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It’s that time of the week again! Nico and I are hosting our Office Hours session this week, so bring your questions! Office Hours are your chance to ask questions to the Typeform team live and learn from others using Typeform, too.  Not sure what to ask about? Here are some ideas to get you started:   Technical quandaries around APIs, embedding, integrations – or whatever is puzzling you.  How to set up logic jumps Templates you can use to kick-start your form building Or anything else you’re curious about!  Drop a comment below if you have anything you’d like to learn this week. You can find all the event details, including how to join, here.  

Today, I'm going to let this video speak for itself.Have a great week :) 

I've talked a lot over the last five weeks (has it really been that long?!) about what it means to be meaningful and how we're thinking about it here at Typeform. So... what about you? How does that look for you? Some of you already shared some things you could do, but always curious to hear more.  In the end, we should all strive to become meaningful to our customers, employees, partners, etc. The highest aspiration of a business (from a freelancer to a 5 person startup to 300 strong) is to become a brand that matters to its community. You don't have to change the whole world -- just your corner of it. Paul

Hi peeps! February is the shortest month of the year, but it looks like that doesn’t mean much when it comes to cool thing happening around us – we’ve had Carnival, Saint Valentine’s day, Black History Month and, more importantly, my mom’s birthday  Besides all these great events, February was also the first month of our Typeform community!  We have actually achieved a ton of things in less than 28 days. Let me list a few:  We’re more than 2,000 community creators! We’ve asked more than 300 questions and posted over 1,500 replies.  We have liked each others’ content 2,900 times. You folks seem to enjoy a good post! 135 questions have had a ‘best answer’.  We’ve had a plethora of collaborators from Typeform here in the community, including folks from our Support, Product, Marketing, and Data teams. Big round of applause to them, these busy bees have been going the extra mile to share their cool stuff with us here in the community. Content wise these are the highlights from Februar

 Last week I spoke about how building a meaningful brand is about giving more than what you're getting back. Today I wanted to share how that looks in practical terms for us here at Typeform. What are we doing to put the success of you, our community, and the wider community at large at the forefront of what we want to become? And how will this benefit you in terms of our product offering?  Where to find the Meaningful interviews mentioned in the videos:Rand Fishkin discusses everything from imposter syndrome, to dropping out of college, and some golden nuggets on SEO success. Adam Lisagar talks about vulnerability, film sets, and the unmatched power of being yourself. ​What do you think about the Meaningful Design framework? How could you deliver a more personal, contextual, beautiful, and relevant experience to your community? Happy Monday ​

To become a meaningful brand to someone, you have to give more than you get. Because of clutter (media, products, features, content), you're going to have to radically differentiate yourself. Think about your own company. How will you differentiate yourself from all the clutter? In what ways can you give more to others? How can your turn your marketing into the ultimate benefit for your customer, or potential customers? How can you make your advertising valuable? I'd love to discuss this with you here.  Here are the two "Typeform presents" interviews mentioned in the video:Part One: Rand Fishkin – Paul sits with Rand Fishkin, founder of Moz and SparkToro, to discuss everything from imposter syndrome, to dropping out of college, and some golden nuggets on SEO success.Part Two: Adam Lisagor - Paul travels to Los Angeles (pre-Covid) to meet with Adam Lisagor, founder of Sandwich. They discuss vulnerability, film sets, and the unmatched power of being yourself. 

