{"id":1660,"date":"2012-03-12T09:37:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/?p=1660"},"modified":"2012-03-12T09:38:11","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T14:38:11","slug":"find-and-share-your-happy-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/find-and-share-your-happy-place.php","title":{"rendered":"Find (and share) your happy place"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/happstr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1661\" title=\"Happstr\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/happstr.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"269\" \/><\/a>Mashable shares the news of a <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/03\/10\/happstr\/\">whimsical little app experiment<\/a> called Happstr (developed on the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/startupbus.com\/americas\/about\">Startup Bus<\/a>,&#8221; winding its way to SXSW in Austin). Happstr is a website designed for your mobile device, with geotagging, that lets you press a large pink button when you&#8217;re feeling happy, to mark the place (and the reason) for that happiness. <!--more-->You can see happy places from other people on a map. And while you can&#8217;t see <em>why<\/em>\u00a0they were happy (that information is private), you can see <em>where<\/em>\u00a0they were happy.<\/p>\n<p>While it&#8217;s a fun little gimmick for the user, it could be a powerful indicator for a city, or a region, or a particular organization. At the least, it offers a useful thought experiment for the place-based cultural organization: What would have to do to encourage more visitors to hit that button &#8212; to be happy &#8212; \u00a0in your venue or your space? And if you can figure that out, why aren&#8217;t you doing it now?<\/p>\n<p>It also recalls the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.portphillip.vic.gov.au\/smiles_per_hour.htm\">smiles per hour<\/a>&#8221; indicator used by the City of Port Phillip to measure how friendly and welcoming their neighborhoods are. Happstr could eventually offer a similar metric for people interested in a similar quality in the places they inhabit.<\/p>\n<p>Can you measure happiness? Sure you can. Can you foster more of it in your little circle of the world? Give it a try.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mashable shares the news of a whimsical little app experiment called Happstr (developed on the &#8220;Startup Bus,&#8221; winding its way to SXSW in Austin). Happstr is a website designed for your mobile device, with geotagging, that lets you press a large pink button when you&#8217;re feeling happy, to mark the place (and the reason) for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1660","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}