ACT Conferencing Redefines Webcasting with New Social Meeting Platform

ACT's ConferenceCast Social personalizes the webcast experience with widget and social media integration, chat rooms and increased presenter and user functionalities

Lakewood, Colorado — October 4, 2011 — ACT Conferencing, a global leader in audio, video and web conferencing services for organizations worldwide, today launched ConferenceCast™ Social, a platform that refines webcasting by allowing you to personalize your total webcast experience.

ConferenceCast Social was created to allow your audience to have greater control of their webcasts as well as interact with webcast presenters and other participants, creating an overall more immersive end user experience. Key product features include:

• User-controlled, personalized webcast console
• Simple third-party widget integration, including:
  
  • Twitter Feed Widget
  • Share This Widget
  • RSS Feed Widget
  • Wikipedia Widget
  • Facebook
  • LinkedIn
  • Email a Friend
  • Town Hall Chat room
• Application-specific features for marketing, demand generation, communications, and corporate training
• Open platform enables new webcast features to be added quickly and easily
• Demonstrate desktop and online applications in your webcasts
• On-demand and live non-streaming mobile webcasts available on all mobile devices
• Advanced reporting and analytics to measure engagement and effectiveness

"Our goal with ConferenceCast Social was to offer a product able to meet all of the social needs that could possibly be felt in the business world," said Clair Pearson, global product manager, events and multimedia. "Social media is changing the way we live, and the way we do business, so we have made a commitment to ensuring our products are keeping up with the changing world."

ConferenceCast Social's application bundles provide functionality for enterprise applications such as demand generation, collaboration, enterprise communications and corporate training. Using its cloud-based developer environment, third parties can rapidly add new features and applications to webcasts on this platform. ConferenceCast Social is offered in a SaaS model, enabling you to access the tools from any browser while being certain of a highly reliable and secure solution for all your virtual event needs.

More information on ConferenceCast Social.

About ACT Conferencing
Established in 1989, ACT Conferencing is a global provider of corporate audio conferencing, web conferencing and video conferencing services. ACT's integrated platforms provide managed, international and local-language services. The company is headquartered in Lakewood, Colorado, with operations in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore and the UK. For more information, visit www.actconferencing.com.

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