ANNISTON ARMY DEPO, Ala. -- Last month, the Strategic Communications Office asked you to take a survey and tell us how The Morning Show and TRACKS were doing with communication and what topics you were most interested in seeing in the future.
Your response was phenomenal.
More than 1,100 of you took the time to send in your response and, right from the start of this, I want you to know that we hear you.
Overwhelmingly, the response was that you want more.
On The Morning Show, you want more Closer Looks with offices, work areas, directorates and divisions throughout the installation. You want to know what people who don't work in your area do every day in support of the war fighters and you want to let them know what you do.
Both on the show and in the newspaper, you want to see more on safety and health issues.
You want more about training, retirement, personnel topics as well as events, facilities and services offered by our Directorate of Family and Morale, Welfare and Recreation.
The best part is that we really want to give you all that information.
We look forward to coming into your work areas and sharing what you do with the rest of the depot.
Throughout the next few months, we'll have conversations with the Civilian Personnel Advisory Center, DFMWR and every directorate, staff office and tenant on the installation. We'll talk to them about telling their story and sharing information with the workforce.
Even as we create new content based on your feedback, we want you to know you will be able to access the information we provide no matter where you are.
For TRACKS, we have an online archive that goes back to July 18, 2013. Anyone, anywhere in the world, who has internet access can go to Anniston Army Depot's website, click the TRACKS link, click the link to view older issues and access any issue released since July 2013.
You can view those issues at work, from your home computer or even from your phone -- anywhere you have internet access, you have TRACKS.
In addition to that, the top articles from each issue are uploaded to an Army website, placed on the depot's home page and linked on our Facebook page.
Want to see what the top articles from May of last year were? Scroll through our Facebook page and you'll find them.
Interested in a specific topic and want to see if we've covered it? Our Facebook page is searchable. So, if we used a key word you are looking for in a post, it can easily be found.
The Morning Show's archives, are a little less accessible to the public. But, here on the depot, if you have Intranet access, you have access to past episodes of The Morning Show dating back to Oct. 15, 2008.
For those who don't have Intranet access, we've begun to use ANAD's YouTube channel to share segments.
Want to see Col. Joel Warhurst's interview from the Aug. 2 Morning Show? It's on YouTube.
Were you in our Army Birthday video in June? It's on YouTube as well.
So are many other things -- Closer Looks from the labs, the Choose to Lose competition, the Anniston Museum of Natural History and even our Skills Development Center as well as highlights from the Change of Command ceremony.
You can also see our depot video there and show your family what your workplace does every day.
Strategic Communications plans to add more from each Morning Show in the future.
If you haven't been to our YouTube page or our Facebook page to see what is shared there, I strongly recommend you take a look. You may find something you missed.
I hope you continue to watch and read what we produce.
SCO NEEDS YOUR HELP
Of the 1,147 respondents to the communication survey, 89.88 percent watch The Morning Show and 91.54 percent receive TRACKS.
Of those, 91.85 percent of you think Strategic Communications does well with the show and 91.7 percent of you believe we do well with TRACKS.
To continue to meet your expectations and to improve, we need your help.
If you are a supervisor, division chief, staff officer or director, do you want to brag on those who work with you and for you? I hope that encompasses all of you and I encourage you to call us.
We want to feature your work area(s) in TRACKS and on The Morning Show. We want to showcase the amazing work your employees -- whether they are artisans in the shops or accountants in budgeting -- do in support of the troops.
We can't tell your story without you. Call us at Ext. 6281.
If you are an employee who reads TRACKS or watches The Morning Show, encourage your coworkers to do so as well. Keeping a workforce as large as ours informed of events, workload, shop operations, personnel issues, training opportunities and so much more takes all of us.
We write articles about it, place it on the LAN and share it on the show, but, sometimes, it takes you reminding those in your area to ensure we have an audience.
Commit our phone number to memory. If there is a topic we should place in TRACKS or address on The Morning Show, call us.
You don't ever have to wait for a survey to speak your mind. Like we said on The Morning Show the day the surveys were distributed, the ANAD workforce is our customers and we strive to do our job well.
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