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L
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Hello, Everyone

It’s Liz from Slush China, just started using Miro recently, It’s a great place and community to work and share ideas. Love to e-meet you at Miro (＾Ｕ＾)ノ~ＹＯ

Giorgi Gogichaishvili
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Hi guys! I am so glad to join Miro community. My name is Giorgi, I am CPO at Thermorum LTD. I help my company deliver great products to make people’s homes more comfortable.

Kiron Bondale
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Hi I’m Kiron - 

 

I’m a project management & agile instructor and have spent most of my past week and a half shifting the course exercises we normally deliver in person to Miro. I’m very impressed with the flexibility and richness of widgets, tools and apps - it will make transitioning to virtual delivery of our courses much easier than I was expecting!

 

Kiron

Kiron D. Bondale, PMP, PMI-ACP, PSM II, ICP-ACC, DASSM, DAC, DAVSC, PMI-RMP
Sri Wahyuni Ratnasari
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Hello everyone. My name is Sri Wahyuni Ratnasari from Indonesia. I am currently teaching undergraduate students in Management at Unissula (a private university) in Semarang. I am very grateful to be introduced to Miro by Richard Lowenthal a co-founder of GoBrunch  https://gobrunch.com. Since then I have been exploring and using MIRO enthusiastically with my students. I find Miro provides great opportunities to facilitate students’ engagement, critical thinking, problem solving and creativity among others. I am so happy to have the opportunity to join this awesome community to learn and share the knowledge and experience. 

Marina
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Hey @Pau Todó, great question! I want to share a part of the blog post on our rebranding:

So, how did we land on Miro as our new name? Our main source of inspiration came from the Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miró. His work was iconoclastic. It fundamentally challenged the status quo, existing beliefs and norms, and ultimately pushed people out of their comfort zone. Not only are we inspired by these ideals, but we felt that his surrealist and abstract style aligned with how people and teams use our platform, where every board is unique, ideas are expressed brilliantly through different colors and shapes, and how it has become a place where people express themselves and their ideas in very meaningful ways.

We also saw a thematic alignment with the changing world of work and his challenging nature. By moving away from a traditional style, Miró introduced a new way of understanding the world. We are disrupting the way people work, how they collaborate, and even how they interact with the world around them. We enable teams to do things differently, unlocking a lot of human potential along the way.

Of course, Miró’s work is known for being colorful and abstract. We saw an opportunity to build a brand that is full of colorful visuals and lets us explore the subjectivity of communication, collaboration and understanding. Different roles and teams speak different “languages” – and we aim to dissolve that challenge by creating a space where understanding and work can happen, and where a new unified, and unique visual language can be created and understood by everyone.

Aside from the direct inspiration of the artist, the word “Miro” has other interesting associations: the connotations of “mirror”, “look”, and “watch” can speak to the reflection, consideration, and visual aspect of what we do to help teams bring their ideas to life.

Miro also comes from the Slavic root word “mir,” meaning “peace, world.” For us, this is a nod to our company’s origin. It’s also symbolic of our ability to connect teams across the world and speaks to the peace of mind they get working together effectively.

 

More here - https://miro.com/blog/features/miro-cmo-barbra-gago-rebranding-hypergrowth-startup/ 

:wink:

C
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Hi, my name is Cheyenne, I’m a Language Arts Teacher in a Title 1 Middle School - but now I’m an online teacher for 90 students that are not all tech-savvy and require a lot of support and scaffolds. I’ve used Reatimeboard/Miro on and off for years, but now I think it has become a vital piece for me. The only thing I wish I had was the video chat portion, closing schools leaves my kids so isolated. 

T
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Hello, miro community! はじめまして、miroコミュニティーのみなさん！


I'm Takafumi from Japan. I'm using miro as an art director in my web developing company since Covid-19 spread around Tokyo. Miro is super cool because this is kind of Imitating paper, there are huge areas, no partitions. I can put anything anywhere. Now we are working from home so miro bridges the gap and miro helps us so much!
Anyway, I'm so excited to join this community! Cheers!

