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Yes, that’s me beggin’ JotSpot to give me a beta. I’ve asked for it in the Fall and again recently, but I’m still waiting. Joe Kraus, it’s CEO, sent me a direct email reach out, apologizing for the delays and promising a beta soon. Now, that’s balls! Yes, you need to do that sometimes, reach down to your customers, and I liked the fact that I wasn’t treat like "oh, just another beta vulture." But time will tell. For now, I give JotSpot one more try, and please, please give me a beta.

In case, you’re wondering what’s JotSpot, it’s a new startup in the wiki space providing web-based apps for collaboration and content creation. What’s a wiki? Oh, you’re just so uncool now. Just kidding, wikis are webpages that can be edited by anyone. Here’s a brief link on wikis. Why do I need one? Is that even a question?! I’ll pretend I didn’t hear it.

But seriously, we MBAs have to manage and create a deluge of digital content flows throughout our classes, extracurriculars and career searches. Soon even in our jobs. Take a class team project. We have a webcafe from Documentum at Wharton but it has long outlived its purpose and the the WCIT (wharton techies) is in the process of some upgrades. Take the Wharton Tech Conference 2005 where I manage content with 3 other colleagues and have to coordinate with marketing, sponsorship and logistics. We have email traffic, we have files, we have snippets of info that need storing and organizing and we have final deliverables. If you don’t have online storage for easy retrieval, email traffic baloons, versioning and syncing becomes more complex and you soon give up on any order. I’ll write more on educational technologies from the Wharton experience, but suffice it to say I’m not alone when I need new apps. I wish Wharton had SharePoint Portal Server, but a JotSpot wiki beta could really suffice for now. So, please Joe, where’s my beta?

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