message of thanks. Also as a pull mechanism to bring more video creators into our community
Collaborating with other Teams
You may also want to involve other teams to help solve the task by adding their tag. For example: ‘UI’, ‘Graphic-Design’, ‘Copy-Writing’, ‘UX’.
If you need support from another team then your suggestion is probably not ready to be posted as a self contained ‘task’ , so consider tagging it as a discussion and adding [Discussion] to the beginning of the title.
Its also often a good idea to tag their team in the post to get more eyes on it using the @ key
Here you can
Discuss and coordinate how to build your community and projects
Find others to collaborate with
Get advice and learn new skills
Ask for feedback
Arrange meetings (online and in person)
Our Culture
This is an open community where you can define your own role. To be most effective here we promote a culture of defining our own roles.
Make your own choices on how you can best take action to advance the community
Tell people what you are going to do.
Listen to their feedback and ideas to strengthen your idea
Find tasks others need help with by clicking the ‘tasks’ tab (this is also where to make your suggestions.
Workflow
Step 1. Click ‘Tasks’
Step 2. Assign a card to yourself, or create a new task
Step 3. Move it into ‘Doing’
step 4. If the task isn’t complete by 2 weeks please move it back into the list it came on so that others can tackle it. (note. it shouldn’t go in Sprint if its going to take you longer than 2 weeks)
Scrum
Scrum organizes tasks by
‘Backlog’
‘Sprint’
‘Doing’
‘Done’
On a computer you can drag tasks between columns in the ‘Tasks’ tab. On a mobile you need to open them up and change the tag from one of the above to the one you want (for now).
Please don’t forget to move it to ‘Done’ or someone else may also do it, and you won’t receive any tokens
Assigning Yourself a Task
Underneath the comments on a task is the Assign button
As you gain confidence in your role you’ll be able to create your own tasks in the main platform if you think of something that will advance the movement or one of our projects. You can create tasks for yourself, for other users to choose, or you can tag other users in the comment below your task and ask them if they would like to take it. Please don’t assign tasks to other users yourself without their approval as they may find this rude.
Please use the Calendar
Click the ‘Calendar’ tab and set times you want to contribute to our mission here
Even if you change them later it is a huge help to set your intentions. Members who do this are always the ones who stick around and become important members of our community.
Set a monthly, weekly or bi-weekly reminder in your calendar to repeat regularly
Check out when others will be online and arrange collaborations and video meetings with them
Posting Your Schedule onto the Calendar
Create a normal post and set it as an event. The calendar will convert the times into whoever is viewing its local time so you don’t need to add time zones.
This community is a great place for learning a new skill. Just search for the learning tag combined with any skill you’d like to learn to see if others have posted free courses, and are learning that skill here too. The benefits of learning here are:
Crowd sourced learning resources
Others to learn with
Experienced professionals who want to support, mentor and offer guidance to those earlier on the same path
Free or discounted courses to get qualifications
Learn your skill by contributing to building projects in the real world
Tasks posted suitable for beginners, and with experienced industry professionals you can call with an @ command to check your work and give feedback/support
Tasks are public. Future employers can check what tasks you’ve done, follow how your skill advanced, see which projects you’ve built, and how you communicate with a team.
1st one there in this team? Post in forums and bring others over. There’ll be no shortage of people who want to learn while building positive projects which create a kinder, happier world.
Other Rewards
Its definitely best to join in because you want to see the changes it can bring to the world, and be part of a fun, positive and pro-active community.
We also invite anyone who plays a significant role into our team page, and are enthusiastic to support you if it helps your resume building: Public Happiness
Legacy
You may find some references or links to focallocal.org and Trello. We are not using these anymore so please report them to a moderator to be updated. The site name PublicHappinessMovement.com may be changed before launch as it’s not perfect either.
Tokens
Everyone who completes any tasks will be rewarded with Public Happiness Tokens for each task completed which advances our community, mission and supports this ecosystem. You’ll get them when we reach Beta launch. We don’t guarantee they’ll ever be worth anything, but most of us here believe they will be and will be the fuel driving our social changes
Want to read more?
A more detailed plan of building our eco-system, and vision for systemic change creating a world with more peace, well-being and happiness, is here in the Whitepaper. Be warned it is a very long read.
Our efforts to create change are very serious, but our delivery is always positive, fun and cool.
‘If its not fun it’s not sustainable’ - Gary Lachance, The Decentralised Dance Party
Documentation
Each team has their own documentation section where you should find best practices for each task that isn’t unique. If any task may need to be repeated in the future please create documentation for it.
Good documentation is a simple guide for how you completed the task that anyone can copy in the future. You don’t have to follow the guide in the documentation if you’d like to do it your own way.
If you achieve a successful outcome doing it your own way rather than following existing documentation, please comment what you did below the original and the results you had.
Not sure what to do?
If you’ve run out of tasks to do or aren’t sure where to start, most Teams have simple repeating tasks which benefit their mission and the overall PHM community. These will have been done hundreds or thousands of times before so the process will be well documented.
To find them check the ‘Backlog’ column in the Tasks and look for any beginning with ‘Repeating Task’, or use the search function and search for ‘Repeating Task’
Documentation
Each team has their own documentation section where you should find best practices for each task that isn’t unique. If any task may need to be repeated in the future please create documentation for it.
Good documentation is a simple guide for how you completed the task that anyone can copy in the future. You don’t have to follow the guide in the documentation if you’d like to do it your own way.
If you achieve a successful outcome doing it your own way rather than following existing documentation, please comment what you did below the original and the results you had.
