National A.A. Technology Workshop
Presenter: Blaine B. || Outline the next structural questions for the technology workshop, including year-round conversation, steering work, host committees, and organizational responsibility.
Presenter: Fred M. || Explore how real-time online back channels can increase engagement, accessibility, and shared participation at AA assemblies.
Presenter: Josh E. || Challenge AA service entities to plan communication more intentionally across websites, public information, social media, and shared messaging.
Presenter: 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.
Presenter: 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.
Evaluate central office and intergroup infrastructure needs across phones, voicemail, databases, contact management, reporting, and office technology planning.
Presenter: Doug G., Area 14 || Introduce Drupal as a content management system and community, while demystifying the web technologies that support AA websites.
Presenter: John R., Roger C., Area 75, District 16 || Explore how ASL resources, interpretation models, online meetings, and accessibility planning can help carry AA’s message to deaf and hard-of-hearing members.
Presenter: Maury P., Michael P. Area 06, San Francisco/Marin Intergroup || Show how an integrated intergroup website can reduce duplicate work by connecting meeting data, office workflows, volunteers, and public information.
Presenter: 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.
Presenter: 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.
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.
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.