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• Atlassian launches Australia-wide remote working initiative

  ​Atlassian is starting an Australia-wide assessment of its employees and the teams they work on to gauge their suitability for remote working.

• How 'survivor' Ciena is using video to change its culture

  Ciena has been in business for 25 years. Not all of them have been easy.

• Atlassian acquires Trello

  ​It’s an acquisition that will “change how the world works” according to Mike Cannon-Brookes, co-founder of Atlassian which today announced it is buying Trello for US$425 million.

• Zoos enhance efficiency, patron experience with Skype

  Zoos South Australia has enhanced operational efficiency, animal care and customer experience with new video-based collaboration tools.
  

• $5.4 billion wasted during collaboration projects in Australia: Deloitte

  The Australian collaboration economy is worth $46 billion but $5.4 billion is wasted on overlong meetings, distractions and failed projects, according to a new Deloitte report.
  

• Gamification the new game changer?

  It makes sense that we’re starting to see gaming incorporated into the workplace, as enterprise gamification is gaining credence as an enhancer of innovation, change management and collaboration.

• 3 Common Enterprise Social Network Mistakes (And How to Avoid Them)

  Many businesses fight an uphill battle in their enterprise social network deployment: In fact, Gartner predicts that 80 percent of such initiatives fail. Here are the three most common obstacles businesses face and tips for how you can avoid them.

• Why Yammer is snatching up enterprise customers

  1. It's a good intranet alternative. Most companies have an intranet meant to facilitate employee collaboration and act as a portal for company information. But employees often use it so infrequently that they forget their passwords. Lawrence DeVoe, chief technology catalyst at Initiative Media, deployed Yammer last April, starting with 10 invites, and within three weeks had gained 400 users. Today, the Yammer population at the company has grown to 1,400. And DeVoe says Yammer cost less than half of what was spent on his previous Intranet tool.

• CSIRO experiments with 'no email' day

  The CSIRO is undertaking an experiment few commercial organisations would dare to consider — switching off email for an entire day.
  

• ABS adopts social software to combat workplace inefficiency

  The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has adopted social software in the hope of providing greater collaboration across its 3200 strong workforce.

• BankWest sees success with in-house social networking

  BankWest has revealed details of its internal social networking service, IdeaBank, with the platform resulting in more collaboration and innovation.

• 15 Free Enterprise Collaboration Tools

  Whether your business is looking to start small or go big, many free tools can help jumpstart your enterprise collaboration efforts. Here's a look at 15 of the best -- some old, some new, some basic and some robust
  

• More IT projects green-lighted amid signs of recovery, survey shows

  Many IT leaders intend to make high-tech purchases and technology projects a priority in the coming months as plans that had been put on hold during the downturn are prepped for takeoff in 2010.