[Community] Preserving Identity Commons Purpose and Principles

[Mary Ruddy]

 +++1  agree strongly that visibility is key to trust and at this stage to
gaining momentum and avoiding delimitative efforts.  

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[mailto:community-bounces at idcommons.net] On Behalf Of Eugene Eric Kim
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Subject: Re: [Community] Preserving Identity Commons Purpose and Principles

On 6/28/08, Bill Washburn <billhwashburn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> In discussing this, I believe the question of prospective 
> organization's potential to become  trustworthy fairly quickly - both 
> operationally and perceptually - will be fundamental.  It seems to me 
> an important part of building trust and committing to trustworthy 
> service/support for the community is prominent visibility for the new 
> organization - should it be developed.  Isn't being visible an 
> important part of trust, just as a strong brand engenders trust as long as
it behaves well?

This is a really valuable point, Bill.  We (or at least I) have rationalized
away our lack of visibility, and fairly, I think.
However, if we view visibility as a key mechanism for trust, then it's our
responsibility to prioritize it more.

=Eugene

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