Improved LDAP Integration & Configuration in Confluence 3.5 EAP

The Confluence Development team continues to push out Early Access Previews (EAP) at a blistering rate. This week they pushed out Confluence 3.5 EAP 2 and with it, support for nested groups in LDAP, the most highly-voted issue for Confluence. But that’s not all…

Technical Communicators Guide to Technical Writing in a Wiki

Over the past few weeks Atlassian’s Technical Writing Team published a series of posts about how you can use a wiki for technical writing. Their posts cover the complete process from authoring your technical documentation, to collaborating and reviewing drafts, publishing online and options for importing and exporting different formats including DITA and XML. Checkout out the posts below and learn how you could use a wiki like Confluence to author, publish, structure and manage your documentation.

$45,982, 40 Moustaches and 1 Blue Mohawk

That’s what November Movember at Atlassian has been all about. A record 40 Atlassian’s grew a moustache to show their support and raise awareness for men’s health issues, raising $45,982 along the way.

Even Better Word Export for Confluence with Scroll Office 2.1

This is a guest post by Stefan Kleineikenscheidt of K15t Software, one of Atlassian’s official partners. This post highlights the new features shipped in the latest release of Scroll Office, a Confluence plugin that allows you to collaborate and author your technical documentation in the wiki and generate beautifully styled Word documents with a single click.

It’s Movember @ Atlassian – Double Mo all the Way!

It’s that time of the year once again. The month that you get to grow a killer ‘stache to raise some dough and help highlight men’s health issues – specifically prostate cancer and depression in men.

This year there’s a record 38 Atlassian Mo Bro’s participating. They’ve got a pretty good incentive…

Watch a live demo of the new features in Confluence 3.4

It’s been a couple of weeks since we released Confluence 3.4, a new version of our enterprise wiki packed full of new features to provide faster, richer content creation for everyone. Don’t worry if you missed out on last week’s webinar demonstration of the new features, we recorded everything for you! 

See the new keyboard shortcuts, user macro improvements and new Universal Plugin Management by watching a recording of the live demo below (demo starts at 07:25).

Access Your Dropbox Account in Confluence

I’m a huge fan of Dropbox, in fact I could not get through a day of work without it. It’s one of those tools I use everyday, just like Confluence, our enterprise wiki. In this post I’ll show you how you can access all the files in your Dropbox account in any Confluence page thanks to Confluence’s support for OpenSocial Gadgets.

Confluence 3.4 – Faster, richer content creation for everybody

In Confluence 3.4 we’ve made editing and navigating in your enterprise wiki even faster with more keyboard shortcuts and a better way for all users to discover them. Users can now easily discover and harness the power of user macros to create even richer content. Administrators, get excited because Confluence 3.4 includes a new plugin manager that’s makes performing Confluence upgrades a whole lot smarter.

Bring Confluence to your Desktop with ConfluenceFx

ConfluenceFx is the first rich enterprise solution that brings Confluence to your destkop. Based on an enterprise mashup architecture, this desktop application will enrich the collaborative experience of your communities and boost their Confluence adoption. Install ConfluenceFx on your Confluence instance, easily deploy the AIR desktop application on your computer (Mac or PC) and enjoy a new and richer user experience!

Wiki Adoption: Why there's no Reason to be Scared of Sharing Knowledge

Often in the opening phase of deploying an enterprise wiki it is difficult to encourage employees to participate. This is because employees haven’t been properly brought up to speed and thus they misunderstand the concept of and benefits of using a wiki. One symptom of this is the fear of sharing knowledge.

Wiki Workflows: Publishing a Knowledge Base Article

A frequent use case for Ad hoc Workflows for Confluence is that of publishing articles to a knowledge base.

The FAQ Creation Workflow is one such workflow. This particular workflow was created to streamline the process of publishing Frequently Asked Questions into a knowledge base for one of the largest online music stores.

Styled Word Documents from Your Wiki with Scroll Office

This is a guest post by Stefan Kleineikenscheidt of K15t Software, one of Atlassian’s official partners. This post takes a deep look into Scroll Office, a Confluence plugin that allows you to collaborate and author your technical project documentation in the wiki and generate beautifully styled Word documents with a single click.

111 reasons why you need an enterprise wiki

At //SEIBERT/MEDIA, we’ve been doing our work on a wiki for years. Through our day-to-day work as well as through dozens of enterprise wiki projects, we’ve experienced – thanks to innumerable different example cases – how useful and valuable a wiki can be on a number of levels. Therefore, we believe it is high time to compress the arguments for a wiki into the limited space offered by tweets to make our points as efficiently as possible.

Create custom approval process workflows in your enterprise wiki

This is a guest post by Roberto Dominguez from Comalatech, creators of the Ad-hoc Workflows Plugin for Confluence. Announced at Atlassian Summit 2010, the new Ad-hoc Workflows Exchange will get you up and running with custom workflows for your enterprise wiki content in just a few seconds. It’s a place where you can browse through a number of pre-configured workflows and discuss best practices.

iPhone and Android app to take your enterprise wiki on the road

Mini Confluence Enterprise Edition (MCEE) is a mobile client for your existing Confluence installation. It isn’t a theme or skin tailored for mobile devices; it’s a separate interface designed and optimized for the unique constraints of mobile devices. Using a companion plugin for Confluence, we’re able to minimize the amount of traffic sent over the network to make it super fast. You may never use Confluence the same way again.