Identity Management

Moderator: Johannes

Panel: Trey, Heather, Nate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenID

http://dataportability.org/

http://twitter.com

http://www.spock.com

http://www.reputationdefender.com/lp/lp4_10?

http://elgg.org/

http://delicious.com/

http://flickr.com

http://www.suprglu.com/

http://chacha.com/

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200807/google

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/is-stupid-making-us-google

kenneth gergen multiphrenia the saturated self

Issues

• multiplicity of tools
• making personal rules about your goals
• information overload and options overload

Context of Gergen’s work and concept of “multiphrenia”

Public versus private identity

1. Potential consequences (news items related to (what should be private information) becoming public
2. Is your “private” information really private?
3. How do you manage public information about yourself that you might not have control over?
   1. Understand how google searches return results
   2. Strategies for development of online reputation (Naymz?)
   3. Strategy for development of online reputation through conscious development of online identity

Managing multiple identities across multitudes of sites

Open Source

Developing distinct identities for different purposes (Nate)

Quantity versus Quality

Getting the most out of online memberships

How do you match your goals to the right online community?

Strategies to maximize benefit of online memberships

Aggregation

Blogging