Socialcast Adds Corporate Email Tools

Socialcast announced it has integrated corporate email and customizable activity feeds into its Socialcast enterprise social media platform. The new features are designed to ease Socialcast into users’ existing work habits, in which email remains a critical workflow tool. Socialcast is a collaboration platform that unites real-time social messaging with traditional corporate tools to help employees securely collaborate and share knowledge across the enterprise. Socialcast’s new email integration feature allows users to post news messages, questions, and ideas to Socialcast by emailing them to share@socialcast.com. The system will also pick up file attachments, tags and links, which will be displayed inside their Socialcast community. This feature allows employees to use email as a vehicle for transporting important information into a tool more adept at fostering collaboration and rapid communication. The result is fewer carbon copy and reply-all emails as well as a growing knowledge hub created from surfacing information to a broader audience and archiving it for future reference. Another new feature released today includes custom activity streams. Users can now create various custom flows of information that show select community activity in their home activity streams. Users can create, arrange and re-arrange group activities, company-wide news, keyword activity, user activity or status updates for a Twitter-like experience. Companies and employees can sign up for Socialcast online at http://www.socialcast.com