ClearWiki is a new entry to the integrated wiki and blog (bliki) market. It is targeted at small to medium business, project and educational teams and has a feature set, which reflects this. You can start off with a free package and add features in a very flexible manner as your project grows. It is [...]
Author Archives: MarkWiseman
Tag Mining: an evolving concept
October 9, 2007 – 11:35 pm
Tags are used on many blogs, wikis and CMS to label posts, articles and pages to aid navigation. They have limited utility but Tag Mining is an evolving concept that threatens to make tagging and tag clouds essential on every website.
Getting your message across online
October 9, 2007 – 7:01 am
There is not much point writing if you are not trying to produce change. The changes you want might be for example a sale of a product or just a change in the reader’s mood.
Your writing will be tighter and more effective if you know what change you are trying to produce and incorporate that [...]
Software as a Service: risks and benefits
October 8, 2007 – 2:39 am
Software as a Service (SaaS) is growing in popularity with businesses and as a result with software providers. But what does Software as a Service mean and what are its risks and benefits?
Favorite free web developer tools
October 6, 2007 – 10:44 pm
These are the favorite free web developer tools I use to run this website. Even if you are using a blog, wiki or CMS that tries to do everything for you, eventually you will want to do something that you need to dip into code for. For example set up a Print Stylesheet. Here are [...]
Atlassian Confluence wiki update: October 2007
October 3, 2007 – 8:46 pm
Atlassian Confluence has released a free update to their Confluence wiki, presenting Confluence 2.6. It brings a new theme with improved readability and usability.
There are new features on the dashboard, more flexibility around the editing of news items and extended ability to set up spaces, templates and shared bookmarks.
Confluence claims to be the most advanced [...]
Print stylesheet for websites
October 3, 2007 – 3:18 am
A print stylesheet will let your readers print a printer friendly version of your web pages to read off-line. Especially useful if your website contains a lot of information. They will not want to print out all the ads and banners, so here is an easy way to make get a print stylesheet to make [...]
Best website design and website development sites
October 2, 2007 – 12:56 am
The free website design and development help on the internet is amazing. You can use this searchbox to search my favorite sites. You can be certain the search returns will be relevant and reliable.
If you would like to suggest a site for inclusion in this search, please leave a comment.
A glossary of wiki terms
October 1, 2007 – 2:05 am
Wikis appear to be surrounded by weird terms. You do not need to know these terms to participate on a wiki but, for the curious, here are some of them.
Wiki comparisons: key to features
September 30, 2007 – 3:00 am
wiki software comparisons: key to wiki comparison table
Wikidot: free no ads wiki
September 30, 2007 – 2:51 am
A remarkably sophisticated entry to the wiki provider set. Wikidot is an exciting new development in the wiki provider field. Stand out features include a clean, clear presentation, it is free, no provider placed ads, lots of add on widgets, which really extend its capability, and a rapidly growing enthusiastic user base.
Wikispaces update:Sept 2007
September 29, 2007 – 4:21 am
Wikispaces now has Widgets
This meand that you can now put a video, calendar, spreadsheet, poll, chat room, slideshow, map, or any other tool, gadget, or plugin on your Wikispace. It is easy to do and really extends the usability of content capability of wikispaces.
You can now check member usage
Member statistics have also been added. This [...]
Categories and tags: what is the difference?
September 27, 2007 – 9:34 pm
Wikis and blogs are increasingly making both categories and tags available to authors, but what is the difference and what it is the best use for them?
cyn.in wiki review: professional online collaboration
September 15, 2007 – 12:54 pm
cyn.in (pronounced sign in) is something like a blend between a blog and a wiki (bliki). It is specifically designed for online collaboration and keeps an ongoing record of changes to pages and attachments. The WYSIWYG editor is excellent but you can step [...]
Atlassian Confluence review: enterprise wiki for business collaboration
September 15, 2007 – 11:23 am
Confluence has hosted and downloadable options
Atlassian’s enterprise wiki, Confluence is designed for business use. The downloadable version puts it behind your firewall. It gives you full control over customisation and extendability. The hosted version relieves you of the responsibility that goes with running a server. Currently Atlassian are offering a free personal licence for their [...]
Online collaboration: start with a Statement of Purpose
September 5, 2007 – 3:43 pm
Online collaboration needs good planning. This three-point statement of purpose will put G.A.S. in your tank. It will help decide if you what type of collaboration software you need and how you proceed with the project.
Goals - Why am I doing this?
Audience - Who will be the end-users of the collaboration?
Success - How will success [...]
Wikis: websites for online collaboration
August 20, 2007 – 1:21 pm
Wikis are websites, specifically designed for online collaboration. They share many features with other collaboration software, such as blogs and Content Management Systems (CMS). However, it is the combination of their major features that makes them so well suited to online collaboration. Wikis are capable of:
Multiple-author collaboration on individual pages
Reviewing changes to pages and reverting [...]
Writing excellent web pages: create five layers of content
August 10, 2007 – 1:11 pm
Writing online requires five distinct layers of content. Combining these layers is not always easy.
I want to describe how to put these five layers of content on a web page without interfering with the creative flow of writing unique and well-formed content.
Netcipia review: hosted, integrated wiki and blog
July 27, 2007 – 1:03 pm
Netcipia: the future of wiki
Netcipia offers free and paid hosting for XWiki wikis and blogs in an integrated package, which puts the spotlight on future directions for wikis. It is not yet the complete package but already stands out from the crowd. Promised improvements to tagging and access to html will really make it shine.
Socialtext review: business enterprise wiki
July 27, 2007 – 12:55 pm
Socialtext provides online collaboration for businesses
Socialtext was the first enterprise wiki and has Jimmy Wales, of Wikipedia fame, on its Board of Directors. It aims to keep ahead of the pack in providing easy online collaboration for all sizes of businesses.
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