Takafumi

N
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Hello everyone! I’m Naomi, based in Amstelveen in the Netherlands (it’s really close to Amsterdam). I have used Miro a bit at work and in my free time and decided to build a Markdown Extension for it: https://github.com/npentrel/miro-markdown-extension. If anyone wants to build more on top of it (or point out bugs to me), please reach out :). 
 

Z
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Hello,

My name is Zach and I am a senior project manager for our continuous improvement (CI) team at Starbucks Corporation.  I’ve been there almost 11 years and 3 years on our CI team.  I mainly facilitate 2-3 day kaizen workshops that include 4 or so weeks or prep work.  I’ve built some template on Miro to translate our kaizen pre-work and day of workshop to a virtual atmosphere.  In my spare time, I’m an avid bread baker.  You can check that out here > https://www.instagram.com/zachlutes/

Thanks!
Zach

 

 

Evelyn
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G’day All

My name is Evelyn and I have a passion for Family History. I thought of using Miro to share my expertise.

This social-distancing is giving me ample time to sit down and learn something new, hence my wandering into the Miro Community. I am still trying to understand how I can best do this. Any suggestions would be very helpful. I am only on the free plan as all my spare money goes into genealogy costs.

Ways I have thought of using Miro

  1. Show my contacts how I arrived at my conclusions, that may differ from theirs.
  2. Brainstorming the proverbial Brick Wall. 
  3. Educating others so they too can enjoy knowing about their Family History.
  4. Showing that Family History is more than Genealogy

After 40 years of experiencing I think I have enough that I can share. Now it is just learning new skills, as much has changed in the way things are done.

Personally I live alone with a cat. Not my cat, my youngest daughter’s cat. The kitten she had to have but left home without it. The cat and I are best suited with each other. Rather narky at times but we come together when it suits for quiet moments of contemplation or watching TV. A couple of years ago I did a Diploma of Family History online through the University of Tasmania. The certificate hangs on the wall behind the door to show I do know something.

I live in Wanneroo Western Australia, which is a northern suburb of the capital Perth. At present and maybe at least for the next 6 months, the state is in lock down from physical contact with the rest of the world. Although that doesn’t make much difference, as Perth is titled the most isolated city in the world (google it). Other claims are: It is the windiest city in Australia. It is also considered to be the third windiest capital city in the world. Perth is also the sunniest city in Australia. We only have a maximum of 8 days a year where the sun doesn’t shine.

Thanks Marina for the Welcome

Cheers everyone

Stay Safe and Well

“We are all stories in the end, just make it a good one eh?” 11th Doctor Who
Richard Kasperowski
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Hi there!

I’m Richard Kasperowski. I use Miro to teach and to facilitate people doing awesome work together. In industry, I teach and coach work teams on how get everything they want: high-performance, psychological safety, emotional intelligence, agile software development, and more. In academia, I created and teach the class Agile Software Development at Harvard and co-teach the Spark! innovation fellowship at Boston University. I’ve written a couple of books on teams and how to have great teams.

I’ve created over a dozen templates that are available in Miroverse and in this blog about how to have awesome remote teams. I use these templates to teach people new skills and to help them get real work done, really well.

I also run the monthly Agile Dojo. Join us every first-Thursday-of-the-month - scroll through my events page to register for the next dojo. We explore these templates and other games and playful activities to help you have a great team.

And I’m happy to be here in the Miro community. :grinning:

Richard Kasperowski | Certified Agile Team Building™ | Check out my Miro templates at https://kasperowski.com/your-remote-team-actually-can-be-awesome/
P
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Hi everyone!

 

My name is Philani

 

I am a founder and Digital Strategy Director of a Digital Consultancy based in Johannesburg, South Africa. We focus on  Digital Strategy development, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation Consulting and building platforms.

I’m new to MIro. I am interested in building competency that can help me explore new ways of working. I want to increase productivity in remote teams that are work with based in 3 countries. 

 

Looking forward to learning and contributing in this forum. 

 

A colleague and I after a strategy planning session.

