I love the fb page we set up. I am the media secretary this year and set it up as a group page. As such, there are page administrators that monitor the page and can adjust settings, as needed. Right now I am the only admin but will sign on the next elected media sect after our elections this month. I have allowed postings by anyone who has liked our page but I have not allowed photos. I ask folks to send me their pix if they want to add them. (I need to make sure there are no kids in the picture whose parent has not signed the general school photo release). so far, nothing has been a problem but it is still fairly new. I am hoping that we will increase our usership in the coming year and realize that with more users, there are more potential problems. Our school/community is a small, rural and tightly knit area so I have faith that all our fb users will remain positive and appropriate with postings. We will make adjustments if anything becomes a problem.

We have a PTA Facebook page. We use it as another way to communicate with parents about events, volunteer opportunities, etc.

We have one. We think it's another avenue to communicate. We don't allow anyone to post. We just push out the information.

We have a facebook page for our PTO, we were not allowed to link it to the school's web page at all but are allowed to run it independently. We keep it to posts about upcoming PTO events, school events and things of that nature. I'm looking forward to it evolving more in the next year.

Our parent group has a Facebook page that has been in my estimation sucessful. It does require some organization tho. Yes, our superintendent and principal had to approve it. Our publicity chair submits what postings she wants to put up to the super and principal a week in advance to get approval. It may sound like a pain but all our other committes need to do the same for any email or flyer that they send home to parents so what's the difference. Sometimes they give us things they'd like us to put up on the page. They are also ok with us putting up non school event notices and articles that we think may be of interest to the families at our school. Hope that helps. I say go for it.

We have one in addition to our own website; it's been a good way to get word out to parents about events, solicit volunteers and drive traffic to our own site. Just be careful to set it up so that only friends can post on your wall and see your details, and turn off ads because you can't control what shows up there and some of the images in ads are not very appropriate for a PTA/PTO page.