This post is both for people running Confluence and those using it. It tries to help you understand what the benefits of Questions for Confluence (formerly: Confluence Questions) are and why you and your co-workers may want to adopt it. This is not based on quantitative research. What you are reading is my best effort to help you with the knowledge and experience I have.
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Better Blogs leads to better understanding
This is a guest post from Nicholas Muldoon (@njm) who spent 2.5 years coaching Product and Engineering Directors at Twitter in San Francisco. He is passionate about building effective companies and is turning his experience at Twitter into products companies can use to be more effective.
Terms-of-Use-Plugin: Clarify your terms of use in Confluence for all Users
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…
InstaPrinta 2.0: Now with full Integration in JIRA Agile
In a previous article, we have introduced the InstaPrinta by //SEIBERT/MEDIA and the functions of the JIRA plugin. Our JIRADev team has now released InstaPrinta 2.0 and we would like to dive a bit deeper into the actual features. InstaPrinta is a JIRA plugin for printing issues directly from JIRA and JIRA Agile on handy card format (i.e. DIN A6). Individual and various issues can be sent to the printer and saved as a PDF. In JIRA, issue view and issue search are extended by a menu item, that offers a choice to print or create a PDF.
FOLIO: Portfolio Financial Management for Jira – Demo & Interview
In this interview with Martin Seibert during the Atlassian Summit 2014, JC Huet from Kitologic presents the FOLIO plugin. Being a financial plugin, it brings money value into JIRA. Check out the video to learn more about FOLIO’s features.
Social Intranet With LINCHPIN – Highlights & Features
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.
LINCHPIN: 100% Social Intranet with Confluence
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.
Easy Events Plugin – Create Event Pages in Confluence
Integrate Events in Confluence more smoothly with the Easy Events Plugin. Sven Heß, who was involved in developing the plugin, and Martin Seibert take a look at the features of the plugin. By a simple click, a user can join the event and invite other participants. No need to create and update complicated tables. The plugin is available on the Atlassian Marketplace for only US$ 10 for unlimited users.
Social Intranet with LINCHPIN – The Highlights Plugin
The Highlights plugin within the LINCHPIN social intranet allows different corporate news to be published to different user groups, depending on their location, department or other variables. It is based on the Custom User Profile plugin. In this video, Martin Seibert and Eric Klein demonstrate the features of the Highlights plugin.
Diagrams in Confluence and JIRA: draw.io versus Gliffy
draw.io allows the creation of a diverse range of diagrams within Confluence and JIRA via an intuitive and responsive interface. Possible diagrams are flow charts, network diagrams, org charts, UML diagrams, mind maps and many more. draw.io is based on a market leading diagram technology that has been developed by JGraph in 2005 and therefore has matured a lot by now. In 2012 the application draw.io was created and is available as a plugin on the Atlassian Marketplace, directly offered by //SEIBERT/MEDIA.