October 2-4, 2015
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FRIDAY, October 02, 2015
105 – The Responsive Website; An Introduction
1:45 pm || Presenter: Ross D., Area 54
Explain why mobile-friendly design matters for AA websites and compare responsive design with other approaches for serving visitors across devices.
106 – The Responsive Website in Action
2:30 pm || Presenter: Brouck H., Area 06
Demonstrate how responsive website principles work in practice, including templates, Bootstrap-style frameworks, content cleanup, images, maps, and long-term maintenance.
110 – Q&A Workshop: Our Traditions & Concepts; They Work Well With Technology
3:15 pm || Presenters: Don M., Area 10; Yoli Flores, SWR Trustee
Connect AA’s traditions and concepts to technology service by focusing on conflict, group conscience, responsibility, and principled decision-making.
115 – The Road We Are Traveling
4:15 pm || Presenters: Blaine B., Brouck H.
Explore the early need for a shared technology service space and the questions that shaped the workshop’s purpose, structure, and future direction.
120 – Conversational Back Channels at AA Assemblies
5:15 pm || Presenter: Fred M., Area 49
Explore how real-time online back channels can increase engagement, accessibility, and shared participation at AA assemblies.
SATURDAY, October 03, 2015
200 – The Successful AA Website AA
8:30 am || Presenters: Maury P., Michael P., aasf.org, Area 06
Show how an integrated intergroup website can reduce duplicate work by connecting meeting data, office workflows, volunteers, and public information.
210 – Accessibility: DEAF AA; “Can Technology help carry the message to the Deaf member?”
9:30 am || Presenters: Virginia M. [moderator], John R. Area 75 D16; Roger C.
Explore how ASL resources, interpretation models, online meetings, and accessibility planning can help carry AA’s message to deaf and hard-of-hearing members.
220 – Drupal – Everything you wanted to know
11:00 am || Presenter: Doug G. Area 14
Introduce Drupal as a content management system and community, while demystifying the web technologies that support AA websites.
225 – Central Office/Intergroup technical infrastructure; Q&A Workshop
1:30 pm || Evaluate central office and intergroup infrastructure needs across phones, voicemail, databases, contact management, reporting, and office technology planning.
240 – User Experience (UX) best practices for AA websites
2:30 pm || Presenters: Lois L., Area 38; Melissa E., Area 51
Apply user experience principles to AA websites by focusing on newcomers, meeting searches, accessibility, findability, credibility, and real user behavior.
245 – Intro to Design Studio method: A way to involve groups in technology design
3:00 pm || Presenters: Lois L., Area 38, Melissa E., Area 51
Practice a design studio method that helps groups sketch, present, critique, and combine ideas for AA technology projects.
253 – Unity through communication planning and greater cooperation
4:30 pm || Presenter: Josh E.
Challenge AA service entities to plan communication more intentionally across websites, public information, social media, and shared messaging.
SUNDAY, October 04, 2015
301 – Where do we go from here? The need and the issues
9:00 am || Presenters: Blaine B., Brouck H.
Outline the next structural questions for the technology workshop, including year-round conversation, steering work, host committees, and organizational responsibility.