EditMe Blog: Featured Sites

October 2009

HIR Uses Wikis to Collaborate with Clients
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Heartland Information Resources, Inc. uses EditMe as a platform for the wikis it builds for clients. HIR's wikis share information publicly between government agencies and their constituents and privately between its management consultants and their owner-managed business clients.

September 2009

EditMe's Wiki Solution Powers RiskMetric's Help Portal
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
RiskMetrics Group looked to EditMe for managing documentation and help content for its proxy voting system. Still under development and changing, they needed something team members could collaborate on and update easily. "For our internal staff and clients the Help Portal has become the primary source of information about the platform," says Kirk Shulman.

August 2009

Featured Site: Global Academic Innovation Wiki
Friday, August 14, 2009
Richard Litman of Litman Law has created a new wiki for The Global Academic Innovation Network (GAIN), an international technology transfer group. According to Litman, "the goal is to make connections for universities and businesses from around the world for collaboration, commercialization and economic development." Though the group got its start on the LinkedIn network, Litman decided a wiki was the best tool to foster collaboration and knowledge sharing among the international technology transfer community.

AmazonFail Prompts the Creation of a Site that Doesn’t Discriminate
Monday, August 10, 2009
After the infamous AmazonFail, when the popular online bookseller was accused of denying GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) books access to its promotional systems, Mel Keegan was prompted to take a closer look at the way GLBT books were categorized and subjugated all over the web.

AmazonFail Prompts the Creation of a Site that Doesn't Discriminate
Friday, August 7, 2009
After the infamous AmazonFail, when the popular online bookseller was accused of denying GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender) books access to its promotional systems, Mel Keegan was prompted to take a closer look at the way GLBT books were categorized and subjugated all over the web. Read about how he is building a vibrant community for these works with EditMe.

July 2009

Buzzworthy Sites - July 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
A quick review of three EditMe sites that are getting a lot of buzz right now.

May 2009

EditMe Case Study: Insuropedia - An Insurance Resource Wiki
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Here is a new case study highlighting Insuropedia.com, an insurance resources wiki. From the site, "The aim of Insuropedia is to clarify the written word, minimise the disparity between intention & interpretation and encourage uniformity in the application of Insurance Policies."

April 2009

Does PBworks Work?
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Earlier this week PBwiki changed its name to PBworks. Changing the name of a company with the kind of mind share PBwiki holds is significant. I?m sure there was a lot of hand-wringing over there about this decision. The move is clearly to establish more credibility in the corporate arena, where the term ?wiki? is soiled with connotations of insecurity and communism. This change happens at the same time that the company launched a Legal edition with special intranet features aimed at legal firms. You can see a business model emerging where PBworks will be the intranet software vendor of choice for their targeted markets and their software will move further and further from what is commonly considered a wiki. Framed that way, the new name makes sense.

AboutUs - A Wiki Content Business Model
Friday, April 10, 2009
AboutUs.org is a wiki-based directory of web sites. They dedicate a full wiki page to each domain on the Internet that hosts a web site. When I first heard that the company had reached $5 million in VC funding, I thought to myself, ?what is the point, and how on earth do they make money?? My initial thoughts about the site were similar to the rather belligerentent post on Center Networks. But they claim the site gets 7 million unique visitors per month and the CEO says the company is profitable. AboutUs has some serious wiki-cred with wiki Grand Poo-Bah Ward Cunningham on the team and several big Wikipedians on staff. I figured it was at least worth investigation to see what the buzz was about.

March 2009

Boston Needs a Calagator
Monday, March 23, 2009
Perusing session notes from Recent Changes Camp 2009, I came across a mention of Calagator, a unified calendar for the technology community of Portland, Oregon. The site is a custom Rails application that serves as an events calendar with wiki-style open posting and editing. The data model is simple: Events and Venues. The site?s narrow focus, open access and simplicity make it a great resource. It also shows that Portland has a very active technology culture.

New Amazon EC2 Pricing - Discount Calculation
Friday, March 13, 2009
Amazon has lowered their EC2 instance pricing with an annual commitment. The deal is you pay a fixed price up front for 1 or 3 years. For that, Amazon significantly lowers the cost per instance hour (you still only pay for the hours you use) and guarantees that an instance of the type you reserved will be available whenever you need it during your 1 or 3 year period. This is great for customers that run full time servers on EC2 or want to know that their 50 backup instances will be there in a pinch when they need them and are willing to pay for that assurance.

