JimmyDon,
Forget to mention that this privacy thing seems to be a paradox for online community….because without self disclosure, community and connection are lacking the basis for growth…but how does one create the conditions for “private and secure” when openness is what’s needed?
This is a very practical pragmatic question. There’s an organization in LC that needs to grow by developing online community to the point that people are motivated to participate and work hard on volunteer activities. But the “target demographic” is probably very concerned about privacy issues, and even the organization is very concerned about hanging on to proprietary value.
The glimmer of an answer here for me, is that we need to get adjusted to a different level of privacy than what we used to have. On one level, if there’s so much information out there, after a while, no one has the time to really pay that much attention…so it’s there, but people are going to be bored with it, or at least lazy about paying attention to what we post on our profiles…or the hundreds of pages of stuff we end up “posting” all over the web….or that comes back from a google search…
Got any answers?
John
