Monthly Archives: January 2010

This is the second of two guest posts by Erik Eccles from TaskDock, a Confluence plugin that lets you assign, track, and complete actions within Confluence and email.     Our second post in this series focuses on stepping up the involvement of the people beyond Confluence's core constituents. Companies with non-technical adopters such as finance, HR, sales, and marketing consistently cited the ability to reach this audience as a challenge. Here are the approaches we took to

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Get Organized with Confluence Personal Labels

It's probably no surprise that Atlassian uses Confluence to everything. I estimate that at least 75% of the business content I interact with on a daily basis resides in our internal Confluence instance. All the projects I'm working on...the blog posts I'm writing....the meeting notes I take...the goals my boss wants me to accomplish...the company's sales numbers. All of these reside inside of Confluence. Why use Personal Lables? So with this much important content residing Confluence, how do I organise

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Since we launched the Confluence SharePoint Connector just over a year ago, we've gotten tremendous uptake from our customers. Hundreds of customers have found SharePoint's more structured document-management capabilities to be a great complement to Confluence's free-form wiki collaboration capabilities. The SharePoint Connector creates a far more powerful SharePoint wiki by letting you: Embed SharePoint lists into your Confluence page through the {sp-list} macroEmbed Confluence pages into your SharePoint

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This is the first of two guest posts by Erik Eccles from TaskDock, a Confluence plugin that lets you assign, track, and complete actions within Confluence and email. Our goal with these posts is to help you reignite the content, projects, and people within your Confluence instance or at a minimum learn how we approached starting a business on a great platform such as Atlassian. It started with a question Our company started with a question to Atlassian customers: What challenges are there in growing

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Atlassian Confluence: Best of Elearning Awards 2009

Atlassian Confluence was the "Best Social Learning Tool" winner as picked by the readers and editors of Elearning Magazine. Elearning! Media Group hosts the only Readers' Choice Awards for the e-learning market. Learning executives selected 55 products across 16 categories for excellence. These honorees are recognized in the January '10 edition of Elearning! and Government Elearning! Magazine mailed December 28th , 2009. As impressive was our competition. Confluence beat out Ning and Facebook to

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