Getting Down to Business

Well, as you maybe have read, the stuff of getting settled on the Regional Tracking Centers is done.

Some of you might be happy.

They really took your suggestions seriously. I think a few of you might be pleasantly surprised.

As for me, well, I couldn’t care less.

I’m in the news business. Where things like this happen does not matter to me. It’s WHEN things happen that matters to me.

The Regional Tracking Centers will all be in business now very soon. Once they are, my news teams have a place to work in each sector. And that is all that is important.

We can finally get down to business.

The news department here at the North Pole, like every department, takes our duties seriously. We want you to be informed.

That’s why we’re grateful for elves like Elf Westover, who decided on his own to launch his own video news channel. That’s awesome. It gets the word of Santa and the North Pole out there.

We want to encourage elves of all kinds to do it.

Just do it like he does. He asks for news. He wants to do it right so he checks in with Elf Crash a lot. And sometimes with me too. Because he wants it to meet Santa’s expectations.

We really appreciate that. It makes the work the rest of us do a lot easier.

The Regional Tracking Center announcements, to me, are one of the biggest markers of the year. When those are done it’s like everything steps on the gas when it comes to Operation Merry Christmas.

The first half of the year while goofy committees like this one piddle around trying to make a decision the time seems to just crawl. But once they get it done it’s a like a bomb going off.

We suddenly get super busy.

And that is where we’re at right now.

What does that mean for you, a tracker elf?

It means the fun is just starting.

Now, I don’t want to take anything away from Elf Crash. He’s your leader and I don’t know anything other than the news business. So what I’m about to tell you is just advice.

Going forward your Elf Supervisor is going to be asking you to do a few things. It’s not much.

But it’s really important.

In order to do what they are asking – and in order for you to really help Santa – you need to know what’s going on.

That’s where I come in. It is our job in the news department to inform you. We do that through our Official North Pole websites.

There is SantaUpdate.com, the largest and longest running North Pole news website in the world. Everyone goes there and not just elves. You need to visit it DAILY from this point forward.

There is this site – SantaTrackers.net – which is just for tracker elves. That’s right, you guys have this one site for exclusive news that is just for elves. Occasionally you get news here that is not available to the public.

Then there is NorthPoleFlightCommand.com. That’s got news on it, yes, but it does a lot more than what you see. That site, you see, is what connects all the Regional Tracking Centers to the North Pole. It’s the mother ship. Did you know that on Christmas Eve it becomes the largest mobile network in the world? It connects not only all the regional tracking centers to the North Pole but also all the ships of the North Pole Navy and all the sleighs of the North Pole Air Force. All the news elves working remote locations on Christmas Eve use this same portal.

And nobody outside of this huge network is even aware of it. NorthPoleFlightCommand.com is the glue that holds all the moving pieces of Operation Merry Christmas together. As an elf, you should know that.

Now, we have other Official North Pole websites but those are the ones you, a tracker elf, really needs to know and to visit with regularity.

Because they are all going to get buzzing. Very soon.

About this Elf: Elf Ed Zachary

Elf Ed Zachary is Director of News at the North Pole. He oversees all North Pole news outlets - newspapers, websites, radio and television stations.

Ed Zachary has been a force in North Pole journalism for decades, having served for years as a columnist for the North Pole Gazette. He is known as the Defender of Santa Claus, taking on all doubters and scoffers of Santa and his Christmas effort.

As part of his news duties Elf Ed Zachary contributes "news about the news" at the North Pole for the Santa Tracker Herald Star.