How to encourage non-technical people to use a wiki

Most people at your company have never even heard of a wiki, so how do you get them to actually use it? Raoul Kahn, Director of Product at Seesmic, had the same problem that many of you face at your own company. Here is his advice on encouraging wiki adoption – particularly with non-technical people.Continue reading “How to encourage non-technical people to use a wiki”

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”

David Weekly Speaks @ Tec de Monterrey

There are a lot of people, organizations, and governments that are interested in the innovative culture of Silicon Valley as well as PBwiki’s unique structure that focuses on hiring (and listening to) some of the brightest people in the world. We’ve hosted a delegation from the French government in our office, spoken to SwissCom, andContinue reading “David Weekly Speaks @ Tec de Monterrey”

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”

Search 2.0: Now Better, Faster, Stronger

Mmm, dogfood. Here at PBwiki, we make use of our own product pretty extensively. And having used an internal PBwiki for some three years, we’ve accumulated a pretty large collection of material! This makes it ever more important that we be able to search it and find what we’re looking for. So we’ve dramatically overhauledContinue reading “Search 2.0: Now Better, Faster, Stronger”