My blogging has sure slowed down lately, but I have challenged myself to get going in earnest again. I have been using Confluence OnDemand personally for years and have been TRYING over the years to allow easy (and consistent) anonymous access to a couple of blogs, including my technical blog that I’m moving here to WordPress.com.
Don’t get me wrong… I absolutely LOVE using Confluence and as called out in enterprise 2.0 book review (using web 20 technologies within organizations) I see it as an incredible enabling tool for Enterprise 2.0 level collaboration. If I was not opening up a JIRA every few months with them to keep fixing things that have worked in the past, then I surely would not be taking this big step. In all fairness, I am using Confluence for more than they are imagining the primary use cases are. For a team, big or small, that needs a highly collaborative wiki for document management I cannot recommend anything other than Confluence.
Meanwhile, I’m going to soldier on and make the move. I’m looking at the Scroll WP Publisher plug-in for Confluence to help with Confluence to WordPress conversions. I had some initial luck with simple text-heavy posts such as give as few orders as possible (encourage autonomy and responsibility) and are you a mort, elvis or einstein (or are these labels nonsense)?, but I started encountering problems with ones like visiting the computer history museum (yes, i’m a geek) which is just pictures and text.
I had to perform quite a bit of editing to get my enterprise 2.0 book review (using web 2.0 technologies within organizations) going because of integrations with YouTube and SlideShare. Even more effort was poured into moving how do i load a fixed-width formatted file into hive? (with a little help from pig); so much that I have opted to just create a PDF of any post that doesn’t migrate with only minimal intervention as well as a link back to the original Confluence posting.
I’m likely going to “launch” this blog site BEFORE finishing all the ports which is yet another task on my personal backlog. As for WordPress, I am definitely a newb and I am VERY open to hearing your suggestions and shared links to help me become proficient and efficient in this well-loved blogging platform.