Re: How to get good with Mural (and/or Miro)

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Hi Arwen,

I took a workshop to learn Miro and it was a great way to learn: Meeting Magic with Miro (by CoCreative Labs). The next session is this week:

?Best regards,

Michelle Futornick

Program Manager

Stanford University

Lathrop Library

Stanford, CA 94305

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Bev

I love what you did here asynchronously. I’m a great fan of asynchronous approaches as I find them more democratic somehow, reaching those with poor access, and giving time to think, check references, and translate into other languages.

However, my question is on another completely mundane point.

How do I get good with Mural? Or Miro? Or both?
How much difference is there between the two?
Did all youexperts who regularly use these tools take training or just self train by watching videos?
In brief, what is my fastest route in my “Couch to marathon” endevour to be able to use Mural (and/or Miro) well?

Thank you in advance for your advice

Arwen

Arwen Bailey, MSc (Systems Thinking in Practice)

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Emma

On another note, we have used Mural for working across time zones and in several languages. It was a mix of synchronous and asynchronous. The attached Mural is what it looked like after the six week process. It was pretty empty to start with.

We used Mural as if it were a room where one group (from timezone South America) left the “stuff” from their meetings on the wall so that when we met - synchronously - with the group from (timezone) Asia they were able to see the results of the meeting from their members from South America. And vice versa. You can see South American countries in the top right corner (orange/vertical) and the Asian countries in the bottom left (purple/horizontal).

The emerging vision from both groups grew in the top left corner. They grew out of a series of different conversations with the two groups. They prepared and put their thoughts on the Mural, we discussed, we looked at what the others in the other regional group were saying, and people added or updated what they were saying based on what they were “hearing”(asynchronously) ?from the group in the other timezone.?

The bottom right corner of the attached Mural were specific quotes that people heard from fellow members that they wanted to record.

Then in between are some things that just didn’t fit anyone else.?

One advantage of doing it like this is that - where necessary - someone (in the group) would translate someone’s “flip chart paper” or “post-it note” into an appropriate language for other members of the group. The emerging vision was prepared in English and translated into Spanish as we went.

It was a complex process (for us the facilitators, less so for the members) - so I haven’t done it justice. But I hope it gives you the idea.

Bev

On 2 Mar 2021, at 14:49, Bev Wenger-Trayner via <bev@...> wrote:

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Gosh, Emma?

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I expect you’re making people over the age of 40 feel old! We only ever facilitated group discussions asynchronously and some of us would say that the conversations were richer and more meaningful then.

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The BIG problem, for me, is that technology has changed to facilitate either asynchronous discussions or posts with comments. I feel a deep regret that all the work that went into facilitating asynchronous discussions with threaded replies, ways of weaving someone else’s words or statements into your own, and a myriad of other subtleties have been lost. With it has died the aspiration, at least, for a thoughtful or ponderous conversation - or the co-creation of ideas through experiences.

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I’m going to see if I can dig out some of the old facilitation guidelines I have. And Nancy White, for sure has the canonical ones. She probably took all her stuff down because it seemed outdated. But I know it will come back.

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Bev

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On 2 Mar 2021, at 05:36, Emma Smith <emma@...> wrote:

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Hello everyone,?

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I’m involved in an ongoing project with timezone conflicts that cannot be resolved, and wondered whether any of you have experience with facilitating group discussions asynchronously.

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I would like to approximate a group discussion as closely as possible as it’s a spectacular group with much to learn from the cross-pollunation of ideas and experiences.

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Initial thoughts are to split the group in two based on timezones, and then have a process whereby each group reflects on the other group’s output at a later date.

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If you’d facilitated something similar, I’d love to hear what tools and methodologies you found useful.

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Many thanks,?

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Emma?

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