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Zahra Talan
posted in Inspiration and connection

How to signal that everything is ok. Is there like a survey?

I am working with groups of 30 . Is there a way to easy ask for feedback in a group (like yes no?) . Like if people can say “ok” with a button so we know that everybody is in place and everything is working? Like voting but just very quick and not depending on space. Thank you!

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3 years ago
Kiron Bondale
Kiron BondaleVolunteer Community Moderator
posted in Inspiration and connection

7 ways to provide someone with a copy of a board you own

A colleague of yours might want their own copy of a board you own or a client of yours might want to take a copy of a board from your Miro environment to their own Miro team.Copying a board within the same teamThe simplest approach is for your colleague to duplicate the existing board using the Duplicate command which is available from the “…” menu for the board in the Miro dashboard or in the board settings. You can specify the name of the new board, whether it will get created within the same Miro project as the original board or not, and whether to copy the current share settings. Your colleague will need to have full edit access to the original board to do this.   Another option is for your colleague to create a brand-new board, select all the content from your original board (Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C) and then paste it into your new board (Ctrl-V). Again, this requires that your colleague has full edit access to the original board to do this. Finally, you can create a shared custom templat

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3 years ago
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dmcallisterNew Here
posted in Inspiration and connection

Tweak the existing Kanban template

I love the Kanban template, using it for the first time this week, but it is *very* specific to Kanban. I was trying to shoehorn a Gantt chart into it, but it just doesn’t allow spanning across columns. On the flipside, the Gantt template is basically just some grouped rectangles (I’m guessing it was an earlier template).It seems like it would be a short jump from the more robust fixed header / grid layout features of Kanban to make them work for a much improved Gantt template. Just thought I would throw that out there… cheers

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Kiron Bondale
3 years ago
Brittni
BrittniRetired Mironeer
published in Inspiration and connection

Describe your perfect getawayTGIF

Summer's here and while a lot of travel for most has been cancelled we can still dream.I've always dreamt of taking a month (or more) long vacation to Italy. Traveling to different cities with my husband and tasting all the great foods and wine.We wouldn't have a very strict schedule and take things very easily. Absolutely no laptops and I wouldn't even think about work.  Describe your perfect getaway!

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Jessica Chagnon
3 years ago
Vlad Ponomarenko
Mironeer
Vlad PonomarenkoMironeer
posted in Inspiration and connection

Workshop Agenda

Hi, Miro Community! Questions I have are about your process of preparing and using your workshop agenda. Could you share your experience on these topics:— When do you design your agenda: before or after you design everything on the board?— Where do you usually keep it?— Does every step in your agenda represents an area or objects on a board?— How do you align participants around it: by demonstrating a board or going through a separate agenda doc?Thanks a lot!

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Kiron Bondale
3 years ago
Vlad Ponomarenko
Mironeer
Vlad PonomarenkoMironeer
posted in Inspiration and connection

Micro-interactions while collaborating remote

Hi guys! Since most of our team’s workshops and visual meetings became fully remote I started feeling that engagement of participants on those meetings became much lower. Partly because I have less control of their actions and attention, but I think there’s something about micro-interactions between people that usually occur during in-person meetings.Like greeting a newcomer when they enter the room. Or finding a familiar face in the room and sitting right next to them to feel more confident. Raising a thumb up just to appreciate someone’s work. Just little things that don’t require a lot of effort but enable those tiny little moments of communicating your emotions, thoughts, reactions, stuff like that.Does it ring the bell for you? Have you experienced something similar? Is there anything you noticed that impacts participants’ engagement heavily in remote meetings you conduct?

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Simon.Harris
3 years ago
Martina Crnkovic
Martina CrnkovicActive Contributor
posted in Inspiration and connection

How do you design your Miro board for training and workshops?

Dear Miro community,as we have seen in the past few months, Miro is not only the perfect tool for collaboration and ideation, but also a platform for delivering educational events, like training and workshops.Today we'd like to open the topic of visual structure of your Miro boards. Since the space to use in Miro is unlimited, it may not come as a surprise that many of us feel unsure of how to organize our own boards to keep the structure clear and have a natural flow.There are many things to consider:the amount of the content the structure of the delivery the public the intuitiveness of the layoutThere are also many components in Miro that allow us to design a board:templates frames shapes drag-and-dropsCombining it all into an intuitive board with a good flow is no easy task, that's why now is the time to learn from each other!We've prepared some examples that may come in handy when considering the layout of your next training or workshop:The linear layout comes as a natural selectio

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2 years ago
Kate Ivanova
Mironeer
Kate IvanovaMironeer
posted in Inspiration and connection

What tools do you use for Workshops & Meetings besides Miro?

