Monthly Archives: October 2010

Brand and Customise Your Enterprise Wiki with Zen Foundation

This is a guest post by Darryl Duke of Stepstone Technologies, an Atlassian Partner that creates a Confluence plugin called Zen Foundation that will completely transform the way your users view and interact with your enterprise wiki. Solving the problem of adoption Adoption, it's perhaps the biggest challenge organizations face when rolling out a new collaboration tool such as Confluence. Whether reinforcing your brand, looking familiar to your users, removing that "temporary" look of a new technology,

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Technical Writing in a Wiki: From draft to published document

This is the second in a series of posts from Atlassian's Technical Writing Team focusing on using a wiki for technical writing. Last week, Andrew Lui talked about why wikis are ideal for collaborative documentation development. In this post, I'll be talking about how you can use a wiki to publish documentation, from authoring content through to publishing.

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Summit 2010 Highlights – DVCS in the Enterprise

Distributed Version Control Systems (DVCSs) such as Git and Mercurial have gotten a lot of hype in recent times, but centralized VCS (Subversion, CVS, etc.) are still far more commonly used. In this presentation at Atlassian Summit 2010, Justen Stepka presented an overview of DVCS, as well as the story of his team's migration from using Subversion to Mercurial.

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Bugbox puts JIRA in your pocket

  • By John Sloat, Online Marketing Coordinator
  • JIRA
  • On October 26, 2010
This guest post was written by Bugbox. Bugbox LLC specializes in creating mobile apps for smartphones, including iPhone, Android and BlackBerry. Their latest app is Bugbox for JIRA which puts JIRA on your smartphone.We love JIRA, it's an indispensable part of our software development, but we didn't have a good way to access JIRA while away from the desktop. So we set out to create Bugbox, a mobile app that puts JIRA in your pocket wherever you go which even works when you are offline.Application

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Watch a live demo of the new features in Confluence 3.4

  • By Matt Hodges, Product Marketing Manager - Confluence
  • News
  • On October 26, 2010

It's been a couple of weeks since we released Confluence 3.4, a new version of our enterprise wiki packed full of new features to provide faster, richer content creation for everyone. Don't worry if you missed out on last week's webinar demonstration of the new features, we recorded everything for you! 

See the new keyboard shortcuts, user macro improvements and new Universal Plugin Management by watching a recording of the live demo below (demo starts at 07:25).


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Do you have the Ultimate Wallboard?

  • By Ken Olofsen, Portfolio Product Marketing Lead
  • News
  • On October 25, 2010
We're on the lookout for the most impressive information radiator.  If you have a wallboard, status board, story wall or any other form of extreme feedback, we want to see it!

You could win a 55" HDTV and other great prizes, just by telling us what's on your wallboard and why. See contest details below.

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