http://blog.pbwiki.com The official blog of PBwiki Fri, 09 May 2008 08:50:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [9:09pm] If you're getting a "read only" message on your wiki, our engineers are performing unscheduled maintenance and are currently working to restore full wiki access. We estimate restoring full access by 1am PST. Your data is safe. We'll continue updating this post with the newest developments. If you have any questions, ... http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/05/08/getting-a-read-only-message/ Our educators portal has some great examples of teachers actively using wikis to build class networks, improve student learning and encourage open discussion and collaboration. But how did all these teachers get to this point? If you find yourself asking this question, we're here to help! Tune in to tomorrow's ... http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/05/05/use-wikis-to-build-your-online-classroom/ So you've created your first PBwiki.  Now the question is, how do you get the rest of your organization to adopt it? We're here to help.  Just this week, I held a webinar on "Driving Adoption of PBwiki".  For an hour, we talked about how you can use the four keys ... http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/05/02/free-tools-to-drive-adoption-of-pbwiki-within-your-organization/ Feeling adventurous? We're building a team of PBwiki users to help us test out new features before they go live for everyone. We need about 100 testers who know their way around a wiki and aren't afraid of the cutting edge. If you're interested in trying out new things ahead of ... http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/04/25/pbwiki-needs-alpha-testers/ PBwiki now supports footnotes. Whether you're using PBwiki for research, collaborative writing, or organization, there are always lots of little details that you need to keep track of — places where sticking little snippets of text and references would be handy. Here's a quick sample: To insert a footnote: Click Insert ... http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/04/23/new-pbwiki-feature-footnotes/ 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 ... http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/04/21/read-about-pbwiki-in-informationweek/ We just finished up another great webinar today, focused on using PBwiki for project management.  We spent an hour going over how you can use PBwiki templates and folders to build your own project management system, and answered a whole bunch of questions from users. To watch this and other recorded ... http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/04/15/using-pbwiki-to-manage-your-projects/ When PBwiki 2.0 launched, it included lots of great new features, but one thing stayed exactly the same: the notification emails you got when somebody changed a page on your wiki. We fixed that today -- here is a sneak preview of the new version of notifications. The new notifications... Let you ... http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/04/15/new-email-notifications-for-your-pbwiki-20/ Today we're announcing an executive's guide to the 7 must-have elements of every successful wiki initiative. It's perfect for executives and project managers introducing collaboration solutions into the workplace. This guide to seven proven wiki essentials distills best practices, lessons learned, and collective insights from PBwiki’s 30,000+ business customers—as well as ... http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/04/10/announcing-the-executives-guide-to-seven-wiki-essentials/ As many of you have already noticed, PBwiki recently added support for OpenID. What does this mean for you? It means that you no longer need to remember yet another password to log into your PBwiki account. To use OpenID with PBwiki, you'll need to do the following: Get an OpenID. You may already ... http://blog.pbwiki.com/2008/04/09/tired-of-forgetting-your-pbwiki-password-use-openid/