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==The Information Valet Project:==
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=<b>Blueprinting the shared user/value network</b>=
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=<b>Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy</b>=
===December 3-5, 2008<br>Reynolds Journalism Institute<br>Columbia, Missouri===
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*NEW: [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Infotrust-blueprint2 Blueprint Update: June 23-25, 2010 event at RJI]
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[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-links OTHER LINKS/COMMENT] . . . [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/valet.pdf ABOUT THE NEW(S)SOCIAL NETWORK] . . . [http://www.informationvalet.org INFORMATION VALET PROJECT BLOG] . . . . [http://feeds.feedburner.com/infovalet RSS FEED]<HR>
  
[https://extweb.missouri.edu/ext_register/intro.aspx?pid=111064&uid=3 REGISTER NOW] . . .  
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[[Image:Rji-ideas.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/image-library/stories/new-building/index.php RJI PICTURED]]]
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-lodging LODGING] . . .  
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[[Image:Ivp-conference-room.jpg|150px|thumb|right|Break-out rooms]]
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-travel TRAVEL] . . .
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[[Image:Rji-working.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[http://rji.missouri.edu/vision-and-mission/index.php THE RJI VISION]]]
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[[Image:Ivp-forum.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Forum-style discussion]]
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[[Image:Ivp-library.jpg|150px|thumb|left|Small-group collaboration]]
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===Building a collaborative, shared-user network<br><br>A wrapup of the December 3-5, 2008 summit at the<br>Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute<br>Columbia, Missouri===
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<H4>PRIVACY . . . ADVERTISING . . . COMMERCE . . . PERSONALIZATION</H4>
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<b>More than 50 editors, writers, technologists, publishers, entrepreneurs, academics, researchers and students gathered Dec. 3-5, 2008 at the [http://tinyurl.com/6zkzr4 Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute] at the Missouri School of Journalism. Their [http://www.newshare.com/ivp-flyer.pdf pre-arranged mission:] invent a new way to sustain the role of journalism in participatory democracy. Their approach: Create a shared-user web network for demographic privacy management, advertising and information commerce. ''(What's that? See "Where we're starting," below.)''<br>
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*[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-links KEY PARTICIPATION LINKS (and what others are saying)] . . . . [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-video WATCH VIDEO ARCHIVES]</H4>
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They shared ideas and advised RJI fellows on how to start the <i>Information Valet Economy,</i> where companies compete to provide personalized service to users, and make money referring their users to content -- and advertising -- from anywhere. The service might coordinate next-generation advertising placement and compensation, consumer-centric demographic management (and privacy) and multi-site commerce -- all designed to sustain journalism and providing new value to traditional print news subscribers.<br><br>
  
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Follow the links below to learn who participated, where we started, what we discussed, and what happens next. Join or [http://groups.google.com/group/infovalet read the InfoValet interest group,] or send an email to [mailto:infovalet@gmail.com infovalet@gmail.com] to participate.</b>
[[Image:Rji-ideas.jpg|thumb|150px|left|[]]]
 
[[Image:Rji-working.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[]]]
 
<b>A senior-level strategy session combined with a public symposium designed to blueprint the law, ownership, management, marketing and technology of a [http://informationvalet.wordpress.com/about/ shared-user network] for user-centric demographics, privacy-protected purchasing and advertising exchange and compensation. Come help make the market for digital information.</b>
 
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*Expected attendance: 40-60 participants
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==WHY IS 'BLUEPRINT THE IVP' NEEDED? [http://rji.missouri.edu/fellows-program/densmore-b/stories/intro/index.php (SHORT VIDEO)] . . . [http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-video ALL VIDEO ARCHIVES]==
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The U.S. news industry struggles as print advertising moves elsewhere and web advertising's double-digit growth sputters. The industry can now rethink and relaunch its relationship with 50 million customers -- to become their "information valet" able to make money whether those users are buying services, information (including music and entertainment) or being paid for web seeking and contact with sponsored messages and advertising.
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*Consumers want a customized experience, but want to control and be compensated for use of demographic and usage profiles.
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*The Internet needs a user-focused system for sharing identity, exchanging and settling value (including payments), for digital information. The system should allow multiple "Information Valets" to compete for and serve customers with varied topical interests and appetites for demographic sharing. It needs a '''<i>New(s) Social Network.'''</i><br><br>
  