 

Don McIntyre
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Hi there, I’m Don McIntyre from Scotland. I wear three ‘hats’ and have started to use Miro extensively in each of them;

  1. Design Director with the Innovation School at Glasgow School of Art; https://www.gsainnovationschool.co.uk/ - we’re using Miro with students to support design research projects and community engagements.
  2. Design Director with the Digital Health and Care Institute https://www.dhi-scotland.com/ - which is one of  Scotland eight Innovation Centres. We have been heavily involved with the development of systems and applications to support citizens during the Cov19 crisis and I feel I’m living in Miro at the moment. Aspects of Scotland’s proposed approach to the track and trace app (among others) were collaborated on and designed using Miro.
  3. Creative Lead with Chess Digital, https://www.chessdigital.co.uk/ - a Microsoft focused software development house. In recent weeks Miro has been the goto tool for Requirements Gathering. 

It’s great to be part of the community. Miro is a breath of fresh air in a world of bloated and unintuitive software packages. 

don :-) 

 

 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/don-mcintyre-3663631/
S
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Hi I’m Sven,

 

I’m a developer from Germany and just started developing a Miro Plugin for a Product I’m working on: https://GraphicFount.com. It is all very fresh but I’m looking forward to working with the nice looking Miro SDK.

 

cheers

David Nour
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Hi there. David Nour from Atlanta, GA in the southeastern US. I advise senior leadership/boards, research, am an adjunct professor at the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, and Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management, and have written ten books; working on #11 at the moment. I have a regular column in Forbes and Inc. and host a podcast, Curve Benders focused on my next book.

My life’s work has been focused on applications of strategic relationships in profitable growth, sustained innovation, and lasting change. I’ve captured those ideas in Relationship Economics (Wiley), and Co-Create (St. Martin’s Press), as well as the forthcoming Curve Benders, to name a few.

I’m originally from Iran, immigrated to the U.S. as a teenager with $100, limited family ties, and no fluency in English. Undergrad in management, grad school in strategy, two teenagers, two crazy dogs, married for 24 years, and ride motorcycles for fun (long-distance, and on tracks). Learn more about me and my work at www.NourGroup.com.

 

Strategy Visualization, Agile Alignment, Curve Benders
A
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Hi, everyone!

Now I’m some kind of semi-acting partner in big sport goods/services and trying to increase the efficiency of processes with agile/product management approach. 

But in near future I’m going to completely switch to product management role and develop myself to be the great product guy as I understand there is the great future for products/especially digital ones. 

Now i use miro fro drawing User stories/boards/mindsets etc. 

Great idea now during isolation - we play games and draw together with my  daughter who is away unfortunately!

Thanks and keep in touch! 

W
Userlevel 1

Hi,

I just relocated from Belgium to Sweden.  That means also a new job, and new tools.  Within my new company we are extensively using Miro for all types of things.  Looking forward to learn how this can improve productivity!

Wouter

Michael Sohn
Userlevel 4

Hi, everyone!

I hope you’re all well. I’m Michael from Los Angeles, California! :sunny:

I’ve been part of the Customer Service team at events for Toynami for the past 7 years or so. I help support the team in taking care of its customers at the conventions where we exhibit throughout the year, most notably at San Diego Comic Con, but also WonderCon and DesignerCon in Anaheim as well!

I’m new to Miro and here to learn more about the product and all its capabilities!

I look forward to collaborating and learning with you, helping out where I can!

Wishing you the best,
Michael Sohn

PASCALE LOUISE
Userlevel 1

Hi,

My name is Pascale LOUISE, I’m strategic designer at Airbus Innovation in digital services. I use Miro to facilitate workshops such as Vision or Mission workshop but also UX workshops such as User Journey workshop, Ideations workshops or Design Sprint. I must say Miro is my favorite tool :heart_eyes: !

Pillow
D
Userlevel 1

Hi, people, how are you? Hope all is doing well. 😊

My name is Daniel Portugal. I’m an Agile instructor and coach at Caelum. l live in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

Social isolation has obligued our firm to work remote and we had to find tools that helped us adapt our classes. That search led me to Miro and from that moment I never looked back 😍.

