Archives for Jeffrey Walker

Constitution Day Wiki

This past weekend and today the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia celebrates National Constitution Day using Confluence for educational knowledge sharing. C-SPAN, USA Today, the National Archives, the Annenberg Foundation, and Scholastic have provided most of the content on the Constitution Day wiki. Educators are collaborating on lesson plans, classroom activities, books, and other educational resources. The Center and the idea of celebrating on one day the US Constitution are new.

Continue reading »

Tags: ,
Comments (0)

O Canada! O Wiki!

Helix Commerce of Toronto today joined Atlassian’s partner program to bring their creative thinking about wikis to Canada. Helix founder and leader Dr. Cindy Gordon is a champion of new ideas in corporate innovation, and has been profiled in the University of Western Ontario Business School’s new book “Women in the Lead

Continue reading »

Tags: ,
Comments (0)

Atlassian Signs Fat Bastard To Be Company Spokesman

San Francisco (April 1, 2006) -- Atlassian Software Systems today announced that Fat Bastard has agreed to a multi-million dollar contract to become the company's spokesperson. The Austin Powers movie star will headline a blockbuster series of television commercials planned for worldwide distribution. With the theme, "If it's not Atlassian, it's crap!", the ads are expected to break new ground in software marketing. "The main reason we started a US operation was to get the best American marketing

Continue reading »

Tags:
Comments (0)

Johann Sebastian Wiki

Whenever I have to explain to someone what a wiki is, I invariably mention wikipedia because just about everybody knows it. But the next time I have to show someone a wiki, my first choice without a doubt is the Bach Academie de Montreal... ... which clearly blows away most wikis in terms of presentation. I guess we should expect French-speaking musical lovers and musicians to do a brilliant job when it comes to user interface. :-) It's easy to downplay the importance of UI when we dwell so much

Continue reading »

Tags:
Comments (0)