Confluence tips
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 […]
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 […]
Task management with Confluence and Jira
I’d like to take a few moments to share how task management in Confluence relates to Jira. Both products enable teams to collaborate using task management and distribution. Confluence works well for smaller business teams, whereas Jira excels for larger projects. Getting from here to goal People rally around goals. For goals to be actionable, we need to break them […]
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 […]
Managing vacation days with Jira and Confluence
Here at Atlassian, we love using our own stuff. And when we’re not busy building kick-ass new products, we’re usually off finding new ways to use our stuff internally. Recently, Jeff Sinclair, our IT portfolio manager devised a clever way to combine the power of Jira Service Desk and Confluence to manage employee leave. “We […]
3 ways Confluence makes authoring for WordPress awesome
This is the second post in a three-part series about how we use our tools to power atlstg.reaktivdev.com. In part one we focused on using Jira Agile to manage the cadence and blog flow. Unlike a personal blog, content is a collaborative effort here at Atlassian; this allows for multiple perspectives and results in better quality […]
5 ways to work with Jira issues in Confluence
Half of the teams that use Jira also use Confluence. Development teams live in Jira where they track their work; The rest of the business lives in Confluence where everyone collaborates around requirements, documentation, marketing plans, sales reports, and anything else. We’ve worked hard over the last year to bring Jira into Confluence like never […]
Publish Jira reports in Confluence, fast
One out of every two Confluence customers also uses Jira. Development teams live in Jira where they track their work; the rest of the business lives in Confluence where everyone collaborates around requirements, documentation, marketing plans, sales reports, and everything else. You’ve told us you need an easy way communicate the work that your development […]
Five Confluence features beginners will love
Prior to joining Atlassian on the Confluence Marketing team, I had never used Confluence, so I understand what it’s like to learn it from scratch. There are tons of useful features for any kind of Confluence user that I’m still learning, but I found concentrating on a few basics helped me get comfortable quickly. 1. Keep […]
Four fast ways to link to content in Confluence
The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. At Atlassian we live in Confluence. Our intranet houses all the content that keeps the company running. This collection of rich pages and […]
Five Keyboard Shortcuts I Can’t Live Without
I’ve said it before – I’m a productivity junkie. If there’s a faster way to get something done, I’ll find it. That’s why I commit keyboard shortcuts to memory. Shortcuts for the actions I perform the most. Shortcuts that help me get more work done, faster. Since I spend 90% of my day working with my team in Confluence I thought I’d share the five keyboard shortcuts I use the most to get my job done.
How to Share Files with Your Team Using Confluence
Share files with your team using the File List Blueprint Too often files are trapped in shared network drives or email inboxes, making it impossible for everyone to have access to the most current version. We decided to tackle this problem with the File List Blueprint – which makes it easy to share and store […]
How to run effective meetings with Confluence
How many times have you left a meeting thinking it was a waste of time? Have you ever felt ‘meeting dread’ because you know that the next hour is time better spent actually getting work done? The fact is most of the meetings we attend during the day don’t accomplishing anything. Meetings with no agenda, meetings full of […]
3 Ways to Use the Status Macro in Confluence
The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series aimed to help you master Atlassian’s tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. The saying “big things come in small packages” is the perfect way to describe the status macro – a little color […]
3 tips for creating page templates in Confluence
One of the biggest time-saving tactics you can employ in your workplace is creating standardized content. Teams waste so much time every day creating documents from scratch or mindlessly scanning unstructured pages for the information they need. It’s time to stop reinventing the wheel. Here are three awesome features to use when creating page templates in Confluence that […]