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What is Linchpin?
Setting up your own Linchpin intranet
The following guide is designed for experienced Confluence administrators who want to try out the Linchpin intranet solution on their staging environment. If you don't have a test site feel free to create a Confluence demonstration instance by using SWIFT. You can experiment there without worrying about breaking anything, and learn what the system can do for you.
You can use the demonstration instance to build a prototype that you can present to your company's intranet committee. Having a working prototype is invaluable for creating enthusiasm and buy-in from stakeholders. Additionally, you can show that your chosen solution will meet your company's requirements.
Step 1: Installing Linchpin Suite
Linchpin Suite
With Atlassian Confluence as its core, Linchpin has a solid and powerful software foundation.
These basic features -combined with modular Linchpin apps developed by Seibert Media- provide you with a state-of-the-art collaboration platform that can be tailored to meet the needs and requirements of your organization.
Step 2: Theming
Linchpin Theme
Every professional Linchpin instance should have an individual design adapted to the corporate identity of its owner.
An individual design not only improves the system's usability in critical areas but also increases the acceptance among employees and their identification with the software.
Step 3: User Profiles
Linchpin User Profiles
People are the heart of your company and should be the heart of your Linchpin, too.
Linchpin User Profiles make it easier for your employees to connect. It enables users to create profiles that tell a story and draw a realistic picture about them. It allows new colleagues to get to know the team, quickly and easily.
Admins can create profiles with unlimited custom fields, arrange the order of fields and create categories. Field types range from text input and user select to linked profile fields.
Step 4: News
Linchpin Enterprise News
Creating a news item with Linchpin Enterprise News is as easy as creating a blog post inside your standard Confluence. In fact, it's the same thing. For larger corporations the standard blog functionality is not enough to model a complex news concept.
Linchpin Enterprise News offers a selection of macros to do that, along with tools for creating visually appealing dashboards and news pages, personalization for certain user groups or even users and a set of social features to increase their users' involvement.
Step 5: Events
Linchpin Events
Linchpin Events takes event management within Linchpin to a whole new level.
You can create, explore, and manage events with the all-new central event hub, the live preview presents event organizers with an accurate representation of how the event will look like once it has been published, and the heavily improved workflow for embedding and managing events within pages in Linchpin makes it even easier and more fun to use.
Step 6: Microblogging
Microblogging for Confluence
Microblogging for Confluence provides a user friendly and streamlined, real-time channel to share your ideas and quickly collect feedback.
This Linchpin module enables seamless and direct sharing of multimedia information, like on Twitter and Facebook. With the rich-text editor, you can easily share text information as well as links, @mentions, #hashtags, pictures, videos.
Step 7: Sidebar
Linchpin Launchpad
Make your Linchpin even more useful by providing links to external apps that users will need for their daily work.
As a quick selection of favorite apps placed on your dashboard, as an extensive, categorized overview on a separate page or within a custom sidebar.
Wherever you need access to your apps, simply place one of two available macros: one for displaying favorited apps, one for a hand-picked list. In addition, you can recommend apps for users based on their personal data.
Step 8: Mobile Access
Linchpin Mobile
Linchpin Mobile adds a for-mobile optimized component to the Linchpin social intranet suite.
With this, each employee in the company can access important information and collaborate with colleagues.
Wherever they are, whenever they need to.
Want some more help?
Linchpin Partner
Our Partner Manager Adil will answer any questions you may have about Linchpin as a Linchpin partner.
anasri@seibert-media.net
+49 611 20570 40
Linchpin Customers (Self-Service)
Our Sales team will answer any questions you may have about Linchpin as a Linchpin customer.
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