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Zach Dimond
Zach DimondSmart Cookie
asked in Q&A
What's a good default visibility for Guru in my org?

Hey all,I’m implementing Guru for the very first time and it’s so cool but also so  🧠🔨!I’ve set up collections for every department, with an access “group” for department leads, and another group for team members with read only access. For the rest of the org, I’ve not allowed all members read only access in any collections. Therefore, every department will only have access to their team’s collection.I do this so that team leads can pick and choose which boards/sections/cards will be visible out to the org.Is this a good empty state, do you think? Why or why not?

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Michelle Williams
Mirna Lessinger
Mirna LessingerSmart Cookie
asked in Q&A
How to find the card associated to a Question?

I must be missing something basic here. I’m looking at some questions in the Card Manager that need answers, but I’m not seeing where they were asked. How do you normally find the card associated to a question?

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Mirna Lessinger
Chelsea Pierce
Chelsea PierceSmart Cookie
posted in Q&A
Train the Trainer Classes

Hello Guru Community!!I’m hoping I can get some suggestions for some online training courses for myself and my team to go through. Thank you in advance!!

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Chelsea Pierce
Daniel Bergamini
Daniel BergaminiKnewbie
asked in Q&A
Best practices for experts to review questions and cards needing verification?

We are launching Guru next week and curious about best practices for experts to check questions and cards that need verification? I was going to set the expectations that experts should be checking on Mondays and Wednesday. That might even be overkill but at least there will only be a few day delay at most.

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Bobby Stapleton
Laquize Bassey
Laquize BasseySmart Cookie
posted in Q&A
How can I exclude who receives a Knowledge Alert?

Hello. I was wondering if there is a way to change a specific member of a collection status to something else without having to do it for the other members of the collection. For example, our CEO is a member of the CX collection but when I send knowledge alerts, I don't want them to receive those alerts. I know in order to receive those alerts you have to be an "Author" of that collection, so I want to change their status to something different without having to remove them from the collection. Thank you :slightlysmilingface:

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Devon O'Dwyer
Guru Employee
Ian Link
Ian LinkScholar
asked in Q&A
Using Emoji's in Markdown Macro

  (e.g. :heavy-plus-sign:) in a markdown macro? I am not seeing them be interpreted in the Guru card.

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Ian Link
Devon O'Dwyer
Guru Employee
Devon O'DwyerGuru Senior Product Specialist
published in API & Integrations
How to create an API & Integrations post

Welcome! The API & Integrations category is the best place for you to ask questions about the Guru API, webhooks, Zapier and Workato workflows, and integrations with Guru. Here are some tips on posting in the API & Integrations category: Search before you post We recommend doing a quick search to see if your question has been answered before you post. If there’s an open relevant discussion, feel free to add a comment to continue the conversation! What kinds of posts should I make?Questions about how you can use our Guru API, for example:  How can I use the API to move Cards from one Collection to another?  Has anyone piped API data to Tableau?  Is it possible to get a list of all users who have modified a Card? Questions about what kinds of automated workflows you can create with Zapier and WorkatoMark a question as a best answerIf you ask a question and receive an informative answer, feel free to mark it as a best answer to help others in the community moving forward!

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Devon O'Dwyer
Guru Employee
Yael McCue
Yael McCueFormer Guru employee
posted in Q&A
Stakeholder Register worksheet template

Hi everyone,I got my PMP certification in June, and now that I have access to the Project Management Institute’s library of templates, I thought I would modify some of them to help the Guru community run their knowledge projects better.A common problem I hear during a Guru implementation, expansion, or audit is that someone unexpected has come forward upset that they weren’t consulted or feels like their needs weren’t heard in the planning phases of the project. With that in mind, I’ve created this worksheet you can use to take a register of all stakeholders, which will help you determine how best to work with them.The worksheet asks you to look at how many Guru cards the person verifies and their activities, but if you are new to Guru, you can consider another method of measuring their interaction with knowledge and record that here.My questions to you, to start a discussion here:Could this be useful for you? What do you normally do to make sure you’re getting the right people in the

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Yael McCue
Callie Rojewski
Callie RojewskiGenius
posted in Q&A
Where are you stuck re: centralizing knowledge and organizing content in Guru?

