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The latest News and Information on Collaboration, tools and related technologies.

Mattermost Boards How-to: Sprint Planning

Mattermost Boards is an easy-to-use and lightweight tool to manage your backlog, plan your sprints, and so much more! Create fully customizable boards to track tasks and bugs. Boards are updated instantly as soon as any changes are made, so your teams can stay in sync with a single source of truth. For teams looking for a lightweight open source alternative to Jira, Azure DevOps, or Asana to manage Agile workflows, Boards is a great choice.

HP uses Miro to help hybrid teams collaborate and create sustainable behavioral change

HP Inc. (formerly Hewlett-Packard) provides products and services across a range of sectors worldwide. With over 80 years in the industry, HP inspires meaningful progress in climate action, human rights, and digital equity through its portfolio of personal systems, printers, and 3D printing solutions. HP continues to innovate and adapt its products to the changing work climate through sustainable tech and software to support hybrid work.

Fostering employee trust through authentic tone of voice

Most of us have a little bit of Etsy in our lives, and some a lot more than others. Who hasn’t spent a rainy afternoon on a laptop doing a deep dive into stained glass suncatchers, Chinese wallpaper, or antique custard dishes? Etsy’s an excellent platform to buy and sell stuff, but what makes it great?

Fostering employee trust - Interview with Katherine King, Etsy

In episode 37 of Simpplr’s Cohesion Podcast, Amanda speaks with Katherine King, Director of Employee Communications at Etsy. They discuss the spectrum of tone and voice, key business relationships that improve employee communications, and helping leaders develop empathetic messages. To stay in touch and learn more about Simpplr, please like this video and subscribe to our YouTube channel.

How to use (and improve) Slack for project management

As of this 2019 GP Bullhound report, Slack was one of the fastest-growing software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies in history, reaching an annual average recurring revenue of $400 million in less than five years. Then the pandemic hit, and with that — well, you’ve probably seen the memes. Slack went from one of the leading business collaboration tools to a household name that remote workers everywhere rely on to stay connected to their teams.

Intch and Miro: How to Build an App Remotely

Imagine building a house with a fully remote team. It may seem impossible, but it’s not — as long as you have the right tools. The same goes for the app development process. And at Intch, we believe Miro is the essential piece that brings us all together to develop our AI-powered business networking app. Building our product is a cross-functional process that involves a diverse, globally-distributed team.

The UK's Online Safety Bill undermines everyone's safety

As a UK-headquartered company, we’re perhaps the most concerned of all the companies signing the open letter that urges the UK government to radically rethink the Online Safety Bill. As currently drafted the Bill forces messaging services to break their end-to-end encryption by implementing third party scanning of decrypted content, completely undermining the security that end-to-end encryption offers.

5 popular mind map types to help your creative thinking

HERE AT MIRO, WE ARE BUILDING the #1 visual collaboration platform to help you with any visualization task. One of the most effective ways to structure thoughts and organize the flow of ideas is to map them on a canvas. Thanks to recent updates, Miro now supports not only diagram mapping, but also automated mind map creation. Let’s have a look at some popular use cases and types of mind mapping that you can use to structure ideas with your distributed team.

How to Create an Automated SMS Notification System

All apps need a solid, automated notifications system. Whether it’s reminders, updates, or alerts, some notifications can be urgent and time-sensitive, in which case SMS is the most effective communication channel. Let’s take a moment to talk about what that means for you as a developer. You need to: Realistically, building this feature from scratch can be time-consuming and complicated.