hello everyone and welcome back to the keep productive youtube channel today we're doing a
feature spotlight on miro an online collaboration whiteboarding tool that we're going to dive in on
and how it is being used by teams and focusing on five specific features now today's video is
a partnership with miro so you can check them out in the link in description and sign up for
free today and find out more as well so for this feature spotlight i've picked out five features
inside of miro that i've been impressed with and what a highlight and talk a little bit about how
they're suitable for asynchronous and remote work as well and a little bit about that real-time
collaboration too now inside of miro there are a bunch of features the first thing i think that
is quite helpful is the templates ability now when you go and create a new board inside of mirror you
are met with a range of options and that's because they've created these things called templates to
save you a bit of time you can actually go ahead and create a blank template or use one of the
pre-filled ones that they've created and one thing i really love about the experience is that you can
actually preview each of them and zoom in and look at the details of it before actually committing
to use it now templates save you a bunch of time because they they sort of help you with
your own productivity blockers because sometimes one of our our problems with productivity is
we actually look at a system and we want to build it but sometimes that's quite tricky but templates
just help you to remove some of the noise and get you rolling versus stopping and sort of being that
blocker for your own productivity and your own team productivity too so the one thing you can do
is explore something called community templates and it's actually called the mirror
verse and essentially inside of here these are templates built by people already using miro
in their respective industries and it's amazing because you can find so many great use cases in
here from salesforce all the way to deloitte and even a design sprint board created by the
writer of the book jake knapp which is crazy so miro is really a nice experience for being
able to set up templates and if you're in the business pricing plan you can actually create
custom templates which helps save you time so you can save that template for the future if you and
your team want to replicate it so the second thing is the brainstorming abilities and inside of miro
this is obviously one of the core experiences for team collaboration and what's really
nice is you can do asynchronous collaboration meaning you can just sort of play sort of time
tennis with people so you could do a bit of work and then they could pick up the work and
asynchronous is very popular with those who are looking to be a bit more flexible with their work
schedules in particular but you can also do it in real time too and we'll talk about the meeting
features in a moment now the one feature that i think is probably one of the favorites in team
collaboration and brainstorming is the ability to sticky notes on the page much like you would in
person you can create these sticky notes and add them anywhere you like across the boards
and what's cool is a lot of templates lean towards creation of these sticky notes for better online
collaboration together one great example of this is the team canvas template that are there has
been created and it is marvelous because you and your team can break down goals and objectives
and use this as if you would do if you were in the office which is perfect for remote collaboration
and taking that step further one other feature i like in the brainstorming abilities is commenting
this is something you can still use asynchronously but it helps you to for example just leave light
notes for each other for be able to respond in particular to certain elements of the board now
meetings are a pretty helpful part of miro and they help you to really just collaborate in real
time or asynchronously around a specific topic and there are so many different meeting templates on
miro there's even these ones called smart meetings which are pretty cool and i'll come to those in a
moment but you can connect up your existing stack like zoom the likes of microsoft teams webex from
cisco and more recently google meet as well for collaborating with your video chat tool and you
can use that in your team plans and above now what's really nice is once you've got on a call
with people you can actually invite guests as well which is great because if you're using some of
the smart templates which are basically templates created by consultants and the more advanced sort
of setups specifically in smart meetings this is something that looks super professional when
inviting guests to boards and for inviting them when they're specifically real-time collaboration
as well so what's really nice just before we move on from meetings is the icebreaker
ability it's fairly new but you can play these all sort of micro games before or after meetings
or in between to break them up a little bit and get your team really engaged in a like
company culture which is really nice because that's something that quite lacks in remote
environments as well and these micro games sort of help you get started too so next up is planning
this is something in miro that i actually didn't know much about before checking it out and they
have gantt abilities which i did know about but you can also use a template like monthly planner
for being able to project stuff ahead and allocate stuff to other people and this is a really nice
function one template i adored was one called the mountain of tomorrow which helps you to visualize
your goals over the coming year and beyond and help to project that onto a visual of a mountain
with a lot of guidance and these are one of these more advanced expert templates you can get started
on too finally diagrams are a great way to collaborate on stuff and sometimes we naturally
think of diagrams as these things that we need to get in person to like be able to visually map
processes and systems but actually a lot of time it's necessarily the technology that's in the way
but something like this using the flow charts can be really really helpful and in particular
creation of any of the shapes is really easy inside of miro but i really liked the jobs map
which helped you to break down a specific task and really use the sticky notes and collaboration
and some of the more flow chart stuff to really break stuff down into its more actionable items
so i mentioned i'd talk a little bit about personal productivity and there's lots of personal
productivity tools inside of miro especially in a template area but what's really nice is if
you're a solo business or you are starting out as a freelancer this is a great place to collaborate
on ideas and thoughts without necessarily inviting other people but if you did there is
that extension and that ability to expand if you do want to add more team members to the process so
thank you very much for stopping by hope that gave you a little bit of an insight into how miro works
for real time remote and hybrid collaboration i'm really interested to hear what you think but you
can check out miro below and find out a bit more about the pricing plans if you're looking at teams
but just get started for free which will be linked below mirror has over 35 million users worldwide
and is one of the most popular online whiteboard and collaboration experiences and it's really well
known in companies so you can tell that when you go in the mirror verse because some of
the community templates developed by really big popular names like salesforce and deloitte and
many more so folks i hope you enjoyed today's video i hope it gave you an overview of some
of the features in miro and i hope you subscribe to keep productive as well so make sure to check
us out in the link in description thank you very much folks and i'll see you all very soon cheerio
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