In a school board meeting, one of the members of the school staff mentioned something about Facebook’s security being poor and the school shouldn’t have a facebook page.  Any thoughts on this?

Like @nathalieleonard – I’m wondering what their “security” concern is??

I like to always look at third party sites as never truly private. I agree with everyone that I’d highly recommend starting the official school page, but I would also be very aware of everyone’s privacy at the school. It’s important that whomever you give admin rights to the page doesn’t post pictures of teachers, students or staff without their consent. I think it being a school page, too, it would be a good idea to make clear rules on what will be deleted from the page and give a link to it for anyone to access. I hope though that your school will embrace the new media and see all the advantages it can give to connecting to students.

Hi Amy, ya know it is funny you wrote that post. Couple of weeks back I sat through a demo of a private social media solution. Long story short, I am a mobile marketer social media consultant, yada, yada and had no idea what a private social media solution could do for me. Then I gave it some thought….and for organizations like the Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and maybe school boards a private social media solution may be the ticket. You can truly control individuals access and the level of access and this solution seems to have everything that you would need. Send me a note if you would like more info. I have no stake whatsoever in this, saw your post and thought I could offer some assistance. Cheers, Mark

To answer some of the questions, what I understand is they are afraid that once something is posted on the page that they can’t remove it.  I am learning about facebook pages, so I’m not sure if that is true.  I think the idea of the school not owning the page should reduce the liability.  I don’t plan on posting pictures, but the kids can post their own if they want.  That should also reduce the liability.