Hey everyone thanks for joining us today. This is Claire, and I have Jessica here next to me.
We are product marketers from Atlassian, and we're super excited to
demonstrate to you how you and your team can get the most out of Confluence Cloud.
Great! So for some of you that might be new to Confluence, I just wanted to
give a brief overview of the value and the benefit your team can
see in Confluence. So, if you're like Jessica and me the information you
need to do your job is spread out all over the place. So you may have some
information in word Docs, email, and of course Slack, PDFs, even post-it notes that you
have from different meetings so it can make finding information difficult.
Especially if you're on a global team or a remote team and even if you're not.
There are many ways of working in different teams that have a variety of
knowledge spread across different locations and files.
What confluence really does is bring all that information into one place in
one platform across all of your teams, so all that information is connected.
So that it's easily found and not locked in folders or apps across
your devices. It's really a central hub where you can organize your work,
collaborate together, and get your work done. One important thing to note is that
Confluence is a Swiss Army knife so there are a lot of different use cases.
Some teams use it for knowledge management, some
people use it for project collaboration, and even just to get employees
engaged in the company culture and then a lot of companies use it for all three.
So I wouldn't think that there's one way to use Confluence, but
there are many different ways, and today we're going to really go over the tips
we have for making the most out of using Confluence. Okay, let's dive right in so
first I'll get you started with home. Home is a new feature, and the first page you'll
see when you start Confluence. So home helps you easily find where you left off.
All of your recent pages that you visited, worked on, starred,
or drafted are here. I really like home because it lets me jump into the work that I've
recently been working on in Confluence. Home also shows you an activity feed on
the right side. It shows what's happening across your team or in your company. You
can also filter for what's popular on your site based on likes and comments.
Over time will make this more relevant for you with more signal and less noise,
so you can see what's important across your company. Everything in Confluence is
organized in spaces which can also be found in home. So spaces are a collection
of related pages and an easy way to organize your confluence site. And then
pages are the docs that your team will actually use to create, edit, plan, and discuss
To get your work done. I also want to show you the new navigation
that we have in Confluence. From this new top navigation in Confluence, you can get to
all the information across your site really easily from any page that you're
on inside of Confluence. You can see all the recent work, drafts, and create pages and blogs from here.
You can also see any of the spaces that you've recently visited or starred. The
people tab is also where you can find a site directory of all the users that are
on Confluence. And you can start a team by going to the start a team button and
this will spin up a team profile page and allow you to mention your entire
team. Of course you can also create pages from the navigation too. So now I
want to talk to you a little bit about team spaces. So let's walk through an
example of a team space. We recommend in Confluence that you have a space for
every team or big projects across your organization. So like I mentioned
spaces help you organize all the pages that are related to that team.
This is a marketing example of a home page of a team. We've named all the team
members. We've shared our mission and our goals and also the the blogs that are
relevant to this team. Let's take a look at the page tree. This is something
that really helps you
organize all the pages that you have in Confluence. You can drag and drop pages
in the page tree which is also a pretty new feature of Confluence this will help
you keep your pages organized and show the hierarchy of how pages fit.
This is another way you can actually create pages in context. So if you hover
over a page in the page tree, you can press the plus button and that's a way
to actually create a page exactly where you need it to live in the
page tree in Confluence. So now I want to show you an another type of space, which are personal
spaces in Confluence. so Jessica is looking at her personal space, and she hasn't
created one yet, but this is where she would actually go to create it. A
personal space is a great place to keep all of your pages that you might not
want to share with your team just yet or stuff that is only for you to view like
a career document or projects that you're working on.
We can take a look at my personal space to show you an example. I've shared
a few things about me that people can come and navigate to: any blogs that I've
written, anything that I've recently updated, will also be shown on this space.
And then, lastly, I want to take you through the last part of the navigation–
which is search. You can find recent work by using the recent tab in the
navigation as I mentioned before. You can also use this keyboard shortcut G R to
open this window and find recently visited pages or drafts. Use the slash command to
open up the regular search in the top right and then for those of you who want
even more powerful search with granular filters, just tap the search bar
and go to where it says advanced search. This will allow you to narrow down your
search by contributor, content type, last modified date, label or even search for
page titles.