Les Réseaux Sociaux d'Entreprise. Why Socialcast has become our company intranet. Imagine everyone in your company using Facebook to communicate with each other – but in a secure, private environment.
Well, that is basically how Socialcast works. At Kurtosys we recently setup an account and it has rapidly become the way to communicate internally amongst our 80+ staff spread out over the globe. When I think back to the various corporate intranets I have used (and created) over the past 15 years, it reminds me how – for the most part – utterly useless they were. Sure, you need a place to store those “book a holiday” forms and store those embarrassing christmas party photos and you might have even had a message forum built in.
But Socialcast is a giant leap forward in terms of internal company communications. It also answers that tricky conundrum that many companies face these days (particularly financial institutions) – they want to start using social media, but don’t know where to start! Web Feeds web feeds click the cog for web feed options. Socialcast is FriendFeed for your business. Socialcast on Tuesday is launching a revision of its group communication service.
Originally released in 2007, Tuesday's update has a much cleaner and more contemporary interface, and liberally borrows features and ideas from social sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and FriendFeed. I was very impressed by the demo I got last week. Socialcast appears to have a solid, lightweight product for business communication that could help workers (along with customers and clients) keep up to date with each other, and could also reduce in-company e-mail spam. The underlying principle of Socialcast is that users enter their status messages, questions, or ideas into a simple text box. Users can also link their accounts to other services, such as Delicious, or to RSS feeds and blogs.
As on FriendFeed, items that are discussed a lot stay on the top of the stack of items. Sound familiar? The system also has different default item types than a general-purpose nanoblog or personal feed aggregator. 1. SocialCast - The Basics [short YouTube video] Socialcast Raises $8 Million Series B To Spread Its Realtime Enterprise Streams. Realtime streams are quickly moving from the consumer Web to the enterprise.
The constant flow of status updates, links, and shared items people are becoming accustomed to on Facebook and Twitter is finding its way into enterprise apps like Socialcast, Yammer, and Salesforce Chatter. Investors are betting on this trend. Socialcast is getting an $8 million cash infusion from Menlo Ventures and True Ventures in a Series B financing. In February, 2010, competitor Yammer raised a $10 million Series B. Socialcast previously got $1.4 million from True Ventures and angels a year ago. The startup’s service combines a corporate activity stream that ties into CRM and ERP systems with social bookmarking, Outlook and SharePoint integrations, mobile (iPhone and Blackberry) and desktop (Air) apps, and analytics.
SAS Institute Creates Internal Facebook With Socialcast - The BrainYard. Socialcast offers support for internal company activity streams that mimic the news feed on a Facebook page and is available as a service or as a software appliance.
(click image for larger view) Slideshow: Businesses Take Action With Twitter Like a lot of companies, SAS Institute has been watching what has been happening in social media and trying to figure out the best way of bringing some of the energy and spontaneous interaction inside its organization. After a couple of what now look like false starts with Yammer and Salesforce.com's Chatter, SAS has cast its lot with Socialcast.
In a phone interview, Karen Lee, senior director of corporate communications, and Becky Graebe, corporate communications manager, explained why. SAS had started down the path of creating social applications based on Microsoft SharePoint "when the project manager stumbled across Socialcast," Lee said. 1 of 2 More Insights. Socialcast. Motivating Employees in the Workplace – It’s Not Just About the Money. Enterprise Social Networking Software, Enterprise Microblogging Solutions.