PBwiki – A typical day at the office

We’re big fans of spicy food here at PBwiki and so today we set up a contest at the office to see who can take down the spiciest hot sauce within a set period of time. The rules: We used the following hot sauces (generously provided by TK): Round 1: Dave’s hurtin’ Jalapeno Round 2:Continue reading “PBwiki – A typical day at the office”

Putting Customers First

I’m nearing my first two months here at PBwiki and as they say, time flies when you’re having fun! We’ve come a long way since I started: We’ve setup support metrics and begun measuring the team (and the company) wherever possible We’ve added 2 more great people to round out our support team We’ve improvedContinue reading “Putting Customers First”

Support Happenings: Satisfaction

As most of you know, we recently locked up our forums and started a new community discussion space here. A number of you emailed me directly asking for more insight into how we made our decision here at PBwiki. So, rather than send out a mass email, here’s the answer: The problems with classic forumsContinue reading “Support Happenings: Satisfaction”

How to spot your next (support) hire

We just added two more folks to our support team (Welcome, Casey and Rachel!) and I wanted to talk about the choices we made along the way. We could hire support folks to do one of two things:  Do their job and go home. Do their job exceptionally well, make customers love PBwiki even more andContinue reading “How to spot your next (support) hire”

Are you our next support guru?

Do you like helping people figure things out? PBwiki is looking for a few part-time customer service superstars to join our support team. You’ll be on the ‘front lines’ via email, phones and the forums – our customers will rely on you to handle their questions, concerns and feedback. You’ll be working with us from ourContinue reading “Are you our next support guru?”

Introducing Paul Singh, PBwiki's new Director of Support

We want to welcome Paul Singh, our newest member of the PBwiki family. As the Director of Support, he’ll be responsible for getting you the help and training you need from PBwiki. Paul has an extraordinary background in Saas (software as a service) support. In the past, he’s built up a support organization for aContinue reading “Introducing Paul Singh, PBwiki's new Director of Support”

Best practices for getting others to contribute to your wiki

When it comes to building a collaborative wiki, there are certain elements that significantly increase your chances for getting others to contribute to your wiki. Here are the PBwiki best practices for getting participants to be fully engaged in your wiki. Avoid Blank-Page Syndrome: Pre-fill your wiki with content. Most people get scared by blankContinue reading “Best practices for getting others to contribute to your wiki”

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?”