====Two levels of participation:====
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==Who we are: The participants==
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====Who came Dec. 3-5 to Columbia, Mo.?]====
*Member/collaborators -- Enterprise partners, institutions, individuals, donors or foundations who are likely to play a key role (money or time) in forming the Information Valet Service Corp. (IVSC) This might be 30-40 people. This is a targettted/invited group. Reduced registration applies to this group, to make it clear that we are inviting them to participate.
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*[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participants Review the list] and check the bios of in-resident and virtual participants at "Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy." Join our [http://www.feedburner.com/fb/a/emailverifySubmit?feedId=2533696&loc=en_US email update list] or our [http://groups.google.com/group/infovalet collaborative listserve.]
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*General participants -- Other folks who are interested. Registration is open. We can handle as many as 50 more participants.
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====Faces: Documenting the discussions, and the spaces====
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*View [http://www.flickr.com/photos/33134655@N06/sets/72157610817325064/ thumbnails] or [http://www.flickr.com/photos/33134655@N06/sets/72157610817325064/show/ watch a slideshow] of participants at work, or [http://www.flickr.com/photos/mediagiraffe/sets/72157609502122909/ view the meeting spaces.]
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====Jeff VanderClute: A first cut at synthesis====
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*Read participant [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-participant-vanderclute Jeff VanderClute's] first [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-synthesis attempt to synthesize.]
  
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====Steve Mott: For newspapers: Three sources of value at stake====
[https://extweb.missouri.edu/ext_register/intro.aspx?pid=111064&uid=3 REGISTER NOW] . . .
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*Study Mott's [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-mott embryonic outlining of the functional pieces] for an Information Valet Service. What's missing?
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-lodging LODGING] . . .
 
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-travel TRAVEL] . . .
 
  
==<u>PROPOSED SCHEDULE</U>==
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====Elizabeth Osder: Tech development or trade initiative?====
Here is the schedule, subject to change.  
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*Elizabeth Osder [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-osder discusses the loss of value] on both sides if the equation, and whether IVP is a tech development or a trade association.  
  
*Collaborators and participants [http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-travel fly in] on Wednesday, Dec. 3, and register at the conference hotel venue, the [http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-lodging The Hampton Inn.]
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====Bill Densmore: Lead RJI researcher on IVP====
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[http://newshare.typepad.com/about.html Bill Densmore] is a 2008-2009 [http://rji.missouri.edu/fellows-program/densmore-b/index.php Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow] working to define, document and rally public support for building a new Internet infrastructure that will sustain news and information through a shared-user network. [http://informationvalet.wordpress.com/about/ (MORE ABOUT)] The network will allow online users to manage their demographic privacy, be rewarded for viewing advertising, and share, sell and buy content through multiple Web sites with one ID, password, account and bill. [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/valet.pdf (SEE: PDF download, fellowship proposal)]
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====Lee Wilkins: Privacy research====
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Missouri School of Journalism Prof. Lee Wilkins is overseeing a national survey on how the public values privacy in exchange for services or benefits. Read [http://www.newshare.com/docs/privacy-literature.doc the literature review.]
  
