Supporting online connections: what I learned after trying to find impactful opportunities

Abstract

I’ve been exploring ideas for how the Forum could help people make a valuable connection over the course of 4+ months. In this doc, I share the different areas I’ve been thinking about, how promising I think they are and what I’ve learnt about them. Overall, I don’t think any of the ideas meet the bar for focusing on connections via an online platform. My bar for an idea was that it could facilitate roughly an EAG’s worth of quality-adjusted connections each year (\textasciitilde10,000). I’m now more excited about meeting this bar by targeting high-value outcomes (e.g. collaborations, jobs), even if that means a lower number of total connections.