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Stormboard FAQ’sEVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO GET STARTED
Advice and answers from the Stormboard Team.
What is Stormboard?
Can we trial Stormboard for FREE?
What can I do during the FREE trial? Are there limitations?
How much does an Enterprise Subscription cost?
How do I invite my colleagues to participate in the trial?
Do you have suggestions for fun ways to introduce my team to Stormboard?
What types of templates are there?
How do I create a Report? Do you have sample Reports?
Do you have a survey I can send my team to see how much they like Stormboard and how they are using it?
How do I sell Stormboard to my executive team?
I want to use Stormboard with my Microsoft Surface Hub. How does that work and what does it cost?
I have a question that isn’t answered here, what do I do?
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QUESTION:
What is Stormboard?ANSWER:
Stormboard helps teams transform their meetings company-wide, no matter where employees are located, with shared sticky notes and whiteboards in an innovative digital workspace. Save time by setting up your meeting beforehand, capture, organize, and discuss ideas in realtime, and then assign tasks for better results and monitor progress in a meeting space that you can return to again and again.
Use one of our hundreds of built-in templates for business processes like Agile, Kanban, and SWOT, or customized templates for company-specific processes can be created to make your meetings more effective and efficient. Compile all of the information in your Storms (what we call your digital meeting space) in PowerPoint, Word, Excel, and more formats to be used as meeting minutes, presentations, or reports.
Apps for iOS, Android, and Windows 10 devices are available
and work in real-time on any device with a web browser from your 4” phone to your 85” Microsoft Surface Hub.
Click on the image above for a quick video introduction to Stormboard.
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Can we trial Stormboard for FREE?ANSWER:
Yes! Visit stormboard.com/enterprise to sign up for a 30-day free trial of our Enterprise Subscription.We are also offering First Year Special Pricing Packages, but can also customize a package to suit your needs.
Contact [email protected] for more information.
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What can I do during the FREE trial? Are there limitations?ANSWER:
You have unlimited access to all of the paid functions during your trial! Add as many users as you want, create as many Storms as you want, run reports, and more.The only thing that you won’t see during a trial is the customization that can happen with a paid Enterprise Subscription. Our Enterprise-level accounts can have custom templates created that reflect their unique business processes, single sign-on implementation, corporate branding on the reports, and more. Contact your sales rep for more information on Enterprise features.
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How much does an Enterprise Subscription cost?ANSWER:
While the cost for this subscription varies depending on your company’s unique needs, Enterprise licenses start at $200 USD per user, per year, which works out to about $16.67 per user, per month.Some enterprise features and customizations are additional.Contact [email protected] for a quote and visit stormboard.com/enterprise for our First Year Special Pricing.
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How do I invite my colleagues to participate in the trial?ANSWER:
The Team Administrator (the person who signed up for the trial) will need to log into their account by going to the Stormboard Home Page and clicking the “Login” button in the top right.You can then either invite people to an individual Storm, or to your Team. Read “How to add or invite people to your team” for step-by-step instructions on how to get your colleagues using Stormboard!All users in the trial will go to the Stormboard Home Page to create an account and login.
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Do you have suggestions for fun ways to introduce my team to Stormboard?ANSWER:
First, you will need to invite people to join your Team. Read “How to add/invite people to your team” for step-by-step instructions. Once your team members are signed into the platform, they can take a Tour of their Dashboard and there are also three Tours that walk them through how to use a Storm (the Tours can be found under the “Help” button when they are signed in. All users also have instant access to a “Play Storm” where they can experiment with these functions and access other resources.
Our User Guide gives an easy step-by-step introduction to Stormboard. If you are going to be using a Microsoft Surface Hub, the Microsoft Surface Hub User Guide goes over the sign-in process and touchscreen functionality.
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We also suggest creating an Into Storm that you can play around in to get people using the platform.
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Try one of the following:
• What Is Everyone Doing This Week? Choose a calendar template, assign each user a color, and have everyone add their meetings, appointments, or specific to-do lists into it in order to see what the team members are up to.
• [Specific Product] Brainstorm Choose a brainstorming template and a product that you have been wanting to improve. Have everyone contribute as many ideas as possible, and then move them onto a matrix to see which are the most actionable.
• Team Brainstorm Have your team members brainstorm how they would use an online tool for meetings: How would you use a virtual whiteboard? How will it help make your meetings better?
You can also have individual users create their own to-do lists or hold quick in-person meetings to show how easy it is to get started.
We can also set up a demo for your team and walk you through how to start using the platform in a way that suits your needs best. Contact [email protected] to schedule a demo or to get started.
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What types of templates are there?ANSWER:
There are hundreds of templates to choose from, many designed for specific business processes like Agile, Lean, Kanban, and Product Management. Check out the Template Gallery on our website, which gives you the template names, what they are useful for, and a summary of what process it was created for.
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How do I create a Report?Do you have sample Reports?ANSWER:
You can create different reports with just the click of a button!Read “How do I export/create reports?” to find out how, and visit the Reports page on our website to view report samples.
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Do you have a survey I can send my team to see how much they like Stormboard and how they are using the tool?ANSWER:
We sure do!This is a great way to see how your team is utilizing all the different functions of Stormboard and gives you some great feedback that you can use to sell this tool to your boss or Executive Team!
Contact [email protected] and we will send it to you.
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Great question! You have your immediate colleagues on board, but how do you get your manager, boss, company owner, or executive team excited enough about Stormboard that they are willing to approve your use of it, implement it company-wide, and (most importantly) pay for it?
Let’s be honest, collaboration tools are not new and there is a good chance that management has tried different versions of them before that have only added extra steps to their workload or weren’t implemented and utilized properly resulting in their failure.
Here’s what you do:Identify the pain points in your organization, frame the issues, get a little help from your team, adhere to company norms, and then pitch Stormboard based on how it can help successfully implement their (aka the company’s) agenda.
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How do I sell Stormboard to my executive team?
Check out the full “Selling Collaboration To Your Boss?” article on our blog for a breakdown of each step.
Check out these articles for more ways to get your boss on-board:
• Stop Using Old Tech To Sell Digital Transformation• 10 Ways to Make Your Meetings Better (with Stormboard)• 5 Reasons Why You Should Use Stormboard to Have Fewer Meetings
We can also help you create a customized business case, a presentation, or provide you with resources to create your own.
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QUESTION:
I want to use Stormboard with my Microsoft Surface Hub. How does that work and what does it cost?ANSWER:
Stormboard is fully integrated with the Microsoft Surface Hub!Click here for our Surface Hub Help Section and click on the image to the right for a video showing how Stormboard works on the Hub.
Contact [email protected] for pricing information.
Make your meetings better withStormboard for Microsoft Surface Hub!
CLICK TOWATCH!
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I have a question that isn’t answered here, what do I do?ANSWER:
Head on over to the Help Section of our website and either browse through the articles or type some keywords into the search bar at the top of the page.Still can’t find the answer?
Contact [email protected] and we will be sure to answer your query ASAP!
Make your meetings better.
