Unless you’re one of the very few who have no recognizable photos online, there may not be much you can do regarding online facial recognition search.

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Put on Your Sunglasses! Facial Recognition Is Going Social

What you need to know about the changes in the UK's CAP codes, which now apply to unpaid social media spaces including user-generated content. As Vikki Chowney from Reputation Online pointed out in her presentation at the IAB seminar 'How to be Safe and Social' last week, there are two sides to being 'Safe and Social'. Protecting the user from content which may offend, distress, harm or infect. And protecting the brand from user generated content which could impact their reputation or legal status.

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Social Media: Staying the Right Side of the Law and the Extended UK Cap code

Was I wrong? Yes, I was. I had completely missed a big idea that had nothing to do with organizational dynamics: Social media can be used to build and ignite a brand — even when the product is a political revolution! In fact, marketing has played an extremely important role in the shifting Arab political landscape.

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How Social Media Turned a Brand Into a Revolution

The events in Egypt are an example of the psychological shift toward collective agency that comes from social media connectivity

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The Psychology of Social Media that Fuels Social Change

The role of social media is critical because it helps to spread cognitive dissonance by connecting thought leaders and activists to ordinary citizens rapidly expanding the network of people who become willing to take action. Brian Solis describes this process as creating the necessary “density” of connections, writing “If unity is the effect, density is the cause.”

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Exactly what role did social media play in the Egyptian revolution?

It is easier to fight for change than to agree on what that change should be.

The Internet has established itself now as a central (if not the central) conduit of public political action. You could argue that the fall of the eastern block in the 1990s was the first time the Internet began to flex its political muscles, because the total control the state held over the media was usurped. People in East Germany could see how people in West Germany were living, and how they were participating in their government. And they really wanted that.

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The Social (Media) Revolution We Just Saw In Egypt

What if, or as an alternative to, every hashtag for a physical place there was an official Twitter account manned by that government’s representative? The @USA Twitter account, in this way, could be staffed by the State Department, the General Services Administration, the FBI, whoever. Maybe every day a different agency tweeted responsive messages.

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What If a Country Tweeted?

If you start with the premise that core behaviors, not technologies, have driven revolutions across the ages, you get a different perspective on what works, and why.

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The Top 10 Social Tools for Starting Revolutions

Transparency is good, but making it a success requires more than just one way communication. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has decided that having a blog is a good idea. To that end it has started publishing one.

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Are There Limits to Use of Social Media By a Federal Regulatory Agency?

While Gladwell is right to assert that social media is largely used to exchange trivial information, it is a mistake to limit its transformative potential to the worst excesses of its current practice, denying that technology and the dynamics it enables will mature and grow along with its users, especially in dramatic circumstances such as the protests in Egypt.

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Egypt, Malcolm Gladwell and Social Media as a Life or Death Proposition

This post is an overall introduction to using Twitter and the social practices that have grown up around it. The writing slants toward using Twitter in politics because Twitter is good for organizing, conversing and spreading the word.

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Online Advocacy Tools: Twitter

This week once again offered a demonstration of true revolutionaries at work in Tunisia, where they forced Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power, and Egypt, where demands for Mubarak to step down continue. Unfortunately, neither Twitter nor Facebook updates

The Federal government has made a good deal of progress toward being more transparent, collaborative, and participatory during the two years since President Obama took office. However, despite great strides, government practitioners’ use of social media is not very sophisticated, does not take advantage of the latest tactics and tools, and does not necessarily improve the dialogue around big issues citizens really care about – the economy, jobs, national security, health, and the environment.

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Government Social Media: Five Questions For 2011

As a follow up to my post earlier this week about Twitter critical role in the Tunisian revolution, here are some links to other article posts, videos and articles looking closely at the social web's role in the Egyptian uprising.

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History Being Made with Social Media: What a Social Web Week!