What's The Swarm?
The Swarm is your "go-to-network" platform, unlocking new ways for companies to map and harness their extended networks. You can add your stakeholders (team, investors, advisors, partners, industry friends, customers, and more) to combine their networks all in one place and find warm introductions.
Let's take an example:
Below is a look at a Swarm account with 140 members. On this particular account, there is a total of 569,939 relationships imported by members and prioritized by strength of relationship, opening up many potential introductions and warm intro paths!
Understanding naming conventions
Team: your organization at The Swarm. With defined Company LinkedIn URL that is added during creation of the workspace.
Users: your active teammates inside The Swarm. User is an individual member of your Team who can log into The Swarm and take action. Users can have different roles that define what they can do like: Admin, Contributor, Guest. Read more about permission groups. Also, every User is also counted as a Connector.
Connectors: People whose professional histories help map relationships and intro paths in your network.
Can be added to different groups like, Employees, Investors, Customers, Partners, Advisors) added via profile URLs, company domains, CSV, or suggestions.
No notifications: Added Contacts never get notified or invited.
Relationships ≠ LinkedIn connections: We map overlaps from work/education/investments, not 1st/2nd/3rd-degree contacts.
People are the profiles of people you and your members are connected to. It includes people you may from your work experience (work overlaps), as well as LinkedIn first-degree relationships, email and calendar contacts.
Lists are lists where you and members can save a list of relationships. They're visible by all members unless made private by the pipeline creator.
Strength is a measure of the strength of a relationship between your member and their connection.
It ranks from
Unfamiliar
Potential,
Likely,
and Confirmed.
It's automatically calculated based on the different import sources (ex: is your member just connected on LinkedIn (Potential) or have they also emailed, met, and worked together at the same company in the past (Confirmed). You can manually tweak Strength for your own relationships in My Relationships page.
Adding your own network
Start by importing your own relationships, it only takes a few minutes. Click "Add relationships" at the top-right to get started.
"Work and education overlaps" is the first import source: They get automatically mapped and added to your own network when you join. Then make sure to use the CSV LinkedIn import and connect your Gmail (Outlook will be available soon!) to import people you've emailed and/or met with.
This is your professional network, bulk imported and created for you in minutes!
Read next: Building your Swarm (2/6)