Socialcast

The development of our Socialcast software over the past two years has given us a living, breathing application that’s evolving on a daily basis. As we’ve molded the system to fit our vision, we’ve constantly tried to focus on integrating other web feeds, services, and software that you already use.  We believe that employees have a lot of offer their companies via these outside services. Therefore, we’re pleased to announce the launch of three new services and applications that allow you to work smarter and share information more easily via email, while browsing the web, or from your instant messaging platform.

Update Your Status with Jabber (beta)

Send IM messages to the Jabber Socialcast bot to update your Status or Worklog within your community. Many employees stay logged into Jabber all day, but they don’t do the same with a web browser. This Jabber integration lets you keep your working habits the same while enabling rapid information sharing with a quick IM message. 

The Socialcast Gmail Plugin (beta)

Create a real-time sidebar display of your community’s activity directly inside your Gmail inbox by installing the Gmail plugin for Firefox. You’re going to be checking your emails at some point, but that shouldn’t prevent you from staying on top of new information inside your community. This plugin lets you view and rapidly respond to information without having to abandon those 42 unread messages.

The Socialcast Bookmarklet

This is an old tool that’s made a comeback recently. The Socialcast Bookmarklet makes it easy to share links and update your status from your Favorites tab. Again, we know you simply can’t always be logged into your community, so this provides a quick way to share information with your team at the moment you discover a useful link.

There are definitely more features coming soon, including an Outlook plugin that is on its way. If you have any other ideas for new features, please let us know. And, anyone who is going to Defrag this week – I’d love to meet you, so please feel free to track me down introduce yourself!

It is with great pleasure that I welcome the newest member to our Socialcast Feature Family - file attachments. Now, when you share a new status message, question, or idea, you can attach a supporting file that emphasizes your point. Why is this important? Well, we think that providing evidence and documentation to support a question or idea makes all the difference in the workplace. And, instead of simply accessing information somewhere on your Share drive or via your intranet, you can find and share information now within a specific context. You’ll know where a document came from, why it was developed, and who was responsible for its creation.

An old Marketing guru once told me, “In God I trust - everyone else, bring data.” Now you can use Socialcast to share that data with your colleagues, whether it be artwork mockups, accounting spreadsheets, presentations, or marketing copy.

We believe that email can suck the productivity out of business. We believe that every employee can and should make meaningful contributions to your company. We believe that enterprise communication is fundamentally broken. That’s what we’re here to fix.

Today we’re launching the most important, exciting and fundamentally powerful upgrade to our enterprise software that addresses these challenges. We’ve deployed our new Enterprise Social Messaging system that allows teams, entire companies, departments, and workgroups to organize, shape and share information more effectively. Some have called it a “Twitter for the Enterprise,” and we think that’s a pretty great analogy.

Over the next few weeks, we’ll be rolling out our software to companies big and small. Check back frequently for updates, news, and more – and we invite you to sign up and try out Socialcast for free for 30 days. We are excited to get your feedback so we can continue to develop Socialcast into a tool that helps solve your communication and knowledge sharing challenges.