virtual conference

Earlier this week, Intelius Chief Privacy Officer Jim Adler spoke at O’Reilly’s Strata Conference.  His talk, The Accidental Chief Privacy Officer (CPO), discussed how the industrial privacy professional is evolving from a compliance enforcer to a product innovator.  Here are the slides and interview with O’Reilly’s Alex Howard (@digiphile):

Jim Adler interviewed at Strata NY 2011

The key takeaway from the talk (see summary slide) is that the privacy pro is becoming a key evangelist for responsible innovation within fast-moving, high technology organizations. To be successful, four lessons:

1. Innovation is a team sport. Communication is key. So talk and (more importantly) listen to your toughest critics, both inside and outside your organization. They’ll better understand your perspective and you’ll often get great ideas.
2. Build a confluence of influence. Good decisions come from every corner of the business, early in the product cycle. Find the members of any team that are inventive, collaborative, and capable of creating the Reality Distortion Field (used so effectively by Steve Jobs) that’s so vital to disruptive innovation.
3. Be the happy warrior. Innovation, by definition, changes the status quo and makes some people uncomfortable. Engage with them in a constructive, respectful way inline with Graham’s Hierarchy of Disagreement.
4. Find clarity in the confusion. Use math, data, and history to find the clarity within the confusion. Privacy issues are especially difficult. As Jeff Jarvis points out in his new book, Public Parts, even defining privacy is a journey through an Escher maze. Jeff has a great, well referenced chapter on What Is Privacy? that illustrates the perennial struggle we all have navigating the privacy maze.
   
   The good news is that the privacy labyrinth can be traversed with sufficient situational assessment, data analysis, and historical perspective. Then, to remix metaphors, you can be that excited child in the room of manure who finds that elusive pony.

More from Jim Adler, Chief Privacy Officer at Intelius

Right now students and teachers from all over the world are meeting in Barrie, Ontario to discuss some of Today’s most pressing global issues. From the environment to social oppression; the iEARN Youth Summit 2010, hosted by TakingITGlobal, allows its participants not only to share their own ideas, but to meet and learn about like-minded youth from around the world.

You don’t have to be in Barrie, Ontario to join in on the action! This year, Intelius is sponsoring the iEARN virtual conference in association with the Summit. To join the discussion go to www.iearn2010.tigweb.org and click the ‘Register’ tab in the upper right-hand corner of the screen. Once you’ve made an account you’ll have access to the live webcast from the Summit, videos of the summit events, event photos and more! Feel free to add to the conversation with your own blog post or Tweet.

 Here’s just a taste of what’s being said on the Virtual Conference site right now:

On Twitter:

RT @peterskillen: The real deal. Kids at the youth summit painting murals while Milton Chen  speaks to teachers at #iearn2010 Nice vibe! http://bit.ly/cCHja9

On the Blog:

“ W.A.K.E- worthy argument, attach people emotionally, know your audience, effective imagery! The workshop Action Planning W.A.K.E: The Four Pillars of Awareness, Free the Children was about cause marketing campaigns and how reach and the effect people take away from social visual imagines. The workshop went through a series of social and environmental campaigns. The women running the workshop would go through images and ask the students what they felt the message meant. It required the students to pay attention to small details and think about the real message behind the image. The session finished with a game of taboo; which demonstrated word associations with different problems around the world. The workshop was fun and enlightening!”- Lani Chevat

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You can follow the event on Twitter @inteliusiearn or on Facebook.