so today's video is sponsored by k15t k15t helps teams harness and share their collective knowledge
to ensure that everyone has the information they need at every touch point k15t started
its journey by building apps for the atlassian platform to help contribute to their innovative
approach to team collaboration over 10 years later k15t continues to deliver confluence and jira
apps that enable teams to manage knowledge and share information both within their organization
and beyond today matt from the team is exploring how to share confluence pages and how the share
button truly works now he's going to mention that starting a video rock the docks and their
fantastic youtube channel which i'll link below which helps you with any confluence issues you
might be having so i'll include all of the links to their stuff in the description below a huge
thanks to matt and let's dive into how to share with compliments thanks francesco hi i'm matt with
k15t and i am one of the contributors to rock the docs it's our massive collection of best practices
for teams using confluence so if you google rock the docs you'll find our site full of written
guides on how to do various things in confluence in the best way possible or if you look for
k15t on youtube you'll find our confluence best practices series of videos so today i'm going to
show you the various ways you can share your great pages in confluence and why you might use each
if sharing is caring then it's pretty easy to care
for people in confluence using this blue button in the upper right hand corner
this is a great option when you want to just share a piece of content with one or more teammates
they can get a notification on the content you want them to see and they can read it sort of at
their leisure so here i can mention one or more teammates that i want to be notified about this
and i can include a meaningful message so they know what the content is that i'm sharing with
them when i hit send here this will send a notification to them in confluence in their
email inbox and also in the confluence mobile app so they can read it sort of wherever they are
there may be situations where you need people to do more than just look at the content you've
shared with them but they may actually need to take action like providing feedback or editing
the content so in that case we recommend using at mentions in comments you can highlight any text
on a page and create a comment here i'm going to at mention one of my colleagues add a meaningful
message and save that comment this will send a notification to them wherever they look at their
confluence notifications they can click that to jump right into the specific piece of content that
not only you want them to look at but also provide action on and one quick tip here always make sure
that these comments are resolved at some point in the future to keep your pages neat and tight
whether you want people to just look at the content you shared or take action on it it might
be important to get it in front of them quickly and that's when you might want to share a link to
the page directly to them using a messaging app like slack or teams this is great for teammates
who use these apps synchronously that means they're ready to respond almost instantly so
you can have a conversation very very quickly with them it's not so great for teammates who use these
apps asynchronously so maybe only checking their messages once or twice a day in this case the
other two approaches i mentioned probably worked just as well so let's say your teammates use their
messaging app synchronously you can grab the link out of the bar in your browser or you can use this
blue share button right here in confluence hit the copy link button and this will give you a slightly
cuter or shorter url that you can paste into your messaging app either one will work grab
that link put it in a message at mention your teammates and giving them a message to tell them
why you're sharing this with them one other quick tip here is there is a great integration between
slack and confluence or teams and confluence each one gives you nice features like being able to
add confluence comments to pages or even view the pages without leaving the apps so i recommend
you check those out so i've talked about three different ways you can share content in confluence
and when you might want to share using the share button an app mentioned in a comment or by pasting
a link into your messaging app at k15t we found there are great use cases for all of these methods
but we want to hear from you let us know in the comments below which method you like the best and
why you think it's most effective for your team also there's a lot of great ways to use confluence
and at k15t we always like to explore not just how confluence works but how to use it best
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