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Hillary Curran
Community Manager
Hillary CurranCommunity Manager
posted in Announcements
📣 Calling all Page Creators - Guru wants to hear from you!

Did you attend one of the Custom Pages workshops recently? Have you been tinkering with Guru’s new custom pages feature?We’d love to hear from you! Share your feedback on the Pages experience and show off what you’ve built—your creations could inspire others to help elevate their team’s overall knowledge experience. 🛠️✨ 🤔 Here are some additional questions to spark discussion:What creative use cases have you found for Pages so far? How has this feature simplified navigation for your team? What tips or tricks do you have for designing a standout Page? Drop your thoughts, screenshots, or ideas below ⬇️ Let’s keep the inspiration flowing! 🚀Read more about Pages in our Help Center here.

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Johanna Evans
Guru Employee
4 hours ago
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Anonymous
posted in Fun and celebrations
New member introductions

Welcome to the Guru Community, we’re thrilled that you’re here with us! Help others get to know you - in a comment below, introduce yourself with your name, role, company, and what brings you to the community :) After you introduce yourself, think about what you're looking to learn about from others and create new Q&A post to get input from the Community!We can’t wait to meet you and see you in the discussion! 

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Susan Gearing
1 month ago
JensAstrup
JensAstrupKnewbie
posted in Fun and celebrations
Guru Redesign

Hey there,I just wanted to commend you all on the new interface! It’s gorgeous, sleek, and I can finally use keyboard shortcuts to navigate around. Kudos and nice work!

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JensAstrup
3 months ago
Molly Vogt
Guru Employee
Molly VogtGuru Employee
posted in Announcements
On Demand Webinar Recording: Using AI-Powered Enterprise Search in Guru

Hi Guru Community! 👋 Earlier today the Digital Customer Solutions Engineering Team hosted a webinar centering around how to get set up successfully to use AI-Powered Enterprise Search using Guru’s Answers feature. Watch On Demand Here!  👈👈👈👈 Using AI-Powered Enterprise Search in Guru 🔎In this webinar we covered how to ...Connect your existing source apps like Google Drive, Box, Dropbox, Slack, Sharepoint, etc to Guru Use AI-powered enterprise search to get instant answers you need in your workflow Review what people are asking, the answers they’re getting, and the sources used to pull answers Keep your eyes 👀 on the Events page to stay on top of upcoming events! 📆

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Molly Vogt
Guru Employee
9 months ago
Hillary Curran
Community Manager
Hillary CurranCommunity Manager
posted in Announcements
2023 in Review

 Looking back on 2023, our team had a lot to be proud of. With over 30 updates released, including "Answers," an AI-powered search tool, and "Assist," an AI writing assistant for documenting your knowledge. Check out our top 10 here!Here is to an even more ambitious 2024! 🎉

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Hillary Curran
Community Manager
10 months ago
Marie Frei
Marie FreiFormer Guru Employee
published in Fun and celebrations
Vote for Guru's Help Center in the Support Driven Community Awards

Hi, Guru Community! 👋 We have exciting news: Guru is nominated for “Best Help Center” in the Support Driven Community Awards. Your thoughtful questions and ideas are what enable us to build the internal feedback loops, enriching our documentation over time. This recognition truly acknowledges how each of you has contributed to building out this resource. Thank you! 🎉Voting in the Support Driven Community Awards is now open through November 30th. If you’ve had a great experience with Guru’s documentation, please consider taking a few minutes to vote. 🗳️Here's how:Navigate to one of the category pages, like Best Help Center. Click Sign In in any tile on the page. Log in with your Google credentials. Click this link to navigate back to Best Help Center. Click the Vote button beneath Guru's tile. 

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Marie Frei
1 year ago
Kate Staaf
Kate StaafFormer Guru employee
posted in Research
Seeking Feedback! 🤓 Inline Commenting

Hi Guru Community! 👋I’m Kate, Product Designer at Guru. Inline commenting has been a highly requested feature and I’m looking for a few folks passionate about this topic who would be willing to speak with me so I could get a better understanding of your use case, pain points, and workflow that collaborative editing would help support. If interested, please comment on this thread and I will follow up to find 30 minutes to connect via video call in the next few weeks.Thanks so much for helping to make Guru the best tool possible for you and your team! 💚

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Laura Desmond-Black
1 year ago
Sydney Sundell
Sydney SundellFormer Guru employee
published in Announcements
Coming soon: maintain a high verification score, automatically

