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Aussie Entrepreneurs Defy GFC – From Startup to $100 Million Company

SYDNEY (BUSINESS WIRE) — Australian owned and based software company Atlassian reached a significant milestone in its short history when February 2009 it reached $US100 million all-time sales. Atlassian remains a profitable privately-owned company that has expanded through organic growth, not venture capitalists; and continues to expand in a receding economy, recently opening its European […]

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Summit for Administrators

Someone recently asked a me the following question about Atlassian Summit: what’s in it for Systems Administrators?

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Summit agenda is live!

After a lot of late nights, debates, and hand wringing, we have published the agenda to our first ever worldwide user conference. There are three tracks with over 60 sessions and lightning talks!

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Tradeshow tips and tricks

One of our sponsors at Atlassian Summit emailed me today to ask for tips to staff a booth in the sponsor pavilion. Having never staffed a booth, they needed some pointers. Herewith are my top 5 suggestions for bringing traffic into your booth.

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Atlassian Summit “genius bar” and update

We’re going to set up a counter at Atlassian Summit that will be staffed with our super-hero, cape-clad Technical Support staff. Drop by to get advice, best practices, and tips.

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Back by popular demand: Accenture webinar

Back by popular demand, we’re going to re-run the webinar with Nicolas Peeters of Accenture. Confluence was introduced to one team at Accenture, but it didn’t take long for the wiki to spread across the globe. Today, over 80,000 consultants, IT, developers, and executives use Confluence daily to collaborate, write documentation, and more. How did […]

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Infomercial: Get $500 off on Jira and Confluence training (and Ginsu knives!)

Announcing Jira and Confluence training at Atlassian Summit! The three courses we’re offering — Jira Fundamentals, Jira Administrators & Workflow, and Confluence Fundamentals — are $500 off at Summit.

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How OpenCloud uses Confluence for technical documentation

Atlassian Confluence customer, OpenCloud, have done some amazing work with Confluence. For example, check out their developer portal, which takes Confluence dashboards to a whole new level. They’re also using Confluence for writing and publishing their technical documentation. I got a great deal of satisfaction when I learned from Jon Hertzig of OpenCloud they were […]

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Summit Sponsors

Only 166 days left until Atlassian Summit! Even though it’s our first-ever worldwide user conference, several partners have already stepped up to the plate to support the event. The event could not be possible without them, so without further adieu, I’d like to thank our sponsors!

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Atlassian Summit: worldwide user conference

Atlassian’s first-ever worldwide user conference, Atlassian Summit, is scheduled for 2009! Please join us for 2.5 days, May 31 to June 2, 2009, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, as we discuss all-things Atlassian — networking, product overviews, training, workshops, support, feature demonstrations, and way more. Learn more at on the Atlassian Summit website. Hope to see you there!

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EContent 100

Atlassian has been named to the 2008 EContent 100, EContent Magazine’s list of “companies that matter most in the digital content industry.” The world loves 100, and on occasion half that! The EContent 100 is not dissimilar to the BRW Fast 100, the Deloitte Fast 50, SDTimes 100, or the Newsweek Smart 100. We’re thrilled […]

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Tomorrow’s webinar with Accenture

For those of you in Europe and the East Coast of the US, please tune in tomorrow for our webinar The Wiki Epidemic: Connecting 80,000 users and 1000s of teams at Accenture. I was told last week that the webinar’s title needs updating: they’re up to 85,000 users now! Please join us live from Amsterdam […]

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Will the Usual Suspects please line up

I got an email today from a government customer, Brandi George of Brazos County in Texas. They had been watching our very first plugin of the month webinar with Dan Hardiker. We had many problems running that webinar, beginning with Dan’s late plane flight, which forced us to move the webinar back for an hour. […]

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Rice’s wiki cultural revolution

Very cool discovery today: I stumbled across presentations given by Rice University IT staff on their use of Confluence. Rice University’s IT Podcast videos includes a four part video series on how they selected the wiki and how it’s used. Recorded in April 2008 at Educause, each video is about 10-15 minutes long. Part I: […]

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The Wiki Epidemic: Connecting 80,000 users and 1000s of teams at Accenture

Confluence was introduced to one team at Accenture, but it didn’t take long for the wiki to spread across the globe. Today, over 80,000 consultants, IT users, developers, and executives use Confluence daily to collaborate, write documentation, and more. How did they get such massive adoption? Tune into our webinar to hear Nicolas Peeters in […]