Socialcast blogs bring you the latest trends and best practices for enterprise social networks, to help you harness them to boost productivity, employee satisfaction, and business performance across your organization. Drawing on our own and others’ experience and insights, we’ll provide you with a stream of fresh ideas, stimulating insights, and thought-provoking commentary. We invite you to participate in the dialogue.
Socialcast Email Notifications
Make your Socialcast email notifications work for you, not against you. Socialcast email notifications are extremely powerful when tailored to your specific needs. They allow you to stay on top of conversations that are the most important to your everyday work, whether that is a specific group discussion, or a question posted in the stream. To change email notifications go to Settings> Notification Settings.… Read more »
Managing User Roles
In this week’s product news we have updated developers.socialcast.com to include information on Single Sign-On (SSO). We have also detailed how to setup and manage various user roles, and provided examples of who may be best for each role in supporting your Socialcast community. Single Sign-On Single Sign-On (SSO) allows you to provision, authenticate, and manage employee access to your Socialcast community.… Read more »
Merging Groups & Users
If you find there are multiple groups in the community focused on a similar topic, the community administrator can eliminate any redundancy by merging one group into another. All messages and members from the first group will be added to the second group, including group administrators, and then the first group will be deleted. During the merge process, the community administrator can rename the master group to help reduce any confusion. The Merge Groups feature is located under Admin Settings > Tools >… Read more »Unobtrusive JavaScript
What it used to mean The meaning of the phrase unobtrusive JavaScript has changed since jQuery came around. To understand this change, let's first go back to when we used to write code like this: <form class="validated_form" onsubmit="return validateForm(this)"> This is definitely obtrusive JavaScript, since the code is directly embedded in the HTML tags.… Read more »September Product News
This week we have several product updates to share regarding your Socialcast Community. We are removing two integration features that are outdated, due to changes in third party API’s and Terms of Service. In addition, we are eliminating a SharePoint web part because we now offer more robust capabilities with Socialcast Reach. Socialcast Reach is a powerful capability available to you today. You may have read our press release regarding the possibilities in using Reach.… Read more »Sign up to receive email communications regarding events, webinars, and product news.