I currently use Miro for various purposes:

  • prepare content for our classes, from simple diagrams to complete day-length schedules 
  • record videos and give classes using above content 
  • run retrospectives with our team and organization as a whole
  • facilitate team building activities
  • study and organize thoughts

As you can see I use Miro for everything!

One of my thirsty dogs!

 

Michael Kibedi
Userlevel 1

Hello everyone,

My name is Michael, and I live in London, England.

I am halfway through my Masters program at City, University of London studying Human-Computer Interaction Design. 

I have been experimenting with different productivity applications during my previous semesters, and so far I have settled on Airtable (for project management, UX research and task planning), Notion (for lecture notes and other short writing) and Zapier, both of which have massively helped me in my project management.

I am just getting started with Miro, and from what I have read, I am impressed by its versatility and ability to integrate with so many other apps. 

I am looking forward to participating in discussions!

 

Best wishes,

Michael

 Medium 

Marie-Elisabeth
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Hi everyone!:blush:

My name is Marie-Elisabeth I’m a freelancing graphic designer from Germany.

I use miro since around three years now, my teacher in highschool introduced it to our class. Last year I finished school and began to use miro not only for school, but also self organization via calenders.

But more importantly I use miro to organize workshops oriented around design thinking.

With my former teacher, I designed a Hackathon based on design thinking for students for classes in the 6th to the 13th year. My former school then did a one week long hackathon around the theme: “Our future school” with around 1400 students. The school had some money to invest, so the students even planned some green rooftops, solar panels and a new student café, mostly while using the miro template we created.

I am currently also trying to use miro for my free online Japanese course where I teach my mother japanese, to learn together on stream and later YouTube.

Additionaly, I use miro to make drafts of websites or organisate different projects and work groups, often in cooperation with my former teacher. I work for his company Educational Greenhouse.

Miro really plays an important role in my daily live and work, I love this tool! :heart_eyes:

 

 

 

J
Userlevel 1

Hello everyone!

 

I’m Juliette, I’m also halfway through my masters program. I’m studying Communication and specializing in deliberation at Colorado State University. While my program was focused on face-to-face deliberation initially, COVID-19 has prompted us to look into online tools and platforms for engagement. I am focusing on how to design processes and facilitate to maximize what online engagement can entail. 

I’m delightfully surprised by Miro’s ease of use and complex templates and customization options. What I initially dismissed as a digital whiteboard and sticky notes has shown to be very engaging, fun, and greatly improved the overall process and decision making. 

 

I’m looking forward to seeing how Miro adapts for live events and to test its capabilities as I prep to return to online teaching this Fall. 

J
Userlevel 1

Howdy!

I’m John, and I’ve worked alone (with a one year interruption) for 29 years. Holy cow.

I’m a writer, designer, photographer, videographer, and video editor. If you’re a fan of GI Joe, you might know me as the guy who created the GI JOE MASTERPIECE EDITION book-and-figure set as well as the book GI JOE: THE COMPLETE STORY OF AMERICA’S FAVORITE MAN OF ACTION.

I produced and co-wrote the book KONG: KING OF SKULL ISLAND, and one of my current projects is called EIGHTH WONDER: CARL DENHAM AND THE BEAST-GOD OF SKULL ISLAND. I’m in the giant gorilla biz, I guess.

I almost ALWAYS collaborate with people “virtually,” and MIRO was a terrific tool that I used with a fellow designer to develop layouts. Most of my current projects have visuals. research, and plans that need to be shared, so I’m looking forward to seeing how it can be used across the board.

Stefan Spittank
Userlevel 1

Hi everyone,

my name is Stefan and I’m a UX person. I’m here to improve my personal workflow and work on a miro web plugin to better support affinity mapping. The plugin is still in it’s early development, but it’s open source, so have a look at https://github.com/stefan-spittank/miro-affinity-diagram-tools.
In my spare time I am hosting a YouTube channel (together with friend), to bring the two worlds of product development and user experience together (https://www.youtube.com/c/papperlapapp-dev).

I’m looking forward to speaking to you all.

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