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What is a virtual water cooler & how to set one up

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Digital collaboration

Do product teams have an apathy problem?

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Digital collaboration

12 engaging ice breaker ideas for small groups

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Collaborative Intelligence

7 signs your team is feeling disconnected at work (& what to do about it)

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15 celebration ideas for virtual & hybrid teams

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Digital collaboration

How to run a successful client meeting kickoff call

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Collaborative Intelligence

Calculate your collaboration ROI with Mural

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Digital collaboration

10 virtual meeting tools for team collaboration

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Collaborative Intelligence

20 statistics on collaboration in the workplace

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Digital collaboration

The 80/20 async split for agile-from-anywhere teams

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Digital collaboration

5 tips for running successful board meetings

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How to Create a Meaningful Product Vision

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Digital collaboration

The definitive guide to effective asynchronous communication

Customer Journey Map Template

Design thinking

Mural cited as a strong performer in Forrester’s Q2 2022 Forrester Wave™: journey mapping platforms

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Digital collaboration

The truth behind why meetings fail

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Making collaboration work: templates for remote and hybrid teams

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How to create effective meeting agendas

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What’s new with Mural: Outlook and Office integrations, template redesigns, and more

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Digital collaboration

Why hybrid collaboration Is harder than you think

MURAL + Miscrosoft

Bringing Collaborative Intelligence to life across the Microsoft ecosystem

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Virtual meeting etiquette: 7 tips for attendees

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Digital collaboration

Collaborative vs. Collective Intelligence: what's the difference?

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5 tips for holding effective post-mortems

How to master meetings using visual collaboration

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Digital collaboration

5 ways to make meetings more collaborative

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Collaboration design: where everyone’s ideas matter — webinar recap

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A consultant’s toolbox for increasing client engagement with Mural

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Digital collaboration

Should you have a meeting? (Infographic)

Digital collaboration

Reimagining consultant-client collaboration with Mural

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How to hold effective meetings: 6 expert tips

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Digital collaboration

9 Reasons Why Collaboration is Important to Get Right

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What's new with Mural: infinite canvas, custom exporting, YouTube in outline, and more

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Rituals and habits for working from home — webinar recap

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Digital collaboration

6 tips to make daily stand-ups more effective

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Digital collaboration

A look back at the academic year

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How to align and engage your distributed product team with Mural — webinar recap

The 9 roadblocks to productive collaboration

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Digital collaboration

Celebrating May Mural member month

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5 tips to take more effective meeting notes

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Be a quirky owl: great leadership starts with you — webinar recap

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Digital collaboration

How async collaboration can solve Your meeting problem

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Why do we leave collaboration to chance?

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Digital collaboration

Elevate client engagement and deliver high-impact consulting solutions with tags

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What’s new with Mural: Google Workspace, Microsoft Outlook and Office, tags, and more

Design thinking

LUMA + Mural: making work better, together

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Digital collaboration

Beyond diversity: your guide to building a more inclusive workplace

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What’s new with Mural: Butter and Embed.ly integrations, self-serve reporting for admins, and more

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Design Thinking: the missing piece in your sales toolkit — webinar recap

Digital collaboration

How USAA leverages async collaboration for inclusive workshops

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Introducing data residency for Mural

How Spotify’s agile coach, Cara Lemon, leads async collaboration

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New year, new me — with more productivity: webinar recap

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Digital collaboration

Acing the all-hands agenda with Mural

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How the product marketing team at Mural creates engaging, company-wide presentations

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Introducing advanced identity management

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What’s new with Mural: Microsoft Teams, Zapier, and new APIs

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Digital collaboration

Celebrating the changemakers in Mural's nonprofit community

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Digital collaboration

The 10 best Mural blog posts of the year

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SAP AppHaus shares new templates for project scoping, ideation, and designing a more creative workplace

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Digital collaboration

Teaching to prep students for their future

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Digital collaboration

Win, wow, and retain customers: Mural features and templates for sales and success teams

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The perfect formula for client engagement: boost interactivity for faster time to value — webinar recap

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Digital collaboration

Exploring the future of online learning

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Digital collaboration

Collaboration stack must-haves for hybrid teams

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Why check-ins should be part of your team meeting culture

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Digital collaboration

Virtual makeover: how embracing a digital-first mindset created global success

Power up teamwork with a Mural + Microsoft collaboration stack at Microsoft Ignite

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Visual collaboration in virtual reality: announcing the Mural app for Oculus Quest 2

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Digital collaboration

Turn client collaboration challenges into opportunities: Mural features and templates for consultants

MURAL Presents Less Prep, More Productivity: Improve Meetings with Mural Templates

Less prep, more productivity: improve meetings with Mural templates recap

Creative assets at your fingertips with Mural & Adobe Creative Cloud

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Introducing the Mural app for Webex meetings

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Digital collaboration

Designing a hybrid work culture that will last

Education guide to Mural's recently released features

5 tips for remote facilitation: best practices for consultants

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Visualize smarter documentation with Atlassian smart links for Mural

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Digital collaboration

4 steps to creating digital customer & employee journey maps

Scaling design capability with ExperiencePoint

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Digital collaboration

What is integrative thinking, and how can it help with collaboration?

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Design for delight by Intuit: customer-centric design templates

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Digital collaboration

What Is a Jira scrum board, and why do you need it?

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Supercharge teamwork with the new Mural app for Microsoft Teams

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Get every Mural summary from the M&M Show

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Imagination work

Psychological safety: a critical element for imagination work

Design thinking

5 agile scrum board best practices for every project

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New to Mural? Get started quickly with these 10 templates

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Teachers' lounge: back to school webinar recap

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Meeting Rx: the cure for the common meeting - webinar recap

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Design thinking

Scrum vs. kanban board: which to use?

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Design thinking

Scrum task board: what is it and how do you use it?

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Announcing Mural free

A mural template for a team charter exercise

Digital collaboration

A team charter template you can use today

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Ask a chief of staff: facilitative leadership — webinar recap

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Design thinking

9 scrum board examples to level up your project planning

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6 easy and engaging ways to onboard new collaborators to Mural

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Can hybrid work? — webinar recap

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5 Ways Corporate Chiefs of Staff Use Facilitative Leadership to Drive Action

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Visual thinking

Using visual thinking to reach your career goals

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Ask a chief of staff: parachuting in & delegating out — webinar recap