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Hi there!
Does anyone know of a platform like this - Almanac? It allows for more robust collaborative editing than you find in GDocs or Word. I am working with an INGO network with 250 members, mostly in the EU and SE Asia. They need to collaboratively comment on and edit their strategic framework, and have a fast turnaround time for the final version. Almanac looks like it will be the perfect solution, but it is not accessible yet.?

Anything else out there??

Thanks!



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On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 12:11 PM Teletha McJunkin | Resolutionist via <teletha=[email protected]> wrote:

Hi there!
Does anyone know of a platform like this - Almanac? It allows for more robust collaborative editing than you find in GDocs or Word. I am working with an INGO network with 250 members, mostly in the EU and SE Asia. They need to collaboratively comment on and edit their strategic framework, and have a fast turnaround time for the final version. Almanac looks like it will be the perfect solution, but it is not accessible yet.?

Anything else out there??

Thanks!



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Can you please define what you mean by "Robust Collaborative Editing"?

What about it would make it robust?

For example, does it have to support revision control and group consensus on changes?



On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:11 AM Teletha McJunkin | Resolutionist <teletha@...> wrote:
Hi there!
Does anyone know of a platform like this - Almanac? It allows for more robust collaborative editing than you find in GDocs or Word. I am working with an INGO network with 250 members, mostly in the EU and SE Asia. They need to collaboratively comment on and edit their strategic framework, and have a fast turnaround time for the final version. Almanac looks like it will be the perfect solution, but it is not accessible yet.?

Anything else out there??

Thanks!



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Hi John,?
Yes, it needs to support revision control, easily show who made the edits (and ideally interact with them about it), and group consensus on changes would be a sweet cherry on top!

On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 12:35 PM John Sechrest <sechrest@...> wrote:
Can you please define what you mean by "Robust Collaborative Editing"?

What about it would make it robust?

For example, does it have to support revision control and group consensus on changes?



On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 9:11 AM Teletha McJunkin | Resolutionist <teletha@...> wrote:
Hi there!
Does anyone know of a platform like this - Almanac? It allows for more robust collaborative editing than you find in GDocs or Word. I am working with an INGO network with 250 members, mostly in the EU and SE Asia. They need to collaboratively comment on and edit their strategic framework, and have a fast turnaround time for the final version. Almanac looks like it will be the perfect solution, but it is not accessible yet.?

Anything else out there??

Thanks!



President


Rule 31 Mediation | Group Facilitation | Virtual Meeting Producer
Phone/WhatsApp: +1 (423) 635.5939?
UTC -04:00




--

JOHN SECHREST
Founder,?Seattle Angel Conference
TEL??(541) 250-0844? ??EMAIL??sechrest@...

?
@sechrest


 

Hi Teletha,

I've not found anything personally, but I'd be very keen to hear more if you come across anything. I have just seen almanac too and up front it looks promising. I believe there is a lot of potential for improved learning systems, asynchronous working and information flows across teams using live documents. My biggest question for implementing their use is how to control them and keep them organised - I've experienced that the potential fall out from poorly managed live documents can be greater than the reward.

Aside from new tools, it would be great to hear if anyone has any tips for how they manage this currently. At the moment I'm leaning towards assigning document 'managers' who keep an overview of changes, but this doesn't seem like the ideal solution.

Tom


 

Thanks, Tom. I think we have decided to go with . We especially like how people can edit text directly and merge their edits into the document. Any changes can be walked back, and you can easily see who made what edits. The fact that people can edit directly and merge their changes means less work for the person who has to finalize the document. The biggest drawback is the fact that you can only export as a pdf (unless I'm missing something), but we can work with that. I also just learned about this one (). It seems really interesting, but doesn't have that direct edit/merge function (as far as I can tell at a cursory glance)?

On Fri, Oct 23, 2020 at 4:48 AM tom.underwood1 via <tom.underwood1=[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Teletha,

I've not found anything personally, but I'd be very keen to hear more if you come across anything. I have just seen almanac too and up front it looks promising. I believe there is a lot of potential for improved learning systems, asynchronous working and information flows across teams using live documents. My biggest question for implementing their use is how to control them and keep them organised - I've experienced that the potential fall out from poorly managed live documents can be greater than the reward.

Aside from new tools, it would be great to hear if anyone has any tips for how they manage this currently. At the moment I'm leaning towards assigning document 'managers' who keep an overview of changes, but this doesn't seem like the ideal solution.

Tom


 
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Thank you, Teletha. That sounds great - I will explore this more.