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

[Steven Wilson-Beales]

(copying over from US Google group)

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