It might be useful to have a global table of contact people who are sympathetic to the EA community and can offer help in their expertise or their position. Such a system can not demand too much out of any contact person, so some coordination there is needed.
Hi Edo (and responding to everyone’s comments). This is late, but as far as internal EA community coordination goes, that is what the EA Hub is trying to do.
I’m going to hijack this thread and give people a better sense of what we’ve been up to (upcoming top-level post to come!) :)
Vision: I want the Hub to be a central place where anyone with any level of involvement in the EA community (but who has some elementary knowledge of it, enough to know they want to learn more) can find valuable connections.
Hub Community Directory
Currently users can contact each other via any social media links they’ve included
Within the next 1 month we will introduce messaging functionality that will allow users to receive messages (via an email) from others who wish to connect.
Some illustrative use cases of the Directory:
Someone reads Doing Good Better or listens to Sam Harris’s podcast and wants to find a local group to meet other EAs
Local EA groups can find speakers for events
Any local, cause or career EA groups can use the Hub as a group directory using by filtering for members of their group (we are onboarding a few groups on this now, and will scale up if it’s successful)
E.g. An ML Post-Doc in Zurich wants to connect with other ML people in Switzerland open to chatting
E.g. An aspiring consultant can find the EA Consulting Network and sign up for a practice case interview
EA organisations or projects can find volunteers with relevant skillsets and do active outreach to them
An EA visiting another country can see if there are any EAs to couch-surf with or maybe just grab a coffee (upcoming)
EA organisations can do personalized outreach to relevant candidates
Other things relevant to a CRM we are considering in the next 6 months (>50% probability):
E.g. users could be paired with accountability buddies
Subgroups matching
NEAD (German EA Network) wants to build nation-wide connections, so we run a round of matches for just German EAs
Effective Animal Advocacy Facebook moderators want to build cause-wide connections
EA Guides (example/illustrative only, the actual implementation will likely vary a lot from this)
New EAs are paired with 1 Guide for 1-3 sessions over a few months
Guides can indicate how many new people they want to be matched with per month. Guide selection TBD.
Depending on the number of guides, we could do more sophisticated matching—e.g. at least 1 cause area interest in common, or same time zone/country/language (especially for non-English speakers)
For EA Chats as with all our projects, we are keen to work with individuals or groups who have a specific need for these features. So if you have a need for EA Chats that’s not captured in the above but are serious about using it, please do reach out.
EA Hub has evolved a lot since last time I had a look. I was going to complain that it has limited usefulness since you can only search based on location and not interests and expertise, but that is no longer true. This is great!
Re Brian and evelynciara (is it Evelyn?) about EA Hub. Sorry about the ambiguity, but I was thinking more in terms of contacts who are one step removed from the community but might be of interest for collaboration/advice, like senior executives of important organizations, policy-makers, or domain experts.
I love the efforts going into EA Hub though and I think that it is exactly the kind of coordination mechanisms I had in mind, so thank you both for the comments :)
contacts who are one step removed from the community but might be of interest for collaboration/advice, like senior executives of important organizations, policy-makers, or domain experts.
In it’s current state the Hub is not equipped to deal with people who aren’t opting in to being listed there.
I imagine such people would not want to be publicly listed unless they were already onboard with EA and willing to be a resource, so some kind of closed/private list would probably be more realistic
One option is that you could have profiles listed as viewable only to other users, and Brian’s idea seems reasonable too
I am not optimistic most versions of these solutions would be practically feasible to implement on a scale that’s cost effective. I imagine people would just be connected to EAs who have those connections, can vet them and then connect to experts
Ah I think that’s a good and interesting suggestion. I think this could be mixed into the EA Hub still though so that the contacts are linked to specific EAs who are in contact with them.
I believe the EA Hub is supposed to be this, but I don’t think it’s at this level yet (both in terms of use and of features). Vaidehi can talk more about this
A global “CRM”.
