A better way to collaborate

Improve teamwork through the power of enterprise social networking. You can also safely include trusted partners, customers and vendors. With Socialcast share information, assign tasks, and collaborate on documents, keeping all members of the team in synch.

Document & File Sharing

At home you share photos. At work you share documents. Socialcast makes it easy to share and collaborate on almost any document including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, PDFs, images, video and more.

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Upload and share huge files—better than email, easier than ftp
Contents of documents are indexed and searchable
Threaded discussions around any file
View all files that your co-workers have uploaded

Idea Management

Create, share and discuss ideas with your team or the entire company. Vote on ideas and watch the best ideas turn into reality.

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Discuss ideas with your employees, partners and customers
Get objective feedback to your ideas by adding a poll
Flag the best ideas

External Contributors

Bring your trusteed customers, partners and vendors inside your secure social network to gain better alignment and increase collaboration. Socialcast allows employees and extended team members to work together seamlessly.

IT can control and monitor who can access information, giving them peace of mind
Non-company employees only see people, conversations and files that they have been invited to see
Monitor the network use and contributions of external contributors

Employee Recognition

Recognize the contributions of co-workers as they happen. Send a custom congratulatory message to publicly recognize outstanding performance by individuals or groups.

Send Thanks with a custom congratulatory message to publicly recognize outstanding performance by individuals or groups
Increase employee morale and productivity through peer-to-peer recognition of the daily work that often goes unnoticed
Provide greater transparency and insight for managers and Human Resources into employee contributions and performance
Thanks appear in people's home and company streams showcasing individual contributions as they happen.
View dashboards to see top senders and receivers of each Thanks

Private & Public Groups

Organize teams in matter of minutes. Connect people from around the world in a secure workspace to share information and collaborate on projects.

Organize private groups to collaborate on confidential or ‘...eyes only’ projects
Create public groups and let anyone at your company join in the conversation
Make announcements to groups or across groups to keep everyone up to date
View all files, people and messages in your group
Set notification alerts and custom views so you see what is most critical

Instant Polls

Share an idea, and gain immediate feedback. You can poll your community as a quick and easy way to make decisions, brainstorm new initiatives, or develop new approaches to solving problems.

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Instant, anytime results let all users see how other employees have voted
Make shared ideas meaningful and actionable via real-time feedback from colleagues
Fast, easy way to make critical decisions or launch brainstorming sessions that accelerate the resolution of problems or ideate on new products or services
User Polls are designed around collaboration, allowing further feedback via poll comments

Private Messages

Send private messages to anyone in the community for confidential information sharing. Pull more of your daily conversations out of email and into Socialcast, so all your messages are in one place.

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Private Message provides confidential information sharing for content not intended for general visibility
Real-time unread message beacon alerts you of a new Private Message
Attach files, photos, videos, and links to Private Messages
Private Messages do not show in any stream, default or custom, and are only viewable in the Private Messages section of the community
This feature must be enabled by a community administrator

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