St. Francois Xavier Community School is using PBwiki as the school’s website for students, parents, and faculty. It’s been a smooth integration for them with a lot of things learned through the way. John Evans, the administrator of sfxschool.pbworks.com spent sometime with us to go over his experience with PBwiki. PBwiki: What’s sfxschool.pbworks.com about? JohnContinue reading “Case Study: sfxschool.pbworks.com”
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Details from my talk at MACUL in Detroit
I spoke to a room of educators last week in Detroit at the MACUL conference. At first, I was nervous because I didn’t know how many people would attend the talk! But in the end, it turned out to be a lot of fun — and by the end, we had a standing-room-only event! IContinue reading “Details from my talk at MACUL in Detroit”
Whither pagers?
Earlier this week we had a service outage. The proper chain of events would be: 00:00:00 Server problem 00:00:03 Monitor processes notice problem, send page to admin’s phone 00:00:10 Phone rings with new message 00:00:30 Admin logs in to server, fixes problem 00:01:00 Problem resolved But what happened was: 00:00:00 Server problem 00:00:03 Monitor processesContinue reading “Whither pagers?”
We're working on fixing PBwiki service
7:30am on Tuesday, March 13th, 2007: It looks like we’re having a hiccup in service right now, and we’re working on fixing it so we can get PBwiki service back up and running right away. [Update, 7:42am]: This is fixed. We’re looking into why this happened so it never happens again.
PBwiki Acquires Schtuff.com
Sweet! You may have heard it around, but we’re super happy to welcome Schtuff.com into the PBwiki family. (For you folks who think we’re recklessly splurging, we made the acquisition with customer revenue, not our newfound VC dollars.) This acquisition brings into the fold a million new wiki enthusiasts. We’re looking forward to working withContinue reading “PBwiki Acquires Schtuff.com”
Happy Peanut Butter Lover's Day
Today is National Peanut Butter Lover’s Day! We hope you enjoy any real and/or virtual Peanut Butter Sandwiches you create today!
Thanks for the fridge!
Remember the part about how our huge splurge after getting the financing money was to buy a larger, but very basic, fridge? More than a week before it was scheduled to be delivered, I received several phone messages about someone wanting to deliver a fridge to us the following day. Needless to say, I wasContinue reading “Thanks for the fridge!”
Our wisest PBwiki user
An email we got after announcing our new Point-and-Click editor. Thank you. I am a 77-year-old woman with only mild computer skills, and you have just made my life significantly easier. –Elizabeth D. To make your own free wiki, visit http://www.pbworks.com
PBwiki Raises $2m To Make Wikis Awesome
Folks, You may have heard it through the grapevine, and it’s true! We’ve raised $2m from MDV to invest primarily in engineering to make PBwiki even friendlier and easier than it is today. We’re going to continue our principled frugality (like getting Hello Boss instead of Starbucks at a quarter the price), but hopefully weContinue reading “PBwiki Raises $2m To Make Wikis Awesome”
Some contradictory feedback
We just got these two pieces of feedback on our Point-and-Click editor within 25 minutes of each other: oh pbwiki. just when i think you couldn’t make it any easier… there you go again. it is a beautiful editor and it couldn’t be simpler. thank you for your great work! i have started pbwikis forContinue reading “Some contradictory feedback”
