GSUSA is Blogging!

Welcome to the modern world - GSUSA! They are now all over the Internet. (Just like our girls are!) They can be found on Facebook (Girl Scouts on Facebook), Twitter (Girl Scouts on Twitter) and now they have their own blog (Girl Scout Blog)! Get the latest updates on Girl Scout news through these great sources! And let them know what you think, ask questions, let the girls who are online ask questions! This is a perfect way for us to access them and help our girls to make their voices heard!

Online Safety for Girls/Parents

I am working on a presentation to some leaders in September on getting our troops/girls on-line. The focus is social networking and how we can make it work for our troops and to teach the girls to use it responsibly. In my web-browsing last week, I stumbled across GSUSA's website in conjunction with Microsoft - Let Me Know: Life On-Line. I thought the site was well done and gives a lot of good information to leaders, girls, and their parents on how to step forward into the social networking part of the world wide web.

Girl Scout Summer

Usually during the summer, we rest and relax from all of our planning for the troop year. This summer is definitely different! We are planning a trip to Washington DC in August. We are going with another troop so the planning has been split, but each troop is visiting different sites. I wrote a page on the planning we have done so far: Take Your Scout Troop to Washington DC. I will update it when we return from DC with anything we have learned!