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Hi Miro Community  We believe the 2021-22 school year is an opportunity for all educators to shine even brighter. Now, with all the new skills you’ve cultivated over the past year of distance learning, you can create engaging, blended learning experiences that incorporate the new tools and technology you mastered.  Today, we’re kicking off the How Do You Miro? Online Classroom Templates Challenge! This contest is all about best practices for online whiteboarding and classroom collaboration. We’d love to see your favorite activities for online or blended classes that work on the virtual whiteboard. Please share with us and with the Miro community your best examples of collaborative activities such as: Problem-solving Case studies Field surveys Learning games Investigation groups Exhibitions Of course, if there's a group activity that went over really well online or in a blended class, let us know all about it!   Note: If you’re a student or educator and you don’t use Miro EDU plan - jus

Rachel Davis is a facilitator and workshop experience designer with a soft spot for creative problem-solving. After over a decade of the 9-5 grind, she now runs her own consulting business helping others create workshops, tap into their inner facilitator, and create immersive sessions. Rachel has created over 80 workshops, a combination of both in-person and virtual. Miro is her jam for virtual workshops. Jonathan White is Founder & CEO of Hiro Studios, a facilitator and Miro Experience Designer. Jon and his team work with clients and colleagues all over the world to create amazing Miro Experiences that get audiences excited and engaged. Drawing from his 20+ years of experience as a Lean Consultant, Jon has a natural, warm, and entertaining facilitation style, and an uncanny ability to bring models, tools, and templates to life in Miro. Jon and Rachel are an awesome duo!Through working together, they’ve not found a methodology or approach that can stump Jon (just try us!), so consu

UPDATE: Submissions open until January 20! Hi Miro Community!  As we are coming close to end of 2022, it’s time to start planning for the next year. How do you use Miro for a fun visual calendar? We announce a beginner-friendly Miro board challenge! 🤠 This is your chance to level up your Miro skills, WOW your team and win an iPad (YEP!). We have compiled all learning & inspiration resources you might need if you don’t feel confident in your skills yet 😉 Who can participate?Absolutely anyone!  Submission requirements:Has to be built in Miro (adding images and assets is fine, but the structure has to be built in Miro) Has to have some examples of how to use it (not be completely empty) Has to have a calendar aspect to it (week-quarter-year, etc) Has to be easy to copy and use  Has to be fun to use!! How to enter the challenge:Create your template in Miro Register an account on Miroverse Submit your template Post it in this thread!  👉👉 LEARNING RESOURCES HERE 👈  👈  Submissions o

July’s Miroverse Challenge: Monster Template! (DATE EXTENDED!) It’s been an exciting few months at Miro with the release of our monster-sized national ad campaign! We created this ad to show the power of Miro and how easy it is to collaborate, innovate, and solve problems of any size, together in Miro. 🙌 If you haven’t had a chance to see the ad on the big screen (cough living room), across social media, or a billboard towering the city, you can check out the full ad here: Want to see how we used Miro to create the ad? Check out this video This summer, we are introducing a new type of creative #Miroverse template challenge. We won’t be focusing on just one Miro use case or template type — instead, we want to see your creativity run wild and create ANY type of template / board that features our beloved (yet a little bit scary) character. Yes, we mean it! Any type of template from icebreakers to project planning goes as long as the Monster is incorporated.  Ready, set, create! We look f

Hi Miro Heroes,  Once again, the Miro Community has pulled through. Your sharing, your helpfulness, and your passion for collaboration have inspired us to launch the next installment in our series How Do You Miro. It was this thread on the community that gave us our new topic.Workshop facilitators quite often face the situation when the meeting participants are brand new to Miro, and it is extremely important to teach them the basics of Miro to quickly onboard them into a workshop to start collaborating right away. So what are the best practices to get everyone up to the same speed?   We are happy to announce our second official challenge How Do You Miro? Miro 101! Share your own sandboxes/play areas/cheat sheets for Miro newbies.    Challenge detailsThe challenge starts today, September 8th, and will last until September 27th.We will announce the winners the following week to give our judges enough time to find our Judges Choice. Submissions will be judged for their creativity and ea

Hi Miro Community 😍 DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 12 Have you heard about Pip Decks? Pip Decks publishes card decks that contain everything you’d ever need to confidently lead your team 🙌Their first deck Workshop Tactics is a curated list of the best agile and design-thinking workshop techniques to help consultants, managers, professors, designers, engineers, managers, and CEOs…. Because no one wants to run a bad meeting 🤓 They also have various Miro templates to accompany their decks. So we decided to collaborate and invite our amazing communities to co-create with us! 🎉🎊 🧐 What are the core techniques that are fundamental to facilitating a successful workshop? ✍️ We invite you to create a template that includes the essentials to run a workshop: Make it fun and tidy, something that every facilitator wants to have easy access to Don’t forget to include your favourite Workshop Tactics  💡 For inspiration, see top Workshop Tactics cards Charles (founder of Pip Decks) can’t live w

Hi Miro Heroes, And hello, spring!  We’re kicking off the next Miro templates contest: How Do You Miro? Planning Templates Challenge! ✨ In the words of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: “A goal without a plan is just a wish.” Planning can be hard work but without this stage, managing projects becomes even harder. It provides clarity, context, and helps keep teams aligned. So with this How Do You Miro challenge, we want to know how you go beyond first sketches to create plans and manage projects - from start to finish. 🧙‍♀️ Show the Miro Community how you make wishes come true!   Challenge detailsTiming Submission period: March, 3 - March, 31 Voting & Judging: April, 1 - April, 7 Winners announcement: April, 8  Awards  Judges’ Choice: we have a panel of three expert judges to choose the best template. Submissions will be judged for their ease of use, layout, and fun factor.  People’s Choice: this award will be based on top likes under the submission here in the online community. Make s

🎄✨ Innovation Wonderland is here, it’s true.Each day a new surprise, a gift, for you.Today’s custom stickers are just the start,a creative token straight from the heart! ✨🎄 Innovation Wonderland Day 1 - let the fun begin! 🎉✨From now until Dec 13, Miro Heroes and Miro Forum users will be able to participate in a new activity each day — and everyone can claim a gift! 🎁✨We’re revealing the first gift today at the kickoff party, so don’t miss it! Join us: 🕔 5 PM CET / 8 AM PSTCan’t make it? No worries — timezones can be tricky! Check back on this post later for details on how to receive today’s gift.If you’re able to join, we’d love to see you there! Moments together are rare, so let’s have some fun, share a virtual toast to all we’ve accomplished and unwrap the first gift together.

Max Harper is the visual strategist at Refractive, a visual thinking tool consultancy that builds Miro apps and integrations full-time for Miro Marketplace and enterprise clients. About Max’s Distributed ‘22 Session:  From data-syncing integrations to collaborative, creative, and analytical tools; come explore the vast potential of Miro apps with Refractive, a visual thinking tool consultancy that builds Miro apps and integrations full-time for Miro Marketplace and enterprise clients. (Session description will be edited t to reflect highlights post session)Ask Max About...  Developing Miro apps with Refractive  How organizations are using Miro to change the world Spending 1,000 days using Miro  His favorite Miro tips and tricks 🔗 Missed Max at Distributed ‘22? Watch his session recording here.💡 Make sure to check out more from Max and his work at Refractive here.  Question, comment, and like below👇🏿