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Confluence 101: using pages (so the dog can’t eat your homework)

The second Confluence 101 article talks about creating content with pages. It’s meant to give you the foundation necessary for confidence and success creating useful Confluence pages. The article covers the basic concepts of pages, some best practices, and tips and tricks.

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Introducing Confluence 101: The first step to getting an A in Confluence

Confluence is a powerful tool and we want you to get the most out of it. Confluence 101 is a series designed to help you learn the basics in Confluence. Organizing your work in spaces is the first article to get you started.

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Aeria Games chooses Hipchat to scale internal communications

By 2014, Aeria Games faced a big challenge. They were growing like crazy. From 2012 through early 2014 they saw a series of mergers and acquisitions that led to a massive growth spurt. They quickly went from being a group of 200 to being a part of a company with over 500 people. Like any company growing that fast, they were going through some major growing pains involving internal communication.

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Hipchat helps Sonatype’s fully distributed development team stay agile

Sonatype is a leader in component-based software development that helps thousands of companies make sure their software components are traceable and secure. While building a reliable component management platform is difficult, it’s nothing compared to the challenge their development team faces being completely distributed.

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OGSystems prioritizes secure communication with Hipchat Server

Yesterday, the Hipchat team announced the launch of Hipchat Server, which can improve communication for every team, including all those that need business-critical information to stay behind a firewall. OGSystems was one of those companies that needed a better way to communicate. But since they specialize in Department of Defense, Intelligence Community, and commercial systems development, they needed everything to remain ultra secure.

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Top 10 Hipchat Highlights from 2014

2014 has been a massive year for Hipchat. Thanks mostly to a rock star team and ever-growing amount of awesome customers, we exceeded a lot of the high expectations we had entering the year. As we prepare for what will be an even bigger 2015, we wanted to take a moment and highlight some of the achievements that we’re especially proud of from the past year. Check out a countdown of the top 10 HipChat-iest moments in 2014.

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Connect Confluence and Hipchat to take team collaboration to the next level

At Atlassian, Confluence and Hipchat are the glue that connects the people, content, and conversations that drive every team and project forward. You already know that we have Confluence spaces set up to keep every team and major project organized. We also have Hipchat group chat rooms that help facilitate real-time communication for these teams […]

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Webinar: Practical Advice for Agile Product Management

A few months ago we held a webinar with two of Atlassian’s rockstar product managers on doing agile product management the right way. After seeing how helpful and popular it was, we’re doing it again! Save the date: November 12, 2014 10:00 AM PST We’re bringing back the dynamic duo of Sherif Mansour and John Masson […]

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Webinar: Setting up Confluence for success

One of the most common questions we hear from new customers is, ‘Where do I start?’ Confluence is one of the most powerful and flexible collaboration platforms available and setting it up so that your team can get the most out of it is key to productivity. Watch, learn, and share There is not one secret to setting up your […]

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Confluence 5.6: Small improvements that make a big impact

Confluence 5.6 brings one big change for enterprise customers, plus a number of small improvements for everyone. We launched a new deployment option, Confluence Data Center, for those running Confluence at large scale. We also added two new Jira charts and satisfied over 1,200 customer votes with improvements everyone will enjoy. New insightful Jira charts Confluence 5.4 was all […]

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3 ways to keep your team on track with tasks in Confluence

We recently released Confluence 5.5 to improve how you create and manage ad-hoc tasks in the flow of your work. Tasks allow your team to stay transparent, accountable, and most importantly, in one place: Confluence. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chL4ONFFkyo?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360] 3 ways to use tasks in Confluence We use tasks all the time at Atlassian. Here are three ways […]

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5 blogs that will help make your Confluence intranet more social

Confluence is the perfect place to create an open and social intranet. Our Confluence intranet is full of blogs that create discussion, spawn ideas, and challenge the status quo. Our blogging culture is what keeps us transparent, together, and gives everyone an equal voice. So, to help you spice up your company’s social life, here […]

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Meet the new RefinedWiki mobile interface for corporate branding

This is a guest post from RefinedWiki, the team behind RefinedWiki Original Theme for Confluence, one of the best-­selling Confluence add-­ons of all time.   Our new release of RefinedWiki Mobile Interface takes Confluence on mobile to the next level. In this version we’ve focused on both responsiveness and on creating an intuitive navigation that […]

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Inside Atlassian: building automated index pages in Confluence

When we introduced Confluence Blueprints a year ago, we wanted to empower all of our users to create rich pages for their repeatable business processes. If you’ve ever used the product requirements, or decisions Blueprints you’ve seen how easy it is to also track all the pages you’ve created on a single index page. This […]

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Introducing Confluence 5.5: Tasks where you work

Managing your tasks can often be more work than the tasks themselves. The problem is that you typically manage your tasks in one place and do the actual work in another – but the two are inextricably tied. Tasks are the product of meetings, decisions, project planning, and all the other content you create with […]