A Technical Writer’s Guide to Technical Documentation in a Wiki
Over the past month we have explored the world of technical documentation in Confluence and gotten a taste of Sarah Maddox’s new book: Confluence, tech comm, chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication. We hope that you have picked up some helpful tips and tricks or even changed the way you think about […]
Accelerate Wiki Adoption with Quick and Easy User Invites in Confluence 4.2
Hopefully by now you’ve gotten the message that Confluence 4.2 is absolutely chock-a-block full of great features. Matt introduced the improvements to notifications and comments and Ryan, not to be outdone, showed you what we’ve done to take attachment and document management to the next level. With all these improvements and new features still to come, […]
Technical Documentation in Confluence – Driving Wiki Development
This is the last post in a month-long series centered around Sarah Maddox’s new book: Confluence, tech comm, chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, published by XML Press.The book is choc-a-bloc full of tips from a technical communicator who has spent the last four years on Confluence. Learn how to harness the […]
Funky Tidbits for Technical Writers
This is the fourth post in a month-long series centred around Sarah Maddox’s new book: Confluence, tech comm, chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, published by XML Press.The book is choc-a-bloc full of tips from a technical communicator who has spent the last four years on Confluence. Learn how to harness the […]
Turning Documentation into Communication with Confluence
This is the third post in a month-long series centered around Sarah Maddox’s new book: Confluence, tech comm, chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, published by XML Press.The book is choc-a-bloc full of tips from a technical communicator who has spent the last four years on Confluence. Learn how to harness the […]
Start Conversations Inside Confluence Pages with Talk from StiltSoft
This is a guest post by Maxim Kuzmich, the co-founder of StiltSoft, a small team of “hackers” and fans of products by Atlassian. StiltSoft develops the Talk and InPlace Editor add-ons for Confluence. Raise team collaboration to a higher level Good documents are never written alone. Think about how you normally create an engaging document […]
Technical Documentation in Confluence – Managing Updates for Everyone
This is the second post in a month-long series centered around Sarah Maddox’s new book: Confluence, tech comm, chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, published by XML Press.The book is choc-a-bloc full of tips from a technical communicator who has spent the last four years on Confluence. Learn how to harness the […]
A Day in the Life of a Technical Writer
This is the first post in a series centered around Sarah Maddox’s new book: Confluence, tech comm, chocolate: A wiki as platform extraordinaire for technical communication, published by XML Press. The book is choc-a-bloc full of tips from a technical communicator who has spent the last four years on Confluence. Learn how to harness the wiki’s […]
Automate Your Editing Experience & Get More Done, Faster
Anyone play the game Need for Speed? Remember tearing through exotic city locales on missions to escape the police while driving the best cars in the world? Well the Confluence team has been feeling a need for speed this year, and we want to share it with you. We might not quite give you the […]
One for the Wiki Markup Pros – Macro and Link Autoformatting
The Confluence team strives to deliver you the fastest online editing experience. In Confluence 4.0 we gave you Autoformatting – converting simple wiki markup on the fly. Formatted texts, lists, tables – it all works. Available in OnDemand and for download today, the latest version of Confluence extends Autoformatting to support: macros links, and images […]
Kickstart User Adoption in Style
The Confluence team is especially merry this holiday season. Earlier this week, we released Confluence 4.1 to help your team create professional and engaging content. Just a day later we unveiled Team Calendars 1.7 to improve how you manage team leave. But our latest surprise dives into a new realm for Atlassian as we take on the likes of Calvin Klein, […]
3 New Wiki Shortcuts to Save You Time – Coming Soon in Confluence 4.1
Is it just me or is there something in the air this week with all the talk of the upcoming release of Confluence 4.1? Ryan shared a new feature that’s sure to spark everyone’s creative flare to spice their pages with professional image effects. Matt highlighted 5 more improvements on the way. Now it’s my turn […]
Bring Your Knowledge Base to Life with Gliffy
This is a guest post by Eric Chiang, Plugins Product Lead at Gliffy, which is a Confluence plugin that allows you to create stunning collaborative flow charts and diagrams in Confluence pages. This is the third and final post of a three-part blog series that details how you can use Gliffy to add impressive visual […]
Make Your Technical Documentation Dynamic with Gliffy
This is a guest post by Eric Chiang, Plugins Product Lead at Gliffy, which is a Confluence plugin that allows you to create stunning collaborative flow charts and diagrams in Confluence pages. This is the second of a three-part blog series that details how you can use Gliffy to add impressive visual diagrams to your […]
Get the Most Out of Your Intranet with Gliffy
This is a guest post by Eric Chiang, Plugins Product Lead at Gliffy, which is a Confluence plugin that allows you to create stunning collaborative flow charts and diagrams in Confluence pages. This is the first of a three-part blog series that details how you can use Gliffy to add impressive visual diagrams to your […]