Archives for Ryan Anderson

We're often asked by other Atlassians, 'Does Team Calendars have a release this month?'. To which we satisfyingly respond with another question: Does Atlassian's beer cart roll around every Friday at 4 PM? We don't mean to be rude, or arrogant, but we're proud of our dev speed, and it's turned us into a confident lot. This is our 13th release in 11 months. We simply love putting new features into the hands of our customers as fast as possible. So without further adue, we're excited to announce

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Instant Messaging is an effective means for quickly communicating with your team and sharing information. It's more immediate than email, but less distracting then tapping your co-worker on the shoulder to ask a question. HipChat offers instant messaging via both private one-on-one chats and group chats - allowing for either private conversations or team discussions - a perfect communication tool to use alongside Confluence. However, connecting the two can take your team's productivity to new

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Encouraging collaboration that leads to the inception of brilliant ideas and even better results requires two processes. It starts with content creation – someone creates a wiki page or blog post to form ideas, specifications, project plans, or anything else. That content then needs to be discovered by other people or team members. Others can be pulled into Confluence via Share notifications and @mentions. This is when the real magic happens. Engage Everyone. Realize Results. The fundamental

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The Team Calendars development team is addicted to speed. Uh...well...no...well, not that kind of speed....what I mean is, the Team Calendars development team is addicted to putting new features into the hands of its customers, fast. There we go, let's cut to the chase. We're excited to announce that our next major release - Team Calendars 2.1 - is available to try now. Discovering Team Calendars With ten releases and counting, Team Calendars is jam-packed with awesome features. Tracking

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Earlier this week Matt shared some of the small improvements to share notifications and blog comments coming soon in Confluence 4.2. This release is tearing at the seams with new features and enhancements that we're back to tell you about a few more improvements that we're just too excited about to keep to ourselves. Add Labels to Attachments Ever heard the phrase, "With great power, comes great responsibility"? Made popular by Uncle Ben from the blockbuster hit 'Spider-Man', this phrase

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Team Calendars 2 – How to Avoid the ‘Oh $%*#’ Moment

A lot of work we do revolves around people, projects and content that can't be tracked using a Personal Calendar. With so many different schedules and projects happening at once, getting everyone on the same page is nearly impossible, increasing the likelihood of an 'Oh $%*#' moment - the moment when you realize you're going to miss a deadline, a feature has to be pulled from an upcoming release, or quality must be sacrificed. These moments are standard for any group of people attempting

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