Surprise! It was Twitter!
Engineering background. Former station commander of Wittering and a raft of staff postings including to the Military Aviation Authority.
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Or course it was effing twitter!
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Edit: This was apparently the only interview he’s given… So he likes to keep a low profile AND he seems to still favour the old style Stable Belt. I like him already.
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He is on Twitter himself though @Tony_KeelingRAF.
Currently Air Officer A4.
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An ex cadet too, maybe he’ll remember when we used to fly…
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An engineer. Hmmm.
Might be a solutions guy that doesn’t default to “that needs a form”.
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Also, absolutely loving that they’ve announced this during Volunteers Week and all anyone is shouting about right now on SM is the appointment of a highly paid boss.
Absolutely inept.
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I’m not on twitter, so officially I don’t know who the new boss is yet.
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Neither does anyone who does have Twitter.
Received an e-mail from our Wing Commander at around 8.30pm letting us all know about the new CAC with a link to the interview posted above.
I think he was just on the ball and spotted the SM post!
My OC Wing has emailed it out this evening, with no reference to twitter, so I guess that makes it slightly more official…
It’s on LaSER book of face page, but not the RC’s page 
turns out i was wrong…
I saw on Facebook first, of the Twitter post by Dawn - moments later someone shared a different Twitter post into a WhatsApp group.
I have heard (from someone with HQ Media links) that Dawn did jump the gun on the announcement…!
I have now heard “officially” as our Wing Commander has indicated “its all over SM so some may have seen that…”
Nothing on Sharepoint though
Well I hope his first directive is no announcements etc via SM (email & S/point only) and anyone who does can sod off and or collect their P45.
I made a mistake and thought the current one would be good, based on her RAF Families work, a couple of years in and it was waiting for her to go. Mind you a bloke I met at a RAFA do made a comment of “god help the ATC”, after having seen her in action
I suppose we should be glad we haven’t got an adminner unlike the last 2 and you hope that some of the practical non-prescribed fudge and bodge, that’ll do the trick of the tradesman’s world comes into the ATC at the top and the shackles get loosened a bit.
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I’m not holding out much hope seeing his post today showing his Twitter engagement analytics. And the interview above which made much of his “total safety day” (stand by for more H&S nonsense) and him steering Wittering’s most successful social media engagement.
I guess going in with low expectations is better, less chance of being disappointed
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Wasn’t that more aimed at convincing the locals to be on board with the Chinook deployment? Having once (randomly) been on the receiving end of an earful from a member of the public about a low flying Chinook, I can see why a decent hearts and minds campaign would be worthwhile.
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Having spoken to people in the public eye, they say they have to do SM and update it almost constantly, otherwise people ask what they are up to. My MP has said SM is the one thing that makes being an MP a real bind. You expect all the hullaballoo and so on, but some of the things that come through especially on twitter won’t be missed.
I guess what frustrates some people is the “SM first” mentality.
I think it would be odd, these days, if SM wasn’t heavily used - but I agree that official announcements should be on an official comms channel (email, sharepoint) first - or at least at the same time
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Maybe Dawn should now just do every announcement until the end of her tenure on tiktok… 
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