Guild Name: NEAR Protocol Philippines
Funding Scheme: Monthly
NEAR Philippines 2022 Operation
Mission:
To educate, guide, and retain Filipinos in the NEAR ecosystem.
The mission summarizes what NEAR Philippines (PH) has been doing for 12 months, growing the community organically. Currently, one of the achievements by NEAR PH has been producing NFT superstars. Many of these NFT artists were skeptical about crypto at first.
A stellar example of this is Hero:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/blitzstein1125
Paras Account: herogranada.near - Paras
Our interview with him: Catching up with Hero Granada | NEAR Protocol Philippines - YouTube
However, while there are outliers, NEAR PH recognizes that the majority may take time to bake. This is where NEAR PH that budding NFT artists may take some time to bake. Outliers may just need a simple introduction to NEAR; they would just educate themselves at their pacing. The majority, however, may need the second and third element of our mission: guiding and retaining.
Our program to guide and retain will encourage new artists to try different methods of succeeding in NEAR via NFT marketplaces, such as Paras and Mintbase. The guiding and retaining may include personal interactions, addressing their needs and concerns.
Therefore, while the outliers may not need NEAR PH’s guidance as they can fly on their own, the majority who are still waiting for their big breaks still need the program and community dynamics that NEAR PH provides. We create regular events and workshops for these artists to remain and seek collaborative partnerships among their peers within the community.
In addition to onboarding NFT artists, NEAR PH is opening the doors to other types of community members. These include developers and long-term token holders. Thus, our educate, guide, and retain mission is split into 80/20 focus; 80% being focused on our greatest strength (NFT artists), and 20% focused on developers and long-term token holders.
In view of the introduction above, this is the breakdown of our deliverables and activities:
DELIVERABLES
1. Tutorial/Explainer Videos (1 per month)
Description: 1 to 2-minute customized videos that serve the need of the community
Value: These graphics-heavy explainer and tutorial videos are evergreen, timeless; they demystify blockchain concepts so crypto neophytes get educated on NEAR and guided (tutorial) with these videos.
Impact: Community members, new and old, can watch and rewatch them in the months or years to come as basic crypto 101 fundamentals and how-to guides. NEAR PH can even provide the template for other regional guilds to reproduce them in their own languages if they do so.
Scope: The process involves the typical explainer video production: determining the need of the community for the month; developing an outline, reediting the script to make it audio-friendly, generating individual visual items (assets) used for the, editing the video, adding SFX, recording the voiceovers.
Sample links: Paras Minting Tutorial | NEAR Protocol Philippines - YouTube
Budget: 1,000 USD
- 4 Weekly Workshops (every Tuesdays 9pm Philippine time)
Description: 1-2-hour Informative, attendees-participated, with guest appearance, live Zoom events that are recorded and uploaded on NEAR PH’s official Youtube channel. The attendance numbers would reach as high as 80 plus per session.
Value: When attendees witness that NEAR blockchain is not one of those crypto scams in the Philippines with real people conducting these workshops and with real-life blockchain benefits, those invited would spread the word about the weekly Thursday meetings, inviting their friends the next time they attend. This increases the prospect of onboarding more people to the NEAR ecosystem.
Impact: First time attendees get to see that other Filipinos are already benefiting from being on Paras on being on the NEARverse. Members would sense the camaraderie at the live meetings.
Scope: We manually invite individual Filipinos to attend the weekly events; old members, such as top earning NFT artists, would attend and encourage the new ones; live slide presentations are regular features; new ones are encouraged to introduce themselves to the group. Q&As take place; networking activities are encouraged after the main session. Attendees would stay to explore collaboration with other members of the community.
Sample link: NFTs For Filipinos Week 31 | NEAR Protocol Philippines - YouTube
Budget: 150 USD per session x4 (600 USD total)
- Live Interview with project founders and artists (2 times a month)
Description: Long-form recorded Zoom interviews with either NEAR project representatives or featured NFT artists uploaded on NEAR PH’s official Youtube channel.
Value: When a NEAR Project is expounded by the founder or any representative during the live interview, unique features of the project get discussed and promoted. When featured NFT artists appear on the show, their latest creations get promoted.
Impact: The community becomes aware of the latest projects developing on the NEAR ecosystem. They may sign up for those projects. When an artist is the guest on the interview, new members get to know the journey and experience of the guest, thereby encouraging them to stay and pursue their careers on NEAR Protocol.
Scope: Guests are invited about a week or more in advance for the live interview. A set of questions that apply to each guest is communicated via email back and forth until the relevant questions remain so as to bring out the most important points about their project. The raw footage gets edited during post production before being uploaded.
Sample link: Catching up with Hero Granada | NEAR Protocol Philippines - YouTube
Budget: 100 USD per live interview session (200 USD total)
- 2 featured articles (depending on the need)
Description: 800-word Medium articles that address the immediate needs of the community published on Medium.
