How-to: Manage Multiple Authors On-line Pt One - Identity"Your mission, should you choose to accept it..."

When we started, there were four of us, bumping along with a germ of an idea that we would write about whatever interested us. So we did. Then two got busy and pretty much dropped away. Then we were joined by a third who posts infrequently in small batches. Along the way we picked up a couple of guest posts and solicited the occasional post from colleagues at another on-line publication. Now we're joined by a fourth regular contributor and the missing two are about to re-join.

It's a collaborative blog and we're going to have to manage multiple authors. The site needs an unique voice (I hesitate to call it 'style'), yet we have currently six unique voices, plus some multi-national guest posts.

We don't want to reduce all that uniqueness to compost, but it's enough to make Jim Phelps weep. Read more of this post