Multi-authoring within benefits content system

A computer program product, tangibly embodied in a machine readable storage device, for multi-user authoring within a benefits content system managing information describing at least one employee benefit program of an employment program, the computer program product including instructions being operable to cause data processing apparatus to:

• receive a first request from a first user to change a first content element of the benefits content system, the first content element including information describing at least one employee benefit program of the employment program;
• based on the first request, identify a plurality of additional content elements related to the first content element by the subject matter of the information describing the employee benefit program of the employment program;
• provide to the first user a user interface on a display of a computing device executing the computer program product, the user interface including a control configurable by the first user to select, for the each additional content element of the plurality of additional content elements, a notification type provided to a second user attempting to access the respective additional content element;
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• mark a first additional content element with a first notification type selected by the first user and a second additional content element with a second notification type selected by the first user, wherein the first notification type is different than the second notification type.

A system for multi-user authoring within a benefits content system managing information describing at least one employee benefit program of an employment program, the system comprising a computing device configured to:

• receive a first request from a first user to change a first content element of the benefits content system, the first content element including information describing at least one employee benefit program of the employment program;
• based on the first request, identify a plurality of additional content elements related to the first content element by the subject matter of the information describing the employee benefit program of the employment program;
• determine whether the first user would like to check out at least one additional content element of the plurality of additional content elements from the benefits content system;
• provide to the first user a user interface on a display of the computing device, the user interface including a control configurable by the first user to select, for each additional content element of the plurality of additional content elements, a notification type provided to a second user attempting to access the respective additional content element;
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• mark a first additional content element with a first notification type selected by the first user and a second additional content element with a second notification type selected by the first user, wherein the first notification type is different than the second notification type.