As more and more people begin to adopt social media, many businesses,including law firms - both internally and on behalf of their clients - are struggling with creating policies that will allow employees to show off their expertise in a given field without causing the company to come down with a bad case of "foot-in-mouth" disease. This topic recently came up on the PMA circuit, and led to a search for a good form or other starting point for drafting a social media use policy within a business organization, bar association or law firm. We came across a great article, How to Write a Twitter Use Policy for your Employees http://www.cio.com/article/499049/Twitter_Tips_How_to_Write_a_Twitter_Policy_for_Your_Employees?source=CIONLE_nlt_web20_2009-08-11, by C. G. Lynch at http://www.CIO.com which lists 4 easy steps for crafting your own policy. And the website of Sun Microsystems provides their Guidelines for Public Discourse http://www.sun.com/communities/guidelines.jsp, which is a great starting point for drafting a policy of your own.