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Getting Started

Dashboard

Triggers

Executives

Companies

Relationships

Preferences

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Getting Started with Dow Jones g2

This page will quickly get you started using Dow Jones g2^TM by showing you how to:

• Create your affiliations - your direct connections to people and companies. g2 uses your affiliations to discover your relationships to the executives and companies in the g2 database. You can search for these relationships in the Relationships window.
• Set up your watchlists - lists of executives, companies, triggers, industries, and locations that you want to track. g2 continually scans the news and displays trigger-events and news articles that match your watchlist selections.

Create Your Affiliations

You can create affiliations with organizations or people. Adding your affiliations helps g2 to map your relationships to companies and executives in the g2 database.

Organization Affiliations

Your organization affiliations should include all the companies you have worked for, as well as organizations where you have served as a consultant or board member.

Start by adding the company where you currently work to your affiliations. For example, to add Cisco as an affiliate:

1. Click the Preferences tab at the top of the g2 window.
2. Click My Affiliations.
3. In the Affiliations Manager, type the name of the organization in the input box labeled ADD AN ORGANIZATION.
4. Click SEARCH. The results of the search are displayed in the Affiliations Manager.
5. Select the box next to Cisco Systems, Inc. You can add optional information about your affiliation with the company in the drop-down lists to the right of the organization name.
6. Click UPDATE AFFILIATIONS to save your affiliation.

The company name is now displayed in the Affiliations Manager.

Executive Affiliations

You can create affiliations with people in a similar way. To add an executive affiliation:

1. Click Affiliated Executives in the Affiliations Manager.
2. Type the name of the person in the input boxes labeled ADD AN EXECUTIVE.
3. Click Search.
4. In the search results, select the box next to the person's name and click UPDATE AFFILIATIONS.

Set Up Your Watchlists

You can set up your watchlists by clicking My Watchlists in Preferences. This opens the Watchlist Menu.

To add a new watchlist:

1. Select the type of watchlist you want to create - for example, click Company Watchlist.
2. Type the name of the company that you want to add.
3. Click SEARCH. The results are displayed in the My Company Watchlist window.
4. Select the box next to the company you want to add.
5. Select the type of relationship you have to the company in the TYPE drop-down list.
6. Click UPDATE WATCHLIST.

To view your company watchlist, click the COMPANY tab to open the COMPANY Dashboard.

Click the name of a company in the Company Dashboard to see more details. The Company Dashboard also provides links to the following information:

• To view all company-related triggers, click the number in the TRIGGERS column. The number tells you how many trigger events occurred in the past week.
• To view all company-related news articles, click the number in the IN NEWS column. The number tells you how many news articles appeared in the past week.