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  • January 6, 2012 | The Brainyard - InformationWeek
    SAS's Year Of Living Socially
    "One of the things that really stands out on the Hub is that it's a one-stop shop you can go to," Tunstall said. "You're not jumping around to different SharePoint sites, but you can get a constant stream" of items of interest, customized on the basis of the people and groups you follow."
  • December 8, 2011 | CNN Money
    Socialcast building better businesses with simple social tools
    "A simple emoticon can tell you wonders about the emotional state of your company, Socialcast and About.me founder Timothy Young revealed Thursday at GigaOM’s Net:Work conference. Socialcast experimented with a simple emoticon test in a Japanese factory, at the end of the workday asking each employee in an email to click on a happy, average or sad face, gauging how satisfied they were with the day’s work experience."
  • November 21, 2011 | Services Angle
    Using Activity Streams to Give Badges Instead of Performance Reviews
    "Last week, Socialcast launched a service called “Thanks.” It further extends the concept of the activity stream as a way to reward people for their good work."
  • November 16, 2011 | The Brainyard - InformationWeek
    VMware's Social Chief: Complexity Kills
    "Enterprises think they need that complexity because they are complex organizations, "but you don't fight complexity with more complexity," Young said."
  • October 11, 2011 | Datamation
    VMware's Socialcast: Enterprise Social Networking
    "Ideally, Socialcast lessens the need for time-consuming meetings by enabling fast-paced cooperation across time zones and locations. Its other features include private messaging and a “Town Hall” extension for company-wide meetings. Perhaps most important: SocialCast is accessible on staffers’ mobile devices."
  • September 27, 2011 | Read Write Web
    New Mobile Socialcast, Sliderocket Clients
    "Socialcast has a new iPad app and an updated Android one so that mobile workers can fully participate with threaded discussions and share files when on the road."
  • September 27, 2011 | Virtualization.com
    VMware Announces New iPad, Android Apps From SlideRocket And Socialcast
    "SlideRocket and Socialcast’s mobile applications address a need to equip the connected enterprise with user-centric communication and collaboration tools that enhance business outcomes."
  • September 9, 2011 | The Brainyard - InformationWeek
    VMware's Socialcast Strides Into Social Project Management
    "Although organizations already use the Socialcast enterprise social network for informal project management and tracking, Strides was designed to "do it in a lot more elegant way" with a focused product"
  • September 9, 2011 | GigaOM
    VMware tackles task management with Stride
    "Strides lets people create tasks, invite participants, share files, monitor progress and all the other things one might expect from a project-management service, but it also takes it a step further."
  • September 9, 2011 | SiliconAngle
    The Next Phase of Microblogging
    "The new service is called Strides and it combines microblogging with task management. That’s a compelling combination."
  • September 9, 2011 | Read Write Web
    Socialcast Makes Strides Towards Project Management
    "Just connecting everyone on an internal social network isn't enough - everyone has to actually use the network for their work activities. And Strides is bringing a lightweight Web 2.0 form of project management, layering it on top of the social networking tool."
  • July 26, 2011 | DestinationCRM
    Socialcast Rolls Out New Features
    "The external contributors tool is a new premium feature that extends its enterprise collaboration platform. According to Young, when combined with Socialcast Reach, a feature that enables in-context views of relevant conversations across business systems, users can collaborate instantly with employees, partners, vendors, contractors, and customers."
  • July 26, 2011 | HR Technology - Steve Boese
    Socialcast: Collaboration Beyond the Enterprise
    "Today's announcement of the new capability that allows enterprises to dynamically create external collaboration groups, and that extends the collaboration platform to an organizations' partners, customers, or even social media fans and followers; is a natural extension of the Reach tool, taking the collaboration environment beyond the walled garden of the internal enterprise, to wherever and with whomever leveraging the platform makes sense."
  • July 26, 2011 | ReadWriteWeb
    Socialcast Adds External Collaboration and More
    "Young describes companies as ecosystems which include both employees and people from outside the company, including partners, members of the supply chain, customers, etc."
  • July 26, 2011 | The Brainyard - InformationWeek
    Socialcast Lets Businesses Invite Outsiders To Join Network
    "Socialcast is extending its enterprise social network software to let a company's employees selectively include partners, suppliers, and customers."
  • July 26, 2011 | GigaOM
    Socialcast Extends Collaboration to External Contributors
    "Users will now be able to create "external facing" groups and invite people from outside their organization to participate in discussion and collaboration."
  • July 26, 2011 | CMSWire
    Socialcast Now Collaborates with the External Enterprise
    "The move makes Socialcast's bundle of business tools available for the likes of contractors, partners, suppliers, etc. The feature is highly useful and flexible, allowing users to invite external participation from pretty much anyone, but still supports control over data privacy."
