17. A system for providing notifications to collaborators of a document, the system comprising: a processor; a display; 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; and a memory having computer-executable instructions stored thereon, the instructions being configured to: displaying the integrated collaborative user interface to add collaborators to participate in collaboration and communication for the document; 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 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; receiving an update to the document as a result of an input made by at least one of the collaborators; determining one or more collaborators to receive a notification of the update, wherein the one or more collaborators comprise at least one of: a new collaborator and an existing collaborator of the document; and sending a notification of the update to the document to the determined collaborators.
18. The system of claim 17 , further comprising automatically refreshing a display of the collaborative user interface to display an updated status of the document based on updates made in parallel to the document by collaborators of the document.