The Planning and Performance Directorate website updated with the NTRAIN 2012 Evergreen Report.

At NTRAIN 2012, the Planning and Performance Directorate held a two and one-half hour brief based on the most recent Coast Guard Evergreen findings, called Signposts, for the DCOs and their chiefs of staff, the ANACOs and the directors and their deputies. Their thoughts and comments on presentation points and how they apply to the Auxiliary are in the short report found here.

Source [L. Merryman, ANACO-PPd]

In a technical memorandum released this date to all CS officers nationwide and to their unit commanders, the National IT department has declared "end of life" for unit websites built with the prototype pushbutton website platform "WOW". Any unit website not converted to the succesor WOW II platform by 31 March 2012 will be stood down by national, and their content discarded. The announcement comes as WOW II has proven wildly popular, with 321 units standing up WOW II sites since its national rollout in August, 2011 at NACON. Of these, 147 have already petitioned for, and received national approval for listing as a units "official" website.

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The Training Department has received directions from Coast Guard FORCECOM Training (F-T) to move all Coast Guard Auxiliary courses from the current Coast Guard site by May 7th. In response to this directive, the Training Department, working with the Information Technology Group, will form a working team to effect a smooth transition to an alternative site. During this period of time, we do not anticipate any major interruption of service.

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The 2012 VE / PV Workshops Are Available are now available for download on our website. These are Microsoft PowerPoint presentations and can be downloaded from this web page:

http://safetyseal.net/workshops/

Please spread the word to your training officers and VE and PV officers.

Source: [Lillian M Haines DIR-V]