Our secrets to success in forming an online community in just six gatherings

If you follow our blog or keep up with us on social media, you’ll know this is all we’ve been talking about recently. A few short months ago Matchbox Co-founder Arianna Rehak teamed up with Amanda Kaiser, MBA of Kaiser Insights LLC to create a cohort of over 150 associations to meet bi-weekly over the course of twelve weeks. The goal? Learn, invent, and investigate new ways of networking virtually so that we could all incorporate palpable takeaways into our own communities.

Well, we did the thing. We formed a community we called the “Virtual Networking Incubator” which gathered a total of six times, venturing into the world of strategies to help build personal connections online… while actually building personal connections online. What we created was heartwarming, valuable, and, to put it quite simply, amazing. So, a little over a week ago we hosted Results: A Networking Garden Party in order to share out our valuable findings and reveal how we planted the seed in the first place (that is to say, the steps we took to build our incubator community).

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