Jimmy Seddon Community Champion

Happy Wednesday Everyone! In case you missed it, registration for Team '25 opened yesterday! A couple of exciting things about this: First, it will NOT be in Vegas! This coming year will be in Anaheim so it will be nice to see some new sights. Second, the University & Certification Team are back with TWO offerings this…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! In about 30 minutes from now, I will be completing my next Atlassian Certification! I saw an article last week in the Training & Certification collection, that I thought was worth some extra attention - @Ree Kent from Atlassian made a reminder that we should renew our certifications. If you will…

Hello Everyone! It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for everyone. Let’s get started! Announcements &…

Happy Wednesday New Year Everyone! I hate New Year’s Resolutions, I know I’ve mentioned this in the past and I still feel that the standard things people fall back on are goals that are too large to make you feel like you are making progress to achieving them. I do think that this time of year is great for reflecting on…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTJuFRISjME Introduction: This guide is designed to give you some pointers on how to prepare for the ACP-520 certification exam, and should be in conjunction with the certification prep course, documentation and practice with a test site. As of writing this article the cost of the…

Happy Wednesday Merry Christmas Everyone! A tradition in our house, is to leave milk and cookies out for Santa. The kids always love helping to put a plate and glass of milk out with the excitement of possibly getting a sneak peak at Santa enjoying the treat. Amazingly, the cookies we leave out for Santa are the exact same…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! We did one of these last year around Christmas time and I found the story extremely funny, so I thought we’d do it again! For anyone new, I will start with the first line of the story and everyone who comments will add the next line building upon the previous one. Let’s have some fun: “T’was the…

Hello Everyone! It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for everyone. Let’s get started! Announcements &…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Over the weekend, the kids were writing their letters to Santa to tell him what they would like this year. I know that I asked this question last year and it was very well received so I thought I would do it again. For any Atlassian Product Managers that regularly watch the Welcome Center, take…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! In case you missed the official announcement, Designations are now LIVE! What does this mean? If you previously held or were looking to earn the title of “Atlassian Certified Expert“ that no longer exists. Instead, it has been replace with three new designations to earn (with more coming soon). If…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Are you aware of Kudos? That’s Atlassian’s gamification system here in the online community. You can access it from the menu in the top right corner next to your profile icon. From here there are challenges you can complete to earn kudos for yourself. You can also give people kudos for a variety…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPntEdpF9HE Hello Everyone! It’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in the past month! From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best practices to help the Community, I guarantee there is something here for…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Back in the April Community Round-up I mentioned that sign ups were open for the Atlassian Creators program. If you don’t know what that is, it’s passionate individuals who love making helpful guides and tutorials on various social media platforms to help users of the Atlassian products learn how…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! We all started our community journeys at different times for different reasons, and I thought it might be fun to have everyone share how they got started. For those of you who are brand new to the community I'd love to hear what make you decide to come here today. For myself, I created a community…

Hello Everyone! I wanted to try something a little different this month. I feel like this round up has been getting a little lengthy. I still think this a very valuable but I want to bring it back down to being more of an appetizer. From major events, to product announcements, to amazing people providing great tips & best…

I’ve had to restructure permissions a few times now and I thought it might be beneficial to share some of the things I have learned over the years and some of the things that I setup to reduce the amount of permissions maintenance I need to complete after completing these steps. Creating project roles for use (Optional):…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I work with some exceptionally funny people. An "argument" broke out (and by that I mean a series of memes were posted) in a non-work channel about when Halloween ends, and Christmas officially starts. Personally, the Halloween decorations came down as of November 1st. However, no Christmas…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! It feels like only yesterday that I made the post about “school being out for summer“. What happened? Where did the time go? Borrowing from Throwback Thursday, I remember the first homework assignment each year was always to write a report about what you did during the summer. So, my question for…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Personally, I think it’s always important to continue to learn new things. It doesn’t always have to ben with the goal of monetary gain, but just to keep your mind active and to expand your knowledge. In case you hadn’t seen the update, the Live Learning community events chapter has been renamed…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! This coming weekend I will be taking part in a 24 hour charity event. Unlike some of the past years where I have run everything by myself at home. This year I’m joining the local group where there will be a number of people, planned activities and even some prizes for endurance and fundraising! My…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Today is officially World Emoji Day! Given many Atlassian products feature emoji support, my question for you this week is: What are your top three favorite emojis to use? It doesn’t have to be specifically within the Atlassian products, if (like me) you make more use of a number of custom emojis…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! Team '24 Europe is happening right now! If you are there in person I hope you are having a wonderful time! Unfortunately, I am unable to attend this one, I only get approval for one event each year. Which is the perfect segue into my question this week. I will admit this one is a little more spicy…

Greetings Everyone! Sorry this week is coming to everyone a little later than usual. First I need to give credit to this diabolical question to the wonderful @Community Manager! She asked this to a small group of Community leaders and all of us just about cried thinking about having to give up our wonderful mobile apps.…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! On the weekend, I took my son to see the new movie “The Wild Robot“. It was a really cute movie and we both really enjoyed watching it. This gave me a great idea for the question this week. If you were in the wilderness (and we will assume for this question that these are all “Disney“ wild animals…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I’m sorry I’m missed posting this the past couple of weeks. I think this is the first time in the three years since I started doing these posts weekly. Over the past few weeks I have been out of commission with respiratory issues. I have recovered now, but it took longer than I was hoping. That…

Happy Friday Everyone! Tonight, at 9pm my time I will be starting my own Extra Life gaming marathon, similar to what Atlassian did back in September! This reminded me of some fun times in my younger days when movie marathons were annual traditions my friends and I would do. I know some people will take part in things like:…

What made us decide to start a CUG? We are a Cyber Security company and there are a number of questions asked daily about the best ways to use the various Atlassian products we have purchased. When attending Atlassian local user groups, we need to be careful about how much internal information we share in a public venue.…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! In case you were unaware, Scott Farquhar’s last day at Atlassian is only a couple of days away. Since I know the community is something very precious to both Mike & Scott, I wanted to give everyone an opportunity this week to give Scott all of your best wishes! Scott, from me personally: I want to…

Happy Wednesday Everyone! I have reached a certain age, and point in my life where I find a particular flavor of jokes much more entertaining than I use to. And, I get even more joy watching the rest of my family groan every time I tell them one of these types a jokes. My company has embraced this to the point where we…

Hello Everyone! I want to start with an apology for not having a video this month. Our family has been battling a nasty bug and it finally got to me near the end of the month and I don’t have the voice to record this month. That having been said, it’s that time once again to take a look at everything that has happened in…