[September 01, 2010]

Mzinga to Moderate mtvU's RateMyProfessors.com

Mzinga (News - Alert)® (http://www.mzinga.com/), the leader in social software, services, and analytics for business, today announced that RateMyProfessors.com, the Internet's largest destination for professor ratings, has chosen Mzinga to moderate the site's user commenting and participation.

"Choosing the best courses and professors is a rite of passage for every college student, and connecting with peers on RateMyProfessors.com has become a key way millions of students navigate this process," said Carlo DiMarco, Vice President of University Relations for mtvU. "We're happy to work with Mzinga to ensure that students and educators continue to benefit from the site, knowing that they can access reviews and information in a trusted online environment."

Many organizations such as RateMyProfessors.com engage and interact with audiences online and use moderation to protect their brand reputation and their community constituents from abusive or inappropriate content. Mzinga's global moderation team has extensive experience moderating and monitoring communities and currently provides more than 5,000 hours of moderation per month in 21 languages.

"Moderation is important to ensuring that the RateMyProfessors.com environment is one where students can feel safe and confident sharing stories, interacting with each other, and rating their professors honestly and fairly," said Randy Saari, senior vice president of customer experience at Mzinga. "We look forward to working with RateMyProfessors.com and mvU to ensure their online environment reflects the values behind their brand."

RateMyProfessors.com, which is owned and operated by MTV's college network, mtvU, is built for college students, by college students. Each year, millions of students use the site to help plan their class schedules and rate current and past professors on attributes such as helpfulness and clarity. The site currently has 11 million student comments, and year over year, RateMyProfessors.com has experienced double-digit growth in the number of unique visitors.

About RateMyProfessors.com

RateMyProfessors.com is the highest trafficked US college professor rating site (comScore (News - Alert)) with 6,500+ schools and 10,000,000 ratings, providing an automated system for quickly researching and rating over 1,000,000+ professors from colleges and universities across the United States and other international territories. The site reaches nearly 3 million college students each month.

About mtvU

Broadcast to more than 750 college campuses and via top cable distributors in 700 college communities nationwide, mtvU reaches nearly 9 million U.S. college students - making it the largest, most comprehensive television network just for college students. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, mtvU can be seen in the dining areas, fitness centers, student lounges and dorm rooms of campuses throughout the U.S., as well as on cable systems from Charter Communications, Verizon FiOS (News - Alert) TV, Suddenlink Communications, AT&T u-Verse and nearly 70 others. mtvU is dedicated to every aspect of college life, reaching students everywhere they are: on-air, online and on campus. mtvU programs music videos from emerging artists that can't be seen anywhere else, news, student life features and initiatives that give college students the tools to advance positive social change. mtvU is always on campus, with hundreds of events per year, including exclusive concerts, giveaways, shooting mtvU series and more. For more information about mtvU, and a complete programming schedule, visit www.mtvU.com.

mtvU also owns and operates the College Media Network, the largest interactive network of online college newspapers in the US, and RateMyProfessors.com, the Internet's largest listing of collegiate professor ratings. The College Media Network comprises 600 campus publications that serve institutions including Brown University, Ohio State University, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Texas at Austin and Duke University, with a combined enrollment of over 5.5 million students, reaching an average of 5 million unique users each month. RateMyProfessors.com reaches approximately 3 million college students each month, via the site's more than 10 million student-generated ratings of over 1,000,000 college professors.

About Mzinga

Mzinga is the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Through a combination of enterprise-class technology, strategy and online moderation services, Mzinga social solutions enable businesses to increase revenue and lower costs by improving brand visibility, workplace satisfaction, and customer loyalty. Headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts, Mzinga supports more than 14,000 communities and 1 billion monthly page requests from 40 million unique visitors in 160 countries worldwide.

To learn more about Mzinga, visit www.mzinga.com.

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