Website Guidelines for Girl Scout Volunteers
If you’ve decided that something like a private Facebook group doesn’t offer enough options to meet your needs, then refer to these guidelines and helpful tips before you build a website for your troop, group, or service unit.
Purpose
Are you sharing marketing information, or building an archive of documents? Is the target audience your girls, their caregivers, other volunteers, or the general public? Look up other local troop or service unit websites to see what kinds of features they use.
Make sure you know what kinds of services are available that you can build and maintain yourself.
Think about ways you can involve Girl Scouts in the process. Could the research, budgeting, coding and/or copywriting be part of a badge or journey for them? Do you know any local web professionals who could come talk to them about the industry, or offer a workshop?
Content
Take care how you represent yourself and Girl Scouts.
- Be sure to have a plan in place to regularly update your website’s content and pages, especially when new information or guidelines become available from Council or GSUSA.
- Maintain professionalism and trustworthiness by keeping an eye on your spelling and grammar.
- You should only link to sites or resources that contain material and advertising that is safe and suitable for children and appropriate for Girl Scouting.
Most importantly, do not violate copyright laws. Girl Scout images and graphics must be used in accordance with brand guidelines from GSUSA. Do not use other trademarked symbols without specific permission from the copyright or trademark holder. When in doubt, contact our Marketing team at marcomm@gsccc.org.
Online Safety
In general, follow the same safety rules you would when posting on social media:
- Do not use last names of minors. Obtain photo permission before posting pictures of girls online both for social media and websites.
- Never give out anyone’s personal information.
- Never list exactly when and where a troop meets or details about events a troop participates in until after the event has occurred.
Setting Up Social Media Accounts
To protect our members, we have developed specific social media guidelines for Girl Scouts of Colonial Coast volunteers to use.
Naming convention: “GSCCC Troop #”
i.e. GSCCC Troop 9999
Girls under 13: Adult Admins Only
Naming convention:
“GSCCC Service Unit #”
i.e. GSCCC Service Unit 999
Be Sensitive About Privacy
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Social Sharing Images
Click to access the full-sized version of each image below, and share them on your social media. Include a link back to our website, or tag us in your post! (And be sure to check out all the Girl Scout GIFs at GIPHY for even more fun social sharing options.)