Outcome of EMDO training

Well, the EMDO and EM staff training day went really well last week. It was a good opportunity to work our way through the activation procedures and practice everything we've talked about and documented.

I'm sure some of the things were new for a few of the team so this would have been a significant learning curve. We only had a couple of minor equipment hiccups but that just proves that having an IT duty officer is important too. William Gordon and

Alistair Williams helped out during the day to resolve any technical issues.

We also practiced send an SMS via our message media site - its really the first time

we've had the HorizonsEM user logged on in

several places at once. I think this fact is partly to blame (but that won't stop the shout) for Rosco sending an SMS to a rather random list... asking 'where's da emergency?' Not sure how that happened! Anyway Rosco - make mine a Tui!

We have also decided to use CIMS language in our accounts so we've now set up HorizonsPlanningIntel, HorizonsOperations and HorizonsLogistics accounts in Groove, gmail and Skype. The base account used in the Comms Room for generic e-mail and warnings is still HorizonsEM.