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May 8, 2013

Mural.ly – Collaboration for the Creative Set

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Mural.ly is a collaboration tool that’s part Google Drive, part Pinterest. Professionals in design-related industries can collect links, videos, profiles, photos, and presentations to post on their murals, and then share those murals as a way to map out the entire creative process with their teams.

Mural.ly cuts right to the chase and invites you to start creating a new mural immediately after signing up for an account. Give your mural a title, add it to a “room,” and select the privacy level (deciding for yourself whether it should be private, public, or open only for selected colleagues to view). Select any files you’d like to add to your mural from your desktop, and drag those files right into your mural. The files you’ve dropped into place will start popping up on your mural immediately, and you can reposition or resize them in whichever way makes sense to you. Adding links to your mural is just as easy. Drag a URL onto the page, and a brief summary and image from the page you’re linking to will immediately appear. When you’re done adding content to your mural, it’s time to share.

The collaborators you’ve invited to join your mural can start discussions focused on any specific area in your mural. Adding an @ symbol before a person’s name triggers an email notification, meant to let the person know they’ve been mentioned in an ongoing Mural.ly discussion. Everything that’s added or changed within the mural gets included in a mural log, which you can review to track progress at any point.

Practical Uses:

  • Plot out your plans for a website you’re designing
  • Create an interactive presentation to woo new clients
  • Plan an upcoming fashion show
  • Collaborate with colleagues on an upcoming project

Insider Tips:

  • Mural.ly sends email notifications when users are mentioned in a discussion
  • Activity feeds track all the changes inside a mural
  • Mural creators have the option to keep their murals private
  • Mural.ly auto-saves murals “every few seconds”

What we liked:

  • Mural.ly is a great tool for teams looking for a more visual way to collaborate on projects
  • Users have total control over the privacy of their murals
  • People can export their murals for their own archives and records
  • Collaborators can focus their discussions on a particular component in a mural

What we didn’t like:

  • Nothing

Alternatives:

Company Info:

  • Launched: September 2012
  • Privately Held
  • Headquarters: Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • Founded by: Mariano Suarez Battan
  • Web site: https://beta.mural.ly

Costs:

  • Free in beta

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