Confluence 5 Highlights: Automagic Theming

Confluence 5 has been released! There's good-old-fashioned magic - pulling rabbits out of hats and chopping beautiful women in half - and then there's "automagic" theming, anything but ordinary magic, coming soon in Confluence 5. 1. Upload your custom site logo A new feature in Confluence 5, you can now upload your own custom site logo to style the Confluence header with your corporate branding. Once your logo is uploaded, that's when the real magic happens. 2. Watch the site color scheme

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How-to: Building a Company Glossary with Confluence – Part Three

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. This is a guest blog by Charles Hall from OpenBet, a specialist software company that provides gambling and gaming solutions. Maintenance and Re-use With the templates and navigation schemes we set-up in part 1 and part 2 of this article, and thanks to some initial seeding of content, the glossary space is established

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How-to: Building a Company Glossary with Confluence – Part Two

This is a guest blog by Charles Hall from OpenBet, a specialist software company that provides gambling and gaming solutions.     In part 1 of this article we set the scene and created the basic elements for capturing glossary terms. This included the use of live templates and scaffolding fields to ensure that data is captured in a structured fashion and that the whole system is easily maintainable. We also saw how a special link is needed to reference a page template as a

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Confluence 5 Highlights: 3 Improvements to the Confluence Editor

Confluence 5 has been released! It's coming. Confluence 5. Our biggest release yet. Packed with major changes that will change the way you work and loaded with the smaller, vital improvements you can't live with out. It all starts with the Confluence editor. More Reliable than Ever In Confluence 4 we completely overhauled the editing experience. A new intuitive editing interface made it easy for users of all levels to create rich content with extraordinary speed and simplicity. In fact,

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5 Ways to Drive Intranet Adoption

Your intranet is the online portal for your company. It contains all of the information that keeps your company going from day-to-day. A successful intranet is one that keeps users coming back day after day to stay on top of everything they need to get their jobs done. The problem is, too often intranets are forgotten. Either employees don't know their intranet exists, don't know how to use it, or don't have any reason to. If your intranet suffers from any of these symptoms, don't worry, Confluence

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How-to: Building a Company Glossary with Confluence – Part One

This is a guest blog by Charles Hall from OpenBet, a specialist software company that provides gambling and gaming solutions.     At the start of 2012 I joined OpenBet. OpenBet had been undergoing significant growth and realized that their approach to knowledge management needed to change accordingly. The Twiki software had served as the company intranet and wiki for 7 years, but the information within it had grown stale and the system itself developed some significant frailties.

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