Blogging with Confluence

A new requirement for our customer portal is to add blogging. Our marketing team have been using Typepad, so they want a platform that is just as easy to use. But we also need a tool that can integrate with our Umbraco/Confluence site and one that can use our existing security. Someone else on the team is looking at Umbraco, but I thought I'd share what I learned about blogging in Confluence. 1. Blog posts can be published from any space Blog posts can be created from any space in your C...
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Breaking into the field of technical writing

You've decided you want to be a technical writer! Everyone tells you how good your writing is, and you have an English degree or a journalism background. But how do you land that first job? It seems like more and more often, people are turning to technical writing after they have worked in another career. Which means getting a technical writing job is not as straightforward as it is when you come out of school with a degree in technical writing, land an internship, and progress from there....
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Linking from a JIRA issue to a Confluence page

I received a question this month, asking how to link from JIRA to a Confluence page. I've been thinking about doing exactly this, so that we can keep Specification documents in Confluence, and then link to them from a JIRA issue. Here's what I found. Looking through the Atlassian documentation, I discovered a plugin called the JIRA Linker, which lets you create a custom field and a Search button, so that you can search for a Confluence page and link to it. [Confluence 3.5, JIRA 4.3] 1. Do...
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