New local leadership teams are stepping into place now and will be training up over the summer as they prepare for the fall semester. Each region is hosting a W.I.L.D. Leadership Weekend for training these teams and it will be a time of great fun, fellowship and rich learning.
One of the first things a team needs to establish, however, is communication and perhaps that can’t wait until your W.I.L.D. weekend so here’s a quick tip to get you on the road to communications success.
Each local installation worldwide has been issued a pwoc.org mailbox. The mailbox username will match the installation name followed by ‘@pwoc.org.’ For example, Fort Bragg’s webmail address is Bragg@pwoc.org. Identifiers like Fort, AFB, NAS, etc. have been eliminated for these addresses. Other mailboxes used on the local level (that do not end with @pwoc.org) should be phased out over time.
Transitioning to these new mailboxes has multiple benefits, as follows:
- Communication within PWOC is streamlined, as the local PWOC email address would never change. Communication from International or Regional leadership is more reliable and local leaders would be easier to find for ladies new to the installation looking for PWOC;
- Using an installation email address on the PWOC website’s Installation Locator, and other locations on the website, eliminates the need to update information with each rotation of local leaders, and the lag time of communicating those changes;
- Using installation email addresses allows us to eliminate personal email addresses on the PWOC website;
- When doing PWOC business with outside vendors, using the PWOC email address gives credibility to the ministry and to those doing business on the ministry’s behalf;
- Local PWOC’s can use this new email address in publicity efforts (ie. newspaper) again eliminating the use of personal contact information in public media.
If you are a new local leader and haven’t received information about your official webmail account, please reach out to your regional administrative coordinator to get up to speed as soon as possible. Remember, there are many families PCS’ing this summer and some of them may be looking for you!
Find contact info for regional leadership teams here.
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