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Note: Enterprise social network adds options for including partners and customers.
Slideshow: Nimble Contact Integrates Connections Across Mail, Social Networks (click image for larger view and for slideshow)Socialcast is extending its enterprise social network software to let a company's employees selectively include partners, suppliers, and customers.
This is the first major upgrade to the software since VMware acquired Socialcast at the end of May, adding it to a growing portfolio of collaboration applications. The extended enterprise functionality, plus a new org chart feature and updated user roles are available immediately at no additional cost to Socialcast customers.
Since it was founded in 2005, Socialcast has focused on supporting secure internal social networks for corporate customers. "In the past an administrator was able to invite somebody from outside of the company into a community, but then they would be a full participant in it," said Tim Young, who founded Socialcast...