Coding with refugees

Today I met a refugee in person for the first time during our Saturday coding sessions for kids in our office. His name is Omid. This guy is 16, from Afghanistan, sympathetic, eager to learn and full of joy and excitement. Actually Omid seems to know exactly what is at stake for him. He deliberately tried to sit through a JavaScript coding workshop without German language skills that would allow him to even understand what was said.

Atlassian Summit 2015: Most important product news and keynote announcements

Atlassian Summit logo

The big annual user conference of the Australian Software developer of JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket Server & Co, the Atlassian Summit 2015 was kicked off in San Francisco after a training day yesterday and exchanges with Atlassian Partners on Monday. We would like to share with you the most important news and announcements from the keynote by Atlassian co founders and CEOs Scott Farquhar and Mike Cannon-Brookes.

//SEIBERT/MEDIA sponsors Intranet Now Conference in London October 13, 2015

Intranet linchpin connect with colleagues

//SEIBERT/MEDIA will sponsor the second un/conference Intranet Now in London, which has the aim of helping its participants improve their intranet. The Conference will take place on October 13, 2015 in the London Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel and we look forward to supporting this cool and ambitious event. If you feel up for a promising trip to the British capital, we might see you there! Tickets are available at a discounted early standard rate until August 31st.

New pricing for Confluence Data Center: Significantly more cost-effective scaling

Confluence Data Center is Atlassian’s Confluence deployment for clustered operations in data centers. It provides high availability, instantaneous scaling and performance while scaling with continuous performance monitoring. It meets the toughest company demands on business-critical applications. Atlassian has announced a new pricing system for Confluence Data Center.

Rollout Strategies – Use Social Intranets Company Wide

Linchpin Intranet

Rolling out a Social Intranet in the complete company will have an effect on your company culture. An intranet 2.0 is a tool that will start an orientation towards employees and self organization. And it is absolutely essential to involve the employees from the beginning. Which strategies are useful for the rollout? How to approach critics? Here are some useful tips.