PBwiki has become a full-fledged platform with amazing third-party widgets that you can drop into your wikis. Here’s a demo video of how it works: Click To Play Just last week, we announced these new features. Spreadsheets directly on your wiki (more info here) Video upload to your wiki, or embedded from YouTube (more infoContinue reading “Latest features roundup: Spreadsheets, voice chat, event-planning, calendars, & video upload”
Author Archives: The PBworks Team
Welcome to our newest engineer, Jim Blomo
Jim Blomo, a friend of mine since junior high (!), joined the PBwiki team last week. Growing up in the rough neighborhood of IRC’s #crackz, Jim escaped the shadowy life of “reverse engineering” to become classically trained at UC Berkeley’s EECS program. There he participated in all things nerdy: playing the Cal Marching Band, beingContinue reading “Welcome to our newest engineer, Jim Blomo”
New feature: Plan an event using your wiki
Have you ever wanted to plan an event, coordinate RSVPs, and even sell tickets right from your wiki? Lots of people already use their PBwikis to plan events (e.g., here and here). Now, we’ve added a free feature to make event-planning easier. We partnered with Eventbrite, the leading online event registration service, so you canContinue reading “New feature: Plan an event using your wiki”
Share Word docs with our PBwiki Installer — available now in beta
[Update, 1/30/08: We’ve put this project on hold, so please disregard the blog post below.] We just released a super-very-much-not-final beta of the PBwiki Installer at http://install.pbworks.com. Share Word documents through PBwiki Want to collaborate on a Word document? Use the Installer to send files to PBwiki and collaborate with your co-workers. You can sendContinue reading “Share Word docs with our PBwiki Installer — available now in beta”
Want some free materials to spread the word about PBwiki?
We have some free PBwiki materials I want to share with you. Lots of our users give talks about wikis. Some are teachers, like the 1,000+ who responded to an email I sent out a few months ago asking if they plan to present about wikis. (They presented in places like Maine, Malaysia, and TexasContinue reading “Want some free materials to spread the word about PBwiki?”
What do you think of these ideas for new PBwiki features?
We’ve been hearing requests for certain features, so we’ve put together some surveys to learn more about how they might be used. Please take the surveys below and tell us! (Max time: 10 minutes.) Would you be interested in an “email-to-a-wiki” feature? What’s your #1 goal using PBwiki? How would you use page-level access onContinue reading “What do you think of these ideas for new PBwiki features?”
10 Things You Didn't Know About PBwiki (Tip #22)
Ramit Sethi (PBwiki marketing guru) and I spoke recently about doing something a little different before I continue with your regularly scheduled Tip programming, so this is what we’ve decided: PBwiki has a lot of information spread out all over the place, and it’d be nice to pick a few of these things and consolidateContinue reading “10 Things You Didn't Know About PBwiki (Tip #22)”
Tip of the Week #21: Introduction to CSS
Eventually, every PBwiki user wants to have a little extra graphical pizzazz in his/her wiki. The current skins are nice of course (especially that new Bamboo skin…I wonder who made it…), but everybody is using them, so it lacks a little individuality. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to change some colors, or addContinue reading “Tip of the Week #21: Introduction to CSS”
IT'S PBWIKI'S 2-YEAR ANNIVERSARY!!!
2 years!! Congratulations to the entire team for building the world’s easiest wiki. Now beware…we may be in a little late to work tomorrow.
Wiki delete now works
For a while, we had temporarily halted wikis from being deleted to do some behind-the-curtain plumbing. Wiki delete works again. If you really want to delete your PBwiki (why would you want to?), just log in, click “Settings” and then click “Delete.” Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever, so be careful! Note: Once you deleteContinue reading “Wiki delete now works”
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