Archives for Bill Arconati

Drag and Drop Screenshots into Confluence with Skitch

Do you ever find yourself pasting screenshots into your Confluence pages? At Atlassian, we're often creating screenshots for describing bugs we want fixed and features we want implemented. So let me share with you a nifty little tip to make the process smooth and easy. Here's what you'll need Confluence 3.1 or later - Confluence 3.1 introduced the awesome attachment Drag and Drop feature which lets you drag images and Office documents directly into the rich text editor. (Note that drag and drop

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Get your hands on Confluence 3.3 with Macro Autocomplete

We showed you a glimpse of it at Atlassian Summit. We teased you with it in our blogs. But now the wait is over. You can finally now get your hands on Confluence 3.3. What's new in 3.3? Confluence 3.3 largely builds on a vast editor improvements we added to Confluence 3.2, making your editing experience both faster and simpler. Macro Autocomplete In 3.2 we introduced autocomplete for links and attachments. In 3.3 we extended the awesomeness and speed of autocomplete to macros. Let Confluence autocomplete

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Guest Perspective from ThreeWill – How SharePoint Connector 1.2 is a World Cup Champion

This month's guest post is by ThreeWill, the company that initially worked with Atlassian to help create the first version of the SharePoint Connector. Learn more about how ThreeWill helps clients install, configure, and customize the SharePoint Connector for Confluence at http://www.threewill.com/ confluence/ I'm Zach Brownfield, a summer intern at ThreeWill and an avid soccer (or football for the non-US crowd) fan and player. With the World Cup being played this month, I thought it would be interesting

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Factors for success for Wikis 3: Overcoming resistance from the company culture

This is the third of three  posts by Martin Seibert. He is the CEO of a German internet agency called //SEIBERT/MEDIA, a specialist for enterprise wikis and corporate communication. //SEIBERT/MEDIA is one of Atlassian's official partners in Germany. This blog post is also available in German at http://seibert.biz/wikisuccess3. From dozens of company Wiki projects, we know that the successful introduction of a Wiki into a company typically depends on three factors: technology; organization; and

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Factors for success for Wikis 2: Organization is the key

This is the second of three posts by Martin Seibert. He is the CEO of a German internet agency called //SEIBERT/MEDIA, a specialist for enterprise wikis and corporate communication. //SEIBERT/MEDIA is one of Atlassian's official partners in Germany. This blog post is also available in German at http://seibert.biz/wikisuccess2. From dozens of company Wiki projects, we know that the successful introduction of a Wiki into a company typically depends on three factors: technology; organization; and culture.

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Factors for the success of Wikis 1: Technology is important, but not king

This is the first of three  posts by Martin Seibert. He is the CEO of a German internet agency called //SEIBERT/MEDIA, a specialist for enterprise wikis and corporate communication. //SEIBERT/MEDIA is one of Atlassian's official partners in Germany. This blog post is also available in German at http://seibert.biz/wikisuccess1. A company Wiki is not only a new technology for many employees (at least within the company environment); it also requires a change in the normal communication- and collaboration

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