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What Wikis can Learn from Kapla Blocks

Last Christmas my son got a set of Kapla blocks which have since become his favorite toy. For the uninitiated, Kapla blocks are small, flat blocks of wood around 4" x 1" x .25." wide. They are the simplest toy you can think of, even simpler than LEGOS. Most adults look at the blocks and say, "What in the world would I do with a bunch of wooden sticks"? But children know exactly what to do with them. The blocks are so basic they can be morphed into just about anything a child can imagine...a boat...a

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You’ve Seen the Movie…Now Watch the Trailer

With our hearts are warm with holiday cheer and our bellies full of egg nog, we'd like to share with you a little video we created to internally promote our recent confluence video series. We hope it brings some joy to all the Bob Cratchits out there stuck behind a monitor, warming themselves on their computer fan. You can check out the three-part part video series here or here. Oh, and we'll send a DVD of the movie Wall-E to the first person to guess which Atlassian's voice was used for the "weeeeekeeeee"

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‘Extend and Customise’ – The Wiki Saga Concludes

The emotional roller coaster pulls into the station this week as our team of Confluence users completes the planning for their team offsite. But before the drama concludes, Todd solicits the help of a new character, Boots Admin, to help him pimp out his page of wiki text with a slick org chart embedded directly in the page. But aren't wiki's just for collaborating on text? Boots doesn't seem to think so. Find out what she has up her sleeve, and how you can use Confluence to collaborate with imagination,

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Confluence Makes RWW’s list of Top 10 Enterprise Web Products of 2008

As part of it's series of top products for 2008, ReadWriteWeb named Confluence to it's list of Top 10 Enterprise Web Products. We are honored to be part of this year's list which includes the likes of Amazon, Google and SalesForce.com. As RWW says: It is time to celebrate the winners in this market, enterprise-focused web products that are already doing well and poised for even greater success in 2009 RWW has kind things to say about Confluence: We are seeing major wiki adoption in the enterprise.

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‘Discover and Subscribe’ – The suspense builds…

This week we present Discover and Subscribe, part two in our three-part Confluence video series. In this episode, we begin where Part 1 left off...our team of not-so-extraordinary individuals is finished creating the "Team Offsite" page and it's now ready for prime-time. But how do they get the word out? How will other employees know the page exists? Should they use email or RSS? And can they trust this new "Christina from support" character? Just what are her intentions? Find out in this next episode

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‘Create and Edit’ – A New Wiki Drama From Atlassian

There's a lot of Twitter buzz around the Widget Connector and all the new features in Confluence 2.10. Hot on the heels of our Confluence 2.10 launch, we present to you Create and Edit, the first video in a three-part miniseries. The series chronicles how one team of ordinary individuals finds a better way to work. They challenge the status quo of email-based collaboration and shared network drives in order to hit a tight deadline. Will they make the deadline? Stay tuned to our redesigned Confluence

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