Social Media - Facebook & Twitter

Southside ISD Social Networking Guidelines

  • Please use these guidelines when representing your campus on any other web presence such as blogs, photo sites, or others.

Facebook Guidelines

  1. Contact the Southside ISD District Webmaster or Director for Communications if you are interested in managing a page for your campus. Turn in the attached form to be added to you campus page. All campus facebook pages have already been created and will be released once agreement form is returned.

  2. Use your school’s mascot or logo as your picture. You can get a copy of your logo from the Graphics: Google Drive

  3. Have a minimum of 2 page administrators for any page. One of these should include a campus administrator. In addition, the Webmaster or Director for Communications must be an administrator. Review page administrators annually.

  4. Set up at least one of the page administrators to subscribe to the page so that they are informed of any postings.

  5. Pages should be monitored on a daily basis.

  6. Prompt responses should be provided to any questions or comments directly related to your campus.

  7. Your page should only "like" SouthsideISD or other SouthsideISD campuses.

  8. Do not tag students in pictures. Set privacy settings so that tagging is disabled.

  9. Make certain that parents have not requested that their students not be pictured.

  10. Post the following rules of engagement on your information page along with a brief description of your campus:

Here are our rules of engagement for participation on the **** School Facebook page.

We encourage your participation on our Facebook page. We ask that you exercise civility and good will in your communication. Any comments that are intentionally rude or deride the opinions of others will be removed.Part of the intent of our policies is to protect the privacy and rights of Southside ISD staff and students. Please be aware that your comments are public comments and can and may be used by anyone else, including news media. Posts that meet any of the following will be removed from the page and may be reported to Facebook for termination from the network.

  • Contain accusations or accusatory language toward an individual

  • Break the law or encourage others to do so

  • Contain abusive or inappropriate language or statements

Twitter Guidelines

  1. Contact the Southside ISD District Webmaster or Director for Communications if you are interested in managing a twitter account for your campus. Turn in the attached form to be added to you campus page. All campus facebook pages have already been created and will be released once agreement form is returned.

  2. Use your school’s mascot or logo as your picture. You can get a copy of your logo from the Graphics: Google Drive

  3. Twitter only allows one administrator account. Must use a @southsideisd,org email account to create the campus twitter account. However, a campus administrator must have the twitter account password. Review twitter administrators annually.

  4. Ask your campus staff to follow to the account so that they are informed of any postings.

  5. Twitter account should be monitored on a daily basis.

  6. Prompt responses should be provided to any questions or comments directly related to your campus.

  7. Your page should only "like" or repost "SouthsideISD" district twitter or campus twitter.

  8. Do not tag students in pictures.

  9. Make certain that parents have not requested that their students not be pictured.

  10. Post the following rules of engagement on your information page along with a brief description of your campus:

Here are our rules of engagement for participation on the **** School Facebook page.

We encourage your participation on our Facebook page. We ask that you exercise civility and good will in your communication. Any comments that are intentionally rude or deride the opinions of others will be removed.Part of the intent of our policies is to protect the privacy and rights of Southside ISD staff and students. Please be aware that your comments are public comments and can and may be used by anyone else, including news media. Posts that meet any of the following will be removed from the page and may be reported to Facebook for termination from the network.

  • Contain accusations or accusatory language toward an individual

  • Break the law or encourage others to do so

  • Contain abusive or inappropriate language or statements