I've used Google docs both internally and with clients with great results. I've worked not only with Word docs, but with Excel spreadsheets & PDFs on Google docs as well. One of the features I've found helpful is that when a person with access to the docs makes a revision, an email is sent to all who have access with a link displaying the changes in highlights. There's also a nice feature that allows backtracking through the revision history to see how the document has evolved. Dana Sanderson Business Manager Sanderson Studios Advertising www.sanderson-studios.com 650.851.6832 (O) 650.580.5396 (C) -----Original Message----- From: webproducers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:webproducers-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Matt C Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 10:23 PM To: webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [webproducers] Re: Document review for large group Hi Ulrike, Two tools you could use to gather all of the comments in one place are ActiveCollab or GoogleDocs. ActiveCollab has a Discussions section that's good for gathering team comments, and Google Docs allows you to create online Word docs. Either method can be quite effective for gathering feedback from remote team members in one central place, and then allowing everyone to access comments provided by others to prevent duplicate feedback. Hope this helps, Matt --- On Thu, 4/23/09, Ulrike Lechert <ulrike@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: Ulrike Lechert <ulrike@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [webproducers] Document review for large group To: webproducers@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, April 23, 2009, 3:48 PM Hi, I am the team leader of a group of eight people that has been put in charge to create processes and standards related to the website redesign I am working on. This will group will have to create and approve a fair amount of documentation that includes text documents. Any suggestions how to best organize the creation and review of those documents? If they review one after the other, review will take too long. If they review at the same time, how do I best consolidate all comments? There are several writers in the group who rewrite a lot. I am also working on a team operating agreement and wondering if I can include this review process in there is a simple form that everyone will understand. Many thanks, Ulrike Ulrike Lechert-Lombardi Project Manager www.lechert.com -- Too much mail? Switch to Digest mode - Manage your subscription at http://webproducers.org/? page_id=9 Check out the Web Producers Job Board http://jobs.webproducers.org Messages are archived in our publicly accessible web archive. Trim your posts and delete personal information if you do not want them in the public web archive. To unsubscribe send a blank message with unsubscribe in the subject to webproducers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (and be sure to reply to the confirmation e-mail) -- Too much mail? Switch to Digest mode - Manage your subscription at http://webproducers.org/? page_id=9 Check out the Web Producers Job Board http://jobs.webproducers.org Messages are archived in our publicly accessible web archive. Trim your posts and delete personal information if you do not want them in the public web archive. To unsubscribe send a blank message with unsubscribe in the subject to webproducers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (and be sure to reply to the confirmation e-mail) -- Too much mail? Switch to Digest mode - Manage your subscription at http://webproducers.org/? page_id=9 Check out the Web Producers Job Board http://jobs.webproducers.org Messages are archived in our publicly accessible web archive. Trim your posts and delete personal information if you do not want them in the public web archive. To unsubscribe send a blank message with unsubscribe in the subject to webproducers-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (and be sure to reply to the confirmation e-mail)