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GatherContent
What Is GatherContent?
GatherContent is a Content Operations Platform that helps teams produce effective content, at scale. Planning, organising and managing content across multiple systems with 100's of stakeholders is chaotic. GatherContent tames the chaos with a single platform to manage the people, and process, for producing effective content that meets user needs and business goals.
Take control of your content operations with GatherContent and deliver effective content, consistently.
Who Uses GatherContent?
1000s of teams use us including agencies, higher education institutions, non-profit, healthcare, government and enterprise level organisations.
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Reviews of GatherContent
Goodbye Microsoft Word, Endless Emails, and Disorganized Content Teams!
Comments: GatherContent really helps accelerate and organize the content production process. It reduces the time needed to get the job done, and reduces the amount of errors made.
Pros:
Finally, something for writers, designers, and developers to track and edit content production. It also helps content migration immensely for large website redesign projects. For someone that is user centered and content first, this tool (and the free training provided) will help make your case clear.
Cons:
Sometimes setting up workflow is not always straightforward, but that is more of a learning curve for teams and requires someone with more high-level project insight to create and help update.
GatherContent smoothed the content management process
Comments: Improve our content management process and communication flow for content
Pros:
Before GatherContent, I managed content with Word, Excel or Google Docs. For years, I have prepared template for my customers and we were doing back and forth until a final version. Every time, no matter how much work I have put in my files, it was a total nightmare from the beginning to the end, because projects evolved, content changed, there's alway many person involved and different approval levels. I have been looking to improve the process and I was so glad to finally find a tool dedicated to this need. Gather Content allow to create templates, assign responsibilities, set due dates, manage status, track history, comments and more! It's easier for my clients to managed, edited, review and approved their content and for my team to be sure they really got the final version to integrate into website
Cons:
Gather Content could sometimes be glitchy and/or slow. I think it's when there's a lot of content in a same page.
Don't use if you're actually the owner of your business
Comments: I see no reason from a business owners perspective why this product exists. Regular old Word does the trick for content editing.
Pros:
nothing. It potentially makes our web developers job easier as they can upload to site faster but if you actually want to be involved in the content going into your site stay away.
Cons:
no ability to track changes and manage multiple parties editing the content with the ability to see who wrote what.
Q: Can't We Just Use MS Word? A: NO!
Comments: The software's been fantastic thus far. Getting a team of noneditors to work on Gather Content has been rather painless and the customizability for templates for various web page content we'll be working with is awesome. Keep up the great service and great UX.
Pros:
Gather Content provided excellent customer service and onboarding with the team using it here. I saw its value straightaway. We're working on a substantial website redesign, and without someone in house whose sole purpose it is to manage the editorial process needed to bring over old content and repurpose it for the new site, there was no way that trying to handle the content creation across four teams and a dozen or so people would be healthy in a word processing program. Connecting our current-site content to Gather Content and then exporting it and working in Gather Content rather than WP has been a godsend.
Cons:
I've not run up against any showstoppers for Gather Content. A few times I've logged in, I'm a bit unwowed by the simplicity of the dashboard and home screen. But too many bells and whistles are distracting, so I'm torn. I also wish the content map was a bit more robust and would allow me to order the subtopics in any one area.
Great tool for content professionals who hate writing content in a CMS
Comments: GatherContent helps me organize my content for clients and deliver to them for review and approval rather seamlessly.
Pros:
GatherContent does a great job of bringing content creation, review, and approval in one place, outside of a CMS. Plus, GC offers a number of services that content it to major content management systems, making it a great way to export content to a CMS without having to work with development to customize templates or features within CMS for days and days.
Cons:
GatherContent has some very useful features but at times it's not intuitive as to how customizable you can make templates within it. It led me to experiment quite a bit before I found a format and workflow that worked.
