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Ben Ostrowski

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Dr. Ben Ostrowski is a Senior Researcher on Atlassian’s Team Anywhere, where he studies teamwork in the age of AI and distributed work, and develops new evidence-based work practices to empower teams and organizations to thrive. He holds a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Carnegie Mellon University.

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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:…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • WebDAV in Confluence

    Confluence can now function as a full WebDAV server.

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…