You understand the value of social media, but for some reason your company insists on blocking use of social media sites by employees. As of last October, half of all US businesses still block social networks, but that number is dropping. Even the US Military announced this week that it has relaxed it's policy on social media use by the troops.

One of my projects over the last few months was to write and get approval for social media staff guidelines for the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). I’m sharing them because I hope that they will be useful to other organizations who are working on similar documents. Besides: I wouldn’t have been able to write them without other organizations and companies making their’s available.

Can you believe that NetSquared will be two years old in September? And in that almost two years I don't think we've ever reviewed the How to Be NetSquared Guidelines here. It never hurts to start right? So here it goes: