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Matt Hodges

Aussie in SF. Avid skiier. Beer lover. Wannabe chef. Collaboration. Marketing. Confluence. HipChat. Atlassian.

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2 easy ways to create links in your enterprise wiki

Wikis are a great tool for creating documentation. It’s easy to provide context in your wiki pages by creating links. In Confluence 3.2, we introduced 2 new ways to create links, focusing on making the task as fast and intuitive for end users as possible.

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Share documents in your enterprise wiki with Confluence 3.2

Confluence is an enterprise wiki that makes it incredibly easy to store and share files. With autocomplete and drag-and-drop, it’s never been easier to share your Microsoft Office Documents, PDF’s and images.

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Faster, easier, intuitive wiki linking with Confluence 3.2

This is the first of series of posts where I’ll deep dive into a new feature and give you video demonstration of the feature in action. Let’s start with Autocomplete for inserting links.

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Intranet 101: New employee blogs

What’s a fun, interesting and unobtrusive way to introduce new hires to the rest of the company? Empower them to write their own introductory blog post of course!

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Make your Confluence wiki public

Do you have content in your wiki that you want to share with others that don’t have an account? Well, using Confluence you can make that content publicly accessible to anyone, without affecting your licensing costs.

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Skin your wiki

Are you the type of person that likes to stand out from the rest of the crowd? I know I do 🙂 One of the great things about Confluence is the flexibility and control it gives you over its look and feel. Earlier this week, Jimmy Lundström from RefinedWiki, wrote a guest post about how you can turn your Confluence wiki into into an Intranet with their Confluence theme plugin. Your options for skinning your wiki and making it stand out from the rest of the crowd don’t stop there…

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Turn Your Wiki into an Intranet with RefinedWiki

RefinedWikis first post focuses on how you, with enhanced usability and interface design, can organize content better, increase non-technical users adoption rate and take your first step to use Confluence as an intranet. Our second post will be a new product release for Confluence, so please stay tuned.  

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Social Media Monitoring in the Wiki

I’ll fess up, I’m a Twitter fanboi. When I’m not at work, I’m @mattnhodges and when I am, I’m the @ConfluenceGuru. There’s a little gem that was shipped in Confluence 3.1 which makes monitoring your multiple Twitter accounts, and tweets about your company, a breeze.

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CRM integration with your Confluence wiki

If you are anything like Atlassian, your Customer Service and Sales teams probably use Salesforce.com. With the release of CustomWare’s Salesforce.com to Confluence Connector 2.0, integration with your CRM and wiki just got a lot stronger.

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Confluence Community: Share Your User Macros

t dawned on me that there must be some really kick ass user macros that have been created by some of our 8,100 Confluence customers. So, I thought to myself, how can share these user macros? Use Confluence of course!

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Top 5 Confluence Blog Posts in 2009

As 2009 comes to an end I thought it would be fitting to finish the year with an entry that highlights those 5 posts that had the most views over the year. So if you are looking for something good to read on the toilet one day, picking one of these posts is a pretty safe bet.

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Project Management in the Wiki: Visualise Status

Communicate the status of your projects in your corporate intranet with Confluence, the enterprise wiki.

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Report Confluence Activity Using Google Analytics in the Wiki

Report on activity in your enterprise wiki with the Google Analytics Plugin for Confluence.

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Movember @ Atlassian: MO with the MOst Announcement

I’m going to keep this post short and sweet and let the results do all the talking. Last week we opened up the voting for you to decide who should take home the three annual Atlassian Movember awards. You’ve had your say and the winners are…

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Interactive Tour of Confluence as a Collaborative Intranet

Hot on the heels of the Confluence 3.1 release, we’ve given the Confluence Sandbox a lot of love. What is it? Tell me! Tell me! Thanks to some incredible skill from Mark Halvorson you can now take an interactive tour of Confluence with the Atlassian Assistant. Currently, there is a single tour that takes users […]