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 50 members. On this particular account, there is a total of 164,820 connections imported by members and prioritized by strength of relationship, opening up many potential introductions and warm intro paths!
Understanding naming conventions
Team: a group of members on The Swarm, belonging to one account.
Members: Users that belong to a Swarm team. They're split into three groups: Owner (created the account), Admins (can invite or remove members), and Contributors (cannot invite nor remove members). Read more about permission groups.
Connections 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 connections, email and calendar contacts.
Pipelines are lists where you and members can save a list of connections. 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 to Weak, Familiar, and Strong. It's automatically calculated based on the different import sources (ex: is your member just connected on LinkedIn (weak) or have they also emailed, met, and worked together at the same company in the past (strong). You can manually tweak Strength for your own connections.
Adding your own network
Start by importing your own connections, it only takes a few minutes. Click "Add connections" at the top-right to get started.
"Work overlaps" is the first import source: They get added automatically mapped and added to your own network when you join. Then make sure to use the Chrome extension of 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!
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