Coventi Pages is the easiest way to share, discuss and revise your documents on the web.
Working on documents over email is painful
If you’ve ever used email to work on a document with a group, you know how painful that can be. It’s fine when there’s only two or three people involved, but anything larger and the whole thing becomes pretty messy.
All your reviewers get an inbox filled with drafts and rewrites, comments and suggestions. As the author, you now have all these messages to work into your next revision.
It would be great if you could meet with your group in person to hammer out a final draft, but with busy schedules and people spread out potentially all over the world (or even just the next building over) that can be hard to do.
How does it work?
Write a Page on Coventi, or upload a Word file. Then submit a list of email addresses to share your page. We’ll send your group an invitation with a link they can click to read your latest draft.
If someone wants to give you feedback, they highlight a piece of text with their mouse and write a note in the margin, just like pen and paper. And since anyone can reply, each comment can be the spark of a group discussion, all in real-time. (Kind of like IM’ing around your documents)
When it comes time for you to take everyone’s feedback and make changes, all of those comments and suggestions are right in context. You can sort, filter and organize, then zoom right to the section where you need to make a change.
When you push out your next draft, everyone receives an email to come have another look, and give the next round of feedback. Keep discussing and revising until everyone is satisfied that the Page is done (or you’ve reached the deadline!)
How do I sign up?
So that’s Coventi Pages in a nutshell. Come have a look and let us know what you think. Sign up for an account through www.coventi.com, or click here to go directly to the signup page.
Email me with any questions or feedback at peter AT coventi DOT com. Or better yet, write up a Coventi Page, and invite me to discuss it with you.
March 8, 2007 at 12:15 am
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March 20, 2007 at 12:01 pm
What technology are you using to develop coventi pages?
Would you consider selling a special license to your software to a to-be-created Foundation, wihich includes the rights to modify and extend the code exclusively for use by non-profit organizations?
We would practically create a fork of your product for use only by non-profit organizations, mostly for democratic organizing.
We would be ready to pay a few tens of thousands of dollars for such right.
March 22, 2007 at 9:29 pm
The blog also has a nice scenario
July 12, 2007 at 4:59 pm
Great looking app. Can’t wait to try it. Excellent work!