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The conversation about how much we all dread meetings isn’t a new one. There are too many of them. Most of them are colossal wastes of time. But, when that meeting is happening virtually and people are only dressed appropriately from the waist up? 👨‍💻 Well, it becomes even more challenging to keep participants engaged in the conversation.Don’t worry – it’s tough, but it’s still possible. We’ve pulled together a comprehensive guide of meeting best practices to do before, after, and during your remote meeting to make sure people not only stay awake but also actively contribute to the discussion.  Read the blog post 

Can everybody see my screen? Oh, you’re on mute. Sorry, you’re frozen and I can’t hear you. Sounds familiar, right?You and your team used to be able to meet face-to-face around your conference room table (shared snacks in tow) to brainstorm ideas and solve problems. But now that you’ve had to move to online meetings, you’re dealing with technical glitches, frustration, and potentially even disengagement.What can remote teams do to host successful virtual meetings? We’ve created a guide to productive, collaborative conversations – Virtual Meetings 101.  Find more Miro’s guides for virtual collaboration at miro.com/guides.  

What makes the perfect meeting? 🤔Four expert facilitators share how you can turn any kind of meeting into collaborative & productive meetings that participants will actually enjoy.  Click here to read    Kudos to our own @Kiron Bondale and @Michael Luchen for being featured in this blog post! 

At the annual ‘Distributed’ conference, Miro’s CEO Andrey Khusid introduced Miro Experts: a network of hand-selected consultants and agencies that can help with agile methodologies, design thinking, digital transformation and more.  Get in touch Miro Experts today to add the best creative and strategic minds to your next project.

Hello there   Do you remember this amazing thread where we discussed different board layouts for trainings and workshops? Well, it inspired us to create a blog post, 7 ways to organize your Miro board for productive workshops, featuring our own @Isman Tanuri and @Martina Crnkovic In this post, we wanted to show how our community and Miroverse contributors organize their boards to make workshops productive and easy to follow. We hope you’ll walk away with new ideas for your next workshop   How do you organize your board for engaging workshops in Miro? We want to know. Share your ideas in the original thread. 

Miro just reached the incredible milestone of 10 million people who rely on our platform to bring their ideas to life.This number represents nearly 300% growth since March 1, 2020, as millions of teams across the world have adopted Miro to stay connected and build engaged, collaborative cultures while working remotely.We know that connection is more important now than ever. Thank you for choosing Miro as your collaboration partner. We couldn't have done it without you!   Learn more about our growth and future plans: 10 million cursors, working together in Miro. 

Hey everyone!  Matt here from the customer education team. We have been getting a lot of questions about the best way to help new users become familiar with Miro (especially those who are less familiar with canvas tools) when running a collaborative session. In our Miro Academy course on Facilitating Virtual Workshops, we have created the video below specifically for this audience that you can send in advance of your workshop or interactive meeting. You can take the full course by logging in with any Miro account (it’s free).  I hope you enjoy and get a lot of value out of this resource! Kind regards, Matt and CEd Team  

On October 13-15, we hosted Distributed 2020 — our second annual virtual conference. This year, we brought together industry leaders and experts to help answer the burning questions on the minds of thousands of teams working remotely around the world. We had 24 information-packed presentations, interactive workshops, and panel discussions to tackle these burning questions. We were incredibly honored and excited to welcome over 30,000 registrants and hosted between 1,300 and 3,000 live viewers for each session. We’ve gathered the video recordings, visual notes, and Miro boards for each session in the blog post: Recap of Distributed: The virtual event to help teams adapt, evolve, and thrive - MiroBlog | A blog by Miro  Recordings are also available in our YouTube playlist. Remote after 2020: Remote forever, distributed, or something else? (visual notes by Bea Broskova, www.humancraft.cz)  Have you attended the event? Please share your feedback in the comments below! 

Hey all! I know that a lot of you are interested in embedding miro in different tools and web-sites.Right now we are working on making this experience better and smoother - and I want to invite you to first wave of user-interviews for this enhanced experience.Please leave a comment or reach out in DM if you want to participate! Yours, Boris from Platform Team

🎉Today we’re excited to finally share with you our special program to support early-stage startups! If you’re a startup under the following criteria - apply today to get $1000 in credits to work effectively together, from brainstorming with digital sticky notes to planning and visualizing ideas to bring your business to life. 🆙🆙🆙And check us out on Product Hunt today -your comments and upvotes there mean a lot!

Hey everyone! I’m Matt from Miro’s customer education team. We’ve started up a weekly Getting Started with Miro webinar at 8am PDT every Thursday. We cover all of the following with a very active Q&A at the end! Popular use cases Basic content creation Templates and custom templates Collaboration basics Integration overview Navigation Where you can learn more! 

Hi there! My name is Kate, I am a Product Manager for Consultant Solution at Miro. I want to share some use-cases and ideas about the ways of collaboration with clients in Miro: 1. Workshops It is easy to set up the client workshop in Miro. You can use Day Passes for one-time collaborators (so you don’t need to buy a full license) and tools to facilitate a workshop (timer, voting, video chat, screen sharing). Here is a helpful How-to video about making a workshop in Miro, worth watching if you’ve already made a lot of workshops or in the process of preparation for the first one.  2. Brainstorming sessions Miro is easy to use for an ideation process, usually, I use stickies and a mind map. You can have some boards for your ideas only, some boards for generating ideas with your team and a special board for discussing ideas with your client. 3. Content hub, getting feedback Miro is great as a single hub for all relevant documents, diagrams, pictures and so on. You can have the whole cli

Hey all! Miro is a great tool for brainstorming, so one of our in-house brainstorming gurus put together a guide to help folks who are new to the topic. It has 5 parts, and we’d love to know what you think.Introduction to brainstorming, advantages and challenges 20 brainstorming techniques to try remotely How to brainstorm online - the starter kit Advanced tips for better brainstorming Examples of brainstorming to inspire creativityOur goal was to help folks who are new to brainstorming by giving a resource with some actionable tips to get them started. My question for you is, is this useful? Do you feel anything is missing that you would have been interested to read? We welcome any feedback you have.

