A Brilliant Collaboration Tool

I just stumbled upon a very simple yet insanely effective collaboration tool for writing a document with a partner or in a team setting. The best part is that it’s FREE! It is called Writeboard and can be viewed at www.writeboard.com. It’s a shareable, web-based text document that let’s you save every edit, roll back to any version, and easily compare changes. It’s so much more efficient and thorough than emailing a word document back and forth. It’s password protected and you can invite others to contribute via email from the site directly.

A few uses for it could include:
Review and edit a business letter with a colleague
Collaborate on an essay with my classmates
Work with my editor on a book chapter
Work with my client on copy for their web site
Collaborate with our PR firm on a press release
Draft and revise an important email before I send it
Work on copy for an ad campaign
Draft and revise a blog post before publishing
Craft a letter to the editor of my local paper
Perfect an article before sending it for publication
Write, review, and edit a cover letter for my resume
Refine a product description
Draft the text for a presentation
Write a couple paragraphs without having to use Word
Brainstorm ideas for a business name
Refine text before putting it into a page layout program
Write and revise a song, poem, or short story
Have my co-workers help me write my resignation letter
Collaborate on a new Constitution

I’m using it to brainstorm the feasibility of a new venture with a potential partner so we can post our thoughts and questions along with research we find and conclusions we’ve made about the various centers of the venture, all without having to setup meetings or try to email back and forth. It helps get email back to the tool it was created to be, a communication tool and not a project storage tool.

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