Dragon1 CONNECT

Create your Dragon1 User Page. Fill it with visionary sketches for agile enterprises, share digital content, show your expertise with your network and build up your personal online brand.

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What is Dragon1 CONNECT?

Dragon1 as a whole is 1) a digital platform to co-create and manage enterprise architecture, 2) a set of resources including an open method for enterprise architecture, and 3) a community consisting of professionals, experts and job seekers that share visions and knowledge via digital models.

Dragon1 CONNECT is the subscription that enables you to create a Dragon1 user page and makes you a member of the community and gives you access to the core applications of the platform.

Dragon1 CONNECT supports you in uploading and sharing models on your page, creating sketches and doing project management. You can also create an online profile and portfolio on your page, write blogs and extend your professional network.

Key features of Dragon1 CONNECT

Create a Dragon1 user page
Create a superb online profile on your page
Build up a business portfolio with visual content on your page
Connect with your network and manage relations
Create unlimited number of blogs on your page
Create and share concept sketches or business diagrams on your page
Manage projects and tasks
Use beautiful designs and create custom layouts for your page
Link your domain to your page
Personal Support

Build up your Personal Brand

Create your own identity, profile and channel. And claim your handle and channel URLs.

Screenshot of a user channel. You see the avatar and handle, personal styling and a published visual content item.

On the Dragon1 Platform, you build your personal brand. You create visual content and publish it on your channel. Next, you start to invite other professionals to comment on your content and have startup discussions with them. To be able to do this you get your own user channel page with a search engine-friendly URL. And you get a personal handle.

Suppose your name is John Smith and your interest is LEAN Process example:

As a Dragon1 CONNECT user your Dragon1 handle could be @JohnSmith
Your user channel url could be https://www.dragon1.com/user/johnsmith
For your topic of interest you could create a channel page and claim an url https://www.dragon1.com/channel/sustainability
You choose an avatar
You create a profile or resume page
You create a portfolio page
You create follow-lists of people and content of others.
And you start to do content marketing

With all these ingredients you build your personal brand online.

Anyone can create an account on Dragon1 and you are free to choose your username, handle and channel names. You can create and claim as many channel URLs as you like.

*Dragon1 PRO users can also create and claim a company page URL.

Find Connections and Manage Contacts

Dragon1 CONNECT is the perfect tool for any business professional or consultant.

Dragon1 CONNECT is a networking tool to find connections to recommended job candidates, industry experts and business partners. You can manage lists of contacts and their details and participate in discussions.

Screenshot of the Networking Module. Here you can find and create lists or groups of connections and networks. In the messaging module, you can have 1-on-1 interaction with your network contact.

You also have a Sketch module with basic features for strategy, process and architecture modeling. With these tools, you can create any diagram, presentation or visualization you need for your projects and portfolio.

On Dragon1 CONNECT, you build up an online presence with your profile and portfolio and you do updates to attract projects or find a new job. If you use all the features on Dragon1, you will stand out from the crowd as an expert and connect with people you trust!

Project and Client Management

If you are a business professional or consultant, you can organize your work completely on Dragon1.

Screenshot of the Project Module. You can administer and manage contacts and their details. You have a lot of features for tagging, grouping and searching your contacts.

If you do projects for clients you can also administer and manage them.

Sketch Digital Models

If you are a business professional, consultant or student, you have come to the right place!

Dragon1 CONNECT is the networking version of Dragon1, the digital platform for enterprise architecture.

You as the user will learn here to create valuable models, views, diagrams, presentations and other types of visualizations for business purposes.

Dragon1 has a repository and web applications. All of your work is stored for later reuse and you can collaborate with other users.

Take a look at the Examples and the content in the Viewer to see what you can be creating with Dragon1.

Key Benefits

Dragon1 unlocks your talents, the potential of the internet and the repository-based web applications. This combination leads to important business benefits and outcomes like: the increase in productivity, reuse, sustainability, risk control and joy. Dragon1 above all makes your work more fun!

Feeds

Sharing updates is a popular feature on many platforms. So also on the Dragon1 platform, you can keep your co-workers in the loop.

Screenshot of the Project Module.

Features

You can stand out from the crowd on Dragon1: build up an online presence with a portfolio and profile.

On watch pages you can spread knowledge about new concepts with Dragon1, like Robotization. Teach yourself or educate other people on new concepts like Smart Cities. You can use Dragon1 for instance internally in business / IT projects and externally for marketing communication.

Dragon1 has six unique sets of features for you:

Social business networking: User Profile, ePortfolio, Blogging and Discussions
Organizing your work: Project Management, Task Manager, Clients Manager and Contract Manager.
Finding a new job or project
Sketching vision and strategy.
Publishing models, diagrams and presentations in channels and watchpages
The ultimate form of content marketing: Advertizing your Skills and Portfolio

Key Features List

Per module in the Dragon1 Workplace, the key features are listed below:

Dragon1 Module	Features	Dragon1 CONNECT
Projects	Managing contacts, clients, contracts and projects
Planning	GANTT Chart and Pert Chart of your Project
Sketching	Visualizing vision, strategy and solutions
Messaging	1-on-1 private messages / email
Documents	Creating text documents
Profiler and Blogger	Create and manage your user profile, make it public (findable in search engines) or private and create and publish blogs.
ePortfolio	Create and Manage your online CV with created content on the Dragon1 platform.

eLearning

Dragon1 provides you with guidance exercises, tutorials and videos on creating visualizations, models, presentations and diagrams. Also, you can create your own step-by-step guides and exercises for your own content, making it the perfect online eLearning software tool or solution for everyone.

Every tutorial or task list makes use of the percentage-completed bar and for every tutorial or task list, session statistics are kept. This provides you as a user with feedback on how well you do your exercises.

Service and Support

As a user of Dragon1 CONNECT you have the following support options available:

Frequently Asked Questions
Help pages
Discussion Forum
Technical service desk - If you run into an issue or bug in using Dragon1 we will respond compliantly to the bronze service level.

Your Data, Privacy and Copyright

Every user on Dragon1 gets his own separate database instance. Data is back-upped daily automatically.

Please Note: We do not share the data in your account with any other organization or provide access to it. We do not try to make money with your data or analyze it to discover trends and target you with advertising.

If we are notified of copyright infringements, we take that very seriously and we will act accordingly. Using Dragon1 means you comply with all of our terms.

Why a CONNECT Edition of Dragon1?

The Dragon1 CONNECT edition fulfills the need of users to have only access to the core features of Dragon1 and its repository, whereas the Dragon1 PRO, BUSINESS and ENTERPRISE edition provides you with access to advanced and expert features.

The main difference is that CONNECT focuses on sharing models and building up a personal online brand. Dragon1 PRO, BUSINESS and ENTERPRISE focus on strategic planning, enterprise architecture visualization and monitoring transformation. These editions give you full access to the web applications Digital Workplace, Online Collaboration, Data Dashboard, Architecture Checker, Architecture Repository, Visual Designer, Enterprise Search, Viewer (with Chatbot Search), Import, Resource Center, Business Analyzer, Management Dashboard, eLearning, Watch Pages and Channels.

Read more about the differences between the editions of Dragon1 here.