San Francisco Post Chronicle
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Newspapers around the country are closing their doors, stopping paper printing, in bankruptcy or some combination of these in the face of online competition and dwindling advertising revenue due to the economic downturn. Some writers for the Huffington Post have started a wiki called the San Francisco Post Chronicle to crowdsource ideas for reinventing the news organization for the digital age.

February 2009

LOLCat Bible Translation Project
Monday, February 23, 2009

EditMe Professional Services Make InShapeReviews.com a Reality
Monday, February 23, 2009
A new case study released today highlights a recent professional service project: InShapeReviews.com. The site provides a home for user-generated reviews of fitness-related products and services. EditMe's embedded development platform was used to create a set of structured page templates that include modules such as Google Map integration, Ads/widget inclusion, structured profile data based on category, and of course, user reviews.

A Flock of Twitter Wikis
Wednesday, February 11, 2009

December 2008

Featured Site: JAKESONLINE Wiki / Technology in Education
Monday, December 15, 2008
David Jakes is a professional speaker and blogger specializing in school-based technology, particularly focusing on teachers and administrators working in a Web 2.0 environment. Jakes uses an EditMe site to share the excellent presentation resources used in his keynote speeches and workshops.

November 2008

WikiValue.com Finds a Programmer-Friendly Wiki in EditMe
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
A new case study highlights WikiValue.com, "a place to ask the world for an appraisal on almost anything." The team that built the site made extensive use of EditMe's customization API to provide features like custom integrated help content, comment rating, and design customization. The site's owners were able to leverage EditMe's built in collaboration capabilities to quickly build a custom application for pricing rare and antique objects.

July 2008

Fred & Friends: A Global Business Partner Portal in One Day
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Our latest case study features funky product developer Fred & Friends. They are using EditMe as an extranet for their international distributors. Fred linked up some forms over at Wufoo to create a much-needed functional and informational resource in just one business day.

June 2008

Access to Multiple Business Wiki Sites from One Easy-to-Access Login Page
Thursday, June 19, 2008
A new case study released today highlights a custom development project for Harris Stratex Networks' corporate wiki network. As the case study explains, this customer wanted their employees to be able to enter all the product wiki sites using one login and password on one centralized page. And, as the network would become widely used throughout the company, they needed to maintain their corporate design standards. That's where EditMe's customization crew came in. EditMe worked with Harris Stratex Networks to create a "master" page that linked wikis for different Harris Stratex products. All the wikis use the same database of user names and IDs. EditMe also adapted the company's existing corporate CSS template, giving the entire network a cohesive look and feel.

Featured Site: Learning Wiki
Monday, June 9, 2008

May 2008

Bay State Banner
Thursday, May 29, 2008
One of our most significant custom development projects to date went live today. The Bay State Banner is a weekly paper that has served the Boston area's Black community since 1965. The paper's new online presence features a new issue released every week, an editor's blog, event calendar, and other interactive features.

In The News: Human Services Council in Jacksonville Florida
Friday, May 9, 2008
The Human Services Council website for Jacksonville, Florida was recently featured in a The Florida Times-Union story titled City Issues: Seeing the Human Side.

April 2008

Customized Wiki for Free Nursing Home Reports
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
Our latest case study highlights a customer that embarked on a significant custom development project with EditMe. This site uses government data about nursing homes as the starting point for a nursing home reports wiki. The site allows visitors - including nursing home operators, patients and family members - to register on the site and update nursing home reports with photos, comments and other information. The custom development piece included importing the nursing home data, generating the profiles and providing a custom editing screen that prompts the user for specific profile information. The sheer breadth of data on this site is impressive. If you live in the U.S., chances are this site has a list of nursing homes in your home town.

Featured Site: Seeds of Compassion Wiki
Monday, April 7, 2008
The Seeds of Compassion conference being held this week in Seattle is using EditMe to host a wiki for the event participants. The conference is "a 5-day gathering to engage the hearts and minds of our community by highlighting the vision, science, and programs of early social, emotional, and cognitive learning." His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama will be participating at the event both as a speaker and panelist with leading educators, researchers and policy makers. Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds will also be there to perform. The conference was met with an overwhelming response and, after selling all available tickets, is now extending its reach with broadcasts and web feeds.

March 2008

Testimonials & Case Studies
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
See the full list of case studies available on this site.