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Staff Lounge: Follow EditMe on Twitter

2008-07-21
I've created a Twitter account to track EditMe events that occur between these blog posts. The Twitter posts will contain announcements, development status updates, minor maintenance updates, tips and other information that customers may find useful but that don't necessarily call for a post here. If you have a Twitter account, I encourage you to follow along. Don't worry, you won't get notified about what I'm having for dinner. Read the full post...

Staff Lounge: A Survey of Custom Development Projects

2008-07-15
A few prospective customers have asked what kind of projects EditMe's Custom Development team has done. It's a good question, and one that I thought warranted an answer on the web site. Here are a few of the more interesting projects we've completed within the past several months, grouped by project size. Read the full post...

Staff Lounge: Customer Wiki Updates

2008-05-06
Over the past few weeks you may have noticed the consolidation of the help.editme.com and wiki.editme.com sites. The content has been reorganized and optimized for search to help customers find answers to common questions quickly. Read the full post...

Staff Lounge: The Classroom Wiki

2008-02-25
When the topic of wiki use in classrooms comes up, many teachers assume this means using Wikipedia with their students. Teachers become rightfully concerned with their inability to control and/or verify Wikipedia's content and how to protect the privacy of their students. But wiki technology is much bigger than Wikipedia, and many teachers are finding success with private classroom wikis. Read the full post for tips on selecting and using a private wiki for use in your classroom.

Staff Lounge: EditMe One of the Fastest Wiki Farms

2008-02-15
According to web traffic analyst Alexa, EditMe is one of the fastest sites in our category (Wiki Farms), with an average page load time of less than 1 second. See where EditMe stands among its peers, most of whom are working with a heck of a larger IT budget than we are. Read the full post...

Staff Lounge: 10 Biggest EditMe Sites

2008-02-05
Lots of people ask why there isn't a master list of all EditMe sites. Our typical response is that most EditMe sites are private. In other words, even if they aren't password protected or store sensitive information, they may be intended for a select group of people rather than the general public. That said, we run some lists behind the scenes that we find interesting, and thought it might be fun to share one with our customers. Read the full post...

Staff Lounge: EditMe: Not Just for Wikis Anymore

2007-11-01
Most content management systems are fraught with complexity. They make heavy-handed assumptions about how content is managed and organized, and too often cost an arm and a leg. Let's go exploring outside the wiki box. How do you maintain your non-EditMe sites? Read the full post...

Staff Lounge: Wikis for Dummies

2007-07-24
EditMe is featured in the new book Wikis for Dummies from the #1 best selling computer book series. I spoke with the author, Dan Woods, several months ago while he was writing the book, and am glad to finally see the results in print. This is an excellent resource for enthusiastic newcomers to the wiki phenomenon. Read the full post...

Staff Lounge: The Personal Wiki

2007-07-02
EditMe is featured in the new book Wikis for Dummies from the #1 best selling computer book series. I spoke with the author, Dan Woods, several months ago while he was writing the book, and am glad to finally see the results in print. This is an excellent resource for enthusiastic newcomers to the wiki phenomenon. Read the full post...

Staff Lounge: A Universal Widget API

2007-04-25
A new customer turned us onto NetVibe's Universal Widget API (UWA). If you're not familiar with NetVibes, it's a place to set your browser's home page that can be personalized with RSS feeds and myriad other widgets. What's intriguing about UWA is that it has the promise of allowing widgets to be seamlessly shared across multiple platforms and services. Read the full article...

Staff Lounge: Total Site Customization

2007-03-09
This blog post is about where EditMe is heading. In looking at our competition and where EditMe can fill an unfilled niche, we arrived at a concept we're calling total site customization. We get lots of requests from customers who want to do this or that with their site - features that aren't really part of any wiki product, stuff that would require custom programming just for that site. Wiki application hosts like EditMe typically don't want to customize their product for individual customers. Not only is contract development not part of their business plan, but managing hundreds of permutations of their software would quickly become unmanagable. That is, without total site customization being a core product feature. Read the full article...