Guest books are Stationary or mobile . Stationary locations (Restaurants, hotel lobby, clubhouse) are found with google maps. Mobile locations (boat, car or tent) use descriptions.See who checked in and what treasure hunt they want to go on. Visit their “country” to see more information about them. Send them a message.
Advanced players If you are able to play on the hard level of difficulty, you can become the President of a guest book. You will know how to create a guest book. You will have your username embedded in the QR code for that guest book.
Anyone who registers is your “Citizen.” Here are some examples.
Example #1 You create a guest book for a football stadium. You want to organize a special cheer for your row or section. Print a business card for your section. Stand at the end of the row and ask people to pass them down. The business card has a simple instruction and your QR code. "Create a special cheer for section 114.” Citizens that register, are all at the same "Birthplace." You now have a dedicated chat room for your section at a football or music stadium.If you are a season ticket holder, this works really, really well to organize your row or section as other season ticket holders, especially in the rows above you, will know your face.
Organize the seats around you and your row first and demonstrate the cheer or dance. The rows above see it. Pass them the business cards. As it spreads game after game, pass out more cards. When one section is organized, everyone else will want in.
People list the section, row and seat when they check into your guest book. This is not designed to be a dating app, but this could be the best "event dating app" ever!
You might eventually become "President" of the football stadium.
The amount of things you can organize is unlimited. You are the president of the communication tool.
Beware of Mutiny! How long will it be before somebody else wants to be president of the stadium and "Mutiny" against you by creating their own "Guest Book?"Anyone can grow up to be president. Example #2 You create a guest book for your apartment clubho use (which is one of the best locations). You don’t need to list a section, row or seat or even an apartment number. The apartment clubhouse is your location. Create any sort of flyer for any type of event and post it at the clubhouse. You can now organize any type of treasure hunt, purpose or event such as a party, furniture & clothing swap or help wanted.Example #3 You are a server that wants to earn more in tips. You also want to earn a 10% commission on “Citizens” that donate to our nonprofit. Create “Loony Coupons” to gather citizens. Organize treasure hunts such as the “Karaoke Challenge Game” or “Only Rule – You Lose” at your restaurant.Will you be a clever enough Mermaid to use your "Loony Booty "to lure Sailors, Landlubbers and Pirates into doom with a drink called “crashed on the rocks?” Example #4 You have decided to undertake the hardest treasure hunt of all “Special Heroes.” You will try to earn "crewshare" when the episode airs. You may have to search beyond your location, city and state to find dedicated volunteers who understand how to produce interactive content for the TV series.Example #5 You are at some location like a party, church, workplace or where everyone knows each other but it is too loud to talk. You are trying to have a business or club meeting. Create a guest book. Display your QR code on your phone and walk around to get people to scan it. You might all be sitting at the same table, but unable to hear anyone so everyone can put their earbuds in and talk on zoom even though you could be just 5 to 10 feet apart.
Check In
There are three difficulty levels for treasure hunts. The “check in” is not used for the easy level. The vast majority of people are on the easy level. They simply scan a coupon for the discount. They are registered, just not checked into a location on the treasure map.
On a medium treasure hunt you check in to find your team or compete against another team, this has easy to follow instructions. Some people on the medium level will use the “guest book style” check in simply to connect with people who are at the same place, same day with similar interests. For example, you are from out of town but visiting Helen and want to form a gigantic group of people doing the chicken polka dance during Octoberfest. You will start in 15 minutes at the Helen town square as another group just danced the “Too fat polka.” You know people are connected online and ready to organize. You will challenge to do the dance from the Pour Haus. Another location may make the next challenge. Everyone who has checked into any location at Helen can see what is going to happen and when. People can organize large groups of fun doing anything.
Another example, you want to play darts in a foursome and are looking for another couple in the Tavern at the hotel where you are staying. Somebody listed this hotel on the treasure map. You check in and see who is at the hotel right now and who might want to play. They could be at the pool, playing golf or in their room. You can arrange a game of darts in the hotel bar at a specific time. You would find these people on the Treasure Hunt called “Only Rule – You Lose.” This treasure hunt is similar to doing the job of a concierge.