Value: Determining the need of the community and addressing them via written contents can encourage the members who are struggling to remain with the community. This increases the member retention in the NEAR ecosystem.
Impact: The articles provide solutions to either the issues faced by the community or give fresh ideas to the community for their projects and collaboration.
Scope: polls and surveys are conducted on social media so as to determine the most pressing problems of the community members. Articles that address those issues are developed for the community to consume
Sample links: NEAR to the Metaverse. Defi, NFTs, and now recently, the… | by NEAR Protocol PH | NEAR Protocol Philippines | Medium
Budget: 100 USD per article x2 (200 USD total)
- 2 translations (depending on the need)
Description: local language (Tagalog) translations from Medium articles by NEAR PH or other projects such as Meta Pool’s articles.
Value: local language materials attract more readership from the community members and beyond.
Impact: To those who do not comprehend English that much, these translations make them feel that NEAR cares about their content consumption by reading the articles in a language that they understand the most.
Scope: each piece is meticulously edited for quality. Where there is a need to retain an English word, the local terms may not be needed. Some English words may not need to be translated at all, as these English words are already commonly used by Filipinos in their everyday speech.
Sample link: Isang Beginner’s Guide sa NEAR Blockchain | by Andrew Marpa | NEAR Protocol Philippines | Medium
Budget: 50 USD per piece (100 USD total)
- 16 Illustrative Infographics
These will be inclusive of the following:
- Featured Artist of the Week
- Testimonials
- Crypto Term of the Week
- Ecosystem Projects
- Ecosystem Updates
- Important guild announcements
Since a lot of our market at the moment is mostly digital artists, visual graphics tend to be more effective in conveying important information to them,
Previous Infographics: https://twitter.com/NEARPhilippines/status/1487017625129525250?s=20&t=OkfJHVP-R0Bp0logIhZEOA
Budget: 500 USD total
- Social Media Management
This will include
- Facebook Page/Group management
- Sharing/Posting Content and activities
- Answering page inquiries
- Twitter page management
- Posting announcements
- Answering inquiries on all of our social media handles
- 2 Telegram Group Chat managements
Budget: 1,000 USD total
- Community Management
This will include
- Growth
- Inviting potential community members
- Community Moderation & Engagement
- Bounties
- Community Awards
- Giveaways in NEAR
- Tips for Telegram Tipbot
- Managing Community Events
Budget: 1,000 USD total
- A Monthly Event
NEAR Philippines will hold a monthly event with different themes. This will allow more engagements and interactions to the community with the idea of bringing more people and being educated about the NEAR Protocol Blockchain.
This will include with the ff:
- Contests with Monthly Themes
- Video consumption rewards
- Article consumption rewards
- Claps
- If an event doesn’t happen, the funds will be saved for the next event.
Planned Event for this March
NFT for a Cause (solo, pair, or group)
Theme Ideas:
- Araw ng Kagitingan Commemoration
- A vision of NEAR in the future
- NFT Journey
- Women’s Month
MECHANICS
- Open to all NEAR PH Artists. They may work individually, in pairs or as a team for this contest.
- Participants need to fill up a registration form in order to participate which will include stating the charity organization they want to sponsor or charitable work they would like to do with the prized money.
- Winner/s will need to provide proof of donating their prizes in the form of a social media post, video, a written agreement with a charity org.
- Participants will create an NFT based on the determined theme and then mint their NFT on Mintbase & Paras and name it “NEARPH NFT for a Cause”
- They are allowed to sell their minted NFTs
- They are free to set how many editions you like
- Participants will post it on Twitter and tag us with the hashtag #NEARPhilippines #NEARPHContestMarch #NFTforacause
- Post it on Facebook and Tag our Page (not Group)
- Not using proper hashtags will get a deduction in points
- Only the representative will post their artwork if group and pair.
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Mention 5 digital artists friends
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Post it as soon as you’re done on Facebook & Twitter.
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The top 3 NFTs will receive 100 USD (~5,000 PHP)
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The remainder of the funds will be used as consolation prizes or giveaways.
Conditions
- Winners will be decided by selected judges.
- Numbers of reactions on Facebook & Twitter.
- Those not following the proper hashtags and tagging will get deducted.
- Winners will be announced on the last Thursday of the month.
- Failing to comply with the proof will result in a ban on the next event.
Reward is in PHP
Budget: 400 USD
Total Payout Request: 5,000 USD in NEAR
NEAR Wallet: near-philippines.sputnik-dao.near
Owner: nphil.near
The following breakdown has been carefully considered by the team for commensurate distribution of funds. A common fund has also been made for overhead and unexpected expenses.
More power to Blockchain solutions via NEAR Protocol!
