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Atlassian – Most Likely To Change The World
Atlassian is still at the beginning of what I think will be a great success story. A lot of that has to do with their products, their culture and their leadership. – Kim Heras, The Next Web It’s been a good Friday here in the Atlassian Sydney office, despite the horrible humidity we got out, […]
22 Topic Ideas for Summit 2010 Presentations
Summit 2010 is just around the corner, and we are full-swing in planning to make this year’s event even better than last. As with any event planning, there are deadlines. The most important deadline coming up is the Call for Speakers submissions on 1 Mar. In last month’s newsletter, I asked the question “what would […]
Extreme Makover: User Group edition
Since I started working at Atlassian almost 2 years ago, we’ve wanted to give the User Group site a makeover. We’ve finally done it! Check it out! Here’s the story: The Background. We run our user group site on a public extranet that runs on Confluence. Confluence was perfect because it allows us to make […]
Skin your wiki
Are you the type of person that likes to stand out from the rest of the crowd? I know I do 🙂 One of the great things about Confluence is the flexibility and control it gives you over its look and feel. Earlier this week, Jimmy Lundström from RefinedWiki, wrote a guest post about how you can turn your Confluence wiki into into an Intranet with their Confluence theme plugin. Your options for skinning your wiki and making it stand out from the rest of the crowd don’t stop there…
A Confederacy of Phreaks
Not (just) another marketing blog There are dozens of great marketing blogs – many we subscribe religiously to (the OPML file), and learn a great deal from – but we found that…
Webinar: Confluence Content Import Plugin
Next week we are running a Plugin of the Month webinar with Communardo on the Confluence Content Import Plugin. Based out of Germany, Tino Winkler will walk us through how the Content Import Plugin faciliates imports of any type of content into Confluence. The import data must be provided in a transfer format, which is […]
Webinar: Confluence to your Desktop via ConfluenceFx
I’ll be hosting a Plugin of the Month webinar next week with Kap IT on the ConfluenceFx plugin. ConfluenceFx is the first enterprise solution that brings Confluence to your desktop. It enables your teams to collaborate more effectively and keeps all your community up-to-date thanks to its real-time notifications and collaborative user interactions. UPDATE: VIDEO […]
The Atlassian Doc Sprint is happening, and soon
We’re holding an Atlassian Doc Sprint on 22-24 February. You may have already heard about it. This is a quick reminder to the people who are coming and an invitation to join us if you haven’t already. What will happen in the doc sprint? We’ll cloister ourselves in a room with some computers, some geeks […]
Turn Your Wiki into an Intranet with RefinedWiki
RefinedWikis first post focuses on how you, with enhanced usability and interface design, can organize content better, increase non-technical users adoption rate and take your first step to use Confluence as an intranet. Our second post will be a new product release for Confluence, so please stay tuned.
Hosted Development Suite Helps Revolutionize Health Care
I was fortunate enough to catch up with Tarun Upadhyay after he got back from a business trip to India. Tarun is co-founder of hCentive and currently serves as the CTO. hCentive helps make health expenses easier to manage for end consumers. From the begining, hCentive chose Jira Studio as the hosted software development suite […]
The bi-weekly blog roundup
With so many Atlassian blogs, we like to regularly post a “blog roundup” (just like Balsamiq does). Here is a summary of just a few of the posts we wrote in the last couple weeks: Jira 4.0 Gadgets on the iPhone. You may recall a recent post in which one of our developers talked about […]
Get product training at Atlassian Summit 2010
This is a guest blog post from the Atlassian product training team leader, Stafford Vaughan. At Atlassian Summit 2009, the training courses sold out due to very high demand. This year, at Summit 2010, we’ve added more courses to better meet demand. While our development teams have been busy adding features to our products, the […]
NCSS 2010 – guest post by Erin Jamieson
Last month we sponsored the National Computer Science School’s summer program. We are involved with the school in a number of ways – our staff go along to help out as industry mentors for their programming competition, we run a site tour to give them an insight into the working world of software development, and […]
Social Media Monitoring in the Wiki
I’ll fess up, I’m a Twitter fanboi. When I’m not at work, I’m @mattnhodges and when I am, I’m the @ConfluenceGuru. There’s a little gem that was shipped in Confluence 3.1 which makes monitoring your multiple Twitter accounts, and tweets about your company, a breeze.
Webinar Recording: Zendesk integration with Jira
Last week, I was a guest on a special Zendesk integration webinar talking about integrating your Zendesk with Atlassian Jira. The webinar recording is now up on AtlassianTV, and I have included a copy here: