An additional option for volunteer proofreaders

[hakerh]

Google Documents has a "Collaborate" option. I could, theoretically, post the whole thing there and invite volunteers by email. That way, you'd have an email in your inbox, and could (possibly?) see what changes anyone else was suggesting, so there wasn't too much duplicated effort. I can't seem to find an efficient "Track Changes" option, but that

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[daft]

I've used it in the past. It's pretty darn handy.
It has been a while though, so I can't speak to specific features.

[tisiphone]

I've used the collaborate feature to good effect in classes where we had to do a group editing or writing project - it's pretty useful.

[hakerh]

In my pokings around that function, I couldn't find any nifty color-coded way to track changes like the one Microsoft Word uses. Hm. I don't like not knowing what has been changed, and what it was changed from... *still looking*

[tisiphone]

You can look at diffs of the document which will show you what's changed; I always use comments (insert->comment) rather tahn actually changing someone else's text.

[hakerh]

Ah, that makes sense.

[aislinn_sca]

We just started using this system to view submissions for the college's literary publications, and it's working pretty well. We have about a dozen editors, and each of us can access the work, enter our comments at the top of the page, and move completed pieces to appropriate folders when done