{"id":3019,"date":"2009-03-16T13:44:34","date_gmt":"2009-03-16T20:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/expect-changes-at-mzinga\/"},"modified":"2009-03-17T06:30:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T13:30:40","slug":"expect-changes-at-mzinga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/expect-changes-at-mzinga\/","title":{"rendered":"Expect Changes at Mzinga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mzinga is one of the companies that I closely watch, in fact, they were in my recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/forrester-wave-community-platforms-2009\/\">Wave<\/a>, which was started last summer, and performed well. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been hearing from multiple sources in a variety of folks that Mzinga is undergoing some changes.  With the recent layoffs a few months ago, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mzinga.com\/en\/Community\/Blogs\/Patrick-Moran\/Heading-West...\/\">apparently voluntary leave of the CMO this week<\/a>, there are a lot of questions I have to ask.<\/p>\n<p>Today alone, I&#8217;ve received over four direct messages or emails from individuals suggesting there is some difficulties.  I&#8217;m being vague on purpose, as I&#8217;m not going to start rumors and I&#8217;m not going to speculate without first talking to the company.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mzinga\/status\/1338249913\">Mzinga responded to my queries<\/a> in public on Twitter, and we&#8217;re planning on speaking next Monday, one week from now.  It&#8217;s interesting to note, that if I don&#8217;t hear from the company themselves, others will tell me, resulting in my asking questions in public.   <\/p>\n<p>Why this post?  It&#8217;s my obligation to have my clients best interest in mind, and this is the fastest way for me to reach them, by using the tools where we&#8217;re already connected.<\/p>\n<p>I strongly recommend that any Mzinga clients or prospects <em>stall <\/em>any additional movement till they brief me next Monday.  <\/p>\n<p>I promise to be fair and balanced in my coverage towards Mzinga &#8211;yet with the interest of buyers and brands foremost.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Thank you for all the feedback, please read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/17\/a-public-apology-to-mzinga\/\">A Public Apology to Mzinga<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mzinga is one of the companies that I closely watch, in fact, they were in my recent Wave, which was started last summer, and performed well. I&rsquo;ve been hearing from multiple sources in a variety of folks that Mzinga is undergoing some changes. With the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/16\/expect-changes-at-mzinga\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Expect Changes at Mzinga<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-label-social-network"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}