About Us
Umoja.com is a social collaboration wiki that allows for users create and update topics on the African Diaspora. Umoja.com uses the Umojawiki software.
About UmojaWiki Software
The UmojaWiki software platform puts an emphasis on "content blocks" to provide the functionality of a wiki page as opposed to a mark-up language. UmojaWiki content blocks allow the user to easily add structured data. The content blocks are structured so that they interact with sites to provide content from outside services. UmojaWiki also features a WYSIWYG page design tool that allows you to reorder the content blocks on a page and edit them from a single screen.
Faq
Where is Umoja.com headquartered?
The company is headquartered in Iowa City, IA with workers in Boston, MA.
Where is the site hosted?
The site is hosted at both slicehost.com LLC and SoftLayer.com using thePlanet.com's Sandcastle program.
What’s the big picture?
Umoja.com is a social collaboration wiki that allows for users create and update topics on the African Diaspora. Umoja.com uses the Umojawiki software.
How is this different from other services?
Umoja.com uses an easy to use editorial WYSIWYG system. Umoja.com updates using information from Flickr.com, Freebase.com, Youtube.com and RSS. Umoja.com is focused on the African Diaspora.
Are there other cool things I should know?
Umoja means "unity" in Ki-Swahili.
Ki-Swahili is a Bantu language that is prominent in Eastern African countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_language
The African Diaspora is the tracing of the history of Africans throughout the world. More here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_diaspora
What’s the business model?
Our goal is to complete beta testing, and then gradually move to both advertising and software services model.
What’s the funding status of the company?
Bootstrapping!
Do you have a logo and images I can use for a story?
Sure.