The following information is for the hard level. It is assumed that you have viewed the instructional video, have read the home page and are registered and familiar with the advanced features and Pirate adventure theme for treasure hunting.
Tun Tavern & Human Resources
The “Check In” feature has a hard level, but fortunately for winery owners only one clever person that is a guest or employee needs to know how to use it.
Think of the Tun Tavern in 1776. While sharing food and drink, without a telephone or internet, by word of mouth, this Tavern was able to do the human resources work of building a nation. Horseback was the fastest form of communication in 1776 and yet the whole country communicated.
The Tun Tavern was where all the founding fathers and townsfolk gathered after each day at Independence Hall drafting the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
At the Tun Tavern, you shared good cheer over food and drink and discussed plans for your independence and pursuit of happiness.
There are 30 wineries in the treasure hunt. Each has a purpose similar to the Tun Tavern except instead of for yourself, it is for your “Special Hero.” You share good cheer over food and drink for the independence and the pursuit of happiness of your “Special Hero.”
Over a year, if you think of all the people connected to the winery in some way, sharing good cheer, they could fill a football stadium and cheer as if they had just won the Super Bowl!
Communication
Think of a radio operator in a squad of marines. Only one person needs to be “online” then communicate by word of mouth to get the whole squad to go on a mission. Our missions are called “Treasure Hunts,” and there are 16 of them.
Lets say you are the radio operator. You are the one person with information in a place too noisy to talk. Communication has two parts, expressive and receptive. Because of all the noise you cannot use your voice for expressive communication. You must rely on the receptive communication of those around you.
Here is an example of receptive communication.
Think of a flock of seagulls resting on the beach. One bird gets scared and flies off. It scares a few others around them and they fly off. The entire flock notices and they fly the flock off the flocking beach even though none of them realize it was because a crab bit the flocking foot of one flocking gulls.
By politely not giving you the bird and using the phrase “flock off,” to communicate, lets get back to sharing good cheer at your winery.
If one of your servers has mastered the second hardest treasure hunt called “Feeding Mermaids at the Petting Zoo,” you as the winery owner have nothing more to do. If none of your servers have done this, somebody needs to “man the radio” for an easier treasure hunt.
Servers are naturally great at both expressive and receptive communication. They are the ideal “radio operators” for your winery. If they have mastered the second hardest treasure hunt, they will be the most likely people to win the biggest prizes and have the most revenue streams not tied to food and drink.
It is a paradigm shift in restaurant operations that your servers can earn money or prizes through the Atlanta Volunteers and be paid a commission from the Atlanta Volunteers. The money does not come from your food and alcohol sales, it comes from servers being competent 1099 contractors and not selling anything but fun. They don’t need to take credit cards or time out of their busy jobs to do it. Here is the kicker. People online can join in the fun and add to what the server earns. There is a lot to unpack and that is why the “Petting Zoo” is one of the hardest treasure hunts to understand.
If you don’t have a server who has mastered this, you only need one person, a customer or staff to “man the radio.”
If the “man on the radio” starts a few people playing the “Karaoke Challenge Game” or a few people are on the “Knotty Nauti Photo Contest” and are playing with their food, the receptive communication of these activities will get people to register.
16 Treasure Hunts – the leaders.
Dynamic means a continuous change in activity and progress. Every treasure hunt is also dynamic in people who lead, follow, learn do or teach.
The leaders are on the hard level. To check in to the hard level you must swear and spit to “Lead, follow, learn, do or teach” any mission you volunteer for.
This is like being a corporal and getting a battlefield promotion to Sargent as no other leaders are left. You might not have any experience or training for what you are about to do, but you are the leader and must lead or teach.
From the instructional video you know how you will gain rank in both George Washingtons Marines and as a Continental Soldier. If you are the highest ranked person in a random group of people, you are the leader and teacher. Everyone else will follow, learn or do.
When you check in on a hard level, everyone sees the rank of everyone else. Until a higher ranked leader shows up, the highest ranked leader is in charge. They must lead or teach any of the 16 treasure hunts if asked. In return they can give orders down the chain. Any volunteer can mutiny, but that is a treasure hunt you will have to learn.
