Stimmt’s award winning intranet

What do you get when bringing together intranet specialist, UI experts and great developers? Award winning solutions!

Stimmt’s two Intranet focused extensions to the Confluence wiki have been awarded at Atlassian’s 4th annual Codegeist competition. Confluence Intranet Theme developed by Stimmt and Liip has been elected as “Best Theme”. Confluence Archiving Plugin has been awarded in the category “Best overall plugin”

Confluence wiki is one of the leading enterprise wiki tools. It has some shortcomings that became apparent when Stimmt moved to a wiki-based e-Workplace.

Unfortunately, the Confluence wiki user interface does not provide for hierarchical information structures. Intranet users tend to think more in content hierarchies than content types, making the possibility to structure content hierarchically even more important.  To make content easier accessible via menu based navigation and to reorder the page layout to better suit the user’s mental model, we designed a new user interface. The Confluence Intranet Theme was released as a free extension to Confluence.

Best overall plugin – Wow us!
For our intranet, wiki based editing and collaboration is great. If content creation is so easy and decentrally managed, experience shows that managing a content lifecycle is crucial. Otherwise content will get stale and the intranet turns into a scrapyard with low user satisfaction. The Confluence Archiving Plugin helps to keep content fresh and relevant. Content authors get notified about pages that have not been updated for more than a certain period of time. If content is not revalidated, it is automatically moved to an archive. This way, the extension effectively automates the content archival processes and overcomes the user’s mental blockade of “throwing things away”

These two extensions make our own Confluence based e-Workplace a tremendously valuable tool for collaboration. User satisfaction with the wiki sky rocketed compared to the previous Lotus Notes solution, as the user interface truly facilitates working efficiently with our e-Workplace.

Contact Lukas Karrer to learn more about the use of wikis in a company-environment. We are also looking forward to your comments.