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Every writer knows the terror of the blank page. You can have a whole cast of fully fleshed-out characters, a vivid setting, and an awesome idea. But what do you do after you type “Chapter 1”? If your stories always lose focus once you start working on them, you might need to do some planning first. A plot diagram keeps you from getting lost while you tell your story. It’s like a map you can follow on your expedition through the lands of creativity.

Looking for a way to align your business goals, improve your internal processes, and refine your strategy? If the answer is “yes,” a balanced scorecard could be just what you need. When used correctly, a balanced scorecard helps businesses identify the best growth opportunities. It focuses on a range of different business areas, allowing leaders and managers to align their goals and keep employees on the same page, no matter what their role is in the company.

Miro is all about empowering teams to build the next big thing. With our redesigned Miro Developer Platform 2.0, launching in beta today, we’re making it easier for third-party developers and partners to build and customize integrations to support Miro’s community of 30 million users.

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.