Monthly Archives: March 2008

A Tale of Two Wikis: Techniques for building, managing and promoting collaborative communities

Just found this excellent paper by Laurence Parry from the 2006 Wikimania conference. It focuses on starting and building a community wiki, and a lot of his ideas, tips, and advice also apply to wiki use in organizations: ...why would you want to build such a wiki in the first place, and why would such wikis be successful? The answers are simple: the wiki provides (in most cases) a persistent storage for community history, while at the same time the community provides a ready pool of eager, knowledgeable

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Wikis at the White House

In a recent Washington Post article, Stephen Barr explores how the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is using a wiki to track earmarks in the federal budget. Earmarking is a process by which members of Congress designate money for specific projects, often in their home states or congressional districts. With the wiki, federal agencies compiled a database of 13,496 earmarks in 10 weeks. In the old days, it would have taken six months to get the information to the OMB. That's a great

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Crowd 1.3 Solves Your Identity Crisis

The Atlassian Crowd team is delighted to present Crowd 1.3. This release includes innovative solutions for LDAP group administration, cross-directory user imports and a streamlined management interface. Crowd 1.3 features delegated authentication, giving users greater control of LDAP group administration, while allowing users to be managed in Crowd. This means local systems administrators can bypass the bureaucracy and easily configure user permissions, group configurations and passwords from Crowd

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Atlassian Wins Four Jolt Awards!

We're happy to announce that Atlassian took home a whopping four Jolt awards on March 5th at SD West with FishEye and Clover receiving the top prizing! Here's the awards breakdown: Change and Configuration Management Jolt Winner: FishEye Testing Tools Jolt Winner: Clover Collaboration Tools Productivity Winner: Confluence Security Tools Productivity Winner: Crowd The Jolt Awards recognize the most innovative, trend-making, ahead-of-the-curve products. For more details and the complete list

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Vote for Your Favorite Atlassian T-Shirt Design!

We'd like to thank everyone for submitting their designs for the next great Atlassian t-shirt! We received over 80 entries, and from those, have chosen the top 14 for you to vote on. Check out our voting page to cast your vote and help us choose the next cool Atlassian T-Shirt! Voting runs until March 31st and we'll be announcing the winner on the Atlassian News Blog in April. They'll have the choice of either an 8GB iPhone or a 16GB iPod Touch, their choice. Stay tuned!

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