Monique vdB Community Manager

I love John Cleese! And also "shaking hands with the Queen" is pretty amazing.

@Jodi LeBlanc in that case here's my favorite celebrity-in-the-wild story. We had a new roommate moving from Boston and he was like "do you see famous people here?" and I was like "oh yeah, constantly, let me show you some." I was playing it off as if there were celebrities everywhere, although really, it's not like that.…

@Meg Holbrook my sister actually worked on Angel too! The best part was before Firefly was on the air, when I knew nothing about it, I got to visit the set. The crew was filming on a different part of the soundstage so the ship was empty and I got to climb all over the Serenity. So, so cool even then, not knowing anything…

@Kat Warner I feel so lucky every single day!

I love celebrity sightings and encounters! I mentioned How I Met Your Mother here, and have been lucky enough to visit the sets and meet the casts of some of my favorite shows, including Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly, and (seen below) The Office. These are work environments so the etiquette when on…

Hahaha I wish I had a random chicken perched on our fence! We had a turkey and her baby living on our driveway for a while, then found eggshells in the backyard. So mad we missed seeing a turkey baby hatching!!

@AB and Kimberly there is an issue with users being able to @ people with parentheses in their username. You could change the () to [] to avoid this, @Kimberly Deal _Columbus ACE_! 

@transdigiware we are now in Jolly July! You can see all our monthly badges at this link. Or set up a search alert for "monthly challenge" and you will get notified when the newest one comes out!

Oh and @Johannes Kilian -- welcome back!

@Johannes Kilian most of the badges are retroactive -- for example you already have badges for Accepted Solutions, Topics Created, and Likes Received (see below for a screenshot from your profile). My guess is that liking things is what you may be missing, so if you like something (or a few somethings) on this new…

Thank you @Kat Warner! I will fix it!

Nobody understands what a community manager does. My elevator pitch is usually something like, "My company makes collaboration software, and I manage an online forum for people who use that software." But it's way easier if people know what a community is, or what Jira is, or really any part of it! 

@Meg Holbrook I missed this post because I was also on vacation! But it's Monday and I just had a big cappuccino, which is how I kick off my morning. I drink coffee while writing my to-do list and setting myself up to attack the week! I put too many things on my to-do list, somehow I can't help biting off more than I can…

That looks absolutely divine.

This looks heavenly, @Kristian Walker _Adaptavist_!

@carolyn french does "far enough along" mean what I think it does?!?!?! Congratulations!!! My sister works in film production on the Fox lot, and the soundstage behind her office is where they filmed HIMYM. This is my real baby, lol. Cobie Smulders saw us on set and came up to introduce herself and talk about motherhood.…

@Carol Jones it should still work! Give it a try :) 

@greg varela Lithium has a spam management tool that can review 1000+ messages/day and is 99% accurate in detecting spam posts. This would not be a concern for an internal community, but for an external community at this scale, not having this would be a problem. Spam overran Atlassian Answers in the end because of this.…

I love this picture so much. You definitely help hold us up, Fadoua!! And also your jean cuffs are so cute too. 😊

 have so many thoughts but will save them until y'all get to the ending. But here are some pictures we took on the set! 

@Brendan here is the info for the Amsterdam AUG, you can sign up to get notified of the next meeting!

@John Duncan good question! These are collections, and a walkthrough of how it all works is here.

@[deleted] I signed you up for November 15 and you can make big eyes at Meg if you want to do MiscMon ;) 

@Meg Holbrook I know, it was blue and not freezing cold! So different! @carolyn french Pura vida!! I missed you all too, for real. 😍

@Dave Sky the "Create" button at the top of your screen (next to "Search") will always let you create a question! Just use the "Bitbucket" (or appropriate product) tag.

@Kat Warner signing you up now, for November 8 :)

@[deleted] yes!! Of course!! Or @Meg Holbrook, do you want any pinch-hitting for Miscellaneous Monday? :) 

I'm rooting for Croatia now that Belgium is out (love an underdog) but predicting France for 1st and Belgium for 3rd! 

Yay @Aswin Achuthan!! Thank you!

@Kimberly Deal _Columbus ACE_ having a Champion on board is a +1 for sure! Thanks for expressing your interest, we will keep you in the loop!