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Confluence 5.3: Space Blueprints, Shared Links, In-App Applications For Permissions And More

With the opening of the Atlassian Summit 2013, the Confluence team has released the new version of Atlassian’s social collaboration system. Especially the new Blueprints for spaces and the opportunity to share links easily within Confluence are true highlights. Let’s have a look at the improvements in Confluence 5.3.

The Wiki Gardener: Tasks and Requirements

The idea of a wiki gardener is outstanding. There is hardly a company that is not delighted by this principle. But only a few companys actually transform this concept systematically and successfully. In doing so, it is generally no drama to recruit a gardener internally, and entrust him regularly with appropriate work. All you have to know is what a so called wiki gnome does, and why and who fits to the job profile.

Wiki Adoption: A Pilot Project As An Obligatory Routine

You never get a second chance to make a first impression. When introducing a new and in its type different software, this aphorism, that once Oscar Wilde and also Mark Twain adjudicated, fits very well, because: a wiki introduction can not be repeated very often. This is why we recommend to prepare a wiki project in the timeframe of a pilot phase, for later application.

66 Use Cases for an Enterprise Wiki (1 – 22)

We have summarized in our weblog 111 good reasons for using an enterprise wiki. But how can such a system blossom and show its added value and Return on Investment? What are some concrete examples of how companies can implement an enterprise wiki? Which possible uses make sense? Which of them are truly useful? And which of them can actually improve your efficiency? We have collected 66 ways to use wikis in organizations. Here are the first 22.

Texts should be created, shared, and edited in a Wiki, not in Word or within e-mails

Within a company there can be many approaches for the development of texts as well as the sharing of texts for further revision. We could, for example, write a text in Word and then load the final version into the enterprise wiki. We could also send around texts by e-mail, asking colleagues to read them and, if necessary, to make changes. But we could also develop a text directly within a wiki. What should we think of this particular work process?

SharePoint as a Wiki vs. Confluence: Criteria and Requirements

More and more companies that already work with Microsoft products (so basically all companies) as well as those companies wishing to follow a “unified Microsoft strategy” are installing SharePoint as a solution for internal collaboration – Microsoft’s answer to the Enterprise 2.0 hype. Is MS SharePoint a real alternative to a sophisticated enterprise wiki application like Confluence? For this article, we have set up criteria that we believe a system must fulfill in order to suffice as a professional wiki system for companies.

Wiki Adoption: Why there’s no Reason to be Scared of Sharing Knowledge

If in the opening phase of a wiki adoption it should be difficult to activate employees to participate, this is often because employees haven’t been properly brought up to speed and misunderstand the whole idea of a wiki. One symptom of this is the fear of sharing knowledge.

111 Reasons why you need an Enterprise Wiki

At //SEIBERT/MEDIA, we’ve been doing our work on a wiki for years. Through our day-to-day work as well as through dozens of enterprise wiki projects, we’ve experienced – thanks to innumerable different example cases – how useful and valuable a wiki can be on a number of levels. Therefore, we believe it is high time to compress the arguments for a wiki into the limited space offered by tweets to make our points as efficiently as possible.