Cutting the Clicks: Socialcast Updates for 7/16/09

The Socialcast team has finally settled into our new San Francisco office in the eclectic and vibrant neighborhood of South Park in the SOMA district. Our building is an open, airy and unique space that was designed to be a dishwasher manufacturing company about a century ago. This week, we’ve been working on cutting the number of clicks that users must make when finding information inside Socialcast. Here’s an update with some new features along those lines, as well as several others.

What’s New

Mini Profiles: Hover over a user’s avatar in any stream to see a small profile appear with his or her basic details.

Follow Users from the Stream: The new mini profile allows you to follow a new user directly from the stream.

Both of these features were designed to give you information on colleagues without having to leave the stream to visit a profile.

What You Requested

Linked Hashtags: When you use a hashtag in a message, it will become a search link once posted. Clicking on the link will find all messages with the same tag as well as messages that are related.

Edit Comments: Employees can now edit not only message contents, but also comments that they have left as well.

Share to Groups: You can now share a message directly to a Group from your Live Stream. Use the new drop down menu to select the recipients of your message.

New Member Auto Follow: New members now have the option of automatically following everyone in the network upon registration.

What’s Coming Soon

Desktop App Enhancements: You will soon be able to post to a group from your desktop app, as well as filter messages with more options.

Custom Twitter Hashtags: For employees wishing to only import selected tweets, you will be able to create a custom hashtag of any length that, when included in the tweet, imports it into Socialcast.

What’s Top Secret

We have two features in beta that are ready to test. If you’re a current Socialcast customer, and you’d like access to them, please email me at carrie@socialcast.com for the opportunity. Both are designed to eliminate even more email than any of our other features. Intrigued? Let us know you’re interested!