ETA: Release date shifted to early NovemberHi Guru Community! I’m really excited to share a new automation that’s coming to Guru this fall. We’ve heard from users like you that it can take a lot of work to keep your content fresh and your Verification Score high. That’s why we’re introducing a new feature that will automatically clean up stale content so information in Guru is trusted and relevant. Once a week, this feature will identify unverified and unused content and archive it–automatically! Let it run in the background and it will tidy up your Guru instance without you needing to lift a finger. We’ll be releasing the feature with default archiving settings that reflect best practices from our most successful customers, based on our decade of experience in knowledge management (KM). We’re also giving admins control over how this feature gets implemented in your instances, so auto-archiving can reflect your company’s KM strategy. Admins will have the ability to preview Cards that a

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Sydney Sundell
1 year ago
Kate Staaf
Kate StaafFormer Guru employee
asked in Research
Authoring Workflows 🌊 Seeking Product Feedback!

Hi Guru Community! 👋Kate here, Product Designer at Guru. Our product team is in discovery phase of understanding more deeply the workflows that Guru authors go through in order to get a piece of content published. That could mean a lot of different things based on you and your team.Would you be interested in spending 30min with us and giving us insight into your content creation workflow? If so, please comment below and I’ll follow up. Thanks so much! 

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Laura Desmond-Black
1 year ago
Omar Carrasco
Omar CarrascoFormer Guru employee
published in Announcements
Important navigation and hierarchy update coming soon!

Hey Community 👋🏽 I’m back to tell you about some updates that are coming in the second half of June that will make it simpler and easier to organize your content in Guru’s web app. We’ve heard feedback from our users that our current hierarchy of Board Groups, Boards, and Sections can be confusing–especially since these levels all behave a little differently. We’ve also heard that people want the flexibility to add Cards to any level of the hierarchy, including at the Collection level. Coming soon, Guru will be migrating to a folder structure so you can save Cards at any level, including at the top of a Collection. This will standardize Guru’s navigation and hierarchy to behave in a familiar “foldered” way, like the apps you’re used to using.  Not only will this give admins and authors the ability to better organize their content, it will make it easier for readers to browse Collections and find what they need, faster.  Here’s what to expect when these changes go live:Your existing B

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Tyler
1 year ago
Christophe Fernandez
Christophe FernandezSmart Cookie
posted in Fun and celebrations
beta backstage thoughts

my idea .. in the last week I've completed a comparative study of scrintal lattics and obsidian philosophiesI use these apps (for the time being notion and roam research are not included here though I use them)obsidian has fine-tuned its logo more than cosmetic promo : it sends a message the app is a crafting toolGuru beta has added assist with 20 redaction routines - these may be time-savers in the short term but let's also recall wordcraft is person-unique neuro-improvisatory with network ramifications and evolves over a lifespan this has impact for individual and corporate knowledge creation and deployment:knowledge is not reactive nor is it magic neither is it simply powered by science ..so, ai-redaction helpers need to make space for this person-unique element in knowledge assembly  success of beta .. I welcome three things for the success of beta..a relook at guru logoa finetune of guru mission statementa gap-filler for a vision statement for me these have important association w

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Christophe Fernandez
1 year ago
Sydney Sundell
Sydney SundellFormer Guru employee
published in Research
Apply to be a Beta user for Guru’s next generative AI feature, Answers!News

Hi Guru Community! As you’ve probably already seen in the Community and in our recent webinar, Guru is investing in exciting new AI features that we hope will help you achieve your knowledge management goals more efficiently than ever before. I’m excited to share more info on Guru’s next generative AI functionality: Answers. With this functionality, users ask a question and get back an easy-to-understand answer pulled from Guru Cards and Knowledge Syncs. Answers elevates Guru’s already great search experience by eliminating the traditional steps needed to get just the right answer back — and massively decreasing the time people spend seeking out information they need to do their jobs. The experience is like popular AI tools your team may already be using, but securely connected to your company’s trusted information. Users will even be able to see the sources used to generate an answer, so they can dig deeper and get more context if they need it. As if that wasn't exciting enough, futur

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Sydney Sundell
1 year ago
Caroline Krueger
Community Manager
Caroline KruegerGuru Technical Support Team Manager
posted in Announcements
Updates to the Guru support experience coming soon

Hi Guru Community! 👋 Caroline with Guru’s Support team here. We are thrilled to share that we are launching a new Guru Resource Center next week, which will serve as a central location for all of Guru’s support offerings, including direct 1:1 support and the Guru Help Center. We wanted to give you a heads-up about this change, as part of this update will include transitioning from having you reach out to us via an in-app chat to working with us over email. What will change? Beginning next week, our Technical Support, Product Specialist, and Billing teams will now be communicating with you via email, either after you contact us via email, or after filling out a new ‘Contact Us’ form in the Guru Help Center. As part of this update, we are also freshening up our Help Center, though you can count on the content and the URL (help.getguru.com) remaining the same.  What will not change? The level of support that you can count on from Guru! 🤓Our team strives to provide a best-in-class suppor

