Tag Archives: Confluence

Why do intranets grow old so fast?

Linchpin Intranet

Most employees do not use their company’s intranet. There are multiple reasons. The worst and most important is, that these intranets do not offer any significant value to their job. That’s devastating as most projects have started with different goals. Employees often describe their intranets as old and stale. This post talks about how this happens.

The Pain of Email Hygiene

Business laptop

Most people suffer from the daily load of emails. I have met people who claim that it is not a big issue, but they also tell me that it’s just because the amount of emails they receive is fairly low. We can all feel the pain that emails create. And most know that the using email is often unappropriate. But how do we know when to email and when to go for a better alternative? That’s unsolved for most people. Most of the time we don’t even know what the appropriate action is. And often we fail to act professionally, although we know better.

Differentiating between Confluence and Linchpin: Why you need Linchpin for your intranet

Linchpin Intranet

Confluence is an excellent social collaboration tool that helps teams work together better. But Confluence by itself is not a full-fledged intranet system and does not aspire to be one. It focuses on modern team collaboration (Intranet 2.0) and not on corporate requirements for intranets (Intranet 1.0). Our Linchpin solution combines both approaches and turns the excellent Confluence base into a proper social intranet where employees can work together smoothly but which still meets traditional intranet requirements.

Video files in Confluence: Problems with the multimedia macro and tips

Videos are also becoming more important in internal communication. They are often indispensable for technical documentation. Employees want to share tutorials and demos with each other. During on-boarding, instructions help new colleagues train for the job on their own. Confluence or a Confluence-based intranet with Linchpin is the ideal platform to centrally provide such content within a company. It works great with web videos, but there are still occasional problems with uploaded video files.

Table Filter plugin for Confluence: New version with pivot tables and dynamic charts

The Confluence plugin Table Filter from StiltSoft is a tool for data analysis and evaluation in Confluence. It lets you create tables using aggregated data and generate charts that are automatically updated each time data is filtered. The third version is now available and we would like to take a look at its new features. In addition to the Table Filter macro, the current plugin version has two additional macros: Pivot Table and Table Chart.

Questions for Confluence – Should I be using it and how?

This post is both for people running Confluence and those using it. It tries to help you understand what the benefits of Questions for Confluence (formerly: Confluence Questions) are and why you and your co-workers may want to adopt it. This is not based on quantitative research. What you are reading is my best effort to help you with the knowledge and experience I have.

Sample Intranet Survey for Employees Including Guidance, Tips, Links, and Explanations

A growing number of big corporations is using Linchpin as their intranet technology. There are some, that simply want a fast and reliable result. But others really put a focus on preparation, concepts and a thorough strategy for the intranet rollout. Right now we are in the middle of preparing an employee survey for a new intranet project and this is my effort to contribute to the conception phase and also help you plan your intranet better.