Introducing the Timeline View – Available Today in Team Calendars 3
For Ford it was the Model T, for Reebok it was Pumps, for Apple it was the iPod, and for Facebook it was the Like button. Now it’s Team Calendars’ turn to change the game. Team Calendars 3 gives you one vision of your team, events, and Jira projects so you can plan for the future like never […]
Something Big is Coming to Hipchat
Hipchat, our hosted private chat service, is built for business – helping teams like Instagram, Quora, and TBS collaborate through the use of 1-on-1 and group chat rooms. Big changes are on the horizon for Hipchat. We redesigned. We rebuilt. We think you’ll love it. Some would say it’s the biggest thing to happen to Hipchat […]
3 Ways To Make Your Meetings Count With Confluence
Holding effective meetings is just plain hard, which unfortunately prevents most meetings from accomplishing anything. This leaves most people with schedules full of meetings that could have been avoided. Meetings with no agenda. Meetings that are jam-packed with irrelevant tangents. Meetings with no actionable deliverables to follow up on afterwards. If this sounds familiar, then your team […]
RefinedWiki Mobile Interface 2.0 Leverages the Power of Confluence Mobile
This is a guest post by Emil Sjödin, CTO of RefinedWiki, one of Atlassian’s official partners. This post highlights the new features shipped in the latest release of RefinedWiki Mobile Interface, a Confluence plugin that extends the capabilities of Confluence Mobile on your favorite smartphone and iPad. Work has become a lifestyle. It’s no longer confined to a […]
3 Ways To Reduce Email With Confluence
If you had to apply a Facebook relationship status to your email inbox, it would probably be ‘It’s Complicated’. While email has become the lifeblood of most organizations, when it comes to team collaboration, email also plays the villain. Over-reliance on email to communicate and collaborate with your team, also known as Disruptive Email Flatulence (DEF) is […]
Is Your Team Suffering from Collaborative Dysfunction (CD)?
Since the beginning of time, teams have struggled to work together, and yet even today it’s still incredibly difficult to drive a group of people towards a common goal. Modern business is sink or swim, demanding high levels of collaboration from teams to achieve even higher results. Unfortunately, we still don’t have team collaboration figured out, as […]
Live Webinar: Atlassian, Hipchat, and HubSpot Share Collaboration Best Practices
It’s no secret working together as a team is really hard. and it’s only amplified by the modern business environment in which successfully driving a group of people towards a common goal is needed to at least compete, let a lone flourish. Somehow we’ve spent decades over-complicating team collaboration, creating an illusion that our teams are well-oiled […]
Collaboration Best Practices – 3 Reasons Working Together is so Difficult
Just because you’re at work doesn’t mean you’re actually getting work done. As fast and demanding as the modern work environment is, it’s hopelessly unproductive. Without the proper tools, team focus comes at a stiff premium. In attempt to work together, it’s likely that your team is drowning in email, stuck in dead-end meetings, and constantly interrupted. The […]
Collaboration Best Practices – 3 Reasons Interruptions Hurt Your Team’s Productivity
It might have started with an innocent tap on the shoulder. A teammate quickly asking a question about an upcoming deadline. No big deal, right? WRONG. Two separate conversations, four email responses, and half a travel blog later, you come to. What were you working on again? Productivity is futile in the face of constant interruptions Distractions […]
Team Calendars 2.5 – Get Your Team Started Using Team Calendars, Fast
We’re excited to announce that our next major release, Team Calendars 2.5, helps your team get started creating calendars inside of Confluence faster than ever, and it’s available for download now. Jumpstart your team’s use of Team Calendars Philosopher, George Berkeley, once offered, ‘If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a […]
3 reasons most meetings are pointless
Between pointless meetings and email it’s exceedingly difficult to get work done while you’re actually at work. Time is scarce when your calendar looks like a game of Tetris, but you’d at least hope that all the time spent in meetings is put to good use. Unfortunately, that’s just not the case, and the fact of the […]
3 reasons email hurts your productivity
One of the turning points for communication in the workplace was the invention of email. Historically it’s been the easiest way to make contact in any business relationship – short, pointed conversations with the teammates you work closest with, or quick messages to people you’re communicating with for the very first time. You could say it […]
Confluence 4.3 Coming Soon: Satisfies More Than 900 Customer Votes
Confluence 4.3 has been released. Learn more! Have you ever been told, ‘Don’t sweat the small stuff’? Our upcoming release of Confluence 4.3 will surely make you question that advice. While Confluence 4.3 will get attention for its headline-hogging features, it really wins with its finer details. You know, the small, daily wins that save you precious […]
You Waste A LOT of Time at Work [INFOGRAPHIC]
News Flash Just because you’re at work, doesn’t mean you’re actually getting work done. Between excessive emails, pointless meetings, and constant interruptions, your productivity takes a back seat. You’re not alone either. Everyone struggles to get work done – keeping your team in a constant state of distress as project deadlines close in. The old adage, ‘Work […]
Team Calendars 2.4 – Create Calendars from the Confluence Editor
There are two key components to working together as a team. The content you create and the schedule you agree to have it done by. We’re excited to announce that our next major release, Team Calendars 2.4, unites your team schedule with the work you’re getting done in Confluence like never before – and it’s available for download now. Create new […]