===<u>WEDNESDAY</u>===
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==Where we're starting==
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====[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/ivp-what What is the Information Valet Project?]====
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*A one-page description of the Information Valet Project at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. [http://informationvalet.wordpress.com/about (READ MORE)]
  
At the hotel . . .  
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====[http://newshare.typepad.com/mgpaudio/infovalet AUDIO: Short talks on the concept and design]====
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*Choose from streaming or MP3 podcast audio discussions which describe the concept, design, purpose and research contributing to the Information Valet Project. [http://web.missouri.edu/~bowera/infovalet.html (FLASH ANIMATION)]
  
*3 p.m.-5 p.m. -- A convening of the member/collaborator group. Each collaborator joins us because they bring something specific to the strategic development process. Sort out goals and objectives for the IVSC; identify task groups: legal/corporate, marketing, engineering, financial/settlement, privacy/demographics, business models and others.  
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====[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-program  What was on the agenda?]====
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*Over an evening, a full day and a morning, the informal networking was as important as the program, and the program was flexible. Review the pre-meeting agenda to get a sense of the domain for our interactions.
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====[http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources Tweet, chat, web wiki -- the convening resources]====
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*Learn about the collaboration resources we used -- and tried to use -- to foster dialogue before, during and after the summit, including [http://wordpress.com/tag/ivp-blueprint-summit/ Blog reports] by Emily Sussman, [http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23infovalet "tweets" via Twitter] from on- and off-site participants, LiveBlogging by Chuck Peters on [http://www.newshare.com/pdf/blueprint-live-blog-12-04-08.pdf THURSDAY], and on  [http://www.coveritlive.com/index.php?option=com_altcaster&task=siteviewaltcast&altcast_code=b75f5507b2&height=550&width=470 FRIDAY], plus general [http://www.technorati.com/search/%22Information+Valet%22?type=search&authority=a4&language=en blog references.] Check (and add to) our page of other [http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-links GENERAL LINKS].
  
*5 p.m. -- 6 p.m. -- Informal meet-and-greet light hors d'oeuvres
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==What did we discuss?==
registration/reception (at hotel) for all participants.
 
  
*6 p.m.-7 p.m. -- Buffet dinner (at the hotel); Participants are encouraged to consult the registration list and choose to form shared-interest tables and begin discussion.  
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====Establishing common language: What is the IVP?====
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*Everyone had read about the IVP idea. Our first step was to [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-25words define it's consumer and business purposes,] in terms all participants could endorse. It took six tries, and we were there.  
  
*7 p.m.-8:30 p.m. -- "Identifying the Problem and the Opportunity." An agenda-setting discussion at the hotel. Introductions by Bill Densmore, Reynolds Journalism Institute fellow and Information Valet Project convenor, Dean Mills, dean of the Missouri Journalism School, and others.
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====Form of ownership: The co-op or L3c?====
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*Having established a common language of purpose, we asked: Who could own the Information Valet Service and what form might that take? We turned to help from attorney Tom Moody, a Vermont attorney, (who visited with us via a Skype teleconference) and the [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources-l3c Vermont L3C] statute. We also consider the possibility of [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Ivp-ownership-cooperative cooperative ownership.] Ultimately, we decided form and ownership would need to wait until we understood the stakeholders and their needs.
  
===<u>THURSDAY</u>===
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====Sorting out the stakeholder: Needs and questions====
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*On Thursday, we broke into three task groups to study the needs of potential IVP takeholders. We asked a lot of questions and as a result started to understand the markets, technologies and relationships we should master. The task groups had questions about business models, legal, corporate, marketing, ownership, content, syndication, advertising, privacy, demographics, and identity. This all sugared down to a series of [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-bullets conceptual bulletpoints.]
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Throughout the day, Chuck Peters [http://newshare.com/pdf/blueprint-live-blog-12-04-08.pdf live-blogged.]
  
Continental breakfast at the Hampton Inn; informal networking at hotel
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====Friday gets specific: A laundry list of actions, tasks====
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*By Friday morning, it was time to get specific. [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-Friday Ideas for action] included fostering collaboration between bloggers and MSM, fleshing out details of content management, nailing down a business-development strategy, and building "user personas." We we urged to pick a small, doable piece and start experimenting, to cooperate with The AP and to get specific about what consumers would get for sharing demographics.
  
