Today is the first anniversary of Akeles Consulting. For the past one year, we have helped our clients to improve their productivity in the area of Collaboration and Project Management. This is done by coupling our best practices together with good tools like Confluence and JIRA.

We will like to take this opportunity to thank our partners, clients and associates for their friendship and support.
Thank you 🙂

We had our first exhibition 3 weeks ago. The response was very good. A lot of people are interested in what we are offering. We were so busy talking to the attendees during the exhibition, so I can only share the photo that I have taken before that.

It was also a good time to network with the heavyweights of the industry. I managed to get the opportunity to have a photo with Mr Frank Koo, (Managing Director, Oracle Singapore).

Sorry to keep your folks waiting, the videos for the Live Webcast of how Confluence is used in the US Government has been posted up at http://blogs.atlassian.com/news/2009/05/sharing_stories.html

The Pecha Kucha presentations are as follows:

• National Geographic Society (NGS)
  • Karen Huffman — Wikis…. almost better than chocolate.
  • Whitney Hall — Sharing information through wikis.
  • Ariel Deiaco-Lohr – Going Greener: New ways for sharing resources & research
• Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)
  • Diane Schnurrpusch — Development of DC Chapter of SLA’s wiki
• Executive Office of the President — Office of Management & Budget (EOP-OMB)
  • Emily Fort — Discuss government-wide collaboration and management of a large Confluence instance.
• National Institutes of Health (NIH)
  • Doug Joubert — Implementing wikis at a federal institution.
  • Dan Wendling — A Confluence wiki’s design pattern library and thoughts about usability.
  • Jeremy Swan — Review the Confluence architecture and method for developing templates.

More description on the content on the video is available at the Atlassian’s blog.

This set of videos does provide invaluable advice on the adoption of wiki.

But for our clients, they do not have to spend the time to do the research and reinvent the wheel. It is because we are always constantly searching and evolving our best practices to help them.

Our focus and our experience is our best value proposition.

To further the TED conference’s mission of promoting ideas worth spreading, it has established the TEDx program of independently organized TED events.

The Advance network is running its first TEDx event on May 5 in San Francisco.

Ross will share key findings from his recently launched book Implementing Enterprise 2.0. The discussion will focus on key facets of how the enterprise will change, including structure, staffing, funding, and the use of social and communications technologies. 

The list of  speakers for this event are:

The live streaming will be available on May 6 (Wed) at 7:30am (Singapore time)

For more details, check out the registration page

The World Bank is organizing a session “Sharing our Stories about Wikis the Pecha Kucha way” for governmental agencies to share how they are utilizing Confluence and other wikis for their work. Key partipants includes:     The World Bank National Institutes of Health (NIH)  National Geographic Socieity (NGS) Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Executive Office of the President – Office of Management & Budget (EOP-OMB) Others

The session is only limited to 50 users. But thankfully, Atlassian will be recording the presentation. 

The event will be held on 14th May (Thu), 11pm – 12:30am.  I will put up the link to the video in this blog when it is available.