The MoD not following it’s own directives and policy???
NEVER! I can’t believe it. I won’t have it. NEVER!
(Is that sarcastic enough?) 
:lol:
E-links only work as long as the documents don’t change location, many of the alerts I get seem to refer to purely “cosmetic”/administrative alterations and not material changes. If you went back to a CRO 2/3 months old to look something up and relied on links, chances are some of the things will moved. I wouldn’t like to rely on our chums in the ivory towers to realise.
The other irritation is having to login when you use links in emails, I just want the info/document without the faffing around.
With the introduction of SharePoint I made our Wing bin its Wing Routine Orders. The announcements were added to the Site Announcements, the upcoming events were added to the Site Calendar and the Personnel Updates and Awards became its own document which is uploaded to the document library.
I set up the whole wing to receive SharePoint alerts on the Announcements, Calendar and soon to be Document Library on a weekly basis so that they should catch all updates. There is no need to maintain a WRO anymore and it could be argued in the same way that we should just get rid of CROs too.
I’d much rather read a thought out, put together, edited document about what’s relevant than shift through dozens of sharepoint announcements.
It’s a few hours work for someone at one end that would save hundreds of (un-paid) man-hours at the coal-face.
[quote=“mike gormley” post=12098]With the introduction of SharePoint I made our Wing bin its Wing Routine Orders. The announcements were added to the Site Announcements, the upcoming events were added to the Site Calendar and the Personnel Updates and Awards became its own document which is uploaded to the document library.
I set up the whole wing to receive SharePoint alerts on the Announcements, Calendar and soon to be Document Library on a weekly basis so that they should catch all updates. There is no need to maintain a WRO anymore and it could be argued in the same way that we should just get rid of CROs too.[/quote]
Random links go un read unless people see some form of interest to them, but a single doccument of relevant information will largely get read.
I get email updates for a newspaper for specialist bits, but I read the print edition daily. Online documents are OK to a point, but a printed document can be easily scanned by the eye. In these days of small screen mobile devices reading anything becomes a chore and people don’t bother. Then there is the format, I’ve got Office 2003 probably like the majority of people and getting 2010+ versions are veritable nuisance, PDF is best IMO.
Mentioned this to the CAC on Saturday, she didn’t even know that CROs existed, she had an idea there was something but had not seen one in her 15 months in post. She has advised that this is passed onto the ABRT.
so how come they have her name at the top of them!
she was may told they are the same as SRO’s so maybe that’s why she was unaware
To be unaware something has your name on it after being in post for so long is a disgrace.
I think it says more about her subordinates than it does about her…