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(case studies) How Confluence is used in the US Government

UPDATE: The venue has moved from the World Bank to the American Institute of Architects. If you happen to live in the Washington DC area, you can drop by the American Institute of Architects on May 14 to see presentations by... the National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Geographic Socieity (NGS) Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Executive Office of the President - Office of Management & Budget (EOP-OMB) And many others They will discuss how they're using Confluence and other

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Wiki Theater is Back – This Week at Web 2.0 Expo

If you're at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week, come by and see us in the exhibitor hall. We'll have our big, 20-foot booth set up at this year. And by popular demand we're bringing back Wiki Theater. Every day we'll have four informative presentations ranging from Why Your Wiki Isn't Wikipedia to Supercharging SharePoint with an Enterprise Wiki. If you're at the show stop by, say hello, and enjoy some Wiki Theater. Wednesday April 1 11:00 Five Killer Wiki Use Cases 12:30 Why Your Wiki Isn't

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Confluence – key internal comms tool for Earth Hour

  • By Robyn Munro, Marketing Events and Communications Assistant
  • News
  • On March 26, 2009
If you haven't heard yet, this weekend is Earth Hour and over 2,800 cities and towns across 80 countries have committed to switching off their lights at 8.30pm on Saturday 28 March. If you have heard, you'll know that Earth Hour is a WWF initiative about sending a global message to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009. This meeting will determine official government policies to take action against global warming, which will replace the Kyoto Protocol. You may have

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Organisation is Key

  • By Matt Hodges, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • News
  • On March 17, 2009

Part 1 of this series of blogs on the evolution of the Evaluator Resources space focused on how the sales team used Confluence to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of delivering information to prospects and evaluators. This instalment of the series looks at how, and why, content in the Confluence Evaluator Resources space has been organised. Learn how we used an inclusions library along with a couple of bundled macros to avoid duplication of content and improve visibility of information. Further, utilising CustomWare's free Composition Plugin we created a set of tabbed pages that visitors new to wikis could resonate with. To find out more, read on...

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Sales, we have a problem…Confluence is the solution

  • By Matt Hodges, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • News
  • On March 10, 2009

This is the first part of a four part series focusing on the evolution of the Evaluator Resources space, built on our enterprise wiki, Confluence. What started as a channel to deliver information to Confluence webinar attendees in an efficient and timely manner, has quickly evolved into an extensive knowledge base for helping prospective customers evaluate all of our products. The goal of the space is to provide rich, useful information and resources to evaluators via a medium that is easy to maintain and quick to update. What better medium than a wiki!

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Comparing SharePoint to Confluence?

Last week Martin Seibert at Seibert Media wrote an interesting blog post where he evaluated SharePoint as an enterprise wiki. He posed the question, is SharePoint really a good alternative to a fully developed company wiki? He draws his conclusion early and then presents a list of compelling arguments as to why SharePoint is not a good wiki alternative. He cites many feature-specific examples like it cannot be implemented as a an extranet wiki because it only supports Internet Explorer. Martin's

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