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Erlangen University Hospital and Linchpin Intranet: A modern portal for more than 8,000 employees

With its 25 clinics, 18 departments, and 7 institutes, Erlangen University Hospital covers all areas of modern medicine. In addition to having a world-renowned operating room, the hospital equips itself with not only the latest medical devices, but it also employs cutting edge – and scientifically sound – diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. //SEIBERT/MEDIA is proud to partner with Erlangen University Hospital, where we’ve implemented a social intranet project based on our Linchpin intranet suite.  This collaboration has resulted in a modern portal which brings together more than 8,000 employees from many different areas of the Erlangen University Hospital system into one place.

Five free or low-cost alternatives to Microsoft Office

Over the years, Microsoft Office has established itself as an industry leader. However, these days you can find serious alternatives that, depending on the application, are quite sufficient and, in some cases, they perform even better. In this article we’re bringing you a brief overview of a few of the most interesting office alternatives out there today. We’ll also recommend what type of user these Office alternatives benefit most; in other words, one might be a better fit for an individual user, while another might be a good fit for a company seeking an office alternative.

Templates and blueprints in Confluence

You can use templates and blueprints to create pages, saving time and making sure that you establish a uniform structure to your pages. What are Templates and Blueprints? Basically, templates are pages but with predefined content. This means that your area administrator can create templates using the standard Confluence editor, and then they can make those templates available to your team. Blueprints are even more powerful than templates. As a result, they greatly simplify the page creation process.

Exclaimer: professional email signatures for G Suite and Gmail

Many companies stress the importance of maintaining a certain degree of uniform formality in how they use email to communicate with the outside world. It’s impossible to establish such universal standards across hundreds or even thousands of employees in an organization if they don’t have any options to control outgoing emails centrally.

Thankfully there are solutions such as Exclaimer, which offers professional, centrally controlled email signatures for G Suite with Gmail as well as other platforms. At a Google Cloud breakfast in Wiesbaden, representatives from Exclaimer gave us a tutorial presentation.

Linchpin Suite 1.2: Customization, flexibility, and optimized mobile use for Confluence-based intranets

Over the past several months, our teams have been developing the Confluence-based social intranet suite Linchpin. However, this development cycle hasn’t only focused on individual marketplace apps: we’re continuing to develop Linchpin Suite, a comprehensive solution that coordinates all of Linchpin’s wide range of functions. You can check out the brand new version 1.2, which includes several new features and optimizations. Let’s take a closer look at what Linchpin Suite 1.2 has to offer.

Five important things that change for leaders in an agile company

The process of transitioning into a modern agile company has come with occasional growing pains. We had to take many of our traditional ways of thinking and throw them out of the window. Several of our classic methods and tools ended up being mothballed. Power had to be redistributed. See how Martin explains his approach as a leader in an agile company in this keynote presentation at Audi AG in Ingolstadt.

Scroll Documents: Professional document management for Confluence

Scroll Documents is Confluence app developed by our friends at K15t which adds modern document management processes to Confluence. With Scroll Documents, you can easily combine extensive, multi-page content into your documents and you can manage them all as individual content units. Shannon Meehan and Anshuman Dash from K15t join me in a webinar to chat about the features, use cases and advantages of using Scroll Documents in Confluence.

Agile in body and mind: Health care and illness prevention at //SEIBERT/MEDIA

Shouldn’t employees’ health and wellbeing be important to an agile company too? Of course – not only mental agility, but physical agility is essential. Here at //SEIBERT/MEDIA, our employees have self-organized many healthy initiatives and activities. Which is your favorite?

Linchpin Mobile at a glance: Modern collaboration with Confluence on the go

With the Linchpin Mobile app, now all employees in your company can use their  intranet, regardless of where they are – at any time, from anywhere. You can read news, search and view content, chat and make posts in intranet groups and more; all from your smartphone, even if your system is behind a firewall. Here’s Linchpin Mobile explained in just 70 seconds!

Linchpin: Improved navigation in Atlassian Confluence intranets for users and administrators

Our teams develop the Linchpin Intranet Suite, a collection of Confluence apps that modernize your company’s intranet system. We’ve updated the navigation throughout the system and added a handy configuration dashboard to make it easier to set up Linchpin in your company.