Category Archives: Intranets

Upload images and use keyboard shortcuts with Microblogging for Confluence

1. April 2015 uopitz

Now you can upload images in the microblogging for Confluence editor via drag and drop or via the upload button. Shortcuts allow you to edit even quicker. Deep links take you to a new page with the whole conversation where you can also reply. Take a look at the video to see the features in action.

Terms-of-Use-Plugin: Clarify your terms of use in Confluence for all Users

11. March 2015 pherwarth

In almost any software installation, when registering for online portals and on many more occasions it is necessary to confirm terms of use. The Terms-of-Use-Plugin for Confluence by //SEIBERT/MEDIA, you can add a disclaimer with terms of use to your collaboration system. Read here to learn more…

Presentation: Build social intranets with Confluence

10. March 2015 cbareis

Atlassian’s Confluence has developed over the past years from a mere enterprise wiki to an enterprise social collaboration platform. Nowadays, the system and various third party plugins offer anything that is necessary for building a professional, scaleable social intranet for enterprises. How can such a platform be built up – especially in large enterprises? Which hurdles need to be crossed? Which approach is appropriate? During our Atlassian Enterprise Club meeting with customers, Martin Seibert, CEO of //SEIBERT/MEDIA presented on the following topic: “Building Social Intranets with Confluence”

Confluence 5.7: now full support of data, in-line comments, roadmaps macro, and more

4. March 2015 Matthias Rauer

Atlassian has released Confluence version 5.7, which includes a variety of new features. The team collaboration system now fully supports files in any format and offers in-line comments for pages and even attachments. It also comes with the Roadmap macro, which simplifies the HipChat integration. Advanced users now benefit from the Confluence Query Language in the content search.

Social Intranet With LINCHPIN – Highlights & Features

4. February 2015 Matthias Rauer

Martin Seibert and Erik Klein present the Confluence based intranet solution LINCHPIN by //SEIBERT/MEDIA. It is the central hub of your daily work and allows you personalization, top down communication, news, navigation menu editor, and much more, based on your active directory. Learn more about LINCHPIN in this video.

HipChat Server 1.0 released – Real Time Communication for Teams. Securely behind the Firewall

28. January 2015 uopitz

As announced during the 2013 Atlassian Summit, HipChat Server 1.0 was just released. Atlasssian’s professional team chat and instant messaging solution HipChat can now be run securely behind the Firewall. Great news for businesses in search of a straight forward, quick and slim platform for team communication and for whom a Cloud Service is not an option. Plans for HipChat Server start at $10 for up to 10 users per year. Proceeds from sales of the $10 starter version will be donated to charity. Read about all the features in this post…

LINCHPIN: 100% Social Intranet with Confluence

22. January 2015 uopitz

Why use LINCHPIN to implement a real social intranet? LINCHPIN is the central hub for your employees, featuring top down communication and full personalization, depending on location and language settings. Based on your LDAP, your active directory, the Navigation Menu Editor will customize contents for the user. LINCHPIN offers News, Highlights, Expert Search, Menus, and much more.

MS SharePoint as a Wiki: Few Functions, less Compatibility

6. January 2015 mseibert

The basis for this article were recently constructed under the leadership of Martin Seibert at an open-space session at the WikiSym in Portugal. The original document is available in English under the title “How good is MS Sharepoint as a wiki?”

Without professional knowledge management, companies are losing potential, wasting resources, and acquiring unwanted competitive disadvantages. Along with many other companies, the industry giant Microsoft has rolled out its own application, SharePoint, which allows data to be centrally deposited and edited.

Challenges of migrating a company wiki to Confluence and why it is worth overcoming them (part 2)

25. December 2014 mseibert

Companies that want to convert from their current company wiki system to Confluence must overcome a few challenges: existing users are used to working with the platform, changing systems always involves trade-offs, and transferring existing content is complex and painful. In the previous article, we described these common challenges in detail. In this article, we will explain why the switch to Confluence is still a good idea and why the exhausting migration process is still worth the effort.

Challenges of migrating a company wiki to Confluence and why it is worth overcoming them (part 1)

23. December 2014 mseibert

If you take a closer look at the various company wiki systems available on the market and objectively evaluate them, you will likely come to the conclusion that Confluence by Atlassian is the best and most sophisticated solution out there. Often, such comparisons are made when a company already uses another wiki – a system that grew organically beyond a department, an open-source system introduced as a trial run, or consciously chose the Wikipedia system MediaWiki because it’s the most successful software of its kind.