My thanks to Atlassian for sponsoring Future Changes this month. They’re running a Cash for Clunkers – Confluence Edition program offering a free 10-user license or 20% off any other license. All participants are also entered into a drawing for four charitable donations and four Amazon Kindles. They’ve put together a humorous – and accurate – top 10 list of reasons to trade in your old intranet:
- Your team has meetings to talk about reducing the number of meetings
- Your wiki constantly loses page edits when your browser crashes
- You use SharePoint and everyone complains about its wiki
- Your team’s idea of collaboration entails emailing documents back and forth
- The most recent search result on your company intranet is dated July 2002
- You have to email the Webmaster to update your company intranet
- Three teams in your company are working on the same project and don’t even realize it
- You frequently find yourself cc’d on long emails along with 15 other people
- Your wiki came bundled with an Enterprise 2.0 business suite with 40 other tools
- Not everyone in your company is an XHTML / CSS wizard
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