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Socialcast Unveils New Features for Leading Enterprise Social-Networking Platform

Enhances employees’ interaction and internal communications while increasing productivity for corporations

Irvine, CA - August 04, 2008

Socialcast, a leading provider of on-demand corporate social networks, today announced additional features to their Software-as-a-Service collaboration platform, further providing a way for corporations to harness and retain the knowledge of employees. The new software release contains several unique features, such as worklog and bookmarklet tools, redefining standards and expectations for enterprise social networks.

Socialcast provides companies of any size with a way to consistently engage employees and capture the creativity and intellect of their workforce. With this launch, Socialcast brings many powerful, first-time features, offering a simple and quick way for colleagues to learn about each other and share knowledge. The platform enables project managers to monitor work in progress, regardless of geographic boundaries, and document milestones and day-to-day achievements of employees. Specific features include:

• Mini user profiles – highlights name, latest status post, connection, links to external services and co-worker’s contacts

• Worklog feature – enables users to keep track of specific tasks and project steps in a public manner using a micro-blogging format

• Bookmarklet tool – allows employees to share status updates and Web site hyperlinks while browsing the Internet, even while not logged into the Socialcast network

• Suggested contact directory – provides members with a way to locate other employees with common interests based on community contributions and interactions

“In today’s office environment, more employees are working remotely and collaborating with co-workers in different locations across the globe,” said Tim Young, CEO of Socialcast. “Our corporate social-networking platform is very robust and provides unique and useful ways for users to communicate with each other, further enhancing our offerings to customers.”

Socialcast has deployed customized social networking sites for companies including Hot Topic and Guitar Center. To learn more about Socialcast or for a free demo, please go to http://demo.socialcast.com.

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About the company

As a proven, successful leader in the corporate knowledge management arena, Socialcast puts an entire company’s brain to work with its on-demand corporate social networks. Socialcast technology unites traditional intranet features with social networking functionality to solve the problems of knowledge silos, generation gaps in the workplace and collaboration across geographic boundaries. Socialcast is based in Irvine, CA and can be found online at www.socialcast.com.

Contact details

Amy Robinson / Wanda Soler

(619) 677-2700

socialcast@lewispr.com

Related links

www.socialcast.com


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