Method and system for group content collaboration

A method of content collaboration among a group of participants, comprising:

• generating an electric form having a plurality of network addresses associated with the participants and a region for specifying details about a plurality of binary content;
• sending the electronic form to a server;
• receiving, at an e-mail client associated with one of the participants, a first e-mail message for the group;
• parsing the first e-mail message received by at least one of the participants from the server in response to that participant opening the first e-mail message;
• receiving, at the e-mail client, dynamic content associated with an electronic medium having at least one dynamic content region that was served to the e-mail client in response to opening the e-mail message, wherein the electronic medium is stored in the server and wherein the at least one dynamic content region includes at least a portion of the binary content;
• providing one or more updates to the dynamic content by interacting with the first electronic message using the e-mail client;
• opening the first e-mail message;
• and
• receiving the dynamic content of the electronic medium, including all then-current updates, for display in association with the first electronic message.

A method of content collaboration among a group of participants, comprising:

• generating an electronic form having a plurality of network addresses associated with the participants and a region for specifying details about a plurality of textual content;
• sending the electronic form to a server;
• receiving, at an e-mail client associated with one of the participants, a first e-mail message for the group;
• parsing the first e-mail message received by at least one of the participants from the server in response to that participant opening the fit email message;
• receiving, at the e-mail client, dynamic content associated with an electronic medium having at least one dynamic content region tat was served to the e-mail client in response to opening the first e-mail message, wherein the electronic medium is stored in the server and wherein the at least one dynamic content region includes at least a portion of the textual content;
• providing one or mote textual content updates to the dynamic content by interacting with the first electronic message using the e-mail client;
• opening the first e-mail message;
• and
• receiving the dynamic content of the electronic medium, including all then-current textual content updates for display in association with the first electronic message.

A method for managing task among a group of participants, comprising:

• generating an electronic form having a plurality of network addresses associated with the participants and a region for specifying details about the tasks to be allocated;
• sending the electronic form to a server,
• receiving, at an e-mail client associated with one of the participants, a first e-mail message for the group;
• parsing the first e-mail message received by at least one of the participants from the server in response to that participant opening the first e-mail message;
• receiving, at the e-mail client, dynamic content associated with an electronic medium having at least one dynamic content region that was served to the e-mail client in response to opening the first e-mail message, wherein the electronic medium is stored in the server and wherein the at least one dynamic content region includes dynamic content having allocated tasks;
• providing one or more allocated task updates to the dynamic content by interacting with the first electric message using the e-mail client;
• opening the first e-mail message;
• and
• receiving the dynamic content of the electronic medium, including all then-current allocated task updates, for display in association with the first electronic message.

A network system including a plurality of content terminals, comprising:

• at least one data processing machine located at each of the client terminals;
• and
• computer software, residing on a computer readable medium at each machine to cause the machine to perform the following operations:
• generating an electronic form having a plurality of network addresses associated with the participants and details about binary content to be distributed to the plurality of network addresses;
• sending the electronic form to a server;
• receiving, at an e-mail client associated with one of the participants, a first e-mail message for the group;
• parsing the first e-mail message received by at least one of the participants from the server in response to that participant opening the first e-mail message;
• receiving, at the e-mail client, dynamic content associated with an electronic medium having at least one dynamic content region that was served to the e-mail client in response to opening the e-mail message, wherein the electronic medium is stored in the server and wherein the dynamic content regions include a then current dynamic content representative of the binary content;
• providing one or more updates to the dynamic content by interacting with the first electronic message using the e-mail client;
• opening the first e-mail message;
• and
• receiving the dynamic content of the electronic medium, including all then-current updates, for display in association with the first electronic message.

Computer software, residing on a computer readable medium at a device connected to a network, comprising instructions to cause the device to perform the following operations:

• at least one data processing machine located at each of the client terminals;
• and computer software, residing on a computer readable medium at each machine to cause the machine to perform the following operations:
• generating an electronic form having a plurality of network addresses associated with the participants and details about binary content to be distributed to the plurality of network addresses;
• sending the electronic form to a server;
• receiving, at an e-mail client associated with one of the participants, a first e-mail message for the group;
• parsing the first e-mail message received by at lent one of the participants from the server in response to that participant opening the first e-mail message;
• receiving, at the e-mail client, dynamic content associated with an electronic medium having at lest one dynamic content region that was served to the e-mail client in response to opening the e-mail message, wherein the electronic medium is stored in the server and wherein the dynamic content regions include a then current dynamic content representative of the binary content;
• providing one or more updates to the dynamic content by interacting with the first electronic message using the e-mail client;
• opening the first e-mail message;
• and
• receiving the dynamic content of the electronic medium, including all then-current updates, for display in association with the first electronic message.

A network system for content collaboration among a group of participants, comprising:

• a server having an associated database and adapted to be used in the network;
• an electronic medium that is stored in the database of the server;
• at least one dynamic content region in the electronic medium having binary dynamic content;
• an interface region in the electronic medium to accept input representing one or more updates to the dynamic content from any of the participants or an external source in data communication with the server;
• and
• logic in communication with the database for performing the steps of:
• generating and sending a first e-mail message to one or more selected participants among the group, wherein the first e-mail message is associated with the electronic medium, wherein the first e-mail message is configured to cause a first e-mail client of one of the selected participants to parse the first e-mail message in response to that selected participant opening the e-mail message to result in displaying, in the first e-mail client, dynamic content associated with the dynamic content region of the electronic medium;
• receiving, at the server, from one or more of the selected participants, one or more updates to the dynamic content provided by interacting with the interface region using e-mail clients;
• updating one or more of the dynamic content regions of the electronic medium based on the one or more updates;
• receiving information specifying opening the first e-mail message from any other second participant among the selected participants;
• and
• automatically sending the dynamic content of the electronic medium, including all then-current updates, to a second e-mail client associated with the second participant for display therein in association with the first electronic message.