Rock U - People - Peer Networks

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Peer networks is a special Rock feature that helps you measure the connection between two different people that are in your database. And you may be wondering how could Rock possibly get that information. Did they have to meet every single person that's in your database and see these two people are connected? But that's not the case. We're actually doing some educated guessing, such as if two people are in a group together, that group is tightly knit, and they're together for a long time, chances are that they know each other better. Same with if someone follows someone else that's in your database, chances are they know each other. And we use this educated guessing to give you a peer network score that helps you understand who is connected to who. So let's get into how to get this set up and use it in your organization. We're gonna get peer networks enabled for a group type to start. So we'll go to admin tools, then to settings, and just look up group types and pick the group type that you want to enable peer networks for. And you'll see the second pane here is called peer network. And to start tracking, just click enable peer network. And there are multiple different levels of relationship strength. And depending on which one you pick, the scoring will be different for the people in that group. So, for example, if it's a group that meets regularly, but they're really not connecting too much, you probably pick casual. In fact, you can pick none if you want to enable peer networks, but you don't want people to start with a peer network score. But if it's a group that is pretty close, an accountability group, for example, you'd probably wanna pick deep. Then after that, you can select whether you want relationship growth to go up over time. That means the longer people are in this group, the higher their peer network score will be together. Then in the advanced settings, if you wanna get really specific, say there's a group where the dynamic between people is different, such as imagine a leader never meets with a nonleader or even nonleaders never meet with each other. Say it's just one leader to one nonleader in this group, then we would say 0% here. And you can ratchet that from 0% at the bottom all the way up to 100%, and that means nonleaders aren't gonna have any peer network score between each other. But most of the time, it's gonna be at a 100% across the board, so we'll leave it that, and we're gonna save. Now peer networks is enabled for that group type, so we're gonna look at a group with that group type. We'll go to people, group viewer, and I'm gonna select a group here, marble group. And you can see right off the bat, we have the same settings here as on the group type. We set up deep relationships, and the score is going up over time. So we know peer networks is being tracked for this group, which is a super, super helpful thing. But, let's imagine the Marble group is a little bit different. They actually don't have deep relationships, So we can actually go in and override this by editing, clicking general, and then selecting override relationship strength. Then you can see we have the same settings here again as we saw before, but we're gonna say this group is casual and the relationship doesn't change over time. That's it. Click save. Then here, you can see this label has updated, and there's an asterisk meaning that the, peer network settings have been overridden, and it says the level that this group is at of relationship, which is casual relationships. Okay. Great. We have peer network set up. I'm gonna show you what it looks once people have been in a group for a while and they start, accruing these points. Okay. Let's go to a person profile. We're gonna go to Ted Decker's profile. Okay. Once you're on the profile, you can scroll down, and you'll see this pane at the bottom. And this shows the connection score between this individual and other people in the database. And there's some important information here. First of all, the score goes from zero to a 100 and follows are worth five points. So there are some people that Ted has followed or they followed him back, and that means he's likely closer to that person. Then we can actually see here there's some people where his relationship score is on the rise with them or it's even dropping. And a score will drop if someone's left a group where relationship points have been accruing over time, and we're guessing that means the person is growing a little bit further apart from them. So the score reflects that here. You can also see this gray dash, and that's when a score has been staying the same for a while. And what's good news is that Ted's wife here actually shows up as the top connection, and his score is going up, which makes total sense. And we can click into someone's profile if we'd . But if you wanna see a prettier view of these peer network scores, you can click on the peer graph. Here is the peer map, and you can see all the different groups that Ted is a part of and even the people that he's following. And this gives a complete breakdown of where Ted is meeting people and spending time with people in the church. And this is super helpful for if you wanna see how two people are connected and through what means they're connected, you should definitely look at the peer map. And there's different colors for following and groups, and you can see Ted is just connected all over the church. And if you're wanting to scroll in and out here, you'll just click command or control, and then just scroll on your mouse, and you can go in or out to view these nodes. Okay. I hope that clears it up for what peer networks is, and you can see it's super easy to set up, and it's super easy to see who is connected to who in your organization now. Thanks for watching.