Category Archives: Media

See David Weekly at the SDForum Cloud Computing Conference

Are you a cloud computing user?  If you use PBwiki, you are. Not only is PBwiki a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution, but we also run significant portions of our infrastructure “in the cloud.” If you’re interested in cloud computing, or in how PBwiki uses cloud computing to lower its costs and deliver better service, check outContinue reading “See David Weekly at the SDForum Cloud Computing Conference”

Back To School Blitz: Free Upgrades and Gifts

We’ve just announced two new back to school programs for educators that will let them get free Gold upgrades and other gifts like LEGO sets and up to $1,000 for buying school supplies. Here are the details: Program for Teachers and Librarians PBwiki’s Back To School Challenge (http://www.backtoschoolchallenge.com) allows up to 100,000 individual teachers andContinue reading “Back To School Blitz: Free Upgrades and Gifts”

Can PBwiki Help You Get A Job?

eWeek suggests that publishing information on your wiki may help techies in the job search: Like the Academia from which the industry sprung, career Techies have long sought publishing – professional journals, trade publications, books – as a means to push their process, tout their technique and promote their name. The concept has never beenContinue reading “Can PBwiki Help You Get A Job?”

PBwiki in the News: Awards, Saving Lives in Iraq, and Helping Contractors

We’ve got a couple more PBwiki stories to share… We’re #1!  We’re #1! We’re #1! SEOmoz gave PBwiki 1st Prize in the “Hosted Wikis” category of the annual Web 2.0 Awards.  We’d like to thank the Academy, our director, our co-stars…but now they’re cueing the music and shooing us off the stage. Wikis at WarContinue reading “PBwiki in the News: Awards, Saving Lives in Iraq, and Helping Contractors”

PBwiki helps University of Kansas & Tulane rebuild post-Katrina

Now this is one of those things that makes us feel good. Architecture students from the University of Kansas and Tulane University are working together to help rebuild New Orleans’ 7th Ward. One one year, the project, called “Rebuilding the Seventh” has already grown to encompass nearly 1,000 documents. The professor leading the project, NilsContinue reading “PBwiki helps University of Kansas & Tulane rebuild post-Katrina”

Read about PBwiki in InformationWeek

InformationWeek just came out with a great article on the impact of Web 2.0 collaboration tools like PBwiki on the role of IT.  Web 2.0 and Software-as-a-Service represent a major paradigm shift for IT managers, but as InformationWeek puts it: “You can ignore Web 2.0 tools, or try to shoo users away. If you takeContinue reading “Read about PBwiki in InformationWeek”

Terms of Service: We Got Your Back

When I was putting together PBwiki’s Terms of Service a few years ago, I spent extra time with our lawyers to make sure that it was as pro-user as possible. The first few versions I got back weren’t good enough and I pressed them to make it shorter, simpler, and to put more rights inContinue reading “Terms of Service: We Got Your Back”

PBwiki is heading to the NBA All-Star Game!

Uber-blogger Henry Abbott of TrueHoop (now part of ESPN) is heading to the NBA All-Star Game, and he’s taking PBwiki with him. Henry has asked TrueHoop’s tens of thousands of readers to join with him in creating a wiki for the All-Star Game which will include articles, posts, videos, and other original content.  And he’sContinue reading “PBwiki is heading to the NBA All-Star Game!”

PBwiki in Fortune Small Business / Tips On Driving Adoption

Fortune Small Business just wrote a nice article about how Lee Rosen of Rosen Law used his creativity to drive adoption of his PBwiki. Rosen offered a $1,000 cash prize to his 32 employees–for every page they created on the wiki, they earned a possible combination to the company safe (which contained the aforementioned $1,000). Continue reading “PBwiki in Fortune Small Business / Tips On Driving Adoption”