Writing documents

Not only do consulting bodies need someone to write a report on the consultation, but also consulted groups often need to put together a document responding to a consultation. In both cases, it helps if a group can be asked to develop their solution and write it up in a report. With computer software running on a server, several people can work on the same document at the same time, writing different parts of it, then editing each other's work.

• • Not only do consulting bodies need someone to write a report on the consultation, but also consulted groups often need to put together a document responding to a consultation.
  • With computer software running on a server, several people can work on the same document at the same time, writing different parts of it, then editing each other's work.

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Consultees collaborating to write and edit documents.

• Weblogs (blogs)
  • a blog is an on-line journal that can be read on a web site. The author can easily add new diary entries. Often readers can post comments on each journal entry.
  • Civic Leadership Weblog Project - Councillors' Blogs
  • creating your own blogs system
• Wikiwiki pages
  • a wikiwiki web page (or wiki for short) can be edited by anyone. So groups of people can work on the same pages, each developing and correcting each others work (a lot quicker than circulating word processing documents). There is even a wikwiki encyclopaedia " Wikipedia.
  • DoWire.org - Democracies Online
  • edit a wiki page here: ((QUB|QUB)); ((LYIT|LYIT))
• GRASS (Group Report Authoring Support System)

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  A collaborative writing method   
  - with computer software running on a server
  - several people can work on the same document at the same time 
  - writing different parts of it, then editing each other's work