 Happy Monday Guru Community! Reminder that this Thursday, 9am PST / 12pm EST is our next Guru Deep Dive. ‍♀️We’ll be hearing from Martin Theobald, Knowledge Manager at Crisp Thinking, and talking through challenges and solutions to centralizing knowledge and structuring content in Guru. RSVP here!We want to know your questions about this topic! @Imtiaz Alam is making a new course on How to Structure Content in Guru and is looking for your feedback. What topics would you like us to cover in this course?Understand Guru’s content hierarchy to create your own structure Guru Permissions: Authors take ownership/responsibility of content with Read-Only members as audience Add Frameworks + Templates and see examples of Collection structure (Department, Product or Vertical, Types of Knowledge, Region, etc.) Best practices on structuring / creating content in an effort to optimize searchWhat is missing from the above list? Drop your ideas and questions below. Let’s get a discussion started in p

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Callie Rojewski
Zev Zoldan
Zev ZoldanScholar
posted in Q&A
How do you motivate your team to verify their Cards?

When it comes to verification, does anyone have tips for how to motivate your team to keep their content updated? I think I read someone once did a pizza party?

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Kassidy Butler
John McKoll
John McKollScholar
posted in Q&A
Has your team built really cool FAQs in Guru?

Who built really cool FAQs in Guru? I know there was a discussion sometime somewhat recently (but really, what is time anymore?) I'm looking to put together an FAQ around specific topics and I am curious if you've done this in your instance? What does your structure look like? How do you utilize the Sections and Board Groups?

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Kassidy Butler
Zev Zoldan
Zev ZoldanScholar
posted in Q&A
How do you enable SME's to help you?

For those who are centralizing your company's knowledge into Guru, what guidance do you give SME's to start structuring their knowledge into collections, board groups, and boards? Screenshots of any standard structures you have would be much appreciated!

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Michelle Williams
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Desiree SantosSmart Cookie
posted in Q&A
Incident Management comms?

Does anyone have any tips, suggestions, templates on how to effectively communicate system/product incidents? Not everyone has access to Jira and often the info in there are too overwhelming for the non tech peers so is there a better way?

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Gabriel Ginorio
Gabriel GinorioSmart Cookie
posted in Q&A
Tip for how to do a Guru search in 3 seconds!! (from the address bar in Chrome)

One of my Thrasio colleagues recorded a video showing how you can use a quick Chrome browser hack to search for Guru cards in 2 seconds! It’s the fastest way I know of to search for cards other than using the Slack app.Check out the video here: https://content.api.getguru.com/files/dn/1512eb54-d6dd-4eee-98d0-7e5f333eef88

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Shona Fenner
Devon O'Dwyer
Guru Employee
Devon O'DwyerGuru Senior Product Specialist
published in Q&A
How to create a Q&A post

Welcome! The Q&A category is the best place for you to to ask questions about how to best leverage Guru, discuss knowledge management topics, and share tips and tricks. Here are some tips on posting in the Q&A category: Search before you post We recommend doing a quick search to see if your question has been answered before you post. If there’s an open relevant discussion, feel free to add a comment to continue the conversation! What kinds of posts should I make?Questions about how to use Guru, for example: Do you know how to link to different portions of a Card? How can I bulk request verification? Can a Card live in multiple Collections or Boards? Questions about knowledge management best practices, for example: How do you monitor your Guru tags?  Has anyone run through a content audit?  What is your team’s best practice around Knowledge Alerts? If you have product feedback:We recommend posting product feedback directly in our Product Feedback category. Please read our sugges

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Devon O'Dwyer
Guru Employee
Devon O'Dwyer
Guru Employee
Devon O'DwyerGuru Senior Product Specialist
posted in Q&A
Product Q&A Organization

