In a chat about forecasting important values/proxy measures for EA groups (e.g. dollars of CEA grant funding, number of projects taken on by contributing members), Justin Otto came up with a question/suggestion that I found interesting, provocative, and potentially useful.
Could an EA group tape or otherwise record one of their meetups or other regular EA community building activities and then send it to other aspiring EAs who could give feedback?
(This was inspired by some martial arts dojos which apparently, when they are just getting started or trying to improve, record their lessons and then get feedback on the lessons from other established instructors.)
Perhaps one-on-ones will still be way better for giving this sort of feedback.
Perhaps there is potential in other methods for finding feedback such as recording and sharing past events, effort, and reports with other aspiring EAs.
Have groups done this in the past?
Any suggestions for new partnerships? (in integrations to other community building efforts, e.g. community builders newsletter, FB group, Hub, ???)
I also find the idea of recording meetings interesting. I’d worry about this not working out because of bandwidth limitations – asking an overseas organiser to watch on passively for an hour and then collect their thoughts on what happened seems to ask more of them than to interact with, query, and coach in the moment.
I wonder if there are any ways to circumvent that bottleneck. Perhaps calling in the person through Zoom and letting them respond at some scheduled moment helps somewhat? Any other ideas?
Another way for giving feedback might be to give people access to your task planning. I just emailed Asana about whether they’d be willing to offer a free Business/Enterprise team for people to run projects on.
Text: “We would like to pilot one Asana Business team for community start-ups to collaborate on tasks, link with coaches and advisors, collect feedback from the groups we service, and to be more transparent to charity seed funders.”