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Socialcast Ease Microblogging Platform Works with Outlook
by Clint Boulton
Compose with Ease
Socialcast Ease allows users to create and manage messages in the Socialcast network directly in Outlook.
The Dashboard
User dashboards recommend new colleagues and groups to follow, heightening the social quotient.
Let Your Flag Fly
Ease lets users flag messages for follow-up, just like Outlook.
Flag Aggregation
Flagged messages are aggregated into a separate folder, for easy surfacing later.
What's on the Menu?
Navigating the network fits right into the Outlook workflow.
New Posts
What new posts look like in Ease.
New Messages
Messages with comments are threaded in a reading pane.
Ease Stream
Note that Socialcast messages appear in real-time activity streams, with full context in the reading pane.
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Socialcast March 2 launched its new Ease microblogging platform. Refreshes for a microblogging platform are not novel, but Socialcast did a smart thing with Ease: integrated it with Microsoft Outlook to let the 500 million-plus Outlook users inject status updates into their e-mail client. In this slidshow, eWEEK walks through the Socialcast Ease platform, which is available via SAAS and as a virtual appliance for companies to host on their servers.