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Headings: DOD's new policy 'likes' social media, but with caveats
DOD's new policy 'likes' social media, but with caveats
Clearing the fog of Facebook
The elephant in the room
Filling in the gaps
Social media missteps
The appropriation of Adm. Stavridis’ identity
Marine dismissed for Obama-bashing on Facebook
Geotagging slip backfires big time
Indian, British and Israeli service members leak confidential data online

Content: To strike a balance, DOD officials are focusing on regulating, not restricting, social media use. Currently, DOD’s social media policy is governed by a directive-type memorandum (DTM) from 2010 — a two-page document that superficially outlines the rules and responsibilities those under Pentagon jurisdiction must follow in their use of social media. That policy will change in the coming months as the department prepares to issue more permanent and detailed DOD instructions that will expand the existing guidance. “Because the DTM was the first ever, it was galvanizing for the department to work its way through the potential rules around social media use at DOD,” said Rob Carey, DOD’s deputy CIO. “ As you can imagine, with a very structured, hierarchical organization such as ours, we were dealing with ‘How do I use this thing?’” The DTM was meant to be a quick set of guidelines governing activities in the social media space. It was set to expire July 15 but will remain in effect until the new policy comes out. Even now, two years after its release, the department is still determining just how to use the still-developing and sometimes unwieldy tool. With a rapidly evolving capability like social media, a hot new trend can catch fire and fizzle within a matter of weeks, so it’s difficult to issue hard-and-fast rules. “The underlying effort of the DTM was to work toward breaking down some of the silos of keeping information together, allowing a broader perspective of options out there and seeing what we could gain,” said Jack Holt, who helped write the DTM while serving as senior strategist for emerging media at DOD;