Wetpaint - a free wiki and website tool!

Yet another great resource has been found! Its called Wetpaint!click on the logo to get to wetpaint.com

Wetpaint.com is a site that allows users to create wiki's for educational or personal purposes. Currently Wetpaint hosts over a million different wikis built by variety of different users, from individuals to small organizations, clubs, interest groups, educators and anyone who has information to share! Topics vary in the same wide range with their creators.

Wetpaint was started in 2005 as an idea of a group of friends thought "why not make it easy for groups of people to share information, experiences and build social communities around anything they want?" Their motivation for this emerged, as one of them was suffering from cancer and they were looking for information online on how other people coped with a similar situation.

Some of the cool Wetpaint features include:

• Easy 1-2-3 creation
• Many facilitating tools for content creation and collaboration
• Public and private sites
• Onsite messaging
• Addressbooks
• Automated links
• Templates for different site types
• Site search
• RSS feeds and email notifications
• Personalized profiles
• and most of all IT'S FREE!

Us as instructional design students and professionals can really take advantage of a tool like Wetpaint. As we are stepping out of the shelter of the University it is extremely advantageous to have a website or online porfolio to portray our accomplishments and show off our work. Creating a personal wiki, like Wetpaint, can be an easy and affordable option to get your name out there. Rather than paying for a domain name and a server and spending hours writing html and css codes (Dr.Doll, Please don't get mad...), a free and easily editable wiki sounds like a tempting idea! So, check it out! ;)