Your Ultimate Confluence News Feed is Here 🚀
Missed the office cake party again? 🍰
Didn’t catch the latest movie night plans?
Worried about overlooking new company policies buried in Confluence?
Keeping everyone updated in a busy organization can be a hassle. But with the right tools, staying informed is a breeze!
In this article, we’ll dive into Confluence’s built-in news feed and explore the advanced features offered by Mantra – Confluence Intranet.
This powerful tool transforms your Confluence experience, ensuring you never miss another important update.
The Built-In Confluence News Feed 📰
Confluence’s built-in news feed serves as a central hub for updates, aggregating information from various spaces and personal spaces. Here’s a brief overview of what it offers:
Confluence Dashboard: The Confluence dashboard compiles updates from various spaces and personal pages, providing a quick snapshot of your organization’s recent activities.
Adding Blog Posts: Users can easily add blog posts from their Confluence personal space. Just click “Add Blog Post,” write your news, and publish it. Simple, but it might lack the visual appeal and customization needed to truly engage your team.
Viewing News: The built-in news feed lists updates in chronological order. While useful, it can become overwhelming without proper organization and filtering options.
Confluence RSS Feed: Another feature is the Confluence RSS feed, which lets users subscribe to updates from different spaces and blogs, delivering them directly to your RSS reader.
⚠️ Limitations of Built-In Solutions
While Confluence’s news feed and RSS feed offer basic functionalities, they come with limitations:
- Limited Customization: Lack of organization and filtering can lead to information overload.
- Basic Presentation: Plain text updates may not be very engaging.
- Limited Reach: The news feed only displays updates within the platform, while the RSS feed requires users to subscribe to specific sources.
Enhancing Your Confluence News Feed with Mantra 🚀
Confluence’s built-in features are a good start, but important news can sometimes get lost in the shuffle. This is where Mantra – Confluence Intranet steps in.
🌟 Mantra’s Advanced News Feed: A Game Changer
Mantra elevates Confluence’s basic news feed to a new level. With Mantra, you can tailor the news feed to display content relevant to different teams or departments. Say goodbye to information overload! Enjoy eye-catching header images, customizable layouts, and color options that make your Confluence pages visually appealing.
🎨 Personalize Your Confluence News Design
Mantra News isn’t just for critical company updates. Share everything from team victories to fun office events. Plus, anyone with the right permissions can create news, making it a collaborative effort.
As an admin, you can easily define how Confluence news should be displayed in the feed. Customize your news feed to show three, six, or more news items, with pictures or as a table.
Design your Confluence the way you want it.
🖼️ Design Your News
Remember: A picture is worth a thousand words. Upload default images for news articles that lack their own visuals. This can inspire everyone to add images when creating their own news.
🗂️ News Feed for Confluence Spaces
To include a current space in your news sources, select ‘Add Space.’ Click on the space title and type the name of the space you wish to add. Choose the appropriate space from the displayed dialog. Sort the spaces for a clearer view, but this doesn’t affect the display of news for users. Each space can be categorized into an existing feed, enabled, disabled, and removed from the list. If a space has been removed, it can be added back, and all news articles will be displayed once again.
✍️ Create, View, and Search for News with Mantra
Creating news in Mantra is efficient, eliminating the need to switch between Confluence areas or manage labels. The streamlined process saves time and effort.
👀 Viewing and Engaging with Confluence News
Access News: Click on “News” in the sidebar to see a grid of news tiles.
Each tile provides a snapshot of the news, displaying the creator, title, excerpt, creation date, comments, and likes.
Select a news tile to view the complete content and engage with it. You can like and comment, fostering interaction and engagement within your team.
🔍 Find the Latest News
Click the search button (magnifying glass icon), enter your desired search term, and select a result to view the Confluence content.
🗓️ Filter What Matters to You
Want to narrow your search? Use the date filter to focus on news items published within a specific timeframe.
News items are displayed by default from newest to oldest. However, you can reverse the order by clicking the dropdown menu in the top-right corner, allowing you to prioritize older or newer news as needed.
🦸 Writing Confluence News: Be the Hero of Your Own Announcement
Do you have exciting news to share with your team or even the whole company? If you have edit permission in a configured Confluence news space within Mantra, you can hit the “Write News” button. Choose your category, pick the perfect space, and craft your masterpiece. Mantra takes you to the edit mode of a new page or blog.
Here, you can unleash your inner writer and craft an engaging news piece.
Remember, news only appears in Mantra once the page or blog is published. So keep it in draft mode until you and your team are happy with the content.
❤️ Why Your Team Will Love Mantra News
- Informed Workforce: Easily accessible news keeps everyone up-to-date on company developments, fostering unity and connection.
- Reduced Misinformation: Clear communication through Mantra News reduces confusion and ensures everyone has access to accurate information.
- Enhanced Transparency: Sharing insights into goals, performance, and future plans builds trust and promotes a sense of belonging.
- Engaged Employees: Informed employees are empowered to make better decisions and contribute more effectively.
🎉 Conclusion: Informed Workforce = Happy Workforce
Forget the struggle of staying informed without drowning in emails or Confluence overload. Mantra brings clarity to your company news, filtering out the noise and delivering a personalized feed that matters to you. No more missing out on crucial updates or the next office cake party (we all know those emails get buried!). With Mantra, you get the information you need, when you need it, presented in a way that’s easy to digest.
Ready to ditch the information chaos? Try Mantra – Confluence Intranet today or schedule a free demo to see the future of your Confluence news feed!
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