Ask the Experts 21: Connect and collaborate better with your team, right within the Inbox - from anywhere!

Ask the Experts 21: Connect and collaborate better with your team, right within the Inbox - from anywhere!


The entire world is fighting against the deadly virus by staying away from each other. Most of the businesses and teams are trying to support their users from remote locations. It is essential for the teams to stay connected, irrespective of the location they are working from.

Zoho Mail helps your entire organization stay connected and also collaborate better using the extensive features built around collaboration. Some of the features that enable remote collaboration in Zoho Mail are below:  

Email sharing - @mention your team mates or your entire team to share the entire thread of email that you received. 
Draft sharing - Get a peer review of the important email that you are drafting, by inviting collaborators to your draft. Your team member can comment on it to share their changes and help you convey the right things via email. 
Folder sharing - Share an entire folder of emails with your colleague or team mate or a newbie to help them onboard - remotely
Streams messages - Share your thoughts/ work items/ ideas with the entire team. Your team can comment on your posts to enhance the original idea proposed or simply like it as a mark of acceptance. 
Group Tasks - Post the pending tasks to the group and allow them to pick up their own tasks or add sub tasks to it. You can also assign specific tasks to the team members.
Group Calendar - Create a common calendar for your entire team to know their schedule, set up meetings and so on.  
Group Notes - Share notes with the entire team and allow members to collaborate on it. You can update the notes and the collaborators will be notified when you modify them. 
Group Bookmarks - Add the common links for your team as Group bookmarks. These can be design references or some data that matters to the entire team. 
Cliq chatlet from email / streams - Create a group chat with everyone in the email - the sender,  and all the recipients. 
Cliq audio/ video calling - Use the audio/ video calling features in Cliq to talk to someone or have a face to face meeting with anyone in your team. 

Our team of experts will help you collaborate better with your remote teams. Post your questions/ feedback/ suggestions/ issues and our experts will discuss with you real-time along with their expert suggestions and exclusive tips. 

We'll be available to answer your questions in a live session on : 31 March 2020 - 07.30 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. PDT

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