When I was a student, I was a copious note taker. Where are those notes now? After moving from dorm to apartment to graduate school to San Francisco, those notes are nowhere to be found. Two hours of searching my parent’s attic I located my college photos, my old rice cooker, and several textbooks books.Continue reading “101 ways to save time with a wiki! #2 – Notes, Notes, Notes!”
Monthly Archives: August 2007
101 ways to save time with a wiki – #1 Post it!
I agree with you! It’s a huge pain to keep track of shared office documents. I am forced to figure out – does this document reflect the most recent changes? Was this version approved by the board? Has the team signed off on this document? Grr! A wiki is a great way to cut downContinue reading “101 ways to save time with a wiki – #1 Post it!”
15 educators respond: "How would you use PBwiki in your classroom?"
Yesterday, we posted feedback from educators called 10 reasons educators love us. Today, we’re posting feedback from superstar educator Kathleen Ferenz’s seminar on PBwiki. She asked the educators in her seminar… “How would you use PBwiki?” “I can see this as really useful for having students create and share book reviews.” “Would want to redistributeContinue reading “15 educators respond: "How would you use PBwiki in your classroom?"”
10 reasons educators love us
Our friend and top educator Kathleen Ferenz sends us a report from a workshop she recently lead on PBwiki: “Here are some winning quotes from this week’s workshop evaluations,” she writes: “I love the ability of the wikis to easily create webpages for students and classroom use. The students can easily add information and studentContinue reading “10 reasons educators love us”
Super-handy new premium feature: Access via email
Here’s a great new feature especially handy for our businesses, education, and government users: Access-via-email lets you set an email domain, and anyone with an email under that domain can grant themselves Contributor access to your wiki. An example will make this a lot more obvious – here at PBwiki we run a bunch ofContinue reading “Super-handy new premium feature: Access via email”
We're going to make logins and access controls much better
Today we had a team meeting about improving PBwiki logins and access controls. This is something that is a top priority for us, and we’ll be working on it in phases starting immediately. What to expect in the coming months Better control over access on your wiki. You’ll be able to send certain pages toContinue reading “We're going to make logins and access controls much better”
Brief Power Outage Aug 10, PBwiki Back Up & Happy
Folks, This morning at 8:03am PDT, our San Francisco center had a power issue, causing about half of our servers there to go down. Due to the large amount of data we now safeguard, as our servers came back up, some of them took a while to verify the correctness of PBwiki’s data, and oneContinue reading “Brief Power Outage Aug 10, PBwiki Back Up & Happy”
Eating more than just PBJ sandwiches
Since we are much too frugal to eat out every night, we’ve been cooking some great meals during our company retreat. Arroz Con Pollo, Grilled steak, and more. Most recently, Emily cooked an awesome shrimp dish. Oddly, the discarded shrimp tails randomly seemed to form some sort of message from beyond.
New feature for premium wikis: Accelerated access and search
The PBwiki team is on our annual office offsite, and we’ve been spending lots of quality time together brainstorming about new product possibilities, ways to make PBwiki more useful to our users, and how to make PBwiki the obvious answer for your online collaborative needs. In addition to the longer-term strategic planning and such, we’ve alsoContinue reading “New feature for premium wikis: Accelerated access and search”
PBwiki = paintball wiki
The PBwiki team is on an offsite this week, and on top of a bunch of regular work we’re doing a couple of great activities — here’s some photos from our paintball session this morning.
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