Two Tickets To Defrag – Going once….twice….
As a gold sponsor, Atlassian was lucky enough to score two free tickets to Defrag 09 taking place in Denver from November 11-12. That’s a value of $1,495 each! What is Defrag? Well, Defrag is the first conference focused solely on the tools and technologies that are leveraging the “social” aspect of software to accelerate […]
Webworks ePublisher – Publish DITA, Framemaker and Word to Confluence
Last week Sarah Maddox and I were fortunate enough to get a personal demo of WebWorks’ ePublisher platform from Ben Allums and Alan Porter at WebWorks. ePublisher bills itself as an online conversion platform that transforms FrameMaker, Word, and DITA-XML content into Web and online help deliverables. In their latest release, ePublisher 2009.2, WebWorks added […]
Taskdock may revolutionize how you use Confluence
Do you frequently find youself emailing or IM’ing Confluence links to people asking them for their feedback? If so Taskdock may be for you. Taskdock is a new Confluence plugin that just announced its public beta this morning on Atlassian’s Plugin of the Month webinar. You’ll be blown away by what these guys were able […]
Confluence on Virtualised Environments – The day has come!
In case you missed it, last week Giles made a major announcement in the Confluence forums. Here’s the skinny: We are proud to announce that Atlassian officially supports non-clustered installations of Confluence 3.0 and later on VMware. Although possible, we do not recommend running versions of Confluence prior to 3.0 on VMware, since Confluence 3.0 […]
Headshift on Wikis for Law Firms
Penny Edwards over at Headshift recently blogged about the social intranet they deployed to over 5,000 employees at Freshfields. Freshfields is a large, international law firm providing business law advice throughout Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US. The platform they chose? Confluence. According to Penny, “The firm had an old, tired intranet, where […]
Balsamiq Mockups for Confluence – now with interLinking
For anyone who’s ever had to mockup a web page, Balsamiq is an amazing Confluence plugin that lets product managers, developers, web masters and business folks all collaborate on the UI right inside a wiki page. Just this week they added a major feature to their Confluence plugin that lets you link together between mockups […]
Atlassian at TED – Daniel Pink on 21st Century Motivation
Ted.com just posted the last month’s TED talks and, to our surprise, Atlassian was hailed by Dan Pink (best-selling author and former Al Gore speechwriter) as a company that motivates its employees in radical and effective ways. Specifically he mentions our ShipIt Days, where we set aside 1 1/2 days for developers to work on […]
Wiki Theater – Five Patterns For Massive Wiki Adoption
At least year’s Web 2.0 Expo, Atlassian’s one and only Jeffrey Walker delivered a highly-lauded presentation on on how to drive wiki wiki adoption in the enterprise. This year Jeffrey couldn’t attend so we filled the void as best we could. So without further ado, here’s the last Wiki Theater presentation from Web 2.0 Expo […]
Wiki Theater – Supercharging SharePoint with an Enterprise Wiki
Back in April we presented Wiki Theater live on the floor of Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. You may have seen some of our presentations in previous posts on this blog. Here’s a little video of a presentation delivered by one of our finest sales engineers, Douglas Butler, on the value of connecting your […]
The Twittersphere is Buzzing About Confluence 3.0
Confluence 3.0 is just over a month old now and, despite being captivated by the recent spate of celebrity deaths, thousands of people took the time away from CNN to download Confluence and share the luv Twitter-style. Here’s what people are tweeting about Confluence 3.0: Loving Confluence 3.0 to death… What a superb wiki solution! […]
Help us Integrate Confluence with Alfresco
At Atlassian we’re always looking for ways to expand the utility and functionality of our products. Sometimes this means we develop that code ourselves, and sometimes it means our community fills in the blanks. Such is the case with a new integration we’ve been working on with Alfresco, an open-source content management company, and Sourcesense, […]
Confluence Customer wins ‘Open Enterprise Innovation’ Award at Enterprise 2.0
A huge congratulations goes out to Walton Smith and team at Booz Allen Hamilton for their winning the Open Enterprise Innovation Award at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this week. Booz Allen’s Hamilton is a 90-year-old consulting firm with over 20K employees. Walton helped create Hello.bah.com, a platform combining ‘best of breed enterprise 2.0 […]
Introducing Confluence 3.0 – Meet the Macro Browser
Today marks a major milestone in the evolution of enterprise collaboration. Today we celebrate the birth of Confluence 3.0, a new generation of the world’s most popular enterprise wiki. Powerful Macros at Your Fingertips Confluence 3.0 introduces the Macro Browser, a new way for users of all experience levels to build content-rich pages in seconds. […]
yUML for simple Confluence diagrams
So you want to create a diagram showing how a user might navigate through your app? Then yUML, a new service by Tobin Harris from the Engine Room is a cheap and easy way to do it. There are a few web-based tools for creating diagrams, but what’s unique about yUML is it’s implementation. How […]
Cut your Confluence Hosting Costs by 50%
Why pay for hosting costs when you’re not using your wiki? That’s the reasoning behind our recently announced Instant Atlassian EC2 image – an easy to use command line interface that lets you create, start, stop, and backup your Confluence or Jira instance. The era of pay-as-you-go collaboration and bug tracking is finally here, and […]
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