Army drafting new blogging guidelines

Army drafting new blogging guidelines
By Seth Robson, Stars and Stripes
Mideast edition, Saturday, September 27, 2008



GRAFENWÖHR, Germany — The Army is working on a set of guidelines for soldiers’ conduct in online forums such as blogs and message boards, but it might be a while before the message reaches the troops.

The guidelines — a compilation of the scattered rules and regulations governing online activity by soldiers — will be included in a rewrite of Army public affairs regulations to be published in the next six months to two years, Department of the Army public affairs specialist Lindy Kyzer said in an e-mail. Soldiers will be told about the guidelines during pre-deployment public affairs training, she said.

But that doesn’t mean soldiers can blog with impunity until the new guidelines are published.

Operational security rules, which prohibit the publication by soldiers of classified or sensitive information, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice, already limit what soldiers can do online, Kyzer said.

"What the new public affairs guidance … will provide is further clarification of what is acceptable in online postings or digital communication," she said.
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