It might be useful to have a global table of contact people who are sympathetic to the EA community and can offer help in their expertise or their position. Such a system can not demand too much out of any contact person, so some coordination there is needed.
Hi Edo (and responding to everyone’s comments). This is late, but as far as internal EA community coordination goes, that is what the EA Hub is trying to do.
I’m going to hijack this thread and give people a better sense of what we’ve been up to (upcoming top-level post to come!) :)
Vision: I want the Hub to be a central place where anyone with any level of involvement in the EA community (but who has some elementary knowledge of it, enough to know they want to learn more) can find valuable connections.
Hub Community Directory
Currently users can contact each other via any social media links they’ve included
Within the next 1 month we will introduce messaging functionality that will allow users to receive messages (via an email) from others who wish to connect.
Some illustrative use cases of the Directory:
Someone reads Doing Good Better or listens to Sam Harris’s podcast and wants to find a local group to meet other EAs
Local EA groups can find speakers for events
Any local, cause or career EA groups can use the Hub as a group directory using by filtering for members of their group (we are onboarding a few groups on this now, and will scale up if it’s successful)
E.g. An ML Post-Doc in Zurich wants to connect with other ML people in Switzerland open to chatting
E.g. An aspiring consultant can find the EA Consulting Network and sign up for a practice case interview
EA organisations or projects can find volunteers with relevant skillsets and do active outreach to them
An EA visiting another country can see if there are any EAs to couch-surf with or maybe just grab a coffee (upcoming)
EA organisations can do personalized outreach to relevant candidates
Other things relevant to a CRM we are considering in the next 6 months (>50% probability):
EA Chats − 1-1 matching
Possible use-cases
Make a friend: 1-1 Random Matching with other EAs
1-1 semi-random/intentional matching: Users may indicate preferred shared interests/language/needs & gives
E.g. users could be paired with accountability buddies
Subgroups matching
NEAD (German EA Network) wants to build nation-wide connections, so we run a round of matches for just German EAs
Effective Animal Advocacy Facebook moderators want to build cause-wide connections
EA Guides (example/illustrative only, the actual implementation will likely vary a lot from this)
New EAs are paired with 1 Guide for 1-3 sessions over a few months
Guides can indicate how many new people they want to be matched with per month. Guide selection TBD.
Depending on the number of guides, we could do more sophisticated matching—e.g. at least 1 cause area interest in common, or same time zone/country/language (especially for non-English speakers)
For EA Chats as with all our projects, we are keen to work with individuals or groups who have a specific need for these features. So if you have a need for EA Chats that’s not captured in the above but are serious about using it, please do reach out.
I think that’s what EA Hub is trying to do
EA Hub has evolved a lot since last time I had a look. I was going to complain that it has limited usefulness since you can only search based on location and not interests and expertise, but that is no longer true. This is great!
Re Brian and evelynciara (is it Evelyn?) about EA Hub. Sorry about the ambiguity, but I was thinking more in terms of contacts who are one step removed from the community but might be of interest for collaboration/advice, like senior executives of important organizations, policy-makers, or domain experts.
I love the efforts going into EA Hub though and I think that it is exactly the kind of coordination mechanisms I had in mind, so thank you both for the comments :)
RE:
In it’s current state the Hub is not equipped to deal with people who aren’t opting in to being listed there.
I imagine such people would not want to be publicly listed unless they were already onboard with EA and willing to be a resource, so some kind of closed/private list would probably be more realistic
One option is that you could have profiles listed as viewable only to other users, and Brian’s idea seems reasonable too
I am not optimistic most versions of these solutions would be practically feasible to implement on a scale that’s cost effective. I imagine people would just be connected to EAs who have those connections, can vet them and then connect to experts
Ah I think that’s a good and interesting suggestion. I think this could be mixed into the EA Hub still though so that the contacts are linked to specific EAs who are in contact with them.
I believe the EA Hub is supposed to be this, but I don’t think it’s at this level yet (both in terms of use and of features). Vaidehi can talk more about this
Yeah I tried contacting people on it and it was pretty hard.