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New video tutorial: How to Use JotSpot to Build an Intranet
A JotSpot customer has contributed "Getting Started with JotSpot", a video tutorial, they made to train their employees on how to use JotSpot. Video explores a huge range of features demonstrating how to build a company intranet. (Works better in Internet Explorer than Firefox right now.)
eBay Gets Wiki with JotSpot
Today, eBay introduced a wiki, built and hosted by JotSpot!
www.ebaywiki.com is a wiki where eBay's 183 million registered users can contribute and discuss eBay-related matters like buying and selling tips.
JotSpot CEO Joe Kraus said:
This represents another milestone in the coming of age of wikis. This concept is reaching a much broader audience.
With the launch of www.ebaywiki.com, eBay is making a serious commitment to user generated content. A wiki is pure user generated content. And user generated content leads to other sites pointing to your domain and increase your visibility in search engines. The rules of search enginer marketing show that this drives traffic, ad clicks and revenue.
You can get your own JotSpot wiki here.
Congrats to Adam, Ben, Brian, Graham, Reuben, Rus, Scott J, and the eBay team for making it happen!
JotSpot Spreadsheets in a Wiki
Stop emailing spreadsheets! Simply copy and paste to publish your spreadsheets as an interactive wiki page.
JotSpot Spreadsheets is now in the app gallery and ready for single click installation into your wiki. JotSpot Spreadsheets is the new version of Tracker, JotSpot's collaborative web spreadsheet application.
To install, log into your (2.6 and higher) wiki, click "Install Applications" in the lower left sidebar, and select Spreadsheets. Once installed, you can currently create as many spreadsheets as you want -- each spreadsheet becomes another wiki page. (Please note: Spreadsheets requires a 2.6 wiki. The 2.6 upgrades are "coming soon", I promise!)
The new version has a ton of improvements, including more Excel-like user experience and improved support for formulas. Let us know what you think!
Updated User Documentation released
JotSpot updated our User Documentation to reflect the changes made in release 2.5:
- Creating new wiki pages
- Using wiki words
- Editing pages
- Add users
- Inviting users
- Adding comments to wiki pages
- Search for wiki pages
- Comparing versions of pages
- Marking favorite pages
Your comments are welcome! Please let us know if you want documentation on a particular topic or if we should provide more details.
Class Reunion Planner
Guy Creese from the Burton Group and Williams College gave the Class Reunion Planner a test drive. He writes:
But, at first glance, all that functionality at only $40 a year doesn't seem too bad. A year ago, if someone had told me such capabilities would be available for such a low price, I would have laughed. It's clear even I can be taken aback at technology's pace.
Continue reading Trying Out the Reunion Wiki at JotSpot.
Developer post: Finding Your Way in JotSpot
Scott McMullan wrote an excellent post on navigating your JotSpot wiki over at the JotSpot Developer Connection.
Navigating and maintaining a sense of place when using a wiki can be difficult. When pages can be created almost anywhere, even the most meticulously gardened wikis can become confusing and hard to navigate, particularly for new users.
There are a number of ways to address this problem, but here are four common approaches:
- Displaying recently changed pages
- Displaying recently visited pages
- Displaying pages that are "under" the current page
- Displaying pages that link to the current page
While none of these views are visible by default in Jot, they're all easy to add to your wiki by packaging up a few lines of code as a plugin.
Continue reading "Finding Your Way in JotSpot"
New Project Manager application available now
Project Manager version 0.94 is available now in the JotSpot Application Gallery. If you have already installed this app in your account, we recommend you un-install the application and install version 0.94.
Here are Project Manager upgrade instructions (0.8, 0.9, and 0.93 to 0.94):
- Login as "admin"
- Mouse over the "More Actions" menu and choose "Manage Packages"
- Find the "ProjectManagerApp" in the list of packages
- Click the "Remove" link next to it. (Note that this will not remove your PM data; your data is safe even if the PM package is removed.)
- Choose the "Force Removal" checkbox, and confirm the removal
- In the nav bar on the left of the page (which may be hidden), locate the "Installed Applications" area
- Click the "Browse Application Gallery" link
- In the gallery area, locate the PM app (the top link)
- Click "Install Now" and confirm
The newly installed Project Manager app will find your data, and you can resume
your work.
Controlling edits to the ToolBar (sidebar)
Because everything is a page in your JotSpot, it is possible to use page permission in order to establish rules about who can edit your ToolBar.
KbArticle124 tells you how.
Using page permissions, it is possible to limit which users are permitted to edit the ToolBar (sidebar) page.
The ToolBar page is titled "ToolBar" in your account.
1. Navigate to the ToolBar
2. Edit the page permissions:
3. Type "-guest" in the Edit field
4. Save the page.
Customize your ToolBar (sidebar)
Users can add navigation links by customizing your ToolBar (sidebar). Add links to WikiHome or other popular pages. ToolBar (sidebar) navigation links help users not get lost as they navigate your JotSpot. feedback.jot.com uses them to link to our Tutorials, Forums and Knowledge Base.
KbArticle119 tells you how.
It is possible to edit your Toolbar page (the sidebar) to add links to pages you have created:
1. Click the "Edit" link in the Toolbar.
2. You must use Markup edit mode.
3. Type the name of the page (WikiWord page titles) or use double bracket links.
4. Save the page.
Next JotSpot Meetup: Mon Jan 16th
Please come by the Jot office in Palo Alto next Monday night at 7p for the January Jot Meetup. Have some food, meet and rap with other Jotters, and learn more about using and developing with JotSpot.
More info and RSVP on the wiki.
For your calendaring pleasure:
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