The Value of Trust

Who wants to own content?

Distribution is not king.

Content is not king.

Conversation is the kingdom.

The war is over and the army that wasn’t even fighting — the army of all of us, the ones who weren’t in charge, the ones without the arms — won. The big guys who owned the big guns still don’t know it. But they lost.

In our media 2.0, web 2.0, post-media, post-scarcity, small-is-the-new-big, open-source, gift-economy world of the empowered and connected individual, the value is no longer in maintaining an exclusive hold on things. The value is no longer in owning content or distribution.

The value is in relationships. The value is in trust.

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Information wants to be free while trust wants to be earned.

We pay attention to those that we trust.

Trust
in network environments

The need for a
cognitive model of trust

The socio-cognitive
model of trust

The beliefs of
trust: what X thinks about Y

The
“Motivation belief” of trust
Yin-yang trust
Internal
and external trust

The sources of
trust

Trust and
irrationality

Degrees of trust
Trust and risk
Trust and
delegation

Trust and control
Trust and
adjustable autonomy

The dynamics of
trust

Trust and
experiences

Trust elicits
trust

Trust
atmosphere

Trust as a three
parties relationship: contracts and authorities

Trust as a
communicative act

Trust as a fuzzy
network

Trust in
contract nets

Trust, security
and technology

Trust and
technical knowledge

Trust and
knowledge management