What is the best way to collaborate on documents? Not all of us have a gmail.
Asked by Michele Kelly:

We are a content company with multiple people working on documents virtually. We use Trello to manage our content calendar, but we are still emailing documents back and forth and it is a PAIN. We need a definitive place where multiple people can chatter and edit on a single document. Thanks!


Answers:
author: Iain Dooley
body: [@Michele Kelly](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2342378) you can still use Google Docs, just share it so that anyone with the link can comment or edit, no sign in required:

[https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2494822?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop\&hl=en](https://support.google.com/docs/answer/2494822?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en)

comments: author: Michele Kelly
body: Hi [@Iain Dooley](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/1416112),

I appreciate this. I've always loved Google everything because it's so user friendly. Thank you so much,

Michele


author: LarryBrock
body: Hello [@Michele Kelly](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2342378)!

The most obvious answer to me is to add Confluence as your document tool. It has concurrent editing, a very friendly editor, supports many languages, etc. The comments section below the page content is a great place to record ideas, feedback, approvals, discussions, decisions, etc.

If you're already using something like Google, I believe the Google document tool also has concurrent editing but no comments function.

Here's a link to a YouTube playlist of short Confluence videos to give you an idea of how the tool can help you.

Here's a link to the "Get Started" page which has lots of good info too: <https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/get-started-777010817.html>

Hope this helps,  
\~\~Larry Brock

comments: author: Michele Kelly
body: Thank you, [@LarryBrock](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/463966)!! Funny, I just signed up for a free trial for Confluence. We are a small content and brand storytelling agency. I hope we are not too small for Confluence. It seems Enterprise-worthy. Again, many thanks.


author: LarryBrock
body: You're welcome [@Michele Kelly](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2342378). The cloud version of Confluence should be simple enough to use for your agency and has the advantage of being a tool you can use regardless of how big you may grow. Glad I could be of assistance!


author: Kesha Thill
body: [@Michele Kelly](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/2342378) I know I'm late to the party here but just came across this, and as a content marketer myself at Atlassian, I +1 [@LarryBrock](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/463966)'s comment! Our content team uses Confluence to draft all of our content and provide feedback through inline comments and page comments. We use a table at the top of the page to document publish date, focus keyword, author, reviewer, etc. and then draft the content below (provided a screenshot for an old post we did a few weeks ago).

In regards to team size, especially with cloud, it should still work for you!

![Screen Shot 2018-12-18 at 3.36.49 PM.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/40658iF674EA64AEBA44C2/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "Screen Shot 2018-12-18 at 3.36.49 PM.png")