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“Wooster Bot, What’s for Lunch Today?”

  • By Sara Yin, content marketing specialist
  • On April 4, 2013
A few weeks ago, a couple videographers and I flew out to Boston to check out HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company, and one of HipChat’s earliest (read: pre-Atlassian-acquisition) customers. To put that into context, HubSpot began using HipChat when it looked more like this. Walking into HubSpot for the first time, we felt at home. Oddly. Atlassian and Hubspot have little in common -- they make marketing analytics tools, we make development tools -- and we’re located on opposite

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Using JIRA and Confluence to Work From Mt. Everest

  • By Sara Yin, content marketing specialist
  • News
  • On January 24, 2013
For most of us, working remotely involves a computing device, a smartphone, and a solid Internet connection. But for technical project manager Astrid Byro, the requirements are a little more complex. This April, Astrid will be working from the trail up to Mount Everest Base Camp! Her trek aims to raise money for a fantastic student computer programming initiative at the National Museum of Computing in the UK; scroll down for more info. As a technical project manager contracted by GE

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JIRA Tip of the Month: How to Receive Notifications in HipChat

  • By Sara Yin, content marketing specialist
  • JIRA
  • On January 15, 2013
The Tip of the Month, brought to you by Atlassian University, is a monthly series to help master Atlassian tools. Products are more fun to use when you know all the tricks. Here at Atlassian, we live in HipChat, the fastest way to communicate with everyone on your team. The brutal truth is, many of us will respond to an instant message before a new email. When it comes to maximizing work productivity, it's no secret that we're not big fans of email. If you prefer JIRA notifications via

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How to Become the Most Popular Guy at Work

  • By Sara Yin, content marketing specialist
  • On January 4, 2013
Like a lot of tech companies here in the Bay area, at Atlassian San Francisco, we roll out the beer and wine cart every Friday afternoon. Except that our beer cart is actually a beer bicycle driven around the office by a new hire, who hand-delivers a cold tallboy to every employee who wants one. At a rapidly growing office of 150 people, it’s a great to make sure everyone meets face to face! The problem Organizing our beer cart delivery is simple, but flawed. It’s up to each new hire

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Do You Build Great Things With Atlassian? Tell Us Your Story!

  • By Sara Yin, content marketing specialist
  • On November 30, 2012
Is your company developing at warp speed thanks to JIRA? Busting silos with Confluence, HipChat, and other collaboration software from Atlassian? We’re looking for awesome customer stories to feature as written/video case studies on our blogs, newsletters, social media feeds, and more. Our customers are transforming the way teams develop software, and we want to shout about it! All you have to do is lift a pinky... Your involvement:  a 30-min call to go over how and why you use our

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