Hey folks!We are doing discovery to understand how can we improve Workshops & Meetings experience, and need your help! Reflecting on the workshops and/or meetings you have run, or participated in, using Miro:What are the situations, or problems, that you can’t solve exclusively using Miro native tools? (E.g. I can’t run a poll in Miro.) What other tools, or instruments, do you use to address the situations, or problems, you listed above? (E.g. A live polling tool like Mentimeter, etc.)

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1 year ago
Marina
Mironeer
MarinaMironeer
published in Inspiration and connection

Zoom call with a famous person?TGIF

Happy Friday Just recently @Natalie Larino has shared that we had a live Q&A session with Stephen Curry (read here). It was exciting and inspiring! I wonder, do you wish to have a virtual meeting with a celebrity you admire? Who would you choose and what is one question you would ask them?  

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Kiron Bondale
3 years ago
Robert Johnson
Robert JohnsonVolunteer Community Moderator
posted in Inspiration and connection

You can now password protect publicly shared boards :)

Or at least my account can...I was just enabling Guest Editor for a board in my Consultant Plan and there it is: Adding a password to boards for view, comment, and edit - password has to be at least 8 characters. 

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Robert Johnson
3 years ago
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Dimitri AntonopoulosBeginner
posted in Inspiration and connection

Insights gathering and synthesis templates

Hey team I’m looking for templates that can help gather research, insights (qual) and help synthesise during qual research across UX and also Comms and Social Impact scenarios.Does anyone have any links or suggestions?

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3 years ago
Natalie Larino
Mironeer
Natalie LarinoEvent Coordinator
published in Inspiration and connection

Recap: Stephen Curry Live Q&A

Earlier today, at our annual "virtual" offsite we had a live zoom Q+A with Stephen Curry, whose one of Miro’s investors. It was awesome hearing him share his experience as a leader ~ who knew basketball & tech had so much in common? One of my favorite takeaways was him sharing that a great team is one that holds you accountable, to know your strengths... & as much as you can, spend time working on your weaknesses.No one likes to watch themselves fail, but it prepares you for that next moment. Read a cool blog post with 3 points of wisdom we scored from Stephen Curry at our 2020 virtual offsite.

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Max Harper
3 years ago
Joshua William Davies
Joshua William DaviesMiro Hero
posted in Inspiration and connection

Physical Places in Digital Spaces

I had a great time last week co-facilitating Physical Places in Digital Spaces for the virtual NORAM V-MUG with @Isman Tanuri, and I wanted to share a few resources with the hope others find it useful/thought provoking.  I’ve got a detailed write up of of the idea here (including a demo board and the session recording): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/miro-taxonomy-joshua-%25EC%25A1%25B0%25EC%258A%2588%25EC%2595%2584-davies/?trackingId=J0l%2FWkjXSDmmJxiwB6TnZA%3D%3D Bacially, my section was looking at how we shape spaces/interactions using Miro to adjust what kind of conversations are possible in a workshop, and to help to that more systematically I put together a Miro Taxonomy as below that looks at how we move, how we share, how we gather, and how we interact. It’s by no means perfect, but hopefully is a useful fire starter for ideas on the topic. Definitely click through to the board itself so all the fun embeds work :) Happy to hear feedback/questions below!  Stay healthy & stay

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Marina
Mironeer
3 years ago
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Ilaria DoriaNew Here
posted in Inspiration and connection

Sketchnoting

Hi All,I am using Miro a lot for my work: i love it, and love sketchnoting.Also using the Miro App on Ipad with the apple pencil, I find it a bit limited. For example if i doodle something and I need to select it and move, it is not very handy.Anyone is including sketchnote on Miro? what would you recommend to use? Do you have any video or material to see specifically?Even better if I don’t need an additional tool!Thank youIlaria

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2 years ago
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ProfDYNew Here
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Groupwork: separate boards or one board with multiple frames?

I’m planning to use Miro while teaching an online math course this Fall. For the synchronous portion, we will break into groups (using Zoom breakout rooms) and each group will work collaboratively on a worksheet, which I will integrate with Miro. Do you think it’s better to have a single board for that day’s lesson, containing a frame for each group? Or create multiple (identical) boards and give one board to each group? Of course a single board is more streamlined and will help me easily see each group’s progress. But my concerns are (a) the groups peeking at each other’s work rather than devising their own original solutions, and (b) one group accidentally messing up another group’s work.

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mlanders
3 years ago
Kyle Chipman
Kyle ChipmanMiro Hero
posted in Inspiration and connection

Love the New Collaborator Cursor Styling

Just giving a shout out to the new cursor styling. It looks great!Group filtering is also remarkable. It will take out a ton of ctrl + clicks to batch-adjust shapes and connections.

