The three wikis that I researched were Springnote, Luminotes, and Wetpaint. There were three conditions that were required for the group to complete the CEO Report. The wiki must be hosted, it must have a page history, and it must be a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). Also, as a group project it needed to be free of charge to use. The group chose PBWorks-it is user friendly, free to use and also contained the required criterion necessary that were previously mentioned.
I looked at Springnote and it supports image, video, text, file attachments, keyboard shortcuts, wiki markups, etc. Springnote audiences consist of business, education and individuals needing a wiki that has unlimited text storage with no restrictions. You do not need your own domain and best of all-ads are not allowed. Springnote does have page history with unlimited page revisions and a page index. There are two interface languages-English and Korean with e-mail notification. WYSIWYG is included with RSS feed and calendar, image galleries, forums and blogs.
Luminotes is Closed down; former users were encouraged to download the Windows Stand-Alone version. The hosted service of Luminotes closed down on March 1, 2010. Luminotes users no longer can view or edit any notes hosted at Luminotes.com, and no further releases nor support for any Luminotes products are available. "They do have a Windows Stand-Alone Application-Luminotes Desktop- is out in the wild. In case the website totally shuts down after the time (March 1) and you missed to save yourself a copy of the exe file, the former host has a backup copy: Luminotes.exe. Readme file is available upon install."
Wetpaint is a wiki site for those individuals looking for a user friendly wiki service that is free to use and a good social site to connect with those who have the same likes and dislikes or life story as you. Wetpaint is geared at those people who are more non-technical and uses a three-step setup. Wetpaint provides an ad free environment for education with a premium fee. However, it is for all users and has unlimited storage with no restrictions. You have your own domain with no ads and the host provides blocking with page history and unlimited page revisions. Email notification is provided and also WYSIWYG editing with RSS Feed output.
Any of these systems could be used for personal or business, however it seems to me that the Wetpaint site is more catered to the individual. They have blogs for your favorite television shows, movies, and music. Personally, I liked the way the Wetpaint looked and the content was something that would be entertaining more so than Springnote.
Each person in our group set up their Wave account and invited each other to their site. We also invited you, Dr. Moser. I have since also set up a meeting as a group to work on the initial steps of our CEO Report and to go over any questions that we each have. This is scheduled for Thursday May 27 @8:00pm. I am waiting for a response from my team members as to their convenience of this date. Once this is set, I will enter it into my Tungle account and Evernote to post to my notebook.
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