Summary: My friend and associate Kemp Edmonds (http://twitter.com/kempedmonds) who heads up Hootsuite University (http://learn.hootsuite.com/) asked me an interesting question at a barbeque last weekend. He asked me what I thought about the crowdsourced policing that had occurred during the Vancouver Canucks Riot (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23canucksriot) last week. I personally see it as a fact of life. Anything you do can end up on the internet and then on CBC or CNN or BBC -- in seconds. The question of "should we be monitoring" each other is a tough one. The same people who think that citizens shouldn't be monitoring each other are the same people who cry foul when a police officer objects to being recorded by a passerby's cell phone camera during an arrest. Corporate accountability, the move toward open government, and citizen journalism (Even Yelp (http://yelp.ca)) has put us all under a microscope. Have a listen to today's podcast (http://CLOSINGBIGGER.NET/wp-content/uploads/sales-training-podcast/crowdsourcedpolicing.mp3) and let me know your thoughts on the issue. Here's the gist of my opinion: If you don't want it on the internet - DON'T DO IT - and if you do it and it ends up on the internet it's not the crowd's fault or the the social media communities fault -- the responsibility is yours. This goes for executives, public figures and teenagers at a riot. We are humble today or we will be humbled tomorrow. What are your thoughts? (http://www.closingbigger.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Screen-shot-2011-06-21-at-11.02.31-AM.png)
