Social Business Summit: Publicy And The Erosion Of Privacy

The program for the Dachis Group’s upcoming Social Business Summit has been unveiled, and it’s a powerful group of presenters. Dachis Group folks are out in strength, like Lee Bryant, Kate Niederhofer, Peter Kim, and Jeff Dachis. And the other folks are a who’s who: Doug Rushkoff, Charlene Li, Jaime Punishill (Citibank), Jackie Huba (Ant’s Eye View), Frank Eliason (Comcast), Dion Hinchcliffe, Sam Decker (Bazaarvoice), Lane Becker (Get Satisfaction), Karen McGrane (Bond Art + Science), Christine Morrison (Intuit), and yours truly.

I will be exploring the theme of publicy in a presentation called Publicy and the Erosion of Privacy:

Social technologies enable a new degree of openness in social interaction, shifting cultural mores from a privacy orientation toward “publicy,” and this has serious implications for society, business, media and government.

In the past year, I have written a great deal about publicy, including these posts:The Decade Of Publicy, Sociality Displacing Privacy, Secrecy, Privacy, Publicy, Anonymity, Privacy, Publicy.

With regard to the social business, corporate policies have to take into account the benefits and motivations of publicy, for the company and its staff relative to open social discourse in the larger world. And the rise of publicy within the organization may lead to higher degrees of social cohesion, innovation, and trust. How will 21st business reconcile its needs for strategic control of information — trade secrets, proprietary information, and regulatory requirements — and current management approaches with a profound societal shift toward publicy.