Tag Archives: Confluence

New Version of Easy Events for Confluence: More Flexibility in Event Planning

Our EasyEvents add-on for Confluence, with its intuitive interface, allows all employees to initiate and organize events with ease. A macro is integrated into all event pages, and allows participants to RSVP (or unsubscribe) with just one click. The new EasyEvents version 1.4 is now available in the Atlassian Marketplace. In addition to bug fixes, we have added new functionality for significantly more flexibility.

How Universities Use Atlassian Confluence

Stanford University's Confluence service

Confluence is becoming widely used by universities and academic research groups for many reasons: It is attractive to educational providers because of its affordable Academic and Classroom Licenses. The add-on Atlassian Marketplace has hundreds of plug-ins that are useful for organisational, research and teaching applications. It is very easy to use compared to many academic or enterprise collaboration tools. Universities such as Stanford, Cambridge, and MIT have integrated JIRA and Confluence solutions for project management and customer service functionality, in addition to document collaboration in research and student groups.

App Center for Confluence: Personalized Application Links for Improved Work Performance

LINCHPIN App Center selection dialog

It is important for companies to personalize their intranet to improve efficiency and performance in the workplace. When done well, an tailored intranet can become an indispensable tool, helping employees complete their tasks with ease. So that Confluence can better meet a company’s requirements for their intranet, all the tools that the employees need must be clearly available from their starting page. This minimizes context switching and maximizes productivity.

Our customer DER Touristik’s new social intranet won the 2016 IntraNET Awards

For the fifth time, the online portal IntraNETwork selected the best intranets of the year. Among the three winners was “Compass,” DER Touristik’s new social intranet implemented by //SEIBERT/MEDIA and based on our Linchpin solution. Judged on various criteria, the 18 participating intranets and intranet apps were scanned and evaluated by a jury in the first round. Ten systems made it to the second round. Then, the IntraNETwork members were up. And they awarded the 2016 IntraNET award to DER Touristik.

New version of Microblogging for Confluence: Editing microposts, better performance and more

Microblogging for Confluence is a plug-in developed by //SEIBERT/MEDIA which gives Confluence the same social media features you know from services like Twitter and Facebook. Microblogs are good for ad hoc discussion, quickly addressing questions and making suggestions and simple exchange between teams, departments or across the entire company (a digital grapevine for the office). Our development team just released version 2.2 which offers a number of new features and improvements.

Standardization of Intranet projects: Live from our Hackathon

Linchpin Intranet

Linchpin Intranets rock. We have reached a situation where it is more and more difficult to accept new intranet projects. That is why I have joined a hackathon group, that wants to help customers and us improve workshop efficiency and effectiveness. We are trying to come up with a comprehensive plan, samples, concepts, goals and templates for every project step in a new intranet project. In case you didn’t know: Linchpin is an intranet solution based on Atlassian Confluence, that enhances the collaboration with a dozen add-ons and comes with a guaranteed fixed price for professional services.