You will find the widget at your helm. Register and watch the instructional videos before reading this document so you will understand our definitions like, President, country, flag, loony, Pirates and know how to plunder British booty.
We are in Pre-Production for the 30 episode TV series called – “Special Heroes.” This is similar to the Great American State Fair setting up booths and training staff for the “North Georgia Treasure Hunt.” (The NGTH is the funding for the vocational group home and marketing for the TV series.)
Treasure Hunt #1 – “Pack – 99% untrained” (Onboarding)
To be an Atlanta Volunteer you must be 18+ and have a local clearance from Sheriff Freeman that you upload to your Helm. What you learn about tracking your hours is up to you.
The Lanier Clubhouse is a vocational group home. To protect our vulnerable populations that we call “Special Heroes” only presidents with the $5 background check from Sheriff Freeman may enter the property. The back ground check is publicly posted at each presidents country so that any president can be verified by anyone.
The British that visit will have to mutiny and become Pirates. Sometimes Sheriff Freeman will do instant background checks while you wait but don't count on it. This will severely limit our membership at the Lanier Clubhouse, but it is necessary.
Tracking your hours You volunteer as if you are a recreational therapist. You have a 3:1 ratio of production and administration. This section includes all volunteers even those that are getting community service hours.
If you spend 45 minutes volunteering to teach sailing, scuba or something else, you have 15 minutes for bathroom breaks, eating, grading tests, preparing the boat and writing reports. Each hour must have one report. The report can be as simple as one sentence or include pictures, witnesses, links and more. It is open to public inspection and is found on your country page. The report you write for each hour can be advertised and used to plunder British Booty and grow the citizens of your country.
All volunteers choose the hours and days they work. Just like any contractor. The only rock solid rule is you can not mix production and administration together. You must clock in and out of each time period.
Imagine yourself as a recreational therapist. You would not be on your phone, eating lunch or taking a bathroom break while while providing therapy to a client!
If you work a 12 hour day, you have 9 hours of work, three hours of administration and 12 reports. You can adjust the production and administration for any length of time as long as it is a 3:1 ratio each day.
The clock in and out times are what matter the most. You can do all 12 reports at once. If you don’t use all your administrative time, leave it for the end of the day so you get an early quit.
if you need 2 hours to get your tires changed, you can manage it if you have enough production time banked that day, or you just clock out.
Sweat Equity Shareholder Agreements Do you understand recycling from the video? You trade production hours for loony, and recycle loony booty. (You reverse scalp!) There is no guarantee anyone will want to recycle your loony booty into cash! But wouldn't it be nice if somebody gave you some cash for that old and worn out loony booty!Each president decides the loony value of their booty. For each hour of production you assign any loony value you want or leave it open. There is no guarantee you will get loony. Your booty is up for negotiation. You can decide how loony you will get later.
You do not have to read chapter 2 “Organizational Components” in the book “The Ability Revolution” found on the about page, but if you did you would understand an accounting system called SISO. This means sequential in, Sequential Out. The first dollar in is the first dollar spent. The person who donated that dollar can see what it was spent on. Each and every dollar has the ID of the person who donated it and the ID of what it was spent on.
If you are the first person to submit an expense for volunteering such as teaching sailing, your expense is the first one paid unless critical expenses with due dates are first.
In short, the first to submit receipts we accept are the first to get reimbursed. It is here that you should understand from the book on our business plan how we use the business structure of a hospital. A hospital is a nonprofit that houses many different kinds of corporations and businesses.
That is for later but you should understand that we have nonprofit scholarships and for profit revenue. Each of the 30 teams supporting “Special Heroes” with an episode in a TV series are for profit corporations. They also qualify for nonprofit scholarships for their “Special Hero.”
We have the land, business license and equipment. Before any British enter the property the location must be safe, secure and ADA compliant. This is where you can take a risk that your hard working booty can grow the economy of your country.
You could call these “Sweat Equity Shareholder Agreements” as they track volunteer time in the same way a recreational therapists time would be tracked.
It is up to you to understand as much as you want. If your $5 local clearance has been submitted to your helm, and you have been screeched in, you have completed the first treasure hunt and can track your hours as an Atlanta Volunteer at the Lanier Clubhouse.