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Marina
Mironeer
3 years ago
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BetsyNew Here
posted in Inspiration and connection

Value Stream mapping - best templates?

Hi- I am new to Miro, yet so far, it is great!  Do you have suggestions for the best template for value stream mapping?  Initially we thought to use flow chart and build out shapes, yet curious if there is a better template similar to shapes/templates that Visio value stream templates have?  Thanks in advance for any ideas!

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Kiron Bondale
2 years ago
Don McIntyre
Don McIntyreContributor
posted in Inspiration and connection

Music theory board...

I do a little guitar and bass teaching in my spare time and have thought of using Miro for communicating music theory to students - would be a great teaching environment overall, particularly in terms of students asking questions / working together on pitch/harmony etc Can’t see any suitable templates so far - am I missing something?

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2 years ago
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Alex ChristensonNew Here
posted in Inspiration and connection

Best Miro approach for Screenwriting?

Hello friends, I was turned on to Miro by hearing on a Podcast that a tv writers room used it to track their story outline. After starting my own account, I see vast potential, but am a little lost on what functions would be best suited, so looking for some suggestions. Basically what would be nice, would be to have a ‘index card’ system… or maybe more of a linear timeline thing, where you can add scenes, rearrange them, and if you pull one out - they all slide down to cover the hole. Any ides or links to tutorials would be helpful! Alex

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Lindsey Meredith
Mironeer
3 years ago
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Angela KochNew Here
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Replacing PowerPoint with a Miro board

I am running a webinar in a few days and the plan is to use Miro to share content rather than PowerPoint. Its a rather large group so there won't be any participant inputs on the board (I know this is the whole point of Miro). Any thoughts on what the risks of this approach might be?? 

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Robert Johnson
3 years ago
Marina
Mironeer
MarinaMironeer
published in Inspiration and connection

Share your fav Spotify playlist 🎶TGIF

Howdy  This week Spotify has been officially launched in Russia! Yay  I am a music fan. Really! I listen to music anytime, anywhere  Here is my top list of Spotify playlists for work: Lo-Fi Beats Deep Focus Your Coffee Break Let’s see what Miro Pioneers listen to relax, focus, and be productive. Or maybe you prefer silence to concentrate? 🎶 Share your opinion in the comments, and attach links to your favourite playlists.  

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Robert Johnson
2 years ago
Steve Appling
Steve ApplingBeginner
posted in Inspiration and connection

How to do - Fist of Five Voting

A common technique used in many agile meetings is Fist of Five voting, where everyone raises their hand showing 0-5 fingers indicating a range of agreement.  How do you do this well using Miro?  One of the most important parts of this technique is to identify who has low confidence so that you may start a discussion.  I can put 6 cards in a region and use the voting feature, but the Miro voting feature seems completely anonymous, so I would have to get the low voters to speak up to identify themselves.  Does anyone have another technique to vote and more easily start the right conversations?

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3 years ago
Isman Tanuri
Isman TanuriMiro Hero
posted in Inspiration and connection

COVID-19-ready In-person Workshops using Miro

Cooler than cool! In reality, sticky notes and flip charts can possibly be transmission tools! As facilitators and trainers, what can you do to be prepared for COVID-19 prevention once you head back to classrooms? Use a Miro board in the classroom and keep the conversations inclusive and opinions diverse. The image above explains itself. This is an Agile Marketing training workshop conducted by 2 of my close partners based in Holland. While this may be de rigueur way of working for some of you, I personally never thought of this even though I had trained my partners on using Miro for online facilitation! What's missing is perhaps (and for bigger classes) individual screens for each group that can become "group flip charts". It will be interesting to see how this can be configured in a classroom to accommodate Miro screens. Read my original post on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ismantanuri_miro-onlinefacilitation-onlinetraining-activity-6688282629231521792-erAE PS. photo

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Simon.Harris
3 years ago
Dariha Erketaeva
Dariha ErketaevaBeginner
posted in Inspiration and connection

Could Miro community be built on Miro itself?

Hi @Marina and fellows, I’m wondering if the Miro community could be built on Miro itself? Curious to hear your and others’ thoughts on this. 

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Martina Crnkovic
3 years ago
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NatalieBNew Here
posted in Inspiration and connection

Where can I see what is planned on the roadmap for Miro?

Hello, I’m wondering what features are planned in the short and medium term for Miro? If we get the product, what new things will be released soon that we can take advantage of, on top of all of the current functionality? Also are there any other integration points with Azure DevOps or Sharepoint planned at all? Many thanks Natalie

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Simon.Harris
3 years ago
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