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Alan Braun

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  • JHU Collaborates within Confluence

    “[We] turned from creating Word documents and Excel spreadsheets into the almost living, breathing pages within Confluence.” We had a great conversation with the good…

  • SFWIN at Atlassian on July 25th

    Atlassian is hosting the next SFWIN event in our San Francisco office, July 25th beginning at 6pm. SFWIN organises monthly Bay Area events for the…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…