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Corporate Wikis Reviewed
Troy Angrignon (Adventure Capitalist) reviewed a bunch of commercial wikis. The conclusion: “Atlassian’s Confluence is the best of them so far.” Pros: the overall design is clean, it has advanced management tools, good security, and simple attachments.Its email function has to pick mail up from a POP box which makes it a little bit less […]
The Enterprise Wiki
From Mike Radomski’s blog… My organization is embracing a product called Confluence from Atlassian. Confluence is an enterprise wiki that makes it easy for your team to collaborate and share knowledge…. If your organization has not embraced wikis, I would highly suggest taking a look at this type of technolgy for internal collaboration and documentation. […]
Atlassian European Reseller, Pix Software GmbH, Cross Important Milestone
Pix Software Systems, our largest Atlassian European reseller, reported to us that they had reached a major milestone by selling over 150 Atlassian licenses of Jira and Confluence. We’re very excited about their progress. Pix Software was one of Atlassian’s first partners, they’re based in Germany and offer a variety of services and consultancy for […]
Dawn of Confluence at Relic Entertainment
Canada’s Relic Entertainment, the makers of Dawn of War and other real-time strategy and multiplayer games, recently installed Confluence for collaboration. Relic’s Frank Roberts was telling Jim in the San Francisco customer advocate group, “We recently switched to Confluence [from another wiki whose name shall be withheld 🙂 ] to achieve the same result but […]
New plugins worth noting
We’ve had a few cool plugins added to the Plugin Libraries recently, and I wanted to point them out here in case you missed them. The NextGen IM Presence Plugin Confluence has long been able to show your instant message presence status inside of a page, at least for certain networks. But David Peterson has […]
Jira’s Second Life at Linden Lab
Linden Lab called us a couple months ago to show us how they are using Jira. Now, many of our customers have customised our products in innovative and interesting ways, but rarely have we talked with a customer doing anything like this. Linden Lab has democratized just about every aspect of decision-making. Employees across functional […]
Wikis–a disruptive innovation
Cindy Gordon writes in the May issue of KMWorld on wikis: What is clear is organizations continue to spend millions of dollars on content management infrastructure solutions, rather than putting more power in the hands of their users to collaborate effectively together. The wiki paradigm is disruptive because it is a low-cost alternative that brings […]
Johns Hopkins and Jira
Staff at Johns Hopkins University, the first research university in the U.S., are long time fans of Jira. At JHU, Jira’s used to manage thousands of issues, tasks, and bugs across multiple projects, most recently for the deployment of a new student information system. “So I turned to my director and said, ‘I used a […]
Using Wikis for Academic Research
I had a chat (thanks Skype!) with Peter Higgs at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation at Queensland University of Technology about their use of Confluence for academic research and collaboration. It wasn’t too hard to track Peter down as he’s related to one of the developers here, Jeremy. Small world, […]
Sneak Confluence 2.3 Preview – People Directory
The big feature in Confluence 2.2 was “Personal Spaces”, the ability for each Confluence user to have their own wiki and blog. What was missing, though, was a convenient way to navigate, discover, and ‘favourite’ personal spaces. So we’ll fixing this oversight for 2.3: (The tabs above the search area are a temporary UI, and […]
Confluence Plugins Presentation
I recently gave a presentation on Confluence plugins—what they do, how they work and why we have them—to an assorted bunch of Atlassian sales staff and customer advocates. You can download my slides, as a Quicktime presentation. Even without me talking over them, I think they make sense. (In fact, they probably make more sense […]
Dots and Dashes – Social Software Success
Atlassian founders Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes were featured in the June issue of The Bulletin: In just four years, Atlassian has achieved what many Australian software companies have found impossible: create a global market. It was ranked as the fastest-growing Australian software company in 2005 and the third-fastest of any company in Australia. Read […]
Grad Student Needs Participants
This blog caught my eye: Survey: Wikis in Enterprises. If you’re a Confluence user and have a few minutes to help with Tim’s studies, head on over to his blog. I personally don’t know Tim or anything about his work (other than what he’s published about it), but it seems like a worthy-enough effort.
Keep the byte
Keep the byte author Cédric offers this Piece of advice: Scrap your CMS portfolio and use an Enterprise Wiki instead. I don’t have the time and resources to do it – therefore here’s the business ideal for free (for any European county): Call up Atlassian and make a deal to contribute the internationalised Confluence version […]
An Atypical Life
Excerpted from i am not an artist “The effort required to alter some software behaviour is often disproportionate to the gains to be realized from the work. But to actively reject suggestions from customers for convenience, or because “you can get away with it