Chamber Connect helps your members meet each other. Each month it suggests pairs, you approve the ones you like, and each pair gets a friendly introduction email. Chamber admins only.
Turn it on
Chamber Connect is off until you switch it on.
- Make sure your time zone is set. Go to Settings, then Currency and region.
- Click Chamber Connect in the sidebar.
- Click Turn on Chamber Connect.
Members can then join from their portal, on a page called Chamber Connect. They choose how they want to take part (Monthly Connection, Be a mentor or Find a mentor), their meeting and availability preferences, and agree to the program wording.
The five pages
The Chamber Connect page shows how the program is doing and links to:
- Participants: review new sign-ups, pause or remove people, and use Add participant to enroll a member by hand.
- Matches: click Propose matches, then Approve, Hold or Replace each pairing, and finish with Send approved introductions. Each pair then gets an email.
- Mentoring: pairs mentors with mentees the same way, using Find mentors. Mentoring has its own Turn on switch and needs Chamber Connect to be on.
- History: every pairing and how it turned out, with a Download CSV button.
- Settings: when pairings are proposed, whether staff approve each pairing or they are sent as soon as they are proposed, the Program owner, and the consent wording people agree to.
A typical month
- Open Matches for the month and click Propose matches.
- Read through the pairs. Hold or replace any that do not feel right.
- Approve the rest and click Send approved introductions.
- A short check-in follows, so you can see how each pairing went in History.
Good to know
- Nothing is emailed to a pair until you approve it, unless you choose the automatic option in Settings.
- A member can pause or leave from their own portal at any time.
- A partner only appears to a member after the introduction email has gone out.
Related: How members sign in to the member portal; Who can see what: chamber admins and staff