Your thoughts on the best basic content prototype tool...

[Steven Wilson-Beales]

Hello my beloved content strategists!

I wondered if you could help me. I'm launching a new editorial product which requires a different way of working for my editorial team and I'd like to build a very basic prototype to see how it all works.

An editorial will be required to write a headline, a paragraph and a single image for a topic trending that day online. Is there a way of co-ordinating this activity that's:

a) easy

b) a bit more attractive than using excel, word and email

c) fast

d) ideally - free!

in short, it might be the most basic type of CMS, hosted by a 3rd party. Or it could be a way of working with Google docs. Just a simple way for editors, who do not work together, to all pitch in on a single editorial idea. Then we can easily sit back at the end of the way and assess the overall workflow, tone and copy.

Just thought I'd ask.

Many thanks!

steve

[david hendler]

I would create a PHP form that had each of the fields and a brief instruction beneath the fields. Or, since you mentioned Google Docs, you could create a Google form to do the same.

A PHP/MySQL site that gathered this would be more secure. I am not sure how secure a Google Docs/form combo is.

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[Carolyn Shannon]

Hi Steve,

I can think of two good ways to do this for free.

If it's a simple matter of collaboration, I would (and do) use Evernote. Evernote users can communally edit a shared notebook with ease.

If you are looking to schedule/remind editorial tasks as well, I'd use the free version of Redbooth. Create a project with each daily para as a task, then assign who gets it. Teams can create notes and edit them collaboratively as well.

Both are beautiful and easy to use.

Carolyn Shannon

[Steven Wilson-Beales]

Tanks David!

[Steven Wilson-Beales]

Thanks Carolyn!

[Ola Podgorska]

I've used Asana which is a free app for a project I worked on in Thailand, where we had a small team who were often 'off site' (eg: on other islands!) - Asana is completely free and mobile, and it allows document uploads + task assignment etc. The desktop and mobile interface are slightly different but overall this tool was very useful and I still use it for personal projects! https://asana.com/