Blogging with WikiSpaces

A wiki is a space on the Web for you to share your work, thoughts, photos, videos, links, and everything else you want to share. With WikiSpaces you get a visual editor and a wide range of other tools that make sharing content easy for students and their educators.
WikiSpaces is a free web hosting service which also offers paid private wikis with enhanced features. Corporate firms, educators and nonprofit organizations are the entities that make use of these paid wikis. But it is most widely used by students and educators. In fact, over 100,000 K 12 educators have been granted private wikis absolutely free of cost.

So what are the benefits of WikiSpaces?

• It’s free!

• You get 2 GB space

• You can have any number of users on your Wiki

• Your readers can add and modify data

• You will be given more space if your need is genuine

• You can even set it so that only members will be able to modify data

• The Auto Save feature will save your work even if the browser crashes when you’re editing.

• You can set Email notifications so that you will know whenever a change is made to your wiki

• You can lock a particular page so that nobody else will be able to edit it.

• You have excellent page linking ability and enhanced backup capabilities

• Paid wikis have these additional features

• No ads

• Customized theme and layout

• Private Wiki means only your members will have access to it.

You can also add videos from YouTube or add a chat facility using Gabbly. Let’s see how you can do all these things in a little more detail:

• The Edit button lets you edit from whichever computer or mobile device you are working on, and you can do it whenever you need to.

• Any edit you make is logged by the wiki so if you ever need to do page comparison or revert to the original version, you can easily do it by checking the logs

• You can add widgets like videos, calendars and more to make your wiki more interactive and helpful.

• You can edit your default Navigation bar and add text or links. (by default your pages are listed alphabetically)

• Navigation can also be built into the pages through links.

• Your Manage Wiki tool lets you manage your members (add, remove), pages, permissions and files(upload, delete).

• You can create a forum to discuss the contents on the wiki, comments on any section and answer queries.

• With Educational wikis, you can group members according to projects, and also set permissions for them. These could be wiki, page or file level permissions. 

WikiSpaces for businesses have more features which are of course at a higher cost than the wikis made available to students and educators. More storage, adding news feeds, and enhanced encryption are some of the extra features available.
You can always have a personal wiki even if you’re not a teacher, student or a proprietor. Start off with the free basic wiki, and if you like what you see you can always upgrade at a later time. Just consider it your personal website with an Edit button!

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