The Steering Committee has been discussing possible questions around privacy, the web, and social networking tools in preparation for tomorrow’s Second Saturday event.

Some background posts and resources that have prompted our discussion:

• Facebook Brings Facial Recognition to Photo Tagging
• Facebook Users Upload Record-Breaking 750M Photos Over New Year’s Weekend
• Help! My Boss Wants To Be My Friend On Facebook!
• Facebook’s Privacy Guide
• Foursquare Responds To Please Rob Me: Please Shut Up
• On foursquare, location, & privacy…

Twenty Questions About Online Nakedness And Privacy

The order below is in no particular importance, but useful for reference in the comments:

1. What are some must-haves for your privacy on a Facebook Business page? What are your must-haves for privacy on Facebook?
2. How private is too private? If you keep yourself totally locked down, then doesn’t that defeat the purpose of being social on social networks?
3. Does your IT department block social networking sites at your work? What is their rationale, and how does this hinder your ability to use social networking sites on your job?
4. From a legal standpoint, what can I do to protect what my employees are saying online, either as explicit representatives of my company/brand, or as themselves but otherwise associated with my company/brand?
5. What is your personal strategy for using Facebook? Do you use it to connect with family and old friends, or do you use it for business? Is there a way to keep them separate?
6. What steps have you taken on social networking sites to keep your profile private?
7. Were pictures of you among the 750M uploaded to Facebook on New Year’s Weekend?
8. What do you do when you realize you’ve been tagged in a photo? What if a questionable photo was live on your page for a week, and you happened to be offline but your boss and colleagues were not?
9. Should you or have you connected with your boss on Facebook?
10. What is going on with Facebook’s Instant Personalization? What are its benefits to me, and what can I do if I don’t want it enabled?
11. Should you really be concerned about posting where you are on sites like Foursquare and Gowalla or Facebook Places? Should you be concerned about the premise of PleaseRobMe.com?
12. Should you “geotag” your tweets (updates from Twitter)?
13. How can I manage what I say on Twitter best protect my privacy?
14. Describe some potential situations in real life in which you think it would not be best to connect online.
15. How do you tactfully decline a connection request (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Foursquare, Google Buzz, etc.)?
16. How do you remove a connection/friend on these social networking sites? Do they get notified when I do this?
17. How does posting content online affect your career? We want our businesses to be high profile, but what about the behavior of our employees when that content is less than attractive?
18. Is there a benefit to having lists or groups of people on Facebook? Is there a way to control what people in these lists see? (Limited profile settings, perhaps?)
19. Should I accept a Friend request from a profile that is a business (i.e., not a human at a business)? Facebook friend vs Facebook page, etc., on Foursquare, too.
20. What benefit, if any, is there to being connecting with a venue on Foursquare?

Related articles

• Report: Facebook and Twitter Most Unsafe Social Networking Sites in 2010 (socialtimes.com)
• Ways to Protect Your Privacy on Social Networking Websites Like Facebook (computersight.com)
• Social Networking Etiquette (thinkup.waldenu.edu)
• How to Control Your Privacy With Foursquare and Other Geolocation Services (socialmediatoday.com)
• 4 Quick and Easy Ways to Protect Your Online Self in 2011 (socialtimes.com)
• What Your Business Needs to Know About Social Graphs (socialmediaexaminer.com)
• Year in Ideas: Social networking and the end of privacy (nationalpost.com)

2009 in Review

It is hard to believe this is the last Second Saturday we’ll be having in 2009! How have you changed over the past year? In what ways has your involvement in this space made you different? Come prepared to share your individual stories with the group.

We will also be simulcasting our meetup with New Media Dayton, so this looks to be interesting.

Missed the Planning Call?

We had a great time chatting last week about the event this Saturday. It’s worth listening to the call, even just to hear the interaction among the group. Find all the details at the New Media Cincinnati website

Donations

As in previous months, since some have asked how they can support me in the group, I have set up a donation ticket on the Eventbrite page.

With the holidays coming up, I would like to see if we can help support a local food drive I’m participating in.  To that end, this time around, half of what you donate between now and Saturday will go to support that effort. If you would prefer, please consider bringing in a non-perishable food item to donate. Thank you for your support!

Related articles by Daniel Johnson Jr and Zemanta

• New Media Cincinnati August 2009 Second Saturday Recap (danieljohnsonjr.com)
• Virtual Community in the Real Realm (michellebeckham.wordpress.com)

Kevin Spacey recently tried to explain Twitter to David Letterman on the Late Show (see embedded video):

This is an open invitation to both Kevin and Dave to attend a New Media Cincinnati Second Saturday.  We would be happy to have you there, and, Dave, we’ll help you understand the value of Twitter.

Possible related articles by Zemanta

• CBS Pulls Off Cross-Platform Paul McCartney Coup (paidcontent.org)
• Kevin Spacey Fails to Sell David Letterman on the Virtues of Twitter (gawker.com)
• Social media case study: Dairy Queen (vator.tv)
• How I Use Social Media (danieljohnsonjr.com)

Having been around this group for almost two years, I’ve noticed some common interests, and I think it’s a great time to help focus some of the discussions on LinkedIn.  As you may be aware, LinkedIn recently opened up the ability for group managers to create subgroups.

The idea of creating subgroups – special interest groups for focused discussion  – really became obvious at the May 2009 Second Saturday – Unconference as groups evolved organically.  Well, now you can join up and have more focused discussions via the following subgroups of the New Media Cincinnati LinkedIn group:

• Video (SIG)
• Podcasting (SIG)
• Photography (SIG)

If you are really passionate about one of these groups want to be made a manager, or if you’d like to suggest other subgroups we should create, please get in touch, either in the comments or via the Contact page.

Have fun!

Possible related articles by Zemanta

• How I Use Social Media (danieljohnsonjr.com)
• SPOS #161 – Six Pixels Of Separation – The Twist Image Podcast – +1 (206) 666-6056 – President Obama Is A Social Media Guru (twistimage.com)
• LinkedIn SubGroups (web2learning.net)