We’re halfway through the year and have a bunch of exciting updates to share, including a few that we hope will make your collaboration experience more seamless across tools and devices. This includes several new integrations, the new Miro Interactive display app, and a host of new features focusing on enterprise-readiness. Read on to find out about all the ways you and your team bridge the gap between tools and collaborate more effectively.

For the past few years, especially as hybrid and remote work have become normalized, enterprise organizations have become reliant on an increasing number of applications and cloud-based platforms to streamline collaboration and improve productivity among teams and individuals. Companies are incentivized to ensure their tools are accessible to everyone and that work remains frictionless, all while ensuring their data stays safe.

Whether you’re actively searching for your next job or casually networking to keep an eye out for your next big opportunity, preparing for career change is an exciting time full of anticipation, opportunity, and the promise of something new. But that optimism and enthusiasm is also balanced out by some fairly intimidating to-do’s. Creating a standout resume and cover letter — or refreshing your outdated documents — is the first, potentially overwhelming obstacle.

Using the right tools in your tech stack is critical for collaboration and innovation. Teams today use up to 200 tools in their app portfolio and that number is constantly growing. With so many different tools, context gets lost and work gets complicated, with constant tool switching and effort spent managing multiple tools and databases. Fortunately, you can align your tools to better fit your workflows and boost productivity in many different areas.

A retrospective might feel like something that’s exclusive to product teams. But in reality, a retrospective is a valuable meeting for any type of team or project. During a retrospective, a team comes together to discuss their work and identify ways to better their processes, communication, relationships, and output as they move forward. It’s a chance for them to reflect, connect, and ultimately improve.

A refrain that I hear often these days is that the pandemic forever changed the way we work. And yet, just three years later, it’s not uncommon to see companies requiring their workforces to be in-person full time, in large part because it’s easier for business leaders to revert to the circumstances with which they’re most comfortable and familiar.

First, before we dive into all things new at Miro, a quick reminder — our next What’s New webinar is right around the corner and there’s still time to claim your spot. What’s in it for you? An in-depth view of how to use our new features to supercharge your workflow, plus some other key announcements. We can’t wait to see you there! Now, onto the (other) good stuff.

The recent pandemic has changed the way we work and has forced millions of people to work from home. This shift has brought an unprecedented need for businesses to collaborate virtually. Miro, an online workspace for innovation, was on the front line of this change and quickly grew from 5 million users in May 2020 to 10 million in November 2020. Thanks to AWS, Miro has been able to handle this hyper-growth and serve over 50 million users today.

Creativity and speed are crucial ingredients for innovation; teams must balance high quality work with velocity. However, even with the best intentions and planning, people sometimes experience mental blocks and struggle to execute — resulting in frustration and stalled innovation.

Creating a new board from scratch can be time-consuming and results in a divergence of inconsistencies from the look and feel to methodology across projects. Custom templates help solve these challenges by providing a standardized starting point for your team’s work in Miro.