Confluence tips
How to use Confluence in your blogging process
It’s important to create a blog requirements doc and make it available to all your blog authors. Also, by creating a blog page template you can help your writers get started and ensure consistency. Confluence lets you do both, which centralizes your blog process guidelines and standardizes your blog posts. The benefits of doing this are too numerous to list here, so read on!
Everything you need to know about creating buyer personas
Buyer personas are a powerful tool that helps teams build shared empathy for their buyers. While many put “buyer persona” into the category of cringe-worthy business jargon, without them you’d be building products and campaigns for a big faceless box of generalizations and personal biases. Personas help marketers, product developers and CMOs put a face […]
How to convince your team to upgrade to Confluence Data Center
Even if your team is ready, upgrading Confluence can be a big decision. Learn how to build and present a business case for Confluence Data Center.
How to weather the storm of a wild content management system
Learn how to use a content management strategy to calm even the wildest of content storms in your wiki
3 ways Confluence helps you break down silos and get work done
In most organizations, work is spread across multiple tools and silos. To move work forward, teams waste time emailing documents back and forth, making revisions, and combining changes across multiple versions of a document. Once work is complete, documents may live in different places and are hard to find or quickly become outdated, even if a […]
Do more with data: Introducing new apps for Confluence
You may think Confluence is only for creating written content, like reports, memos, and documentation. But, in reality, that’s only a fraction of what it can do. With the help of Atlassian Marketplace apps, Confluence can also help you manage large amounts of data on how your customers are engaging with your brand or on the work your employees are […]
How to make Confluence pages pop with multimedia content
We’ve all been there – you’re halfway done reading a document only to realize you haven’t absorbed a single word. People tend to zone out when they’re presented with a wall of text. So how can you create reports or memos at work without losing your audience’s attention? One answer is to use some of our […]
Managing Confluence at scale: navigating the high seas of growth
Over 40,000 customers worldwide use Confluence to collaborate, representing millions of active users each month. These users work on diverse functional teams, including software, IT, HR and Marketing, in different industries — and many adapt Confluence to their own work styles or use cases. Confluence is flexible so teams can use it to create and organize documentation, draw up project […]
Minimize downtime with Read-Only Mode for Confluence Data Center
We’re minimizing planned downtime in Confluence Data Center by introducing read-only mode, a top-voted feature request.
Get a handle on all your content with Confluence + apps
With companies creating more online work than ever, content management systems have become a necessity. Product requirements, content calendars, marketing plans, and business forms fill our inboxes and folders. An efficient enterprise content management system, or ECM, can save hours of company time that workers would otherwise spend tracking down files. But too often, files […]
Two great products, now even better together: Jira and Confluence
Confluence and Jira Software: Separate, they’re good. Together, they’re real good. In fact, over half of Jira Software teams already use Confluence as a complement to Jira and their agile development toolset. Confluence is an open and shared workspace where teams can create and organize documentation, draw up project requirements, collaborate with other teams, and provide visibility to projects. Teams […]
How to successfully onboard Confluence across your company
This is a guest post written by Lars Brozinski, IT manager at BÜFA-Group Nearly, three years ago I got the job to implement Atlassian’s Confluence at BÜFA-Group, a medium-sized German company in the chemical industry, active in chemical trading, cleaning technologies, and composite systems. BÜFA has over 500 people operating out of different countries like […]
Introducing the Confluence Cloud app for Stride
Messaging is just not the best place for a full-length blog post, in-depth project review, or documentation article — but Confluence is. Confluence’s open and shared workspace helps teams connect and stay organized, and is perfect for anything from product roadmaps to creative briefs. In short, Confluence helps everyone collaborate on long-form content. The new Confluence Cloud app for […]
3 simple ways teams can create compelling content in Confluence
This is a guest post by Dylan Lindsay, product marketing manager at Adaptavist. Confluence is an incredible tool for creating, storing and sharing information across teams. However, as organizations grow from lean startup to leading enterprises, the labyrinth of useful information can become a little daunting. In this blog, we’ll look at three simple ways that teams […]
How a large insurance company migrated to Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket Data Center in 3 months
“We’re migrating to Data Center products for Jira and Confluence. What does the migration involve, have other teams done it?”, asked an admin from a large company. Data Center is Atlassian’s enterprise product line for companies which self-host Atlassian applications on-premise or on AWS or Azure. These companies migrate from Server products to Data Center […]