Hi everyone! 👋The Support team at Guru recently revamped our product Q&A Cards - we use lots of product q&a Cards to help you all get the most out of Guru, and they previously lived in a Board in a Collection.Since so many different teams at Guru use product Q&A’s (Support, Sales, Marketing, you name it!) we migrated the Cards into their own Product Q&A Collection, where we divided features out by Board:  A sneak preview of our Product Q&A Collection structure!The result: We use a Product Q&A template to standardize the look and feel of the Cards in the Collection Our team can search for Cards using both the Collection and individual Card tag. Question: How do your teams structure product Q&A Cards in your Guru instance? Do you have any tips for organizing them? 

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Devon O'Dwyer
Guru Employee
Bryan Finlayson
Bryan FinlaysonKnewbie
asked in Q&A
Naming Convention Best Practices

Are there any best practices or standard practices for naming conventions? Do people typically go based off the board & collectionhierarchy?

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Bryan Finlayson
Allie Sokoloff
Allie SokoloffSmart Cookie
posted in Q&A
Guru vs Confluence

Has anyone had to pitch internally Guru vs Confluence? We are looking to expand Guru use in the company but need to pitch to leadership why it's better than Confluence (no brainer...but I still need to put together a pitch). If so - any material you wrote out to help support the presentation (I already found this on the Guru's site)

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Mirna Lessinger
Deborah Sanderfur
Deborah SanderfurSmart Cookie
posted in Q&A
How does your team use Knowledge Alerts?

👋 Hi! As a fully remote team here at Articulate, we work to balance our internal comms in order to ensure that everyone is aligned and has access to important information without overwhelm. We've found announcements helpful for flagging important information for teams. Do you use announcements for your teams? What kind of content do you pair it with? ☑️

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Chelsea Pierce
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Anonymous
posted in Q&A
How do you manage "public card sharing" for collections?

Great question from @Ashley W. that I wanted to pull in here (curious what others think!):Curious how other companies manage the ‘public card sharing’ option for collections.We’d like to turn it off for all collections by default OR prevent people from turning it on at all. Looks like this is only at a collection level (which I’ve already locked down)-https://help.getguru.com/en/articles/4739563-what-are-public-cards#:~:text=Navigate%20to%20the%20Users%20%26%20Collections,the%20Public%20Cards%20option%20OFF. @Deborah Sanderfur shared:We have ours set to OFF for the collection level as well. 

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Devon O'Dwyer
Guru Employee
Zev Zoldan
Zev ZoldanScholar
posted in Q&A
Does anyone use Guru to promote digital wellness and fight burnout?

YOOO! Happy Hump Day! Curious - does your team use Guru to communicate and empower your employees around digital wellness to avoid employee burnout? What kind of content did you include in Guru to combat this?

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Zev Zoldan
Laquize Bassey
Laquize BasseySmart Cookie
posted in Q&A
Any tips for training your team on how you organize Collections?

Hello. For those of you that are switching to Guru from using another product, do you have a "start here" card/board to help your team navigate your collection(s)? Thank you in advance!

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Laquize Bassey
Karolin Zosgornik
Karolin ZosgornikKnewbie
asked in Q&A
How can I bulk request verification?

Hey community, because we are using Guru for quiet sometime a whole year is already over and a lot of "general" cards need verification again Is there an option for bulk request of verifications?

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Karolin Zosgornik
Erich Beer
Erich Beer
asked in Q&A
Do you know how to link to different portions of a Card?

Anyone know a way to have links to a different portion of a card? Like if i had a table of contents on the top of the card but with a links to take you to the middle section or end section?

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Erich Beer
Zev Zoldan
Zev ZoldanScholar
posted in Q&A
What are requirements for your team to build a culture of communication and transparency?

:wave: ADMINS! if you had to give advice to newbies building out content for their remote/hybrid team teams, what content requirements would you say are essential for building a culture of communication and transparency? Postscript is swimming in this area, so I can use the help! :slightlysmilingface:

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Deborah Sanderfur

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