*8:30 a.m. -- Shuttle van(s) leave for Reynolds Journalism Institute (RJI)
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==What happens next?==
*9:00 a.m. -- Convene in the Fred W. Smith Forum, Room 200 at RJI
 
*9 a.m.-10 a.m. -- Discussion: "Confirming the Opportunity: Identifying Task Groups" -- ''Participants confirm Wednesday evening's framing of the challenge/opportunity and organize task group/break-out discussions to formulate a solution/development strategy.''
 
  
*10:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m. -- Free time/bio break/check Email; optional tour of RJI/Futures Lab
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====What is your privacy worth to you: A study====
*10:30 a.m.-noon -- First meeting of task group breakouts:
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*Mizzou Prof. Lee Wilkins and graduate-assistant Seth Ashley outlined a national study of at least 1,200 respondents to be conducted in January to [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-program-privacy understand how people of different ages value their privacy,] and what they will trade it for.
<ul><ul>
 
1. Legal/corporate form -- Todd Eskelsen and Jon Hart<br><br>
 
  
2. Marketing -- Carole Christie and other(s) TBD<br><br>
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====Making the list of components, collaborators====
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*Led by Elizabeth Osder, Steve Mott and others, we put together a [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-comparables list of services comparable to parts of IVP,] and companies or industries who might collaborate. RJI will document each for the IVP development plan.
  
3. Advertising -- User-reward model, from inference to shared<br><br>
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====THE PLAN: Bullet-pointed tasks in seven areas====
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*We made a [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-next-step-task-areas bullet-pointed list of next steps] in seven task areas, with results feeding into a development/business plan. Charles Andres contributed [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-resources-identity useful links in the identity-card/privacy space.]
  
4. Content -- Syndication opportunities<br><br>
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====Collaborations percolating====
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*By Dec. 7, two days after "Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy," ended, it's too early to say how fast things will happen. Two participants agreed to help with the business plan, another has already made a proposal for significant collaboration with RJI. To follow developments, bookmark [http://www.informationvalet.org the Information Valet blog], join or [http://groups.google.com/group/infovalet read the InfoValet interest group,] or send an email to [mailto:infovalet@gmail.com infovalet@gmail.com] to participate.
  
5. Engineering -- TBD -- (seeking reps from Project VRM / Info Card Fdtn / Identity Commons / OpenID / NACHA<br><br>
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====The bottom line: Is this of interest?====
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*After nearly two days, is this of interest? That's the question we posed to four active traditional media executives who had joined us. [http://newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-closing Read what they said.]
  
6. Financial/settlement -- Michelle Urness, MultiService (KC) and others -- Steve Mott, etc., Rick Lerner<br><br>
 
  
7. Privacy/demographics -- Lead TBD (consult with Lee/Seth)<br><br>
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<hr>[http://www.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/Blueprint-links OTHER LINKS/COMMENT] . . . [http://www.mediagiraffe.org/valet.pdf ABOUT THE NEW(S)SOCIAL NETWORK] . . . [http://www.informationvalet.org INFORMATION VALET PROJECT BLOG] . . . . [http://feeds.feedburner.com/infovalet RSS FEED]<HR>
  
8. Business Models -- Bill Densmore and others<br><br>
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[[Image:Blueprint-banner.jpg|1000px|thumb|left|.]]
 
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[[Category:Infotrust]]
====Other breakouts determined on the fly at 9 a.m. session====
 
</ul></ul>
 
*Noon-12:30 p.m. -- More informal discussion/walking facility/Futures Lab
 
 
 
*12:30 p.m. -- Walk or shuttle to the Reynolds Alumni Center for lunch
 
 
 
*1 p.m. -- During dessert, morning breakout leaders present reports
 
 
 
*1:30 p.m. -- Walk / shuttle back to RJI's Fred W. Smith Forum to reconvene
 
 
 
*2:00-3 p.m. -- Facilitated Discussion -- What did we learn in the AM?
 
 
 
*3:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m. -- Next-step breakouts -- We call breakouts for "next step" action determination.
 
