The document discusses the importance of collaborative authoring tools in content creation, highlighting the need for various skillsets like authors, reviewers, and project managers while addressing challenges such as geographical dispersion and complex workflows. Benefits of collaboration include faster content creation, improved communication, defined workflows, increased productivity, scalability, better tracking, and enhanced delivery across multiple formats. Overall, it emphasizes that collaboration can lead to reduced costs and increased ROI.

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Collaborative Authoring Tool
Why should you use it?

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Why do you Need Collaboration ?
 Publishing a content requires people with
variety of skillsets
 Authors
 Reviewers
 Project Managers
 Copy Editors / Proof Readers
 Media producers and asset managers
 Too many stakeholders
 Varied geographical timings
 Complex workflows
CLOUD BASED COLLABORATION
TO THE RESCUE ?

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Time Zone Difference
Geographically dispersed SMEs
Miscommunication
Multiple Review Rounds
Impact on Schedule and Quality
Complex workflows, Multiple handoffs
Manual Intervention at every step
Typical eLearning Authoring Scenario
Client PM
PM
Media Team
Tech Team
QA Team
Author
SME
Proof Reader
Copy Editor

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What are the Benefits of Collaboration?
 Faster Content Creation
 Reviewers / copy writers / proof readers are notified automatically
once the author finishes writing the content
 Better Communication
 Team members can communicate with each other leading to
better content development, leading to faster turnaround times
 Define Workflows
 Workflows can be defined on most collaborative authoring tools.
Thus implementation of workflows are taken care by systems, and
authors can focus on doing what they do best – create and author
content
 Increased Productivity
 Better definition of roles, makes sure that productivity increases.
Thus an author won’t have to worry about assets, as they are
taken care by asset managers

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What are the Benefits of Collaboration?
 Scalability
 By using a scalable collaborative authoring suite, publishers do
not have to worry about scaling up operations. Create multiple
business units, add new team members, assign roles and they are
ready to go.
 Better Tracking
 Track multiple projects, tasks, issues from a central dashboards
and take instant actions to rectify them
 Delivery
 Deliver to multiple formats and platforms. Do not worry about
creating content again
 Increase ROI
 Reduce costs
 Faster go-to Market: generate more revenue

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