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What is a Wiki Part III: 5 Ways Managers Can Use a Wiki

  • By Matt, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • About Confluence
  • On May 14, 2012
With 14 wiki myths busted, and 10 reasons to use a wiki as clear as day, it's time to take a closer look at how different teams can benefit from using a wiki, starting with management teams in part three of this 'What is a Wiki' series. 5 Ways Managers Can Use a Wiki Confluence is built for everyone - from your most basic users in the mail room, to your advanced techies on your development team - YES, even for you too Mr(s). Manager. If you manage a team, you might find it difficult to: Track

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What is a Wiki Part II: 10 Reasons to Use a Wiki

  • By Matt, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • About Confluence
  • On May 7, 2012
Last week we revealed the truth about wikis, busting 14 wiki myths. Today we take a look at 10 reasons why you should use a wiki, one in particular, Confluence. 10 Reasons to Use a Wiki #1 Get More Done, Together Get the best people on the right tasks and produce better overall results by letting everyone contribute. Break down information silos between teams, departments, and individuals – it's crowd-sourcing for your organization.   #2 Anyone Can Contribute Anyone can put content

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Landscape Your Wiki with Ad hoc Canvas

  • By Matt, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • About Confluence
  • On May 3, 2012
This is a guest post by Roberto Dominguez, founder and President of Comalatech, creators of Ad hoc Workflows, a tool that provides content approvals and tasks management to Confluence. Roberto introduces Ad hoc Canvas, a new add-on that brings new ways to visualize and organize your content. Landscaping Your Wiki with Ad hoc Canvas It's common wisdom that every wiki needs a gardener. One of the biggest challenges is keeping content organized and properly categorized for quick access by multiple

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What is a Wiki: 14 Myths, Busted

  • By Matt, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • About Confluence
  • On April 30, 2012
Wiki – we've all heard the word before. When you ask someone "what is a wiki?", the typical response is usually, "oh, a wiki, that's Wikipedia right?". Well, kind of. Wikipedia is based on wiki software, but not the kind that's built for the needs of team and enterprise-wide collaboration. This association is why people have misconceptions and create myths about wikis. It's time to get the truth about wikis out, mythbusters style. 14 Wiki Myths, Busted #1 Wikis are hard to use Absolutely not!

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Fast, Usable Diagrams & Mockups with Creately for Confluence

  • By Matt, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • About Confluence
  • On April 26, 2012
This is a guest blog post by Chandika Jayasundara, Co-Founder and CEO of Creately, an online diagramming plugin for Confluence which lets you create and add all kinds of diagrams like flowcharts, wireframes, UML diagrams and mindmaps for your wiki pages and blogs. Since we launched the Creately Confluence diagram plugin a few months ago, hundreds of customers have chosen Creately for its power features that make drawing flowcharts, UI mock-ups, DB diagrams, network diagrams, and UML diagrams

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How Gliffy is managing the risk of re-writing their product in HTML5

  • By Matt, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • About Confluence
  • On April 19, 2012
This is a guest blog post by Chris Kolhardt, CEO and Founder of Gliffy, a tool that makes it easy to create, share, and collaborate on a wide range of diagrams. In this post Chris shares the process, risks, and rewards of migrating away from the outdated technology that powers the editor in Gliffy Confluence Plugin, a web based diagramming tool that makes it easy to insert UML, wireframes, network diagrams, flow charts, and more right into your Confluence pages. How many times have you looked

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