The PBworks Team

So many choices – what's the best way to invite your users?

Wikis work best as a collaborative site where many people have access to read and contribute. Your job is to find people to contribute to the wiki — our job is to make it super simple for you to invite them. Check out the many ways PBwiki 2.0 has made it easy to add folksContinue reading “So many choices – what's the best way to invite your users?”

PBwiki cruise lines

When you think of taking a vacation cruise, you probably think of all the food you’ll eat, shuffle board you’ll play, and booze you’ll drink. But what do the folks running the ship think about? My bet is they think about some of the same things I think about everyday: keeping the ship operating smoothly,Continue reading “PBwiki cruise lines”

Earn your free classroom upgrade and learn how to wiki

Join the PBwiki Back to School Challenge to earn a free gold upgrade, plus the chance to win tons of classroom resources. In addition to earning awesome classroom swag — legos, books, and gift certificates for school supplies — the PBwiki Back to School Challenge will teach you how to: Build an interactive website –Continue reading “Earn your free classroom upgrade and learn how to wiki”

New free feature: Wiki color schemes

Starting today, color schemes on all 2.0 PBwikis are free! Earlier, color schemes were a Premium feature. But since we’ve heard more and more of you asking to use colors to customize your wikis, we realized it makes sense to offer them to everyone. With the release of the new settings panel, we’reContinue reading “New free feature: Wiki color schemes”

Introducing the new Settings Panel on all 2.0 wikis

Yesterday, we rolled out a new settings panel for all PBwiki 2.0 wikis, making it easier to control the settings on your wiki. See details about the new settings panel. (Note: Don’t miss out on new features! We’ll be releasing new features for 2.0 wikis, so if you haven’t converted to PBwiki 2.0 yet, pleaseContinue reading “Introducing the new Settings Panel on all 2.0 wikis”

New feature: Classroom accounts for students without email addresses

For the last several months, we’ve been researching and designing a new way to add users to wikis without email addresses — notably, K-8 students. Today, we’re happy to announce a new feature, Classroom Accounts, which will let you add users without email addresses. In consultation with dozens of educators, we’ve created a system thatContinue reading “New feature: Classroom accounts for students without email addresses”

New Feature: Improved Settings Panel

Right now the improved settings panel is being rolled out to all education wikis, all others will see this new setting next week (Aug 18, 2008). Today wiki administrators will see an improved settings panel — with a new interface and easier navigation. The new setting panel has three categories: • Use the ‘Basic Settings‘Continue reading “New Feature: Improved Settings Panel”

New and improved RSS feeds for your 2.0 wiki

We’ve just rolled out improvements to PBwiki RSS feeds. What are RSS feeds? RSS feeds are a great way to stay up-to-date when you have lots of things you’re interested in. You can subscribe to a feed and have new information show up automatically as soon as it’s available. PBwiki has offered RSS feeds forContinue reading “New and improved RSS feeds for your 2.0 wiki”

Pre-register for the next PBwiki Camp

Over 1,500 teachers signed up for PBwiki summer camp. Check out what they’re saying: “This course is incredible and the amount of info is overwhelming 🙂 not in a bad way” “I want to learn as much as I can about the “free” tools available to educators. This weeks resources page is amazing! I’ve heardContinue reading “Pre-register for the next PBwiki Camp”

PBwiki status update

In our excitement to push out some great new features today, we introduced a bug that made notification emails on your 2.0 PBwikis act a little strange: messages were including changes you were already notified about, and timestamps were showing up in GMT. Both of these issues have been fixed, and you shouldn’t see anyContinue reading “PBwiki status update”