(Don’t feel like reading?  Install twine for Zoom now!)

This announcement has been a long time coming!  The teams @twine and @glimpse (acquired by twine in February) have been grinding for years on the problem of virtual serendipity, and how to bring human connection to online gatherings.

Today, we are thrilled to announce that we are opening up twine for Zoom to everyone, for free up to 5 concurrent users.

At a tactical level, twine for Zoom is a way to supercharge your breakout rooms on Zoom via roulette style and tag based matchmaking, as well as a visual map mode which allows your Zoom attendees to self select into breakout – all without leaving Zoom. 

But at a human level, twine for Zoom is a bit more ambitious than that.  We want to give teams, communities, and companies the ability to connect with one another at the click of a button. We  want to recreate the serendipitous collisions that once happened face to face in your hallway, your lobby, your elevator.  We  want to rebuild the connective tissue that Remote Everything has weakened a bit.

The use cases are endless: Speed Networking, Mentor / Mentee Matching, Employee Happy Hours, Networking for Virtual Conferences, New Hire Onboarding… the list goes on. 

Read on for the specifics of what the product does.

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What is twine for Zoom? 

Twine for Zoom supercharges your Breakout Room experiences & makes setup 10x easier. With the Zoom App, users can: 

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• 🪢 Automatically sort participants into roulette style Breakout Rooms for timed, back-to-back small group or 1:1 conversations
• 👀 Set custom sorting rules for Breakout Rooms based on any variable you choose; match mentors with mentees, HR with new hires, students with research assistants…
• 🗺️ Create themed tables in Map Mode; participants can hop in and out of Breakout Rooms as they please
• 💬 Message across Breakout Rooms, with individuals, or with the whole group; return to your messages even once the meeting has ended.
• 💥Click through icebreakers while in a Breakout Room to get the conversation flowing.
• 🧑‍🤝‍🧑Use pre-set templates such as “Speed Networking” or “Mentor/Mentee” for one-click setup

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How do I use it?

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1. Update: Make sure your Zoom is updated to the latest version.

1. Download: Head to the “Apps” button in the bottom right of your screen. Search “twine for Zoom” and add the app.

1. Invite: invite your meeting participants. (Participants struggling to download the app due to IT restrictions? No worries– as long as the host has the app, all meeting attendees can still participate!)

1. Select: Select one of our premade templates or choose your own matchmaking mode. Not sure which mode is right for your meeting? Take this quick quiz.

1. Set: Answer a couple of quick questions about conversation length & pairing rules, and you’re ready to go! 

6. Sit back & relax: When you start matchmaking, participants will automatically be sorted into timed, back-to-back conversations based on the variables you have set. 

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What else is coming to twine for Zoom?

Here’s what you’ll be able to do with t4z, coming soon:

• ✅ Assign tasks to Breakout Rooms and monitor progress as the host
• 🔍 Customize & upload your own conversation prompts
• 📽️ Embed video, audio, images
• 📊 Detailed analytics dashboards & participant profiles

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Try it out! 

Here at twine, we use our Zoom App in almost every meeting. It’s changed the way that we connect with one another. We can’t wait for other teams to experience that same ease and connection. 

Download twine for Zoom → 

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PS: Need help? Check out these articles on how to use twine for Zoom. 

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