Hey, Miro Community, It’s Anna, Marketing Manager here at Miro. I know that these days lots of us need to run remote meetings and online workshops, and it can be really challenging. From introducing new technology to keeping everyone on-track, there is a lot to consider. I want to invite you to our upcoming Remote Meetings and Workshops in Miro webinar where we’ll walk you through how to facilitate engaging online workshops and meetings. In just 45 minutes, you’ll learn how to: set up Miro boards for collaborative workshops use facilitation tools to manage and engage attendees onboard participants in advance of your event manage access rights and permissions and choose the right plan for your business or event. ️ Join us on Tuesday, May 12, 8 AM PDT, 11 AM EDT.   If you have a topic or question you want us to cover during the webinar, please, leave a comment below.    

Explore Miroverse, the new Community Templates Gallery, to discover templates made by real Miro users – and share your own! To kick things off, we've collected boards from 50 Miro power users into a single, searchable place so you can browse, copy, and start customizing with a few simple clicks.  Go to Miroverse to start exploring.  Want to share your own? Join the likes of Julia Cowin from Mailchimp and the team at AJ&Smart (and many more!) by submitting your board here! 

As many of us are organizing and participating in more remote meetings and workshops than ever before, Miro team put together a quick how-to article explaining how you can use our product and listing links to useful blog posts, videos, and frameworks.  Please, let us know what you think! Maybe you have additional questions you want us to cover or have ideas how we can improve the content of the article and its format. 

This year the Atlassian Summit is remote, so we prepared an online content hub you can visit to find out how you can use our online collaborative whiteboard platform with Jira, Confluence, and Trello to help your team execute faster One more thing Miro team will be holding live interactive demos during the summit on April 1 & 2 at 11 am PDT.  Go to the content hub landing page if you want to add a reminder about the demo on either of the days to your calendar. If you are unable to attend – don’t worry, will post recordings of both demos here late next week 

 We are excited to announce our $50 million Series B funding, led by ICONIQ and with participation with our existing investor Accel! Read more: TechCrunch article - Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges MiroBlog - Our next chapter: Bringing teams together, wherever they’re located ICONIQ's blog about why they invested in Miro - Miro: Where Teams Get Work Done  

As more people are getting used to remote work, a lot of questions are coming up: How to bring teams together when there’s no physical office? How to make sure people feel productive and supported? How to run virtual whiteboard-based workshops, like brainstorms and design sprints?So we’ve pored through our resources and collected the best tips to help you get started with Miro and adjust to remote work. We use these tools and tips every day to keep our teams as aligned and productive as possible – and we hope they’re valuable for you as well.We have a ton of blog posts, videos, and more about distributed and remote teamwork, but we wanted to highlight a few of our favorites: ReadUltimate Remote Work Guide: 10+ chapters on remote work for employees and managers 6 templates to help you transition to (effective!) remote meetings Design Sprints for remote teams 10 things we (AJ&Smart) wish we’d known sooner about remote facilitation Remote brainstorming: how to, templates, and moreWatc

Miro Heroes - Miro needs your support!  Your first-hand experience is always a best practice (and is usually more exciting than we could imagine while building a feature). Do you mind sharing it with the world? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Help us get more reviews in the external marketplaces so others can learn from you and see how Miro can help them solve the collaboration challenges from the real examples. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What to do: 🏃‍♂️Follow the link of the integration you use below. 📝Choose “Write a review” or similar option. 🥇Write a few words about your experience and hit “Publish”. Where to go: Atlassian marketplace for Jira Cloud add-on Atlassian marketplace for Jira Cards Atlassian marketplace for Confluence plugin Microsoft marketplace for Microsoft Teams integration Chrome Store for Google Drive integration Your support means a world to us

Hello  WFH? New to remote meetings with your team? Need to organize a remote workshop? No worries! Here’s a list of Miro best remote work resources with general tips and best practices to help you. 7 ways to make remote collaboration more effective with an online whiteboard What I’ve learned from facilitating over 100 remote collaborative workshops How to measure the impact of remote workshops 10 things about remote facilitation we (AJ&Smart) wish we’d known sooner Running Online Workshops in Miro VMUG03: How to add gamification to your facilitation with Miro @Kyle.C  How to run a remote workshop   The ultimate guide to remote team meetings Remote team meeting etiquette: how to stay polite in a distributed team Top Google Calendar features to schedule remote meetings Remote team building activities: the ultimate guide by Miro Brainstorming techniques, ideas & rules for group brainstorming How to get more out of remote meetings with Miro How product teams can benefit from connec

Hi all! Our Miro team has started a public “Whiteboard Wiki” board for us to collectively start consolidating resources, tips, tools and more on remote work.      Additionally, were starting to run Remote Work AMAs, which are casual group Zoom calls with a panel of experts  on remote collaboration. Anyone can join and ask any questions about transitioning to remote/WFH. Check out our upcoming AMAs here: https://events.miro.com/noram/   You can view the recording and the notes from our first AMA that we held yesterday here: https://events.miro.com/events/details/miro-noram-presents-remote-work-ama-chat-with-the-experts/#/

Hey, Miro community! We're live on Product Hunt today with the ultimate guide on remote work. Check it out and let us know what you think: what are your favorite tips? Anything we're missing? Comment with what else you'd like to see and we'll keep expanding it! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/the-ultimate-guide-to-remote-work-2 -- Sarah