Yackstar is a flexible social platform that can help you harness the social energy in your organization.

Some of the key features include the following:

Everyone in your organization can create a personal profile, outline their work experience, qualifications, expertise and interests. Yackstar uses unique algorithms to engage employee interaction. The matcher function makes it easy to find people who went to the same school as you or share some of the same interests. Maximize the potential of your workforce by allowing people to make connections simply and effectively.

Yackstar makes it simple to broadcast what you are working on, including your mood. Regularly update the organization with thoughts, work requirements, best practice links or team photos. The global Status feature provides managers with a valuable overview of the mood within your organization.

Your Activity Stream keeps you constantly informed. The simple commenting feature allows spontaneous social discussions to develop around everyday activities. Ideas take flight as innovation becomes cultural. Use powerful filtering functionality to deliver the information you want. Filter by Person, Tag (content keyword), Content Rating, Application, or Team. Targeted, specific updates are never far away.

Yackstar makes it super-simple to create new content. Share links to interesting articles, use Autocomplete to tag content and make it easily accessible, upload photos of the latest team building day. Administrators can also create a global set of predefined tags to organize information based on specific needs. As users rate content, the most useful information rises to the surface.

Extend Yackstar functionality through social apps that integrate seamlessly into the platform. The Yackstar team is busy building a range of new Apps that will help your organization improve team performance. We also build custom apps depending on the specific needs of your organization. Some of the social apps include: • Feedback - providing timely, informal feedback lays at the heart of good team performance. Global studies conclude that increasing informal feedback leads to increased team performance. The Yackstar Feedback App makes giving or requesting private and social feedback easy. • Recognition - publicly recognizing a job well done is extremely important. The Recognition App makes giving people a "socially shared" pat on the back super simple and allows the rest of the organization to see who is doing a great job. • Publisher - allow people to create content to share across their team or organization, using the Yackstar online editor. • Photo App - the simple way to share images across your organization - team-building photos, product catalogs, field trips, inventory....you can use this image database for whatever you want. Each person and each Team can create their own albums and can share visual images.

Yackstar allows you to set up separate Team spaces, allowing for easy collaboration within any sort of team. Teams may be open for anyone to join, by invitation only or a team can even be made secret, allowing for confidential interactions that are closed to the rest of the organization.

Yackstar has an extensive administrative module that allows companies a high level of control over how the platform operates, including:

User Account Manager Bulk User Account uploader User Groups Flagged Content and Moderation Tools Multiple Domain Management Global Tags management Automatic Keyword filtering