If you are looking for Etherpad-like tools specifically for collaborating on code, check out https://coderpad.io
It's a tool I make that's geared around collaboratively editing and running code in the browser.
Re:Hackpad
by ingrownpsyche on Monday November 04, 2013 @06:30PM
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Titanpad.
For dealing with less-tech-literate people, Google Docs is nice because they instantly recognize and understand it (and they can see me collaborating at the same time and I don't need to explain anything).