Jeffrey’s Seven: Cancer Dude Back Online
This is the third slide of the Opening Keynote from Atlassian’s Summit this week. Amidst all the celebration of success, product and partner announcements, and just about a windfall of information it was a nice gesture to spend a minute with Atlassian’s first US employee, President Jeffrey Walker, who could not be at the event, [...]
Helping Atlassian $timulus Package Towards the Finish Line
Quick update on the Atlassian $timulus drive I previously reported about: at 2pm on the last day of the promotion, they are at $93K – the $100K donation is realistic… but they may need a little push. So I decided to put my money (well, a little) where my mouth is and have just purchased [...]
Atlassian Stimulus Package Supports Charity. Two Days Left To Get Your (Almost) Free Confluence or Jira Licence.
This must be do-good-week. Amongst all the talk about Ashton Kutcher’s challenge to CNN, how the follow-on Oprah show pushed Twitter to never-seen height, little attention was paid to the small fact that this initiative generated over $1 Million donations to Malaria No More. Ashton started with his $100,000 check and was soon joined by [...]
Cancer Dude Will Win Again
This is Jeffrey Walker. President of Atlassian, an incredibly cool and successful company. Hacker artist and musician. And also Cancer Dude. His words, not mine. He wrote them two years ago: “In preparation for this upcoming surgery, I’ll be working out every single day. I’ll be leaving work at a reasonable hour. I need to [...]
Business Models and Right-brained Geeks
Both Ben and myself often talk about how lean business models provide a competitive benefit in good times, and are crucial in a downturn that we are now living through. We can keep on explaining the pull-model vs. traditional software sales again and again … or jus sit back, shut up, and let a company [...]
Where does Culture Stop and Decadence Start?
There has been much discussion on the blogosphere over Google‘s recent decision to scale back employee benefits (although many would consider a note asking employees not to take cafeteria food away to eat at home is less of a cut back than an articulation of the concept of employee respect for the workplace). People have [...]
Choosing Your Customers: Smart Business or Arrogance?
Remember To Make It Easy To Buy: oh, yes, I agree with the points Rob Di Marco raised in his recent article – but I’m also surprised. Rob discusses Atlassian, makers of the excellent bug tracking software Jira and the enterprise wiki software Confluence as a company not easy to buy from. I’ve often been [...]
SocialText Becomes Really Social
Socialtext, the enterprise wiki company is no more… a wiki company, that is. Not since Socialtext 3.0, the new release announced today. Founder and Chairman Ross Mayfield calls his new baby a Connected Collaboration Platform, that’s modular, built on a widget framework, and consists of: Socialtext Dashboard – your Communication Central Socialtext People – Facebook [...]
Wikis for the Average User
I know it's an unpalatable thought for many people reading this blog, but most enterprise users feel remarkable comfortable in the MS Word environment. Getting them to feel that comfortable within a Wiki world is a challenge. Atlassian Confluence has taken a big step to easing their pain by delivering their Office Connector functionality. The [...]
