Collaboration forms communities from the individual communications of others. In our continually evolving society it is so important to be part of the community for your own discovery and to help socieity evolve even further. This talk discusses how communication has evolved and the benefits that collaboration bring to our lives.

1. A short history of
Communication
… its good to talk, even better to collaborate!

3. Would there be society without
communication ?

5. Pen is mightier than the sword...
1088 University of
Bologna founded
Knowledge starts to be shared to
an increasing audience

7. Communication becoming an
enabler...
… used for positive and negative aims

9. Communication speaking too the
masses...
… information only flowing one way though!

11. The written word is now easier
than ever to create...
… still slow to share

13. The world is starting to
communicate...
… not necessarily all that well though!

15. Information becoming freely
available at your fingertips...
… although created by the minority

17. A huge leap in information
output...
… driving ideas, connections and confusion

19. Everyone can get involved and
collaborate...
… allowing more communities to grow

24. Challenges in communication

25. Good communication should be...

26. Good communication is not boring..

27. How do you make something
interesting...
...do you know why its appealing?

30. Engaging

31. History of communication
http://atlss.in/infogrphc

40. So how does Atlassian
communicate & collaborate

41. Let the tools do the work

42. Managing the ambassadors...
Daily task list
Weekly reports
90 day goals
Events planning
Meetings... and more meetings..
Avoid drowning in email..
Expediting and dealing with issues...

45. JIRA queries now not so scary...

46. Communicate with confidence
Communicate with Confluence
Ambassadors have their own space
Everyone has free run (except for deleting the whole space !!)
Audit trail keeps people honest
Really drives collaboration

47. Telling people who I am
My Confluence home page
Contact details / my location
Recent documents / edits
Planning activities

49. Making daily stand-ups more fun
Talk about things we are learning
Help each other priorities
Identify dependant activities
Talk to each other as human beings...

50. Work in progress

51. What I did last week...

52. Confluence for 90 day goals
Simple to create tables
Emoticons to make goal status easy to see
Could also use status field
Simple to understand for a wider audience

56. Atlassian Ambassadors
Customer interviews / case studies
Online promotion, blogging, tweeting
Conferencing and community events
University outreach – bridging the skills gap
Atlassian user groups

57. A small tour around Europe !!

58. UK Atlassian user groups
Bath / Bristol group starting soon
Possible Reading group
London kick-off planned
Looking for willing customers to run groups
Your user group needs you!
www.atlassian.com/about/community/

59. Taking beer to the community

60. … and cool T-Shirts

61. Communication helped create our society
Communication has many forms
•Social networks, face to face, books & articles
Communication has a life cycle
•Inspirational, motivational, informational
Communicate for success & fun!
@Atlassian / @JR0cket

62. There has never been a better time
to communicate
What do you want to share today?
@Atlassian / @JR0cket

63. Thank you
For everything Atlassian we have:
www.atlassian.com
blogs.atlassian.com
answers.atlassian.com
GoAtlassian YouTube channel