  • June 29, 2011 | CIO
    How Random House Overcame 3 Common Enterprise Collaboration Obstacles
    "The suite, Hart says, puts users in control of the information they want to consume. For example, employees can "follow" the status of a person, system alert or project. When a status changes, only those who are subscribing to it receive an alert, then they can take action if necessary. If an employee is involved in a project with another department, she can choose to follow their alerts—and unsubscribe to them when she no longer needs to be in the loop, Hart says."
  • May 31, 2011 | ABC News
    VMware Buys Socialcast for Undisclosed Price
    "Software maker VMware Inc. said Tuesday that it bought Socialcast, which offers social collaboration software for businesses. Terms of the deal were not disclosed."
  • May 31, 2011 | The Brainyard - InformationWeek
    VMware Buys Socialcast For Cloud Apps
    "VMware and Socialcast are a natural fit for each other," Young wrote. "Both companies seek to transform the way that employees work in an increasingly mobile, virtual landscape. We share the same vision for the future of collaboration--secure access to data, access on-the-go via mobile devices and remote workspaces, and support for modern work streams that are increasingly more iterative and interconnected."
  • May 31, 2011 | Read Write Web
    VMware Acquires Enterprise Microblogging Company Socialcast
    "VMware announced today that it will acquire Socialcast, an enterprise microblogging and social network software-as-a-service. The move expands VMware's software-as-a-service portfolio, which also includes Zimbra, Mozy and SlideRocket."
  • April 29, 2011 | The Brainyard - InformationWeek
    SAS Institute Creates Internal Facebook With Socialcast
    "SAS had started down the path of creating social applications based on Microsoft SharePoint "when the project manager stumbled across Socialcast," Lee said. "We realized it might be a better fit for us, given the timeframe in which we wanted to deliver on our requirements."
  • March 9, 2011 | Ragan | Internal Communications
    SAS’ Internal Social Network Attracts 5,000 Users in Just Weeks
    "The Facebook-like platform called The Hub turns global co-workers into true colleagues, sharing professional information and personal interests."
  • February 1, 2011 | CMSWiRE
    Socialcast Town Hall Promotes Transparent Management
    "Town Hall provides an on-demand forum for direct or moderated discussions between company executives and employees so that everyone can be on the same page when it comes to business goals."
  • February 1, 2011 | InformationWeek
    Socialcast's New "Town Hall": Executive Social Outreach
    "The social enterprise platform now includes a method for executives to communicate, answer questions and hold virtual office hours. (Video demo of Town Hall included.)"
  • December 9, 2010 | GigaOM
    Integrating Social Collaboration into Workflow
    "When implementing a new system that inherently requires employee participation like an internal “social networking system” such as Socialcast, you have to let your employees choose to be there, “not be forced to be there.”"
  • October 22, 2010 | Financial Times
    From Knowledge Stocks to Federated Streams
    "With Socialcast, employees form groups around common interests, roles, geographic regions, or communities of practice. A host of analytic and management tools help people shape and learn from the streams headed their way."
  • October 19, 2010 | PC Magazine
    Socialcast Reach Extends Socialcast's... Reach
    "You can always maintain a view of what's happening, a pulse of what's happening to key customers."
  • October 19, 2010 | InformationWeek
    Socialcast 'Reach' Extends Collaboration Into Enterprise Workflow
    "So instead of starting yet another application, users get many of Socialcast's benefits in the context of everyday work scenarios."
  • October 18, 2010 | TechCrunch
    Socialcast ‘Reach’ Extends Activity Streams To Outside Business Applications
    "The Reach Discussion extension allows users to engage in specific conversations related to customers, projects and operational metrics that live in a number of systems within another application."
  • July 8, 2010 | CIO
    My Enterprise 2.0 Rollout: 4 Keys to Success - CIO | July 8, 2010
    "Driving Enterprise Collaboration and Productivity at Philips using Socialcast: CIO Magazine Interview with Philips CIO Maarten de Vries"
  • March 1, 2010 | KMWorld
    KMWorld 100 Companies That Matter in Knowledge Management - KMWorld | March 1, 2010
    Socialcast named a Top 100 Company that Matters in Knowledge Management"
  • December 7, 2009 | Read Write Web
    Top 10 Enterprise Products of 2009 - RRW | December 7, 2009
    "Socialcast named One of the Top 10 Enterprise Products of 2009"
  • December 1, 2009 | CIO
    Twitter Alternatives That Are All Business - CIO | December 1, 2009
    "Socialcast part of a 'trend for enterprises that want to help employees share information internally'"
  • October 5, 2009 | eWeek
    Socialcast Analytics Suite Helps Filter Out Social Media Buzz - eWeek | October 5, 2009
    "Socialcast Analytics Suite Helps Filter Out Social Media Buzz"

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