Turn your static home page into a dynamic Q&A forum
If your company is like Atlassian, you have a Confluence space for every department where employees can go to get more information about the teams they work with. For example, you may have a HR space where employees can go to find information about benefits, paid leave, policies, etc. Or you may have a development space […]
5 Steps to launching a thriving Q&A Community
This article is for people wanting to deploy an internal question and answer community for employee knowledge sharing. Enterprise Q&A communities are growing in popularity as companies are replacing forums, bulletin boards, and mailing lists with a more natural question and answer format popularized by sites like Quora and Stack Overflow. Imagine having a self-governing […]
Introducing Confluence Enterprise
Along with today’s of launch Confluence 4.3, our biggest Confluence release ever, we’re proud to announce that we have expanded Atlassian’s portfolio of Enterprise offerings with the introduction of Confluence Enterprise, a new offering tailored to the needs of our largest Confluence customers. Our commitment to the enterprise While the introduction of Enterprise offerings at Atlassian is […]
Drag and Drop Screenshots into Confluence with Skitch
Do you ever find yourself pasting screenshots into your Confluence pages? At Atlassian, we’re often creating screenshots for describing bugs we want fixed and features we want implemented. So let me share with you a nifty little tip to make the process smooth and easy. Here’s what you’ll need Confluence 3.1 or later – Confluence […]
Get your hands on Confluence 3.3 with Macro Autocomplete
We showed you a glimpse of it at Atlassian Summit. We teased you with it in our blogs. But now the wait is over. You can finally now get your hands on Confluence 3.3. What’s new in 3.3? Confluence 3.3 largely builds on a vast editor improvements we added to Confluence 3.2, making your editing […]
Guest Perspective from ThreeWill – How SharePoint Connector 1.2 is a World Cup Champion
This month’s guest post is by ThreeWill, the company that initially worked with Atlassian to help create the first version of the SharePoint Connector. Learn more about how ThreeWill helps clients install, configure, and customize the SharePoint Connector for Confluence at http://www.threewill.com/ confluence/ I’m Zach Brownfield, a summer intern at ThreeWill and an avid soccer […]
Factors for success for Wikis 3: Overcoming resistance from the company culture
This is the third of three posts by Martin Seibert. He is the CEO of a German internet agency called //SEIBERT/MEDIA, a specialist for enterprise wikis and corporate communication. //SEIBERT/MEDIA is one of Atlassian’s official partners in Germany. This blog post is also available in German at http://seibert.biz/wikisuccess3. From dozens of company Wiki projects, we […]
Factors for success for Wikis 2: Organization is the key
This is the second of three posts by Martin Seibert. He is the CEO of a German internet agency called //SEIBERT/MEDIA, a specialist for enterprise wikis and corporate communication. //SEIBERT/MEDIA is one of Atlassian’s official partners in Germany. This blog post is also available in German at http://seibert.biz/wikisuccess2. From dozens of company Wiki projects, we […]
Factors for the success of Wikis 1: Technology is important, but not king
This is the first of three posts by Martin Seibert. He is the CEO of a German internet agency called //SEIBERT/MEDIA, a specialist for enterprise wikis and corporate communication. //SEIBERT/MEDIA is one of Atlassian’s official partners in Germany. This blog post is also available in German at http://seibert.biz/wikisuccess1. A company Wiki is not only a […]
Two new FREE Confluence plugins to check out
Valiantys, an Atlassian partner, just made us aware of two new plugins they’ve providing for free under a BSD license. Both plugins, which coincidentally look very useful, are now available on the Atlassian Plugin Exchange. Branch Remover Plugin The Branch Remover plugin (see right) allows the space administrators and all authorized contributors to delete a […]
Top Ten Things We Know About Wikis
This is a guest post by Nick Smith of Freedom Information Systems. Nick is presenting Confluence at NASA: Where No Wiki Has Gone Before at this year’s Atlassian Summit. You’ll find his original post at freedomis.com. Freedom is very excited to be speaking at this year’s Atlassian Summit which takes place in San Francisco in […]
Confluence 3.2 – Page editing just got a lot faster
It’s with great pleasure that we bring you Confluence 3.2 with the fastest editing experience yet. Confluence 3.2 provides a number of innovative features that combine the simplicity of Rich Text with the speed of wiki markup. Confluence 3.2 will have you creating attractive, content-rich pages in just seconds. What’s new? Confluence 3.2 provides a […]
Integrate Processes Into Your Wiki with Ad hoc Workflows
This is a guest post by Roberto Dominguez from Comala Technology, creators of a number of Atlassian plugins including Ad hoc Workflows, the Checklists plugin, the RADIUS Authenticator for Jira and Confluence, and the TagLinks plugin. Since 2007, Comalatech has helped enterprise clients adopt and adapt Confluence for atypical applications. Starting with customer needs, we’ve […]
Get More People Involved in Confluence with TaskDock
This is the second of two guest posts by Erik Eccles from TaskDock, a Confluence plugin that lets you assign, track, and complete actions within Confluence and email. Our second post in this series focuses on stepping up the involvement of the people beyond Confluence’s core constituents. Companies with non-technical adopters such as […]
Get Organized with Confluence Personal Labels
It’s probably no surprise that Atlassian uses Confluence to everything. I estimate that at least 75% of the business content I interact with on a daily basis resides in our internal Confluence instance. All the projects I’m working on…the blog posts I’m writing….the meeting notes I take…the goals my boss wants me to accomplish…the company’s […]
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