The company intranet can provide your people with a pathway to sustained success. But to be truly effective, an intranet needs relevant internal content that can be found easily and understood quickly. Populating a knowledge platform with the right internal content can boost productivity, drive innovation, and keep teams excited about their roles.

Good internal content is the key to breaking information silos and solving communication problems. If you’re not concentrating on developing your internal content, then you’re missing valuable opportunities to boost collaboration and drive productivity. 

In this article, we’ll look at how Cosmos and Gliffy can maximize the possibilities of Confluence and help you get the most out of your internal content.

Does Internal Content Impact Productivity?

According to a recent workplace study, approximately 22% of employees spent half a working day each week looking for information. A little over 10% stated they spent one and a half days searching for information. Research from McKinsey shows that employees spend an average of 1.8 hours a day looking for the info they need. That equates to 9.3 hours every week! The same research found that in the average working week, employees spent 14% of their time attempting to collaborate or communicate with colleagues.

Not being able to find information or not being able to quickly understand it inhibits knowledge sharing. Silos can easily develop in workplaces where information is hard to find and communication is difficult.

The solution? A modern intranet with highly visualized content. An intranet provides teams with a reliable single source of truth. Visualized content simplifies complex ideas so they can be understood without having to read lengthy explanations. 

But you’ll need the right apps to enhance your internal content and really push productivity levels through the roof.

Many organizations use Confluence to centralize information into a single source of truth. Combine Confluence with Cosmos and you can ramp up the capabilities of your intranet.

By integrating Cosmos into Confluence, you can develop a complete intranet solution fully customized to your unique requirements. Cosmos upgrades Confluence pages with a more intuitive, user-friendly design, advanced search capabilities, and seamless Jira integration. 

Use Gliffy, and you can take your Confluence content even further. The visualization capabilities of Gliffy will let you truly harness the power of Confluence and Cosmos. Gliffy allows you to create visually appealing internal content that can be understood at a glance.

So, how do you go about visualizing your internal content? It’s simply a matter of turning lengthy text into clear visuals.

Visualizing Content Powers Up Productivity 

Internal content should be engaging, clear, and straightforward. They should instantly catch the viewer's eye and give them the information they need right away. But how do you transform dense, complicated data into appealing and simple content? The solution lies in leveraging data visualization techniques.

Visualizations contextualize data and make it easier to understand. Employees don’t need to have specialized technical knowledge or training. 

Data visualization is when we use images, charts, and diagrams to convey complex information in a way that is quick and easy to grasp. Our brains can process visual information incredibly quickly. In fact, it takes just 0-500 milliseconds for a person to analyze information when it’s presented to them in a visual format.

Data visualizations like diagrams and graphs allow us to process complicated information in seconds. With the right diagramming techniques, complex metrics, trends, and patterns can be highlighted and made clear instantly. 

Science has proven the effectiveness of data visualization. One study showed that viewers can understand visualizations like graphs more than 25% faster than text. There’s also clear proof that diagrams help us to better understand complicated structures and processes. Researchers have found that diagrams can help us interpret data six times quicker than just reading text.

Gliffy lets you create appealing and easy-to-understand visualizations. You can transform complex data from lines of technical text into appealing and clear diagrams quickly and simply. And unlike many other diagramming tools, Gliffy can be fully integrated with Confluence. Diagrams can be stored in Confluence with searchable textual elements, so your teams can always find the info they need. If any changes or edits are made, your diagrams are automatically updated.

Creating appealing and clearly visualized content is a key factor in improving productivity. But there’s no value in having great content if your people can’t find it. 

Intranets with Great Internal Content Encourage Collaboration 

No matter how well it’s presented, if information isn’t easily accessible it hinders collaboration and becomes a major factor in creating organizational silos.

Ensuring easy access to information and establishing clear communication channels encourages collaboration and breaks down knowledge silos. Powering up Confluence with Cosmos lets you create an intranet that instantly provides your people with engaging, relevant information.

Pair Confluence with Cosmos and you can design customized dashboards that put critical information at your fingertips. Contact lists, documents, files, project management tools, company news, team updates, important resources and documents, quick links, people networks – everything an employee needs can be located and accessed simply and quickly. Want to see how Cosmos can elevate your intranet experience? Discover our Cosmos video series!

Confluence provides a single source of truth where your employees can locate crucial information. But Confluence can be so much more than just a repository of information. It can also act as a platform where people can connect and share ideas and knowledge.

Encouraging your teams to use the social elements of your intranet can keep people motivated, raise job satisfaction and engagement levels, and drive collaboration. Comment sections are fantastic tools that help drive intra-departmental knowledge sharing and break down information silos. Attractive, concise, and easy-to-understand content encourages people to leave incisive comments and engage with each other. As people make personal connections outside of their teams, knowledge will flow throughout the entire organization.

Upgrade Confluence Content with Gliffy and Cosmos

Connecting people and giving them easy access to resources is the best way to boost productivity and encourage collaboration. A well-designed intranet with concise, organized, and appealing content saves time by eliminating the need for lengthy searches.

Combining Confluence with Cosmos and Gliffy opens up a range of new possibilities for your intranet. Adding Gliffy diagrams to the Cosmos dashboard lets you transmit crucial information quickly and easily.

Integrating these two powerful apps can transform how you use Confluence. You can optimize knowledge sharing by visualizing content and organizing it in a way that is easily searchable, engaging, and appealing to users.

Collaboration and communication are enhanced as employees make new connections to broaden their networks and their connections. Complex data can be understood at a glance helping to improve productivity levels.

Together, Cosmos and Gliffy enable the smooth flow of concise, clear, and accessible information throughout Confluence to smash silos and spark innovation.

Discover how integrating Cosmos and Gliffy into your Confluence spaces can streamline your intranet and transform your content.  

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