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Corporate Overview
PBwiki (http://pbwiki.com) is the world’s leading provider of hosted collaboration solutions for businesses and education. Leading companies and organizations like Oracle, DePaul University, and the FDA choose PBwiki to collaborate across geographic and organizational boundaries with employees, customers, partners, and vendors.
Over 40,000 businesses have chosen PBwiki to implement knowledge management, extranets, project management, and a host of other business processes and workflows. We host over 600,000 wikis, serve millions of users per month, and 94% of users would recommend PBwiki to a friend. PBwiki’s investors include Mohr Davidow Ventures, Seraph Group, Sippl Investments, and Ron Conway.
PBwiki has its headquarters in San Mateo, CA, and has a branch office in Nashua, NH.
Company Facts
- PBwiki was launched in 2005
- The company is the world's largest provider of hosted business and educational wikis, ahead of other hosted wiki providers like Wetpaint and Google Sites. The company also competes against on-premise software such as Microsoft SharePoint
- PBwiki hosts more pages of content than the English language version of Wikipedia
- The main target markets are corporate collaboration and education
- The company has thousands of paying customers using PBwiki for partner/client collaboration, project management, intranets, knowledge management, and classroom collaboration
- Notable customers include Oracle, DePaul University, and the FDA
Press Releases
- PBwiki Adds Document Management to Hosted Collaboration Offering, Expanding Beyond Wikis (11/18/2008)
- PBwiki Helps Organize Nationwide Volunteer Effort to Monitor the November Elections via Twitter (11/3/2008)
- PBwiki Hosted Collaboration Helped the Groop Realize $1 Million in Productivity Gains (10/16/2008)
- PBwiki Brings Web 2.0 to Education by Donating $25 Million of Tools for Back to School (8/19/2008)
- PBwiki Names Jim Groff CEO (7/21/2008)
- PBwiki Celebrates 3rd Anniversary and 500,000 Wikis With Special Giveaway (5/13/2008)
- PBwiki Trumps Google Sites With Thousands Of Paying Customers, Over 400,000 Wikis, Millions Of Users (2/29/2008)
- Bestselling Author Timothy Ferriss to Crowd-Source Next Book Using PBwiki (2/20/2008)
- Presidential Candidate Ron Paul Uses PBwiki To Manage Internet Groundswell (12/19/2007)
- PBwiki Aids Fire Relief Efforts in Southern California (10/26/2007)
- United Nations and PBwiki Partner to Provide Global Platform for Corporate Responsibility (4/26/2007)
PBwiki In The News
- Extranet Collaboration Platforms (Forrester Research, 12/2/2008)
- A Wiki for Entrepreneurs (KillerStartups, 11/24/2008)
- 15 Useful Project Management Tools (Smashing Magazine, 11/13/2008)
- Collaborate or Die (University Business, 11/10/2008)
- Enterprise 2.0: Progress is mixed, but experimentation is cheap (ZDNet, 11/4/2008)
- Skills to Go - 28 Ways to Become a Leader (O Magazine, 11/2008)
- 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for PR Professionals and Journalists (Mashable, 10/30/2008)
- PBwiki: Growing In A Recession (ZDNet, 10/23/2008)
- Get more work done with less e-mail (New York Times, 10/23/2008)
- Putting Facebook and Twitter to work (CNN, 10/23/2008)
- Association of Independent Information Professionals Honors PBwiki (AIIP, 10/23/2008)
- Virginia County's LoudounPedia Wiki Proves Popular (Government Technology, 10/21/2008)
- Full Steam Ahead (SFGate.com, 10/19/2008)
- Seven Essential Ways to Cut Your Tech Costs (PC World, 10/13/2008)
- Virtual Handbooks (Hospitality Technology, 10/9/2008)
- The Contribution Revolution: Letting Volunteers Build Your Business (Harvard Business Review, 10/2008)
- Window To The World (Vanderbilt View, 10/2008)
- Power To The Bottom: Social Enterprise and Web 2.0 (Newsweek, 9/6/2008)
- Wikis In Education: Teaching Students to Share Knowledge (LinuxInsider, 8/29/2008)
- What Is Enterprise 2.0? Enterprise 2.0 Explained (About.com, 8/2008)
- The Business Wiki: Wiki in the Workplace (About.com, 8/2008)
- Four Free Wikis Worth Trying Out (CIO.com, 8/25/2008)
- PBwiki Gives US$25m in Web 2.0 Tools to Education (CMSWire, 8/20/2008)
- PBwiki Offers $25 Million in Web 2.0 Tools for Educators (THE Journal, 8/2008)
- University of Wisconsin uses wiki collaboration to help troops in Iraq escape attack (Wikinomics Blog, 7/17/2008)
- Building a Company Intranet (LowesForPros.com, 7/2008)
- Wiki Training Increases Productivity for RMC Vanguard Mortgage (Chief Learning Officer, 7/2008)
- Transcending E-mail as a Platform for Multi-Person Collaboration (Web 2.0 Journal, 7/6/2008)
- Networking Strategy: Walking and Talking (New York Times, 6/24/2008)
- MeetInnovators Profile: David Weekly of PBwiki (MeetInnovators, 6/19/2008)
- PBwiki named "Best" online wiki by The Product Guy (The Product Guy, 6/17/2008)
- Newport Mesa Unified School District teaches PBwiki (THE Journal, 6/2008)
- Is SaaS Green? PBwiki Reduces Carbon Emissions (GreenMonk, 5/29/2008)
- Sichuan Deyang Earthquake Relief Foundation uses PBwiki to organize relief efforts (SDERF, 5/15/2008)
- Wikis: The Crown Jewels of Collaboration (LinuxInsider, 5/14/2008)
- PBwiki Soon to Hit 500,000 Wikis Hosted (Mashable, 5/13/2008)
- More to Wikis than Wikipedia (New York Times, 5/11/2008)
- PBwiki wins "1st Place" in "Hosted Wikis" from the annual Web 2.0 Awards by SEOmoz (SEOmoz, 5/9/2008)
- InformationWeek discusses how PBwiki fits in with Enterprise 2.0 (InformationWeek, 4/19/2008)
- PBwiki named one of PC World's 101 Fantastic Freebies (PC World, 3/23/2008)
- PBWiki Adds New Features to Compete in Wiki Market (WebWorkerDaily, 3/17/2008)
- PBwiki Gets An Overhaul (TechCrunch, 3/13/2008)
- PBWiki Rolls Out Beta 2.0 (Mashable, 3/13/2008)
- Making Web 2.0 Safe for the Enterprise: TOS à la PBWiki (ZDNet, 3/5/2008)
- They're Working on Their Own, Just Side by Side (New York Times, 2/20/2008)
- Boosting teamwork with wikis (Fortune Small Business, 2/12/2008)
- PBwiki added to Computer World's "A List" of "Five Free Webapps [they] Can't Live Without" (Computer World, 9/27/2007)
- PBwiki named one of PC World's Top 25 Websites to Watch (PC World, June 18th 2007)
- Collaborate! Students from Kansas and Tulane use PBwiki to help rebuild New Orleans (Campus Technology, June 1, 2007)