Author Archives: The PBworks Team

Join PBwiki summer camp and earn a free classroom wiki

Want to build the ultimate classroom wiki and have it ready for the start of the fall semester? Join us for PBwiki Summer Camp! We know that a lot of educators have heard about wikis but just aren’t sure how to use them in the classroom. In PBwiki Summer Camp you will learn the bestContinue reading “Join PBwiki summer camp and earn a free classroom wiki”

New Feature — Re-arrange Your Sidebar Modules

Have you ever wanted to re-arrange your Sidebar on the right side of your wiki? At PBwiki, we just love adding new features. There are enough wiki jockeys here in at PBHQ that it guarantees we’ll have differing opinions on how things should work — that’s one of the reasons we work hard to fitContinue reading “New Feature — Re-arrange Your Sidebar Modules”

PBwiki Biggest Loser Challenge

Late last week in the office we had a discussion about weight loss. From this conversation we developed the PBwiki Biggest Loser challenge. For a $100 ante, PBwiki employees can enter into this 60 day challenge to be the biggest loser. We wouldn’t be PBwiki if we didn’t somehow incorporate a wiki into this challenge.Continue reading “PBwiki Biggest Loser Challenge”

New Feature — Improved Search, More Accurate Results

As your wiki grows, it becomes increasingly important to be able to search and locate your information. We’ve heard from many of you that PBwiki search just wasn’t cutting it. Good news! We’ve improved PBwiki search and made it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for. Use these familiar search commands to improve yourContinue reading “New Feature — Improved Search, More Accurate Results”

The Universal Edit Button

When the web was first conceived, it was intended to be a read/write medium. Right now, wikis are the best implementation of that vision: web pages that are easy for people to edit directly from their web browser. Yesterday, we heard about the Universal Edit Button from a commenter on Get Satisfaction. When we lookedContinue reading “The Universal Edit Button”

Coming in July — Bay Area Customer Meeting

Learn how to create a comprehensive collaboration strategy, including specific tactics to make your wiki successful within your organization. Join us July 8th at 6:00PDT in Menlo Park to meet the PBwiki senior team and hear expert advice from successful customers — plus, get a future roadmap of PBwiki key features. This event is limitedContinue reading “Coming in July — Bay Area Customer Meeting”

New feature: Allow users to request access to your wiki

Today, we’ve enabled a new feature on your wiki: Request Access allows users to request access to your wiki. Who would use Request Access? It’s perfect if you want to add users to your wiki, but don’t want to manage the process of figuring out their email address, adding them, and managing them. You’ll stillContinue reading “New feature: Allow users to request access to your wiki”

New feature: Email notifications look better, work better

We’re happy to announce our improved notifications emails, which have new functionality and a brand-new visual design. We previewed these earlier, and today we’re launching these to all PBwiki 2.0 wikis. (Still on PBwiki 1.0? Click here to update your 2.0 wiki before everyone else.) The new notifications include: Comment notifications. Your email notifications nowContinue reading “New feature: Email notifications look better, work better”