What's your experience with virtual whiteboard tools for remote or hybrid collaboration? Any recommendations?

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Director of IT in Healthcare and Biotech3 years ago

Convenience is a big deal for me - people will use it a lot more if you can bring it up quickly and easily. Check and see what you might already have (Teams, Zoom) before adding yet another tool that could easily be redundant. That said, if you need a new tool for both conferencing and whiteboarding, prioritize the conferencing part. It'll be more used and will have more of an impact on client resources, which can be a really overlooked challenge.

Regional Director in Education3 years ago

As our organization uses Google Workspace
We use Google Jamboard and Google meet together it's very easy to adapt and also feature rich 

Sometimes we also use Microsoft whiteboard or Onenote
If taking notes etc 

CTO in Services (non-Government)3 years ago

All the whiteboards from the different vendors are technically close enough that I'm not going to go into differences, but the two keys I have found for effective virtual whiteboards (and they can be very valuable for communication if used properly) are:
 1) trackpads are out, and a mouse barely suffices. Wacom type devices with pens are worth the money. Buy a few low end ones for the office and send some more out to remote workers who could benefit.
And 2) Who is using the whiteboard needs to be effectively controlled - like passing around a conch. More than one person trying to demonstrate their thoughts, or contribute to a diagram is a disaster no matter how good the intentions of the second person.

VP, Technology Manager in Education3 years ago

We are currently moving forward 100% with MS Teams. The annotation and whiteboard tools there work well. We had previously tested with Adobe Connect and really liked the way that tool worked, but it posed some info security risks that we were not able to work around.

Any of these tools take time to catch on. If it's important to you, be sure to use it all the time and create other evangelists for it across your organization.

Director of Information Technology and Information Security in Healthcare and Biotech3 years ago

Excellent collaboration tool for narrowing communication and even culture gaps between dispersed and diverse workforce across geographies.

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