"We have no infrastructure as of right now to communicate -- except for e-mail and voice-mail -- and (we) are using JotSpot to create an intranet," she said.
Beaver likes JotSpot because of its simplicity and low cost. "The editor is built right into the tool. We can give a number of people different pieces of the Web site to manage and they can do so without additional software and without extensive training," she said. Alternatives would have required the company to hire Web developers, Beaver said.
Future uses of JotSpot at Dickson Allan may include freestyle collaborative Web spaces, the original concept of a wiki, and simple applications, such as contact management and recruitment, Beaver said.
Wikis are surprisingly popular, Burton Group's O'Kelly said. "There are a lot of people who are using wikis for collaborative workspace-oriented tools," he said. However, support for wikis typically does not come from CIOs (chief information officers) at large corporations, said JotSpot CEO Kraus.
"Wikis are bottom-up technologies, generally speaking. They tend to get adopted at the workgroup level and then spread," Kraus said. That is also reflected in registrations for the JotSpot beta. "This is not the CIO of a Fortune 500 company registering (for the beta), for example; it is a workgroup leader registering," Kraus said.
JotSpot is backed by US$5.2 million in capital from venture capital firms Mayfield and Redpoint Ventures. Additional investors include Kraus and Graham Spencer, chief technology officer and co-founder. Kraus and Spencer are two of the original founders of Excite.com, a search engine.
JotSpot is still taking applications for its beta at http://www.jot.com/request_beta/index.php.
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