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Jakob Nielsen blasts wiki as over-hyped
In his annual 10 Best-Designed Intranets list, Jakob Nielsen makes two very concerning statements. First, he argues for an “editorial approach
Incubator progress pushed forward by Atlassian Bamboo
I just came across this blog from a couple weeks ago. From the Wicket Diary blog, you can follow the links to the Bamboo project: In the mean time we have our own server (kindly provided by Servoy) provide us with a confluence and Jira setup for Wicket Stuff, and best of all: Bamboo for […]
Updated: Sharepoint is still stuck in the 90s – don’t get stuck there too.
Update: Since I wrote this post back in February, things have changed in the Web2.0 world. Microsoft picked Confluence as the enterprise wiki they wanted to work with for their inaugural launch of the SharePoint platform for Web 2.0 solutions, and we’ve just announced the SharePoint Connector for Confluence. On the FASTForward blog Kathleen Gilroy […]
New Plugin Library Homepages
With as many plugins as we have these days, the plugin library homepages were starting to get a little out of hand. So I decided to simplify things a little bit and simultaneously highlight some of our most valuable plugins. Here’s the old and new: Confluence Old Confluence New Jira Old Jira New We now […]
Wiki Social Gathering in Sydney
Calling all wiki enthusiasts in the Sydney area! Saikore, wiki consultancy and Atlassian partner, is hosting a ‘Wiki Tuesday’ event in Australia. This informal gathering is a perfect time to chat, learn about wikis, and among other things, generally cavort. Here are the details: Event: Wiki Tuesday Location: The Main Bar of Greenwood Hotel, North […]
Education for Wiki Customers
I’m happy to announce all of our academic customers using Confluence will be receiving a copy of Using Wiki in Education, a book edited by Stewart Mader, who joined us full-time as our new wiki evangelist just last month. Before Stewart joined Atlassian, we had asked about the possibility of purchasing a copy of his […]
Recommended upgrade to the Plugin Repository Client
Just a quick note to let everyone know that we’ve released a small upgrade (1.3.1) to the Plugin Repository Client. The new version recognizes the Atlassian-bundled plugins and does not attempt to uninstall them. (Confluence doesn’t allow it, and attempting to do so caused errors.) We recommend this upgrade for everyone using the plugin repository. […]
A Look at Atlassian
Lloyd Davis at Perfect Path posted some videos from our London user group in December. I’ll write about those separately next week (when I will also post an update on future user groups). What caught my eye on related videos on YouTube was a new video that I hadn’t seen before, A Look at Award […]
Jira 3.7.3 Released
Hard at work, the Jira team happily announce the release of Jira 3.7.3. This version comes with 15 bug fixes and improvements, including an Excel export formatting fix and French translation fixes, as well as an important security update. Upgrading to 3.7.3 is recommended, especially for those instances of Jira that are accessible via the […]
Code Signing the Jira installer
So we started work on the Jira installer for Windows this week. Amongst the heap of tasks involved in this activity, there was one little task labeled ‘Get code-signing certificate to stop windows warning about security of unknown publisher’ with an estimate of 1h. A little ambitious I thought at first. Then again we already […]
Ten Stupid Ways to Hinder Adoption
Guy Kawasaki recently published a blog on the Top Ten Stupid Ways to Hinder Market Adoption. We do a few things on the list, but market adoption hasn’t been a problem. That doesn’t mean we can’t do better. The following list corresponds with the list that Kawasaki blogged about: #1. We require people to register […]
Gaining adoption of enterprise wikis
A few days ago James Robertson issued a challenge to his fellow bloggers on the FASTForward Blog to publish their 5 tips for gaining adoption of enterprise 2.0 tools at both the organizational and individual level. Jerry Bowles offered his thoughts, as did Mike Gotta, and others. Euan Semple made a very good point about […]
Offline Editor for Jira
In case you missed it, ALM Works just released what they’re calling an interactive desktop client for Jira. As they say in their press release, “This client offers interactive user interface, powerful search, offline mode and other capabilities that expand Jira functionality to organize issue tracking for more convenience and efficiency.” As I’m in Sydney […]
Get your Wiiki on
It was with great trepidation that I directed the Nintendo Wii’s new web browser to the Atlassian extranet’s Confluence instance. Surely this was as foreign an environment that Confluence was going to be displayed in as ever. Somewhat surprisingly, everything worked fine and it would appear that you can now get your wiki fix from […]