Understanding the Role of Online Collaboration
Many business documents are usually the result of a team effort. These can include reports requiring input from several departments or complex documents that have input from multiple authors and editors. A typical scenario is for someone to author a document in Word and then pass the draft around to interested parties for review. The pass-around may be via email or the printed page or by posting it on a network server. Reviewers generally send their comments back by
Email
Notes scrawled on the printed page
Electronic revisions directly to the Word file
The phone or voice mail
The author takes these various revisions and incorporates them into the original document. There may be a second or even a third ...
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