 
 
*3:15-3:30 p.m. -- Bio and snack/coffee break
 
 
 
*3:30 p.m.-5:00 p.m.  -- "Next step" breakouts convene: Action steps formulated.
 
 
 
*5 p.m.-6 p.m. -- Shuttles make roundtrip to the hotel for those who need to get to their room before supper.
 
 
 
*6:00 p.m. -- Pre-dinner reception (cash bar).
 
 
 
*6:30 p.m. -- Buffet dinner in RJI Room 100
 
 
 
*7:30 p.m. -- 8:30 p.m. -- Five-minute report backs from each breakouts; recommendations for next steps to consider overnight.
 
 
 
END OF PROGRAM -- Shuttle back to Hampton Inn
 
 
 
===<u>FRIDAY MORNING</u>===
 
 
 
Breakfast again at Hampton Inn; Shuttle to the RJI's Fred W. Smith Forum. 
 
 
 
*8:30 a.m.-10 a.m. -- "Laying out the Blueprint" -- ''In a facilitated discussion, break-out designated reporters conform their recommendations for next steps; consensus built for action (or not) and responsibilities. Consider next meeting(s), virtual or physical.''
 
 
 
*10 a.m. -- Optional adjournment for those who need to make the 11:25 a.m.
 
Northwest Airlink departure from the Columbia airport.
 
 
 
*10:15 a.m.-noon -- Task groups meet individually or together to continue mapping next steps.
 
 
 
*Noon -- Bag lunch available; Shuttles to hotel available; coordination with MoEX for shuttle to MCI or STL airports.
 
 
 
Program continues continues somewhat informally until lunchtime; we faciliate
 
MoExpress connections to MCI and STL, ideally departing from front of RJI.
 
<hr>
 
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[https://extweb.missouri.edu/ext_register/intro.aspx?pid=111064&uid=3 REGISTER NOW] . . .
 
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-lodging LODGING] . . .
 
[http://densmore.newshare.com/wiki/index.php/blueprint-travel TRAVEL] . . .
 

Latest revision as of 03:30, 16 January 2011

Contents

Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy

OTHER LINKS/COMMENT . . . ABOUT THE NEW(S)SOCIAL NETWORK . . . INFORMATION VALET PROJECT BLOG . . . . RSS FEED


Break-out rooms
Forum-style discussion
Small-group collaboration

Building a collaborative, shared-user network

A wrapup of the December 3-5, 2008 summit at the
Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute
Columbia, Missouri

PRIVACY . . . ADVERTISING . . . COMMERCE . . . PERSONALIZATION

More than 50 editors, writers, technologists, publishers, entrepreneurs, academics, researchers and students gathered Dec. 3-5, 2008 at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. Their pre-arranged mission: invent a new way to sustain the role of journalism in participatory democracy. Their approach: Create a shared-user web network for demographic privacy management, advertising and information commerce. (What's that? See "Where we're starting," below.)



They shared ideas and advised RJI fellows on how to start the Information Valet Economy, where companies compete to provide personalized service to users, and make money referring their users to content -- and advertising -- from anywhere. The service might coordinate next-generation advertising placement and compensation, consumer-centric demographic management (and privacy) and multi-site commerce -- all designed to sustain journalism and providing new value to traditional print news subscribers.

Follow the links below to learn who participated, where we started, what we discussed, and what happens next. Join or read the InfoValet interest group, or send an email to infovalet@gmail.com to participate.

WHY IS 'BLUEPRINT THE IVP' NEEDED? (SHORT VIDEO) . . . ALL VIDEO ARCHIVES

The U.S. news industry struggles as print advertising moves elsewhere and web advertising's double-digit growth sputters. The industry can now rethink and relaunch its relationship with 50 million customers -- to become their "information valet" able to make money whether those users are buying services, information (including music and entertainment) or being paid for web seeking and contact with sponsored messages and advertising.

