From an October, 2009, World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM) announcement:

As social networking sites and communities continue to grow WOSM acknowledges the opportunities that social networking has to offer. In that respect WOSM offers you the possibility of connecting with others on 6 main social networking platforms which are:

Issuu: Issuu is the leading digital publishing platform delivering exceptional reading experiences of magazines, books, catalogs, reports, and more. It allows individuals, companies, and institutions to publish their documents across all digital platforms. World Scouting can be found on Issuu at the following address: http://issuu.com/worldscouting

Youtube:YouTube is the leader in online video, and the premier destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through a Web experience. YouTube allows people to easily upload and share video clips on www.YouTube.com and across the Internet through web-sites, mobile devices, blogs, and email. World Scouting can be found on youtube at the following address: http://www.youtube.com/worldscouting

Flickr: Flickr - almost certainly the best online photo management and sharing application. On Flickr Scouts around the world can have access to photos and galleries in high resolution from events in the Scouting arena. Find Scout photos on Flickr at the following address http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldscouting

GoogleMaps: Google Maps is the famous application by Google that allows you to visualize the world right from your desktop. We have made a specific Google map which shows the locations of past events up coming events and even historic sites.

Twitter: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter web-site, Short Message Service (SMS) or external application you can follow World Scouting on twitter at the following address: http://twitter.com/WorldScouting

Facebook: Facebook is a global social networking web-site that is operated and privately owned by Facebook, Inc. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. Within Facebook WOSM has a group dedicated to World Scouting and events. a place where Scouts can connect interact and discuss issues. Join us on Facebook a the following address: http://www.facebook.com/pages/World-Organization-of-the-Scout-Movement-WOSM/89659366913

Sharing bar
In the same vein as the Social networking bar it is now possible to directly link articles from the www.scout.org web-site directly to your profiles and web-sites. A new plug-in has been added to the site and is available on every page. It allows you in a few clicks to add your favorite articles to your profiles and share it with your friends and the larger community of Scouts worldwide. Popular sites such as: Twitter, Facebook, Digg, Delicious and MySpace are amongst the over 153 ways you can share with your communities.