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Be a sponsor of Atlassian Summit 2011

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On January 20, 2011
Time to dust off your marketing boots and sign up to be a sponsor at Atlassian Summit 2011. If you sell plugins and extensions for Atlassian products, offer professional services, or just fancy yourself running a booth at our conference, now's the time to raise your hand and let us know that you want to be a part of Summit 2011. Being a sponsor at Summit provides a great platform for promoting your wares. Some stats from last year: Nearly 600 attendees from 25 countries 3 tracks, 30 sessions

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3 reasons you should nominate Atlassian for a Crunchie

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On December 9, 2010
It's Crunch-time again, which in English means that TechCrunch has opened nominations for the 2010 Crunchies awards. Nominations are open through Friday, December 24, 2010 at midnight PT. Atlassian fits neatly into two Crunchie categories: Best International Company and Best Enterprise. We've been nominated for Crunchies in the past, but have a hard time competing with B2C companies who have only to lift a finger to get out the vote, which means we're going to have to work extra hard to make it

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Atlassian wins Aussie Exporter of the Year and Deloitte Fast 50

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On December 2, 2010
Last month, Atlassian was named a New South Wales Exporter of the Year, and at the ceremonies the other night, Atlassian was named the winner in the Ernst and Young Information and Communication Technology category. The Export Awards celebrated Australia's best exporters by commending them for their achievements and commitment to success in overseas markets. I'm not sure what's more awesome: winning the award, or watching Atlassian's co-founder and CEO, Scott Farquhar, accepting the award while

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An interview with Chris Shipley on startups

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On November 19, 2010
Atlassian is a sponsor of Innovate!100, a global program to identify and promote up-and-coming technology and communications startups from around the world. Ever since releasing our Starter Licenses ($10 versions of our products, priced with startups in mind) we have sponsored several startup events and we even ran our own startup event last June. By providing software for startups and small teams, we've been hoping to facilitate a little more innovation. One of the founders of Innovate100 is Chris

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FedEx Day in the wild

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On November 12, 2010
Dan Pink's book, Drive, is about motivation. The book includes a profile about Atlassian and our FedEx Days and 20% time. Since the book was released, it seems that dozens of companies have been motivated to start FedEx Days of their own, which we think is awesome. If you haven't heard of Dan Pink or FedEx Days or you're looking to see how others have done it, read on. What is FedEx Day? Atlassian's "FedEx Day" is time set aside for developers to work on whatever they want with a skew towards our

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What is YOW!? An interview with Dave Thomas

  • By Jon Silvers, Director of Audience & Community Marketing
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  • On November 9, 2010
Atlassian is a sponsor of this year's YOW! events in Melbourne and Brisbane. For weeks we've wondered Why is it called that and we finally got the gumption to ask. Here's an interview with Dave Thomas, one of the founders of YOW (and also a judge of our Ultimate Wallboards Competition), about the event and why locals should consider attending the conference and workshops: Interview with Dave Thomas What's Yow? YOW! is the Australia Developer Conference held this year in Melbourne and Brisbane.

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