A friend of mine in a different Wing to myself has just shared some information about how one of their Wing’s WSOs has apparently demanded admin rights to every sqn’s social media accounts and website, etc.
On top of this there’s apparently a requirement to post X number of posts per week about certain topics.
In case other Wings start demanding this level of access, what rights / authority do they have to require this kind of thing? Or alternatively, what rights would we as sqns have to refuse it?
Mt wing has wg staff as memberes of all of the sqn open and closed FB pages so they can monitor what is posted. The WG MCO also admins all wing pages.
Never heard of any wg staff wanting admin rights. Ideas above their station i think
I can understand WSO’s being admin’s/moderators on SM groups for squadrons in their sector, but not really an entire wing (other than an MCO)
A nice idea to encourage sqn’s to be pushing out the same topic/message across a wing and doing so regularly, but it’s surely not feasible for that to mandatory.
What rights do they have to demand it? No reason that a complaint can’t go up the chain that people are overstepping the mark there.
I get the point but if anyone had extra time to plan this / execute it then I’m sure something else would be missing (i.e. some form of training or admin) unless a squadron has a large staff…
Actually, I’d welcome it. It provides good oversight and transparency. I dont see it as big brotherly - merely ensuring we’re doing what we’re meant to.
We have specific Wg groups - normally lead by a specialist WSO or Wg Team. They work very well for special interest areas, gleaning knowledge and support and sharing good practice.
I also know theres a series of wing WhatsApp groups. Some are known to WSOs. Some aren’t. Would be interesting to see if the SM police want full access of these too!!! Or whether they will simply be renamed something… the Port and Cheese Club for example.
An Orwellian mandatory action to control SM action would just push this activity underground, as the operators are far nore clever than the rule enforcers.
Leave us alone and deal with the minority that flaunt the established rules!!
I don’t really have an issue with Wing having access to closed Squadron Grouos, there is some sense in having external oversight of this. (They can live with all the “what’s the uniform and what time do I have to be there” questions x30).
What I don’t see the point of is then having access to the public facing pages, they can see what these are posting anyway so they don’t need access.
The only reason would be transparency of the PM/DM function. Or if they wanted to post a million spam messages from all accounts so the message across the wg is “on point”.
I’ll tell them to do.one. they clearly forgot about data protection and the need to know rule. WSO or not they have no more rights than anyone else, they cant police it in any way. If fact theres nothing to stop a Sqn setting up another page or for cadets to bomb the page will messages etc to P them off
