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Corporate Overview

 

PBwiki is the world's largest provider of hosted business and educational wikis. We host over 500,000 wikis, serve millions of users per month, and 96% of our business users would recommend PBwiki to a friend.

 

Leading companies from AT&T to Wal-Mart, including 1/3 of the Fortune 500, choose PBwiki to help them with knowledge management, collaboration, project management, and a host of other business processes and workflows.

 

PBwiki's investors include Ron Conway, the Seraph Group, and Mohr Davidow Ventures.

 

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 product management, intranets, and classroom collaboration

 

• Noted customers include Facebook, DePaul University, and the FDA

 

 

Press Releases

 

• 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

 

• The Business Wiki: Wiki in the Workplace (About.com, 8/2008)

 

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• 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)