Morning everyone!Happy Monday. Picking up from where we left off last week, here are some examples of what I consider to be meaningful brands:  Brands that make their community a better place include: Salesforce TOMS Shoes Warby Parker  Ultimately this is what we're aiming for, too. More on that next week, when I'll explain why care so much about being meaningful in 2021. 💡 What brands do a great job of reflecting back the values that you care about? What actions could you take that won't kill your budget or use up all your time that would contribute to a better world? Searching for a more meaningful future? Check out the talks from the Meaningful by Typeform event we hosted in November. Among the many topics discussed were:Meaningful interaction in the time of coronavirus How to build a meaningful community Humanocracy: Resilient organizations, meaningful jobs, zero bureaucracy 

Hey y'all, I'm back for another #meaningfulmondays session.Following last week's discussion on what meaningful means, Let's talk about what meaningful brands do and how that makes them – and their communities – successful...  There's been a ton of research done about meaningful brands. It shows that meaningful brands are more successful and attract more loyal customers.Meaningful Brands deliver on three things: Functional Benefits - make sure whatever you create ticks the right boxes for your customers and includes what's needed to help them accomplish what they need to. PersonalBenefits - think about the benefits beyond your product and its function. Who do you want your customer to become? What aspirations do they have and how does your brand tie into that? CollectiveBenefits - contribute to the greater community and make it a better place to live and work in - beyond your community of customers and employees.   💡 To what extent does (or could) your business deliver on these thr

Hey y'all, long time listener, first time caller  I'm Paul, director of brand @typeform, and @James asked me to share a little about how we see the future at Typeform. Anyway, I was sitting in the park and decided to shoot this video on the spot. Let's talk about meaningful…  In summary, meaningful means: Becoming so relevant to people (employees and customers) that we become irreplaceable in their hearts and minds  Caring more than anybody else Having an approach where the other side wins more than you   We want Typeform to become a meaningful brand – and believe that you should strive for a meaningful brand, too. 💡 Does this resonate with you? What difference do you want your business to make in people's lives? How does your own brand articulate your values? Interested to hear your thoughts. Paul will be back next week with part two where he'll talk more about making your brand meaningful.In the meantime check out some of the thought-provoking articles and videos he's already cr

Hello everyone! I’m thrilled to tell you that we’ll be soon launching our very own Typeform online community!  We’ve spent months bringing all the wagons together and I can confidently say that the community train is ready to hit the road running. So far the community has been in ‘private mode’, meaning that only those with the link could access the site. That’ll change next week when we’ll finally open it up to the world!  During beta we managed to set up and integrate our community tech with other Typeform systems, consolidate a community team and craft an ambitious content plan to inspire our community to build awesome typeforms.  Our plan is to start the roll out on January the 26th and extend our campaign and launch efforts all the way to the end of February. The main focus on Q1 is having a successful launch, which means promoting the community to our user base and setting the foundation of an incredibly rich network of creators who are passionate about building conversations wit

How is everyone doing?I wanted to create a post to share with you our plans for the Typeform community within the next couple of months.  Status icons  Done and dusted.  In progress.  Milestone. November Community MVP ready.  Invite Typeform staff to the community to test the sign up process and other basic functionality.     Invite the first “real” 100 Typeform users (I can confirm 42 out ot 85 people registered so far).     Keep asking and answering questions about the platform and how to use it.     Share community plans.     Tweak structure, notifications and phrases based on feedback.      December Enable SSO - users to be able to link their typeform accounts to the community   December the 3rd: invite circa 2,350 fresh typeform users     December the 10th: invite a new group of circa  2,350 users.     Consolidate public launch structure.     Consolidate design (logo, header, fonts, etc). Grow community team and bring at least one community advocate to the mix 

Hope you are all having a fab day!I just wanted to write a brief post to explain who is currently in the community and how to identify the different member groups.  We want to create One Typeform Community, so despite having different groups we are all equally awesome in here - no hierarchies, no favouritism.  Community team: anyone with a black Typeform logo over their profile picture is part of the community team - these are the go-to folks for anything community or Typeform related. Read the post below to see how is currently part of the community team.    Typeform Staff: these folks work at Typeform, but they are not part of the community team. Each of them is an expert in a specific area, so their input and participation will be be key - they will help us to better understand how things work and how to make the most of our tool.Often times they will be in the community just to have a chat, connect with others and share ideas. We are a pretty sociable bunch at Typeform so expect so