Creating a Digital Consciousness with Richard Guerry

The Social Network Show welcomes Richard Guerry to the March 14, 2014 episode.

Richard Guerry, Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Responsible Online and Cell-Phone Communication (IROC2) talks about why he started this non-profit organization and his goal of wanting to help people learn to use digital tools responsibly. Listen to the show to find out what a digital consciousness is and can you have privacy is it's social? Hear what he says about what parents need to do to teach their children to be safe online and how it is easier to change people's behavior than to change the technology.

Richard Guerry is the founder and Executive Director of the non-profit organization, the Institute for Responsible Online and Cell-Phone Communication (IROC2). Throughout the 1990's, at the height of the technology revolution, Richard served as an interactive marketing executive.

During his tenure, he encountered the darkest areas of the internet and discovered countless individuals unknowingly being manipulated and schemed, and their content being stolen and exploited. As a father of two young children and an avid user of digital technology, he decided to make a change and start a new revolution centered on technology-Digital Consciousness.

In 2009, Richard left corporate America, and applied his vast experience and knowledge of internet safety to serve as the Executive Director of IROC2.

He now travels across the country speaking to digital users, young and old, regarding the importance of practicing a Digital Consciousness in every aspect of life to prevent and avoid any current-or future-digital issues. Richard has spoken to over 2,000 audiences across the United States and Canada. He has been a featured speaker at many national conferences and conventions including the National Conference on Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention, the Internationally Bullying Prevention Association, and the National Symposium on Child Abuse. He has also appeared on CNN and MTV's Thin Line Campaign as well as being in Parade Magazine and in local, regional and international publications.

In 2010, his program received the School Safety Advocacy Council's "Exemplary School Safety Program" Award. In 2011, he was awarded the School Safety Advocacy Council's "Exemplary School Safety Initiative" Award.

Richard is the author of Public and Permanent: The Golden Rule of the 21st Century.