Blogging With Sandvox

This is a step by step and easy to follow guide that will help you setup your own blog from the start.  Keep in mind that you should also leave out any words that are too hard to understand as this will just make your readers upset. You'll be prompted to choose a title for the page and indicate which team members participated - they'll be @mentioned on the page, which means Confluence will share the page with them automatically. Once that's all set, click the Create button at the bottom of the dialog to fire up your new page. You'll notice that the blueprint divides the page into sections with different layouts - full-width for the top and bottom sections, and a two-column layout for the middle one.

To split that section of the page into three columns, place your cursor in one of the two existing columns, click the Page layout button in the editor, and select the three-column option. And if you use both mechanisms in your retrospective, add a new section to the page by clicking the Page layout button, then Add section, and choose the three-column layout for the new section.

JIRA issues macro - so you can see the progress of larger action items (type then JIRA to create a new issue without leaving Confluence) (And let's face it: distributed teams are as ubiquitous in the software world as Elvis is in Las Vegas.) So when you can't get everyone online at the same tie, recording demos using screen capture tools like Camstudio or Jing and embedding the videos on a Confluence page is a great substitute for doing it live. For example, you might create a parent page called Retrospectives, then child pages underneath for each sprint's retrospective notes.

Start by creating a good old fashioned blank page and give it a sensible title that'll make it easy for team members to find through Confluence's quick search or by browsing your team's space. Bonus points if your parent page uses the Children display macro (which does not actually crawl Facebook and display pictures of your children on the page - because that would be creepy). Wherever you choose to create the page, you now get to use your new friend, the Page layout button, to add sections for each office or locale. Try creating an account for your team on Vimeo - it's a lot like YouTube, but they make it super easy to add password protection to your videos.

Page layouts: Divide all or parts of your pages into one-, two-, or three-column layouts to make your pages look even more awesome. Widget connector macro: Paste in YouTube, Vimeo, Twitter, or SlideShare links, and this macro will make your content look great on the page. So here it goes -pay attention and make sure you incorporate this strategy and guidelines into your blog marketing strategy- as it is proven and when you start marketing full time, this actually seem like common sense. What I always recommend- AND DO -is create at least 10 pages- plus my initial homepage or 1st blog post. So what type of content should we put on our blog then- if its not about a product?