Wiki Theater – Your Wiki Isn’t Wikipedia
If you ever want to see a human being express completely unrestrained passion for a subject, just ask Stewart Mader over at Future Changes if there’s any difference between an enterprise wiki and Wikipedia. As a wiki evangelist, Stewart justifiably finds this confusion between wikis for business and Wikipedia to be one of his greatest […]
Wiki Theater – Five Killer Use Cases for Wikis
Every conference we attend seems to be full of passionate Atlassian customers. Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco last week was no exception. We got to catch up with dozens of Confluence customers including folks from Bank of America, VSP, and Kaiser Permanente just to name a few. We also got to do some wiki […]
Wiki Theater is Back – This Week at Web 2.0 Expo
If you’re at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco this week, come by and see us in the exhibitor hall. We’ll have our big, 20-foot booth set up at this year. And by popular demand we’re bringing back Wiki Theater. Every day we’ll have four informative presentations ranging from Why Your Wiki Isn’t Wikipedia to […]
Meet the Collaborating Sheep
Ahhh….the spirit of Summit is in the air. Robert Castaneda from CustomWare is in our San Francisco office today showing off his collaborating sheep poster, something his team made in anticipation of Atlassian Summit. At first glance my initial reaction was, “Oh that’s cute, some cartoon sheep.” But once I studied the image for a […]
Comparing SharePoint to Confluence?
Last week Martin Seibert at Seibert Media wrote an interesting blog post where he evaluated SharePoint as an enterprise wiki. He posed the question, is SharePoint really a good alternative to a fully developed company wiki? He draws his conclusion early and then presents a list of compelling arguments as to why SharePoint is not […]
How Wikis Create an Opt-In Culture
Stewart Mader was kind enough to let me post on his blog today. In the post I explore the concept of an opt-in corporate culture and how an enterprise wiki is integral to achieving an opt-in culture. Here’s a tiny snippet: …In an opt-in culture, employees contribute to conversations where they gain the most satisfaction […]
Confluence Teams up with Widgetbox
We are pleased to announce the availabilty of Widget Connector 1.2 for Confluence which adds support for Widgetbox. Widgetbox is the web’s largest widget community with tens of thousands of widget developers and a gallery of over 117,000 widgets. With this latest release of the Widget Connector, Confluence users can quickly add any of Widgetbox’s […]
{Cornify} your Confluence
Once in a generation, there comes along a technology that revolutionizes the way we work, the way we play, the way we see the world. No it’s not the iPod, not the iPhone, not iAnything. Of course I’m talking about Cornify, a new service that offers unicorns & rainbows on-demand. Atlassian wholeheartedly embraces the web […]
Confluence Team Hosted now with Balsamiq Mockups
January-09 is turning out to be the month of Confluence Team Hosted. Since we announced a $49/mo pricing tier earlier this month, our daily signup rate has doubled. Today we have more news to share with you… effective immediately, all Confluence Team Hosted customers get Balsamiq mockups bundled for free with their wiki. Balsamiq also […]
Confluence Team Hosted for $49 – Tell your friends
We don’t blog about our hosted offerings too frequently but it’s BIG news when do. Effective immediately, 10-user accounts of Confluence Team Hosted are available for just $49 / per month. That’s less than the cost of your monthly cable bill (even without the premium channels). Why Team Hosted? Confluence Team Hosted is for small […]
2009 Email Brevity Challenge – Who’s game?
In time for the new year Hutch Carpenter and Jennifer Leggio introduced the 2009 Email Brevity Challenge. The rules are simple…limit every work-related email to 140 characters as if it were a tweet. I analyzed my last 20 emails to see how close I am to achieving micro-emailer status. The bad news is that my […]
What Wikis can Learn from Kapla Blocks
Last Christmas my son got a set of Kapla blocks which have since become his favorite toy. For the uninitiated, Kapla blocks are small, flat blocks of wood around 4″ x 1″ x .25.” wide. They are the simplest toy you can think of, even simpler than LEGOS. Most adults look at the blocks and […]
You’ve Seen the Movie…Now Watch the Trailer
With our hearts are warm with holiday cheer and our bellies full of egg nog, we’d like to share with you a little video we created to internally promote our recent confluence video series. We hope it brings some joy to all the Bob Cratchits out there stuck behind a monitor, warming themselves on their […]
‘Extend and Customise’ – The Wiki Saga Concludes
The emotional roller coaster pulls into the station this week as our team of Confluence users completes the planning for their team offsite. But before the drama concludes, Todd solicits the help of a new character, Boots Admin, to help him pimp out his page of wiki text with a slick org chart embedded directly […]
Confluence Makes RWW’s list of Top 10 Enterprise Web Products of 2008
As part of it’s series of top products for 2008, ReadWriteWeb named Confluence to it’s list of Top 10 Enterprise Web Products. We are honored to be part of this year’s list which includes the likes of Amazon, Google and SalesForce.com. As RWW says: It is time to celebrate the winners in this market, enterprise-focused […]
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