How to Create Social Relationship Capital

2018-02-18

In my inaugural address to the board of directors of unexplored association, I wrote

"Gathering is the first step, staying together is progress, working together is success," says Ford. Of course it is important to gather people at events, but it should not be a one-off event where people have fun for a day and that is the end of it. There needs to be a place where the gathered people "stay together". We believe it is important to create such a place both physically and electronically.

One way to bring people in is to say, "I have a specific project that sounds fun, and I'm going to participate in it."

Creating specific fun projects" requires "conceptual ability to create something out of nothing" that cannot be outsourced to part-time workers, etc.

I wonder if the driving force is "the desire to realize a system that I think would be good to have" or something like that.

When a graduate wants to do something and it involves more than one graduate, that in itself is an opportunity for cooperation to create social relational capital among graduates

The "system I think would be good to have" I want to create is a "feedback loop" in which intangible capital accumulates with the unexplored group at its core, and the gravitational pull of that capital attracts more capital.

So you're inclined to support a project that involves multiple alumni because it contributes to it.

#Social capital

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