Transparency Book Interview
Our friend, John C. Havens, over at BlogTalkRadio.com is writing a book about Transparency and the media tentatively titled “Media 2.Open: Tactics for Transparency” and asked us for an interview. Being our first book interview and how much we like John (and of course, the book idea), we were more than happy to put in our two cents on the subject. You can read the official book announcement here.
I happen to think it’s a great title and a great play on the direction that new media is headed. Really good timing for a book covering this topic and John has done a great job interviewing experts with hands-on knowledge of how important transparency is.
Obviously, we feel that not only is transparency important but it needs the proper tools for delivering and proving someone’s claims. In today’s world of being able to say anything, anywhere online and then linking back to a profile claiming anything, you need to not only tell people who you are but you need an easy way to prove it. Taking it a step further, once you tell people who you are, they then need to believe you. This is really the hardest part in establishing trust in what is currently a faceless medium.
The Internet was not built with any mechanism for proving and asserting identity, which is why third-parties such as BeenVerified will be needed in instances where trust is important. Social networks and sites with friends and networks of friends are great ways to tell if someone has a reputation but they still miss out on other aspects of who that person is, for example their accomplishments.
John’s book and interviews delve even deeper into the subject of transparency, as there is much more to the discussion then just the BeenVerified solution to being transparent. Companies, politicians, and now even individuals have to decide what transparency means to them and how much information they plan to release about themselves and the proper methods for doing so.
This will be a topic that we will continue to cover and discuss many times on this blog but if you’d like to hear more about our thoughts, feel free to listen to the interview below. It was about 45 minutes and the time flew by…for some reason, we really, really enjoy talking about this stuff!
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One Response to “Transparency Book Interview”
45 minutes? About transparency?
Send me the cliff notes :). JK, really interesting interview!
By Edward on Jan 7, 2008