How to Network With Users Outside of Your Organization

The Enterprise Connector allows you to seamlessly integrate the personal and professional networks of every member of your organization—anyone with a Google or Microsoft account on your organization's domain.

It's a powerful shortcut for making sure that everyone inside your organization gets full visibility into each other's networks without the requirement that they've had email communications with each other.

It's also an excellent mechanism for access control—the instant someone's enterprise Google or Microsoft email becomes deactivated, they will lose that default visibility into the rest of the organization's network (in effect, they will be removed from the network, although they will maintain any email-based connections they have with other members of the team.)

Let's say you want to enable your entire team to network with someone outside your organization, such as an investor or advisor who's offered to open up their Rolodex or make introductions to your team.

This is a challenge because the "manual" way to accomplish this would be to start a group email thread among everyone you want to connect. Connect The Dots would then see the email-based relationship between everyone and designate you all as Connectors. This would accomplish the goal, but it's clunky.

We recommend a simple shortcut: Create an organization email account (@yourorganization.com) for the investor or advisor you want to network with. If you have configured your organization to auto-add new members, they will automatically be added to your Connect The Dots team via the Enterprise Connector. If not, you'll need to notify us that you want this user added to your team.

No group emails are necessary, and the investor or advisor will only need to add that account to their Connect The Dots account once. If they already have a pre-existing personal or professional account, it's no problem—the accounts will be automatically merged.

While we're still in beta, this workaround will get the job done. But we know it's not a long-term solution, and we're actively working on a "Custom Groups" feature to enable you to define custom members of your organization simply by designating them in an Admin UI.

If this is of interest to your organization, we'd love to hear your feedback.