Social Media M&A Leads to Social Media Q&A
The merger of Mzinga and Prospero has been dutifully covered already this morning by Chris Brogan, Scott Monty and others. I’ve familiar with both of these companies, although not intimately. From the top level this looks like a no-brainer good deal, but time will tell, as it does with all mergers. The reason I’m most interested in all of this is the fact that the executives from the companies are doing a Q&A as I type on Twitter. The hash tag is #mz…go check it out right now.
I’ll be back to give a recap, not necessarily on what was said, but on how effective Twitter is as a platform for this type of engagement.
/kff
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
The use of Twitter as a virtual press conference room this morning is fascinating to me too, Kyle, and I’m going to try and get an interview about with a couple of players later today. Yet another creative use of this online social network.
March 3rd, 2008 at 8:17 am
Excellent, looking forward to seeing that Bryan!
/kff
March 4th, 2008 at 6:15 am
[…] Yesterday we talked very quickly about the Mzinga and Prospero merger and their Twitter Q&A. I was really excited to see how it would play out, particularly with all the noise that has been on Twitter as of late. For some good coverage of the merger and direct thoughts from Mzinga’s Aaron Strout and Prospero’s Colin Browning check out Bryan Person’s interview. What I wanted to focus on was the power of hashtags and what I learned following the virtual press conference. At first I was following the action on Twhirl (my preferred Twitter app), but it looks something like this: […]