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Design Commission needed cutting-edge collaboration to match the elegant designs they create for Sony, Corbis, and Paul Allen's Vulcan Labs. PBwiki brought this close-knit six-person team even closer, and generated $2,000 per month in productivity gains.
The Financial Times is the world's leading source of securities pricing and financial information, providing news and information to over 1.3m people in 140 countries. In addition to the daily paper publication, the Financial Times includes a pan-European network of national business newspapers and online services as well as a strong portfolio of magazine brands, websites and events targeting specific areas of the financial world.
The National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago has been conducting cutting edge social science research for 65 years. NORC needed a better way than SharePoint to share information with clients as well as offsite and part-time editors.
DePaul University's distance learning program plans to make PBwiki an integral part of their onli.
CafePress.com allows individuals, organizations, and businesses to create and sell customized merchandise. Over 4.5 million members from around the globe have created over 70 million unique products, with an additional 45,000 being added each day. To accommodate this rapid growth, CafePress.com needed a way to centralize information for strong internal communications.
Intel and the National University of Ireland created the Innovation Value Institute (http://ivi.nuim.ie) to develop unifying frameworks and roadmaps for IT. The IVI brings together 30 high-powered members, including Chevron Texaco and the Boston Consulting Group. The issue the IVI faced was finding a collaboration platform that would work across all its different members.
Wellsphere is an exciting startup that is harnessing the power of the community to help people live healthier, happier lives. The Wellsphere community connects people to other people and local resources to empower them to make healthier choices and improve their lives.
The fourth annual NE2007 offered a diverse program of 34 programs over the course of three days. The planning committee, consisting of dozens of international volunteers, relied on PBwiki to provide an easy, online space where they could collaborate and manage event details.
The award-winning journalists of Common Ties (commonties.com) write and publish intimate, real stories that illustrate who we are and how we are connected. Common Ties is a virtual company, with almost all communications occurring electronically. This decentralized and distributed approach makes it essential to have a good way to organize team activities.
Kiva lets ordinary people make a difference by lending money to entrepreneurs in developing countries. Volunteer Kiva Fellows around the world work with local entrepreneurs and finance institutions. These volunteers realized they needed a way to easily share information with each other and the home office.
Since 1977, APQC (the American Productivity & Quality Center), an international, non-profit resource for best practice and benchmarking research (www.apqc.org). It has been helping organizations adapt to rapidly changing environments, build new and better ways to work, and succeed in competitive markets through innovative programs like the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award.