Large organisations are starting to consider deploying an internal Facebook clone, in their quest for Enterprise 2.0. This article considers what you need to achieve this, and how far you can get with Atlassian Confluence.

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• collaboration

As Confluence aficionados we usually write all of our documentation and proposals in its Wiki syntax first before polishing it in OpenOffice for PDF export. One of Confluence's shortcomings however is support for section/headline numbering, which makes authoring larger pages less pleasant.

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One of the benefits of using Confluence for our intranet wiki is the popularity of its plug-in architecture. One plug-in that has turned out to be unexpectedly useful is the Graphviz plug-in, which provides a quick and easy way to draw UML class diagrams without getting sucked into endlessly tweaking the diagram. This article shows you how.

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• Confluence
• wiki
• UML
• diagram
• Graphviz

Most commercial software development produces project documentation, which is a software developer’s main use for a word-processor. This year, our intranet wiki became my word-processor; this article explains why.

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• Confluence
• wiki
• documentation
• word processing