Barry Libert Appointed Chairman of the Board for Mzinga
Summary
“Both the board and the executive management team at Mzinga will benefit from his leadership and knowledge in his new role as Chairman.” In addition to leading Mzinga’s strategic growth initiatives, Libert will continue educating leaders about the tangible business value that organizations of all types and sizes can attain through online communities and social networks.“Mzinga continues to make great strides as a growth company and the leading innovator in social media and community solutions for improving business processes like customer service, marketing and employee acquisition, training and retention,” said Libert.“Both the board and the executive management team at Mzinga will benefit from his leadership and knowledge in his new role as Chairman.”In addition to leading Mzinga’s strategic growth initiatives, Libert will continue educating leaders about the tangible business value that organizations of all types and sizes can attain through online communities and social networks.Marketing, customer service, and human resources professionals deploy Mzinga’s “pervasive community” solutions to achieve higher revenues, lower costs, and greater workplace satisfaction.Mzinga, whose name means “beehive” in Swahili, is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts.With 14,000 communities under management, Mzinga services more than 1 billion monthly page requests from 27 million users in 160 countries worldwide.Mzinga’s marquee list of customers includes such global brands as ABC, AOL, ESPN, CBS.com, iVillage, Chevron Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Marsh, Inc., Mercer, Prudential Financial, Deutsche Post World Net, United Nations Development Programme, and Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation.About We Are Smarter Than MeIn the Summer of 2005, leaders from Wharton, MIT, Pearson Education, and Mzinga came together with the idea of creating the worlds first crowdsourced book, "We Are Smarter Than Me: How to Unleash the Power of Crowds in Your Business.