XXII. Social Media Procedures

  1. The Inverness Local of the NSTU will use Social Media to inform, encourage participation, and allow the exchange of information between members. All Social Media utilized by the Inverness Local, including FacebookTM, TwitterTM, and the like, will consist of closed private groups, where possible, whereby the content is not visible to anyone outside of the group membership.
  2. Social Media is defined as any website, form of electronic communication and/or application that enable users to create online communities, share content and/or participate in social networking.
  3. Administrators, Moderators and/or the like of Social Media for the Inverness Local (hereon referred to as Administrators/Moderators) will consist of members of the Local Executive, specifically,
    1. Vice-President - Public Affairs
    2. Vice-President - Public Relations
    3. Vice-President - Professional Development
    4. President
    5. Inverness Local Facebook Profile, created solely for this purpose
  4. Membership of Social Media will consist of active, active reserve (per Inverness Local Constitution, Article III, IV and VII respectively), substitute and retired teachers from or priorly serving the Inverness Local.
    1. Exceptions will be made for the Regional Representative Council Chair and President of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union.
  5. Administrators/Moderators of Social Media for the Inverness Local will ensure that all members meet the criteria of membership. Which will involve;
    1. using the features of social media to ask identifying questions, to determine membership criteria, where available
    2. adding members who meet the aforementioned criteria; and,
    3. in some cases, deleting members who do not meet this criteria.
  6. Administrators/Moderators of Social Media for the Inverness Local will ensure that all member posts, tweets or the like meet the criteria of Code of Ethics (as outlined in the NSTU Guidebook, Policy, Section I: Governance, Article 3) and Appropriate Online Cyber Conduct (as outlined in the NSTU Guidebook, Policy, Section VI: General, Article 76). Which will involve,
    1. reading and reviewing posts, tweets and the like to ensure that they meet the aforementioned criteria;
    2. in some cases, deleting posts, tweets and the like that do not meet this criteria;
    3. informing members when they have not met the aforementioned criteria, and that their post, tweet or the like has been deleted; and
    4. removing members when they have not met the aforementioned criteria, for a second and last time.
  7. Regionally elected members and members of the Local Executive will use Social Media for the Inverness Local to post, tweet or the like any relevant information from their respective areas of interest.
  8. Regionally elected members and members of the Local Executive will use Social Media for the Inverness Local to encourage membership participation.
  9. Regionally elected members and members of the Local Executive have a further responsibility to stay neutral in all local and regional elections.
    1. Those members who do not abide by this policy will be removed from the Social Media in question, on their first offense.