Cross-State Collaboration: PB Wiki

As we’ve said before, This Charming Candy consists of two people: me and Kate. And we live in different states. So how do we stay organized and productive when we only see each other a few times a year at most?

There are a few obvious collaboration methods – we send a LOT of email, use instant messaging, and have a phone call every Monday morning to check in and set a rough agenda for the week.

But we knew early on that we were going to generate a lot of content, much more than those channels could gracefully handle. So we created a wiki at PBWorks and it’s been a great way for us to store thoughts and ideas, documents, all kinds of stuff.

Every time we generate a new topic, whether it’s research on competitors, a list of suppliers, notes from a tax workshop, or ideas for upcoming blog posts, we create a wiki page with that information in it. It’s so easy. We use the main page of our wiki as a combined To-do list and an index that links to all of the content we store in the wiki.

Of course, like any collaboration method, the most important factor is probably that we are both committed to using the wiki to store and organize our work :-)