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

Would there be society without communication ?

Pen is mightier than the sword...1088 University of Bologna founded

Knowledge starts to be shared to an increasing audience

Communication becoming an enabler...

… used for positive and negative aims

Communication speaking too the masses...

… information only flowing one way though!

The written word is now easier than ever to create...

… still slow to share

The world is starting to communicate...

… not necessarily all that well though!

Information becoming freely available at your fingertips...

… although created by the minority

A huge leap in information output...

… driving ideas, connections and confusion

Everyone can get involved and collaborate...

… allowing more communities to grow

Challenges in communication

Good communication should be...

Good communication is not boring..

How do you make something interesting...

...do you know why its appealing?

Engaging

History of communication

http://atlss.in/infogrphc

So how does Atlassian communicate & collaborate

Let the tools do the work

Managing the ambassadors...Daily task list

Weekly reports90 day goals

Events planningMeetings... and more meetings..

Avoid drowning in email..Expediting and dealing with issues...

JIRA queries now not so scary...

Communicate with confidenceCommunicate 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

Telling people who I amMy Confluence home page

Contact details / my location

Recent documents / edits

Planning activities

Making daily stand-ups more funTalk about things we are learning

Help each other priorities

Identify dependant activities

Talk to each other as human beings...

Work in progress

What I did last week...

Confluence for 90 day goalsSimple to create tables

Emoticons to make goal status easy to see

Could also use status field

Simple to understand for a wider audience

Atlassian AmbassadorsCustomer interviews / case studies

Online promotion, blogging, tweeting

Conferencing and community events

University outreach – bridging the skills gap

Atlassian user groups

A small tour around Europe !!

UK Atlassian user groupsBath / Bristol group starting soon

Possible Reading groupLondon kick-off planned

Looking for willing customers to run groups

Your user group needs you!www.atlassian.com/about/community/

Taking beer to the community

… and cool T-Shirts

@Atlassian / @JR0cket

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

There has never been a better time to communicate

What do you want to share today?

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