Monthly Archives: September 2009

Creating a Personal 'Dashboard'

The Formula: personal space + macros + =widgets = your own personal 'dashboard' Confluence has a great Global Dashboard that gives you an overview of the site's most recent activity and access to all the spaces you have the permission to see. It's the first page you see when you login and it gives you the flexibility to filter it's content by your favourite spaces. Wouldn't it be great if you could add some more personalised information to the Dashboard? Hell yeah! I'm going to show you how you can

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Two Tickets To Defrag – Going once….twice….

As a gold sponsor, Atlassian was lucky enough to score two free tickets to Defrag 09 taking place in Denver from November 11-12. That's a value of $1,495 each! What is Defrag? Well, Defrag is the first conference focused solely on the tools and technologies that are leveraging the "social" aspect of software to accelerate the "aha" moment. Defrag is not a version number. Rather it's a gathering place for the growing community of implementers, users, builders and thinkers that are working on the

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Webworks ePublisher – Publish DITA, Framemaker and Word to Confluence

Last week Sarah Maddox and I were fortunate enough to get a personal demo of WebWorks' ePublisher platform from Ben Allums and Alan Porter at WebWorks. ePublisher bills itself as an online conversion platform that transforms FrameMaker, Word, and DITA-XML content into Web and online help deliverables. In their latest release, ePublisher 2009.2, WebWorks added the ability for ePublisher to publish FrameMaker, Word, and DITA-XML content to Confluence. Say you want to publish your documentation to a

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Taskdock may revolutionize how you use Confluence

Do you frequently find youself emailing or IM'ing Confluence links to people asking them for their feedback? If so Taskdock may be for you. Taskdock is a new Confluence plugin that just announced its public beta this morning on Atlassian's Plugin of the Month webinar. You'll be blown away by what these guys were able to build inside Confluence....Taskdock completely changes the way users interact with the app. The beta sports the following key features: Assign Tasks - Users can assign Confluence-related

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Webinar: Taskdock for Confluence

Tomorrow will be an excellent webinar with Taskdock for this month's Plugin of the Month webinar series. Taskdock for Confluence is like a dynamic tasklist macro on steroids! No joke - I saw the practice demo of this plugin for Confluence and was blown away. Taskdock enables you to easily assign actionable tasks for many action items which frequently come up while using Confluence. The UI of this plugin is excellent, the use cases are endless, and the installation is seamless. UPDATE: VIDEO IS POSTED

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Plugin of the Month Webinar: Taskdock for Confluence

Tomorrow will be an excellent webinar with Taskdock for this month's Plugin of the Month webinar series. Taskdock for Confluence is like a dynamic tasklist macro on steroids! No joke - I saw the practice demo of this plugin for Confluence and was blown away. Taskdock enables you to easily assign actionable tasks for many action items which frequently come up while using Confluence. The UI of this plugin is excellent, the use cases are endless, and the installation is seamless. REGISTER NOW: Thursday,

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