Socialcast is a powerful activity stream engine for the enterprise. It brings social networking capabilities to corporate environments by enabling socialization, collaboration, and sharing of common business ideas to IT departments. Social networking can be an effective way of sharing relevant news in the IT industry, asking for advice when working on an issue for a business partner or customer, and staying connected with your colleagues that are dispersed around the country in today’s global workforce.
Socialcast was founded in 2005 by Timothy Young, and was recently purchased by VMware last year. It provides a free and a premium social networking portal that is very functional and simple to setup. Here are some of the product highlights.
The first thing you need to do is sign-up for the service with a valid business e-mail address. It needs to be a business e-mail address (Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo e-mail addresses won’t work). My wife is part of a local mom’s club, I thought the tool would be fantastic for collaboration of activities and sharing ideas for their club, unfortunately they are not a valid business and couldn’t register for Socialcast.