Top Miro collaboration features your team should know about

It’s no secret that Miro is built for collaboration, but how many different ways can you bring people together in our innovation workspace? The answer is: plenty. So we thought we’d share a few of our favorites.

In this guide, we’ve highlighted five unique collaboration features your team should know about in Miro, whether you prefer working in real time or async. Let’s take a look!

5 powerful collaboration features in Miro

Team collaboration has changed a lot over the past few years. With more companies adopting remote and hybrid work models, not to mention with more globally distributed teams, it’s important to have tools that can keep up with your evolving collaboration needs. That’s where we’ve got you covered.

Here are five powerful and intuitive collaboration tools in Miro that’ll help keep your team on the same page, no matter where you are:

Collaborate on a Miro board in real time

Need to sync with a teammate on a project? Good news—you don’t have to wait for an empty meeting room at the office or even share your screen over video call. All you need to do is create a new Miro board, click on the blue Share button at the top right, and invite others to edit your board with you.

Whether you’re starting a live brainstorming session or diagramming together, Miro’s real-time collaboration features make it easy to keep up with your team no matter where you are. All you need is the internet and your preferred device.

Edit a Miro board asynchronously

Maybe your team’s working across time zones — or maybe you’d just rather not have another meeting. Either way, Miro makes async collaboration a breeze. Share your Miro board with your teammates and have them add content in their own time, knowing you’ll always see their latest contributions the next time you log on.

Share your thoughts on your teams’ work by adding comments on your board and tagging each other to stay in the loop on important discussions.

Run a presentation

Looking to put a few presentation slides together? Why not do it straight from your Miro board? When you click Present on the top right of your board, you enter Interactive Presentation Mode — allowing you to present your work to those you’ve shared it with.

Break your ideas down into Frames and arrange them in the order you’d like to present them in. With multiple Frames lined up, all you’ll have to do is click on the arrows to take your team through your ideas. But if you’d like, you can take them through your entire Miro board too.

Host a live workshop

But why not take your presentations up a notch with a workshop? Host a live walkthrough of your Miro board and let participants share their thoughts or ask questions using live reactions.

Keep things interactive by hosting an anonymous voting session on the spot, and stay on schedule using the built-in Timer tool. And if you feel like it, why add a bit of background music right from your Miro board?

Record a Talktrack

But not every presentation requires live attendance. With Talktrack, you can record an interactive video walkthrough of your Miro board and share it with your team to watch in their own time. Have your team share their thoughts or ask questions by leaving comments, and keep the conversation going async.

Best practices for collaborating in Miro

Now that you know several ways to do collaboration in Miro, here are a few best practices to help make the most out of your team’s time:

Set clear objectives

Start every project with clear goals to keep your team focused and aligned early on. Use Miro to outline goals, deliverables, and deadlines, creating a roadmap that everyone can follow. That includes delegating tasks and clearly defining roles.

Get feedback

One of the best ways to make sure your team’s aligned is to get feedback. Make room for questions and comments to help clarify any doubts. You might even want to make room for new ideas that could help inspire new directions worth taking.

If you’re hosting a live workshop, you could have your team share their thoughts using live text reactions or even voting sessions. And if you’re collaborating async, you can use comments to start discussions and share insights for others to see in their own time.

Tag people in important async discussions

Async doesn’t have to be slow. If you’re starting important discussions on your Miro board, it’s worth using @-mentions to tag relevant teammates in the comments. That way, you help make sure everyone stays up to date in a timely manner, all while keeping your project going.

Save time with a template

Collaborating in Miro doesn’t always have to start with a blank new board. With over 300 templates in our library, there’s a good chance you’ll find the perfect one for your workflow — whether you’re working on a mind map, designing an org chart, brainstorming, or visualizing data.

All our templates are fully customizable, so you can easily adapt them to your team’s unique needs. Explore our full template library to kickstart your next project — so you can focus more on collaboration and creativity.

Bring your team together in Miro

Remember, just because you aren’t in the same room doesn’t mean you can’t get on the same page — or, in our case, the same board. Sign up to start collaborating in Miro and discover what our innovation workspace can do for your team — or explore all our plans to find the right one for your needs.