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Markdown and Git should be very accessible to a non-technical audience and I've had good success with both.

Here's my favorite SAAS offering in the space - https://www.gitbook.com/

More to the point, there isn't anything better.

All of those tools that look like Microsoft Word (have the B, I, U buttons) have something wrong with their underlying conceptual model. (You can tell from the way the selection behaves as if it was possessed by the devil.)

That conceptual mismatch is annoying for a single-user editor but it makes a multiple-user editor a complete mess.

Thanks. I'm actually checking Gitbook out as we speak. I actually don't mind the team using Git and Markdown, as long as it's easy. In Gitbook's case it seems like it is, the editing is easy.

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