Nothing in the form of written policy. Just general attitudes among many USGL officers and individual conversations where local officers have been told e.g. that they should consider deleting their blogs, that LiveJournal is the source of all our troubles, etc.

I think we'd hear the same things about email if it weren't so obviously necessary to our current level of development. It's too bad that more people don't see how LiveJournal, Myspace, Facebook, Meetup.com and other online venues have significantly contributed to our development in the last 5 years. Especially considering that the value of paper publications in the eyes of USGL has measurably dropped.

But as for written policy, there was only some direction on the leadership list that we should consult with the PIO (I think) and Br. H.W. (whose title I forget) any time local bodies do anything that represents the Order to the public -- a directive that SML has largely ignored (after seeking some clarification, and not getting much) since we do this multiple times a week and it would essentially shut us down if we were to follow the written directive to the letter.

It leads me to wonder what forms of promulgation are actively encouraged, since so much is either actively or passively discouraged. The Mass seems to me the only encouraged promulgation effort that I can find, and that only barely.