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Caroline Krueger
Community Manager
1 year ago
Callie Rojewski
Callie RojewskiGenius
posted in Announcements
Guru Deep Dive Recap: Making the Case for Knowledge Hires

Hey y’all! Today we dove into when and (when not) to make knowledge hires. Shoutout to our panelists @Radhika Parashar @David Parle @Joaquin Felix Dalla Via and @Julia Soffa for sharing their experiences! At the beginning of the Deep Dive, we walked through how you can:  Assess your organization's knowledge maturity (hint: use the knowledge maturity model, linked below) Elevate internal subject matter experts to make the most of your team's capacity Find signs of burnout, low engagement and “group ownership mentality”  Define your knowledge hire’s job description and KPIs  Next, we talked to panelists in sales enablement, support, and internal comms team roles from Figma, Stuart, and Guru and learned [11:34]:Why each team brought on Guru What roadblocks they were hitting that made them bring on human resources  What the responsibilities and KPIs are of knowledge managers roles Tips for a new knowledge manager joining a team who wants to establish their value and role internally R

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Marie Frei
1 year ago
Jimmy Miller
Jimmy MillerSmart Cookie
posted in Fun and celebrations
New to the Guru Community

Hello, everyone!My name is Jimmy Miller, and I am brand new to this community.Shoutout to Devon O’Dwyer for making the suggestion. I’m new to my organization, and taking over the teams in charge of internal knowledge, customer education, and employee L&D. While my org has filled Guru with a ton of information, the structure resembles a junkyard.I’m looking forward to learning some best practices from each of you, creating some new content, and being flagged by the Guru product team as “this guy keeps breaking the software trying to make the cards do things they weren’t meant to do.” 

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Jimmy Miller
1 year ago
Omar Carrasco
Omar CarrascoFormer Guru employee
published in Announcements
Important Chrome extension update coming soon!

Hi Community! 👋 I wanted to share some updates that will be coming soon to the Chrome browser extension. You’ve probably noticed a lot of changes inside of Guru’s web app, and now we’re giving the extension some love. We believe that the browser extension is an important part of Guru’s promise to work where teams are already working, and we want to make the extension simpler, faster, and more effective to use.  Part of this project has been improving the accessibility of the extension. With this release, you will see improved keyboard and screen reader support within the extension. This simplified extension also makes room for exciting feature updates we’re currently working on. First up on our priority list is reimagining Knowledge Triggers so it’s easier to push proactive knowledge to your teams over top of the apps they use everyday. More news on that as the work moves forward! Coming in a couple of weeks, we’re updating the extension so users can focus on the actions they use most

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Marie Frei
1 year ago
Rachel Campbell
Rachel CampbellFormer Guru employee
posted in Research
Updated Analytics Early Access Program

Hi Guru Community ,We’re excited to announce that a major glow-up of our analytics feature is coming soon, designed to help you get more out of Guru than ever before 🎉. This new and improved experience will have all of the same great data you’re used to, in addition to tons of new insights. As we prepare to roll out updates to all users on our Builder and higher plans, we’re looking for some admins who are interested in trying out the updated experience early. The new experience will be released to all customers early this summer, so this is your chance to get in on the action early!If you’d like to apply for our analytics early access program, please fill out this Google form. Applications will close on May 4th. Upon acceptance, you’ll be added to a private group in the Community with additional details. See you there!

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Rachel Campbell
1 year ago
Jon Saft
Jon SaftFormer Guru employee
published in Research
Apply for Early Access to our new Generative AI feature, Assist!News

Hi Community members 👋 Over the last couple of months, the rapid advances in machine learning and AI technology have changed the way we think about building software. Here at Guru, Generative AI has opened up a new world of possibilities when it comes to knowledge management.Today, I’m excited to announce our newest generative AI functionality: Assist. In this first iteration, Assist will help authors create and share knowledge by quickly and efficiently summarizing long-form content into quick, bite-sized knowledge highlights. In the near-term future, Assist will also be able to help content creators by improving their writing, adjusting for tone and voice, and even translating their knowledge into other languages.Interested in bringing generative AI into your Guru workflow? We’re opening a limited, Early Access program for this new feature in the coming days. If you’re interested in participating in this private program, please apply using this Google Form. We’ll be selecting a grou

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Jon Saft
1 year ago
Link Card
Link CardKnewbie
posted in Fun and celebrations
Good Morning

Hello, great week everyone.It's great to be with you in the community.🖤

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Link Card
1 year ago
Sydney Sundell
Sydney SundellFormer Guru employee
posted in Research
Calling all "Verification Digest" email readers (or non-readers)!

Hi Guru Community! We’re conducting research around our Verification Digest email, and would love to speak to any users who currently receive this weekly email from Guru. Please note that this email currently only goes to users who do not have Slack notifications enabled–if you do have Slack notifications enabled, you get the same round-ups directly in Slack.  All opinions are welcomed! Please share a comment in the thread if you’d like to share your feedback, and we’ll reach out with a link to schedule a time to chat.  

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Sydney Sundell
1 year ago
Callie Rojewski
Callie RojewskiGenius
posted in Announcements
Guru Anniversary Challenge: Measuring your Average Adoption Rate

Happy Guru Anniversary! Congratulations on one whole year with Guru, AND finding yourself at step one of the Guru Anniversary Challenge.  First, we’ll focus on your Guru adoption. Your Guru adoption rate shows the proportion of users who have performed an active event (i.e. a Card view, copy, search, verify, or edit) to the total number of users. The time period and number of users are determined by the filters you set. To measure your average adoption rate in your past year with Guru:  Head to your Analytics dashboard in Guru.  Underneath the overview tap, adjust the date filter to say “In the last 1 year.” Note: you may want to adjust this, depending on what window of time you’d like to measure with Guru. Decide on a timeline and keep it consistent for reporting to come! Hit the refresh arrow in the top right corner and find your average adoption rate! Typically customers maintain a 51% average Guru adoption rate. If you're around or above that, highlight this fun fact to your te

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Marie Frei
1 year ago
Jon Saft
Jon SaftFormer Guru employee
published in Research
Get insights out of Slack and into Guru - Apply for the Private Beta today

Hey Guru Community! If your company uses Slack to communicate, there’s a lot of valuable information zipping through your channels on any given day. We know that it’s difficult to get a holistic view of what your teams are talking about and where they need more help, so we are building towards a future where all the most valuable information from Slack gets surfaced and captured in Guru. We’re building a new feature that will allow Guru to sift through Slack for you and help surface important insights. With this new feature, you’ll be able to identify trending topics in your busiest Slack channels, view the messages associated with those topics, and easily transfer the content from those messages directly to new or existing Guru cards, allowing you to unlock the most in-demand information for your entire team.  We’re opening a limited, private beta for this new feature in the coming days. If you’re interested in participating in this private program, please apply using this Google Form

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Jon Saft
1 year ago
Callie Rojewski
Callie RojewskiGenius
posted in Announcements
Guru Awards Challenge: Preparing your presentation

Looking to celebrate all the folks on your team who make the outcomes of Guru possible? You’re in the right place!  Now that you’ve identified honorees, you can make your Guru Awards! Make a copy of this slide deck (they're each individual awards) and fill in the proper names - the winners & your name. Adjust design to incorporate your company branding (optional) Print them out (try to find nicer paper) and make sure to print single-sided. Or, if this is virtual, save each slide as an individual PDF to send to folks.Once you’ve created your awards, head to the next step to plan your Guru Awards ceremony.  Don’t forget to come back to the original challenge post to share your experience creating your own Guru Awards and get your exclusive Community badge!Host your own Guru Awards! Introducing the Guru Awards Challenge

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Leah Colatosti
2 years ago
Laura Jolly
Laura JollySmart Cookie
posted in Fun and celebrations
My coworkers are now aware of my "Happy Guru Dance" 😆

Something I’ve discovered is that it’s impossible to write Guru cards without doing my happy Guru dance at my desk, which my coworkers are now delighted by as we’re back in the office together more. 😄  

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2 years ago
Laura Desmond-Black
Laura Desmond-BlackFormer Guru employee
posted in Research
Seeking feedback: how do you find out that knowledge in Guru has changed?

Hi Community!I’m Laura and I’m on the Product Management team here at Guru. Historically I’ve been focused on search and discovery–you may have seen me jump into conversations related to those areas here before. Recently, along with Kate, from our Design team, I’ve started to look into a new area and we are at the point where it would be wonderful to have your input on what we’re considering. Generally the goals of working on this new area are to: Help you work confidently by surfacing information that’s valuable but not getting explicitly sent to you through channels like announcements. Help you keep up with changes to information you rely on so you know you have the most current information available. Overall this should reduce the effort it takes to find information you need, and make it easier for you to stay up to date. To give you a clearer sense of what the outcome of this research might be, we are currently looking to understand how people interact with favorites, how people

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Laura Desmond-Black
2 years ago

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