Interviewing Social Network Execs on BTR: Today’s Radio Show (part 1)
Part One of Two – I guess the first version was too long (it was only one page typed in a word processor!)
As you might have heard, I co-hosted a Blogtalk Radio show on Sunday with the topic of the changes on MySpace and how other social networks like Facebook or FriendBurst might fulfill the wants of a disgruntled MySpace blogging community. Maybe you were one of the 100 live listeners we had tune in. I know that in the grand scheme of things on the internet, 100 participants ain’t a whole lot, but relatively speaking, people were interested.
When I came up with the idea a couple days back, I thought of guests to invite. Graciously agreeing to participate was Kevin Heath, founder and admin of FriendBurst, a new social network that a lot of you have been migrating to this week. I’ve been very active and FriendBurst, and although I recognize that they’ve got some changes that will need to come as part of becoming a larger community, so far, I love the place. Saturday, just on a lark really, I sent a message to Mike Jones asking him to come on as well.
No, no… not THAT Mike Jones. Not the rapper. This Mike Jones, the current CEO of MySpace.
I figured if the head of one social network was going to 
be joining us, why not another? I know the “faces” of MySpace must be being bombarded with messages right now due to the change to 3.0, so again, I didn’t honestly expect a response. Lo and behold, much to my surprise, Sunday morning, there in my inbox was a response from Mike Jones! He’d CC’d his staff, inquiring if this was something they should get involved in.
Wow. That was kind of cool, but given that we were still small beans, I wasn’t really expecting an official representative from MySpace to come on our show.
A few messages back and forth with Sean Percival, VP for Online Marketing, later, and I had a commitment from Sean to come on the show too. I was feeling very journalistic by that point!
(to be continued. . .)
I left you a comment over at that other site you mentioned here….lol Srsly Joko you were great. Thats for all of the work you put into it.
I missed the show. I arrived just as you were closing the chatroom down. Would really have loved to hear the whole thing. (so far, I can’t get the archive to play…)