1. A method for providing notifications to collaborators of a document, comprising: accessing a document editor program that includes collaborative authoring functionality for collaboration and communication on the document and an integrated collaborative user interface that is used to display information relating to the collaboration; displaying collaborative user interface elements within the integrated collaborative user interface, wherein displaying the collaborative user interface comprises displaying a ribbon menu pane, a document editing pane and a document assembly pane, wherein displaying the ribbon menu pane comprises displaying a document elements ribbon including a publish element, a view details element and section elements including an insert element, a delete element, and a view details element while in collaborative mode and hiding the collaborative user interface elements when not in collaborative mode; wherein displaying the document assembly pane further comprises displaying, within the document assembly pane, a document detail pane, a section detail pane, and an expanded section detail pane, wherein displaying the document detail pane comprises displaying document details metadata associated with collaboratively authoring the document, and wherein displaying the section details pane comprising displaying section details metadata associated with an author assigned to at least one section of the document; using the integrated collaborative user interface to associate collaborators with one or more sections of the document for at least one of: reviewing the one or more sections and updating the one or more sections, wherein more than one collaborator can be associated with a same section; receiving an update to the document as a result of an input made by at least one of the collaborators; sending a notification of the update to the document to at least one of: a new collaborator and an existing collaborator of the document; and refreshing the document to reflect the update.