Archives for Morgan Friberg

How Atlassian Uses JIRA: Email Marketing

When I joined the marketing team at Atlassian, I was tasked with ramping up our email program. If your company sends emails to market your product/solution, and you use Atlassian's JIRA, read no further and download the free 'Outgoing Email Workflow' for JIRA now. The problem Atlassian sends a lot of email to its 25,000+ customers. In fact, in the last 12 months we've sent about six million emails ranging in content from our monthly newsletter, JIRA tips, Confluence tips, product announcements,

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Win swag from AtlassianSwag, the swankiest swag store on the Internet

"Someone told me that Atlassian is really a t-shirt company disguised by selling software." - a customer tweet It's true. In 10 years in business, we've printed over 400 t-shirt designs, a few of which have become cult classics. No one ever comments when I wear my Armani shirt, but every time I'm sporting an Angry Nerds t-shirt, someone asks me where I got it from. Finally, after years of fooling the public that we were just a tech company, the disguise is coming off. Introducing... swag.atlassian.com New

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(Case Study) Over 8 Million Resumes with Atlassian’s Hosted Development Suite

Company: Resume Companion Founded: 2009 HQ: Maryland Employees: 18 Products: JIRA OnDemand with JIRA,GreenHopper, Bamboo and Confluence Atlassian gets extremely excited when we receive unsolicited praise. I jumped at the chance to followup with a customer who submitted a really nice note on our public feedback form. It's not everyday that a customer will come forward and share their story. On the form, the customer mentioned "During our growth we have found Atlassian to

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Do you have the ping pong skills?

Friendly competition is a staple at Atlassian. From Halloween costume and gingerbread contests, skeet shooting, poker game nights, spur of the moment foot races and even departmental competitions regarding work, Atlassians make any situation and challenge fun. When we moved to our new office in San Francisco, our brand new foosball and ping pong tables got heavy use. Naturally, we immediately organized a tournament, and the games unfolded. Nearly 40 people signed up to play in the first ping

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(Guest blog) Tackling the top 10 games development problems using Atlassian tools

Atlassian has been helping hundreds of game developers produce the top games of the day for years now. It seems like just yesterday when we had Steve Weibe, of 'The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters' fame, at our GDC booth trying to best his Donkey Kong world record. Alas, that was years ago, and so many games have been developed since then utilizing our tools. This is a guest blog post by Gareth Wilson from Adaptavist who are an Atlassian Platinum Expert. Adaptavist provide services and

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Video: Confluence Dashboards Plugin

Today we held a webinar with Adaptavist on the Confluence Dashboards plugin. The Confluence Dashboards plugin makes the perfect dashboard or landing page for your Confluence wiki. It allows you to aggregate all of the key information on a personalized, customizable page. Whether it be RSS feeds, wiki pages, macros or OpenSocial Gadgets, they can all be added to the page, which you can arrange however you want. Learn how to save yourself time and effort in finding and keeping up with the important

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