Purpose

This document is created for the following purpose:

• Bring clarity to the position and use of Miro as a collaboration tool within the Semco Style collaboration space.
• Enable and support the team in streamlining communications using Miro as a tool.

Positioning

Miro is an online collaborative whiteboard platform. Miro’s infinitely zoomable canvas and online whiteboard enables you to work together as teams, visualize meetings and capture brainstorm sessions. Miro is used for the following purposes within the Semco Style Institute:

Positioning

Miro is a continuously evolving cloud-based collaboration platform that sees new features and functionalities over time. For its purpose of use within Semco Style Institute, the following functionalities are relevant:

Miro whiteboards unleash creativity and allows for easy capturing of brainstorm sessions, project planning and other types of collaboration.

Quick alignment on specific project/task/content-related questions in comments. Create supportive and interactive training materials (+ possibility to export PDF afterwards). Miro boards are easily set up and shareable with anyone, whether they have a Miro account or not (they can contribute as ‘guests’ depending on board settings). Integration with other tools such as Slack. You can download ‘app integrations’ on Slack to connect the Miro app, and receive instant Miro notifications on Slack.

Rule of thumb / general guidelines

At the Semco Style Institute, we have decided to use Miro as our main collaboration tool. The ‘SSI Team Workflow’ Miro board captures all main goals, activities and brainstorming sessions of the core team. It’s used for both synchronous and asynchronous co-creation. Quick alignment on specific activities is possible via the ‘comments’ feature too. However, in-depth conversations will take place via Slack and Zoom as our main communications tools.

Best practices

The possibilities within Miro are endless! It unleashes creativity and creates an interactive, visual way of collaboration and interaction. These best practices are important to help streamline the use of Miro within the Semco Style Institute. By identifying best practices, we make the expectations explicit. These are not fixed rules as they may change and grow over time, based on what fits and what is needed for SSI.

Miro Application

• Miro is accessible via the website, but also downloadable as a desktop app. We strongly recommend that you download the desktop version, which allows for fast synchronization and quick response time.
• Check which version suits your laptop the best