Theme Builder and Community Bubbles plugins for Confluence are going for free

Good news for the Confluence user community. Adaptavist has announced that they are giving out their Theme Builder and Community Bubbles plugins for free.

We will also be able to share with our customers on the great benefits of these 2 tools. Thank you, Adaptavist

For more information, check out Adaptavist’s announcement

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Theme Builder allows users to customize the design and navigation of their Confluence wiki.

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Community Bubbles is an addon to add forums and community features to the Confluence wiki

Launch of Confluence 3.0

Confluence 3.0 has just been launched yesterday with many new features and improvements over the previous version:

• Now users can tap on the power of the macros easily without learning the makeup language with the macro browser
• They can find out more about their coworkers and discover experts with enhanced user profiles
• They can connect with their coworkers with Status Update (Twitter for your enterprise) and activities stream within their network.

Check out the video for a quick overview of what’s new!

more about "Confluence – 3.0 Overview video", posted with vodpod

For more details, you can check out Atlassian’s official announcement on Confluence 3.0

And here is how the community has reacted to Confluence 3.0’s launch.

Gil Yehuda, a former Forrester Analyst:

I found though both formal and informal surveys that Confluence lives at or near the top of the list of Enterprise Wikis when I speak to large enterprises.  I can’t quote the formal data, but I can share the following anecdote:  Many times I’ll ask a crowd how many people use wikis in their organization, then I’ll ask how many of those installations are Confluence.  Typically about half of those who say they are using a wiki will keep their hands up.

Bill Ives

Many large enterprises, like Accenture or Sun, have sanctioned Confluence as their IT approved wiki standard. Customers frequently use Atlassian’s Universal Wiki Converter to migrate other wikis to Confluence.

Confluence Mail Utilities 1.3 released

We have released the latest version of the Confluence Mail Utilities. Version 1.3 provides compatibility to Confluence 2.10.X.

For those who are new, Confluence Mail Utilities is  a set of utilities to facilitate users to contribute content directly to Confluence via emails.

With this plugin, it removes the hassle to set up multiple email accounts to archive the emails in different spaces.

It also allows users to post blog entries directly from their emails without the need to log into Confluence. This will also encourage people to contribute information into Confluence without additional steps to copy and paste the information from their emails to Confluence.

For more detailed information on the Confluence Mail Utilities, check out Confluence Plugin Library.

Introduction to Confluence and Jira

One of our clients have requested for some slides for him to view before the presentation. I thought it will be good to share with everyone on what Confluence and Jira is about.

p.s: It is a bit wordy since it is more meant for reading than presentation

Introduction to Confluence

Introduction to JIRA