iZoca.com, a new social networking website focused on event scheduling and communication for groups and organizations. iZoca provides a simple way for groups, organizations and individuals to share information and plan events and activities. It features tools which provide groups the ability to effectively communicate and organize both publicly and privately.

The name iZoca is derived from the Spanish word “zocalo” meaning a square or plaza where people congregate.

Social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn connect individual users to a crowd. iZoca’s platform organizes that crowd into groups and provides users tools to keep them connected with those groups at all times.

With iZoca, individuals can join or create groups of professional interest including those focused on work, charitable endeavors and school and they can also create personal groups for family. The members of each group are subsequently able to schedule events and activities and share information. iZoca members are provided a personal calendar which can display all of the events and activities for each of the groups to which they belong.

For today’s busy lifestyle one of the most useful tools includes “My World OnThe Go” where members can access schedules from all their groups on their Blackberry’s, iPhones and other portable devices which accept calendar subscriptions. Users can create their own personalized calendar from groups to which they belong and receive updated information as it occurs.

Organizations are able to easily control how information on iZoca is shared. In fact, nonprofit organizations and small businesses can create multiple iZoca groups for groups such as their boards of directors, volunteers and staff. They can also create public groups to promote themselves and their events.

The Empire State Youth Orchestra, Inc. (ESYO) was the first organization to adopt iZoca for better communication and organization both publicly and privately. The organization is made up of over 300 student musicians. While they have used other social networking sites, they are pleased to have the ability within iZoca to create private groups for scheduling, discussions, sharing photos…etc.

iZoca is continuing to develop additional tools to help individuals, groups and organizations schedule their activities, easily share information the way they want and stay connected.

iZoca was founded in September, 2007 and is located in New York’s Tech Valley region.