You, our creative community, inspire us every day to continually improve Miro’s features for seamless collaboration, whether in remote, in-person, or hybrid work environments. Over the last year, your thoughtful requests and feedback helped shape the robust slate of updates that we launched in 2021 — and the future of visual collaboration overall.

Virtual meetings are the new frontier. As a consultant, an agency, or a freelancer, you use them to conduct strategy sessions, workshops, or to present your work. How your clients experience these meetings makes all the difference. If you want to ensure productive meetings with your clients, especially now with so many remote work challenges, there are a few hurdles you need to overcome.

A family tree diagram is a simple chart that helps you track and document your ancestry. It visualizes your lineage and traces relationships back to common ancestors. You can create a family tree that goes back to your ancestors, such as great grandparents or grandparents, or you can draw one to show your children and any grandchildren. Some family diagrams show both ancestors and descendants. The goal of this chart is to record the important people and events in your family’s history.

Throughout time, humans have proven to be inherently creative problem solvers – driven to create, collaborate, and innovate to solve the challenges that face us. But, sometimes, the solutions can be hard to find, obscured by siloed thinking or stifled by technology and tools that restrict imagination or fall short at truly connecting people.

If you have a background in coding, you’ll probably be familiar with UML diagrams. Why? Because typically, software developers use UML diagrams to create new systems. But in today’s world, they’re not limited to a single capacity. In fact, UML diagrams are used widely across different areas of business. So whether you’re a business manager or a software developer, an understanding of UML diagrams can go a long way.

From in-person to remote to hybrid, where and how we work continues to evolve. In these varied team settings, over 25 million people use Miro as their online whiteboard platform to seamlessly collaborate and communicate across formats, tools, channels, and timezones. Now we’re adding a new space to work together: virtual reality.

Shining through the past year’s difficulties are the creators — or stars — at Miro’s creative core: Miroverse, our community templates gallery. Each of the incredible templates that our users made this year show endless potential and pave the way for others to meet challenges in extraordinary ways.

Sometimes coming up with an idea for the next big thing is the easy part. But, how do you take that moment of inspiration and corral it into something tangible that creates business success? What other things do you need to be keeping an eye on that can influence whether your product or service is a flop or a flyer in a particular market?

Trying to make high-level decisions about the future of your company can feel overwhelming. Trust us — we know first-hand what that feels like here at Miro. Companies often set up special committees that take months — or even years — and dozens of meetings before committing to a path. But in the 21st century, the first mover’s advantage is more crucial than ever. You need to prioritize fast without letting biases affect how you invest your capital and effort.

Driving business success isn’t as simple as knowing your customer anymore. As the Ancient Greeks told us, you’ve also got to “Know Thyself.” If you want to develop a business strategy that outperforms the competition, that means getting laser-focused on the things that you do better than anyone else and bolstering any gaps in your business arsenal.