Technology -- Shireen

Social media as a broadcasting tool
What tool is out there/being created that will engage community?
We’re wrking backwards – need to create a tool FROM the way community engages

The “walled garden” perspective of AOL – it wasn’t just about getting on the web, but it was about the community. You could chat with like-minded people

The underlying tool lets people get together, but you end up in groups – what can cross pollinate various groups and media? Hashtags don’t cross-pollinate with blog tags
. What social media tool will combine them all successfully

Double-posting/re-posting – the tech needs to recognize the same post so you don’t repeat yourself

Privacy/anonymity- people should be able to have 50 personas… but there are also safety issues for kids, etc. NNEDV deals with this on an adult level, too.

How much data is recorded

Community can weed people out, not just the technology. In some communities, being anonymous won’t work

Policy - Jon

Lots of sites that claim to be the State Dept, but don’t necessarily actually represent the State Dept.

Possibility of being able to certify by site that someone is legit? Also true for celebrities

Problem of creating a space for public debate – how do you set it up so that the loudest voices don’t drown everyone else out.

Ning can solve the technical difficulties of setting up that public space, but not the policy

No one is doing work on policies/terms of use work like Creative Commons for copyright.
In this scenario, I’ll use this policy, but in this situatins…”

If someone makes a comment on a FB Gov’t group – is it a matter of public record? If they delete a comment, is that a violatin of free speech?

Gov’t groups have a higher bar here in these issues

Are there open source possibilities for creating these types of communities? Indenti.ca is open source.

Tools and training – how do you deal with disruptive people, or disagreements and keep them from excalating. Best practice/training materials could help a lot.

Privacy advocates and social networks - Deborah

How we can get more privacy advocates onto social networks?

How to separate the public from the personal persona. 1) BEING A CAREFUL POSTER. BEING AWARE OF THE ISSUES. There are places where they will overlap. The onus is on the person posting about whether they’re giving out too muchinfo. Knowing who your audience is.

What’s going on behind the scenes at the comp;any level? No transparency. What info are companies collecting, and what are they doing with it?

Come up with model terms of use and best practices

Will be up on a wiki

In terms of FB – there are apps for everything. Be awhwer of them – there is info stored, and the apps can get sold to someone you might not “trust”

Autonomy – can there be information onverload? Being on too many sites, etc. Onus on the user.

High level legislations to address the privacy needs – patchwork of laws currently. A regulatory framework with legal minimum standards.

Questions – asking people what they’re concerned by, what they see as risks, are they ware of hidden risks?

Have a technology person be educated on the privacy issues (at companies) so that there is someone there who can speak to the privacy concerns.


Friends don’t let friends use privacy violating apps.


Educational material – where does it come from?

Model terms of use 0- what goes into it; how do you create a groundswell of support to get companies to want to adopt these

Seems like online advocacy