Great job! The website design looks really slick and certain sections, like ‘Guides and Tips’ are really clear and helpful :)
I was somewhat surprised to see a report I wrote* over a year ago (Big Match Warwick 2016 Review) on the ‘Evaluation and Strategy’ page. I’m not sure it’s something I’d want promoted as an activity local groups should try anymore, since their comparative advantage is community building and not fundraising. I think I frame that kind of campaign in too positive a light and don’t offer reasons for why a group might not want to do it, implying that I think groups should run a Big Match campaign. I won’t request that it be taken down, I just wanted to give those updated thoughts :)
On a more general note, I’m a little concerned that this site overlaps quite a bit with CEA’s Resources and Support and Effective Altruism Community Building pages. Do you intend for this site to compliment these pages and CEA’s approach? Or offer something different? I don’t speak for CEA, by the way, I just know that those pages exist.
*James Aung only added comments in a late stage of editing which is why it might have been mistakenly attributed to him.
Thanks for the kind words and a clarification, Ollie. James’ comments were the reason for misattribution, which we corrected. :) Many of us also believe that unless there are exceptionally good opportunities, local groups do better by filling talent gaps and influencing career paths rather than raising funds. By re-publishing the article on Big Match campaign, we wanted to enable more organizers to learn about your past experiences and potentially draw insights useful for their current projects. Feel free to request adding notes, updates or any other actions at any point.
While there is an overlap with CEA’s materials, we intend to increase exposure to them (given the value of promoting great content collected and/or produced by CEA), as well as to add more resources from organizers and core teams. Offering them a grassroots platform to exchange diverse perspectives constitutes a primary goal for EA Resources.
In which case, could you possibly add this note somewhere: “I’m not sure it’s something I’d want promoted as an activity local groups should try anymore, since their comparative advantage is community building and not fundraising. I think I frame that kind of campaign in too positive a light and don’t offer reasons for why a group might not want to do it, implying that I think groups should run a Big Match campaign”. Feel free to write in the third person (i.e. “the author is not sure that this campaign is something they would want promoted etc.”)
I think you more thoroughly address my concern in your reply to mingyuan. I’m not sure I agree with your strategy of providing an interconnected network instead of deferring to CEA or LW but I appreciate that you’ve considered this carefully and provide justification :)
Done. Let us know if you’d like to share some good counterarguments to our current line of thinking and/or alternative ideas on making the best use of EA Resources platform!
Great job! The website design looks really slick and certain sections, like ‘Guides and Tips’ are really clear and helpful :)
I was somewhat surprised to see a report I wrote* over a year ago (Big Match Warwick 2016 Review) on the ‘Evaluation and Strategy’ page. I’m not sure it’s something I’d want promoted as an activity local groups should try anymore, since their comparative advantage is community building and not fundraising. I think I frame that kind of campaign in too positive a light and don’t offer reasons for why a group might not want to do it, implying that I think groups should run a Big Match campaign. I won’t request that it be taken down, I just wanted to give those updated thoughts :)
On a more general note, I’m a little concerned that this site overlaps quite a bit with CEA’s Resources and Support and Effective Altruism Community Building pages. Do you intend for this site to compliment these pages and CEA’s approach? Or offer something different? I don’t speak for CEA, by the way, I just know that those pages exist.
*James Aung only added comments in a late stage of editing which is why it might have been mistakenly attributed to him.
Thanks for the kind words and a clarification, Ollie. James’ comments were the reason for misattribution, which we corrected. :) Many of us also believe that unless there are exceptionally good opportunities, local groups do better by filling talent gaps and influencing career paths rather than raising funds. By re-publishing the article on Big Match campaign, we wanted to enable more organizers to learn about your past experiences and potentially draw insights useful for their current projects. Feel free to request adding notes, updates or any other actions at any point.
While there is an overlap with CEA’s materials, we intend to increase exposure to them (given the value of promoting great content collected and/or produced by CEA), as well as to add more resources from organizers and core teams. Offering them a grassroots platform to exchange diverse perspectives constitutes a primary goal for EA Resources.
Thanks!
In which case, could you possibly add this note somewhere: “I’m not sure it’s something I’d want promoted as an activity local groups should try anymore, since their comparative advantage is community building and not fundraising. I think I frame that kind of campaign in too positive a light and don’t offer reasons for why a group might not want to do it, implying that I think groups should run a Big Match campaign”. Feel free to write in the third person (i.e. “the author is not sure that this campaign is something they would want promoted etc.”)
I think you more thoroughly address my concern in your reply to mingyuan. I’m not sure I agree with your strategy of providing an interconnected network instead of deferring to CEA or LW but I appreciate that you’ve considered this carefully and provide justification :)
Done. Let us know if you’d like to share some good counterarguments to our current line of thinking and/or alternative ideas on making the best use of EA Resources platform!