  • Consumers want a customized experience, but want to control and be compensated for use of demographic and usage profiles.
  • The Internet needs a user-focused system for sharing identity, exchanging and settling value (including payments), for digital information. The system should allow multiple "Information Valets" to compete for and serve customers with varied topical interests and appetites for demographic sharing. It needs a New(s) Social Network.

Who we are: The participants

Who came Dec. 3-5 to Columbia, Mo.?]

Faces: Documenting the discussions, and the spaces

Jeff VanderClute: A first cut at synthesis

Steve Mott: For newspapers: Three sources of value at stake

Elizabeth Osder: Tech development or trade initiative?

  • Elizabeth Osder discusses the loss of value on both sides if the equation, and whether IVP is a tech development or a trade association.

Bill Densmore: Lead RJI researcher on IVP

Bill Densmore is a 2008-2009 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow working to define, document and rally public support for building a new Internet infrastructure that will sustain news and information through a shared-user network. (MORE ABOUT) The network will allow online users to manage their demographic privacy, be rewarded for viewing advertising, and share, sell and buy content through multiple Web sites with one ID, password, account and bill. (SEE: PDF download, fellowship proposal)

Lee Wilkins: Privacy research

Missouri School of Journalism Prof. Lee Wilkins is overseeing a national survey on how the public values privacy in exchange for services or benefits. Read the literature review.

Where we're starting

What is the Information Valet Project?

  • A one-page description of the Information Valet Project at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. (READ MORE)

AUDIO: Short talks on the concept and design

  • Choose from streaming or MP3 podcast audio discussions which describe the concept, design, purpose and research contributing to the Information Valet Project. (FLASH ANIMATION)

What was on the agenda?

  • Over an evening, a full day and a morning, the informal networking was as important as the program, and the program was flexible. Review the pre-meeting agenda to get a sense of the domain for our interactions.

Tweet, chat, web wiki -- the convening resources

What did we discuss?

Establishing common language: What is the IVP?

Form of ownership: The co-op or L3c?

  • Having established a common language of purpose, we asked: Who could own the Information Valet Service and what form might that take? We turned to help from attorney Tom Moody, a Vermont attorney, (who visited with us via a Skype teleconference) and the Vermont L3C statute. We also consider the possibility of cooperative ownership. Ultimately, we decided form and ownership would need to wait until we understood the stakeholders and their needs.

Sorting out the stakeholder: Needs and questions

  • On Thursday, we broke into three task groups to study the needs of potential IVP takeholders. We asked a lot of questions and as a result started to understand the markets, technologies and relationships we should master. The task groups had questions about business models, legal, corporate, marketing, ownership, content, syndication, advertising, privacy, demographics, and identity. This all sugared down to a series of conceptual bulletpoints.

Throughout the day, Chuck Peters live-blogged.

Friday gets specific: A laundry list of actions, tasks

  • By Friday morning, it was time to get specific. Ideas for action included fostering collaboration between bloggers and MSM, fleshing out details of content management, nailing down a business-development strategy, and building "user personas." We we urged to pick a small, doable piece and start experimenting, to cooperate with The AP and to get specific about what consumers would get for sharing demographics.

What happens next?

What is your privacy worth to you: A study

Making the list of components, collaborators

THE PLAN: Bullet-pointed tasks in seven areas

Collaborations percolating

  • By Dec. 7, two days after "Blueprinting the Information Valet Economy," ended, it's too early to say how fast things will happen. Two participants agreed to help with the business plan, another has already made a proposal for significant collaboration with RJI. To follow developments, bookmark the Information Valet blog, join or read the InfoValet interest group, or send an email to infovalet@gmail.com to participate.

The bottom line: Is this of interest?

  • After nearly two days, is this of interest? That's the question we posed to four active traditional media executives who had joined us. Read what they said.



OTHER LINKS/COMMENT . . . ABOUT THE NEW(S)SOCIAL NETWORK . . . INFORMATION VALET PROJECT BLOG . . . . RSS FEED


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