At around 1:05 PM PDT today, our hosting provider’s network began failing, causing Wikispaces to go offline. A similar blip occured this morning for a few minutes at around 9:45 AM PDT. Our provider is aware of the problem and working hard to fix it. The servers powering Wikispaces and your data [...]

Today, at 12 noon Australian Eastern time (2am UTC/GMT, 7pm U.S. Pacfic), I’ll be running an online tutorial entitled Wikis in the Classroom for the Australian Networks Community Forum as part of their “Cool Resources for E-learning” month.
The session will aim to help teachers understand what wikis are, how to use them, and how they [...]

A few months ago, Wikispaces added the ability to customize your theme and wikitext stylesheet. In addition to changing the color scheme and logo, all spaces have a number of existing themes they can choose from. Plus-level spaces can create new themes using HTML and a few special Wikispaces tags. Lots of [...]

Back in May, I was part of a great panel discussion at the NetSquared conference with Heddy Nam and Liz Gannes. We talked about the use of wikis in community building and how to take advantage of the decentralization of expertise without losing the structure that comes with control.
Heddy brought some great real world experience [...]

Today, we’re proud to raise the bar on a program we started back in January: we’re setting the goal of giving away 100,000 wikis to K-12 educators.
These wikis are free, full-featured, can be public or private, and have no ads. The response to the more than 10,000 wikis we’ve given away so far has been [...]