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Cash For Clunkers: Confluence Trade-Ins

5 days left to trade-in your clunky collaboration method Our second Cash For Clunkers program has been humming along quietly over the past month. With only 5 days left it seems apt that we provide an update on what the collaboration trade-in scene is looking like. We're not just dishing out 20% discounts or free 10-user Confluence licenses for trade-ins, we're also giving four lucky creative people a $1,000 donation to a charity of their choosing and their very own Amazon Kindle (sorry no Apple

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This post is fourth in a series on using Confluence as a Business Intelligence tool. Now that you're pulling your data onto Confluence pages and making it into eye-popping charts, your reports might be so popular that they're putting a strain on your database. A flashy executive dashboard that shows daily stats from every division of the company isn't so flashy if it takes five minutes to load. Optimization to the rescue! Confluence gives you several methods to improve the speed of reporting. The

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Atlassian at TED – Daniel Pink on 21st Century Motivation

Ted.com just posted the last month's TED talks and, to our surprise, Atlassian was hailed by Dan Pink (best-selling author and former Al Gore speechwriter) as a company that motivates its employees in radical and effective ways.Specifically he mentions our FedEx days where we set aside 1 1/2 days for developers to work on whatever they want (with a skew towards our products) and then demonstrate it live to the entire company. He also mentions Atlassian's 20% time where Atlassian developers are encouraged

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A huge congratulations goes out to Walton Smith and team at Booz Allen Hamilton for their winning the Open Enterprise Innovation Award at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston this week. Booz Allen's Hamilton is a 90-year-old consulting firm with over 20K employees. Walton helped create Hello.bah.com, a platform combining 'best of breed enterprise 2.0 tools' including Confluence. It's a great example of a large, mature firm can innovate with new ways to communicate, collaborate and share knowledge. Stephen

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