Also, thanks for the numbers on who your customers are – and where. I know you are an international firm. The Australia reference was just my attempt at a shout out to people like Lee Hopkins, Paull Young and Ross Monaghan. We’re all proud of Ward Cunningham over here in the US, but realize that wikis have spread all over the world. And, from what I’ve learned of you and your company, it seems like you are leading the charge. Congrats!

I am familiar with Stewart Mader’s site and have been, coincidently, creating a list of references for educators re: wikis. His site is on there. I’m wondering if you have many/any education clients. Or, are companies using them for education purposes in-house. I’d love to learn of (or even see) those sites. To learn of them – if only to know that they are happening behind firewalls – will be interesting examples to share with others. Wikis really intrigue me as a powerful tool in education.

Thanks for coming by. Hope we may interview you, too, one day. Maybe get you on the phone for a Skype conference with my class? Thanks again.

All the best.

Thanks for watching, I’m glad someone is watching the video!

A few points to add that might be helpful to you.

As to customers, we’re not just in American investment banks but a lot of banks generally. Finance is a huge sector for us, almost across the board they are loving the wiki. We have a publicly available list of customers (not all customers, those who have agreed to be referenced) online. You can see there are a lot of financial institutions there from around the globe.

At Office 2.0 this week there was a lot of discussion about how to get large enterprises to embrace wikis, but the fact is a lot of them already have. The depth and breadth of our Confluence customer base seemed to surprise a lot of people I talked to.

As to being an “Australian wiki provider” – we are an Australian company, but only ~3% of our customers are in Australia. 45% of them are in North America (US and Canada), 40% are in Western Europe. The point being – wikis are not an American phenomenon, they’re all around the world.

Beyond that – I’m sure you’ve seen it but I’ll link it here anyway in case – Stewart Mader’s Wikis in Education site is brilliant for people interested in the cross section between those two topics.

Thanks again for the link!

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