Atlassian RoadTrip: Chicago

Charlie in the Windy City Charlie enjoyed the sun and surf in Los Angeles!  Now it was time for some deep dish pizza and quality blues music.  Charlie wanted to go see Millennium Park and hang out with Cloud Gate sculpture.  For the locals, Cloud Gate is known as "The Bean".  Inspired by liquid mercury, it has fun reflections of the Chicago skyline. Charlie did some other exploring of the Windy City but headed over to the Estate UltraBar to meet a number of our customers in the area. 

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View Visio Diagrams Free in Confluence with Lucidchart

This is a guest blog from Ryan Butters, VP of Sales and Marketing for Lucidchart, a vendor in the Atlassian Marketplace and makes of Lucidchart for Confluence. Lucidchart is proud to announce a free Visio Viewer plugin for Confluence. The viewing functionality is bundled with our diagramming application, but you won’t need to pay a cent in order to use and enjoy the Visio Viewer. Now your entire organization can view Microsoft Visio files in a cloud-based, easy-to-use, completely free format.

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How to Run Effective Meetings with Confluence

How many times have you left a meeting thinking it was a waste of time? Have you ever felt 'meeting dread' because you know that the next hour is time better spent actually getting work done? The fact is most of the meetings we attend during the day don't accomplishing anything. Meetings with no agenda, meetings full of non sequiturs, or meetings with no actionable deliverables to follow up on afterwards are far too common in the work place. Your team might even be suffering from Reckless Meeting

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Atlassian RoadTrip: Los Angeles

Where's Charlie? Charlie had such a good time in San Francisco, he was excited to see the City of Angels.  He quickly headed over to the Santa Monica Pier for fun and some swimming out in the Pacific Ocean. After dipping a toe in the water, he decided to head over to the Bodega Wine Bar in Santa Monica to meet up with some great Atlassian customers, experts, employees, and enquirers. Our second stop for RoadTrip connected us with some great organizations in LA, including Lucky Jeans,

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Work Smarter, Not Harder: Productivity in the Workplace

This is a variation of an article I wrote for eclipse MAGAZIN that was published in their March issue. Many thanks to Ryan Anderson for his contributions. Everyone struggles to get work done these days as the amount of communication and information available continue to increase at warp speed. The old adage, ‘Work smarter, not harder’ has become a joke with many employees now forced to work after hours, through lunch, and even on the weekends just to keep up. Work has become a lifestyle whether

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Meet the Stash Realtime Editor Add-on

Several weeks ago, I found myself refactoring some code a colleague of mine in Boulder wrote (I'm in San Francisco). Because I'm impatient, I wanted him to review my changes without going through the normal pomp and circumstance of what's now commonly referred to as a pull request or code review. I found myself wishing that I could just share my editor tab over the internet so that he could see what I was working on in real-time. Sure, I could have done one of the following: Invite him to a screen

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