Whether its a small team meeting or a huge 1,000 person conference, it’s important to have a specific roadmap to guide your discussion. Having an agenda lets participants know where they’re headed, and keeps everyone on track. PBwiki is an awesome way to engage all of your attendees and shape the message that both youContinue reading “101 ways to save time with a wiki! #3 Instant Meeting!”
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101 ways to save time with a wiki! #2 – Notes, Notes, Notes!
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!”
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”
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 "What is PBwiki doing" page with realtime updates
[Edit: We removed this after trying it out for a few weeks!] Now you can follow the daily activities of the PBwiki crew – realtime! PBwiki makes fairly heavy use of IM already, so we built an IM bot that forwards certain messages to our newest wiki page. This means the page will receive tonsContinue reading “New "What is PBwiki doing" page with realtime updates”
Mike Bulajewski joins PBwiki as a UI engineer — welcome!
We’re thrilled to welcome Mike Bulajewski to the PBwiki family as a UI engineer: Mike couldn’t decide if he wanted to create intuitive and beautiful designs, or write web applications that work, so he he came to PBwiki to do both. Mike brings skills in visual design, a love for intuitive interfaces, and the technicalContinue reading “Mike Bulajewski joins PBwiki as a UI engineer — welcome!”
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