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communications committee


Budget
2019 - 2021 Plan
2023 - 2025 Plan
The District 16B Communications Committee was formed in 2011 to coordinate and manage the District's Hotline service and to develop and maintain the District 16B website. In addition, a trifold meeting schedule was maintained until 2020. The District currently makes use of Area 16's database of meetings to provide local meeting schedules. By using Area 16's resources, a single source of data is maintained thus reducing confusion and duplication of effort.

We are working on a way to provide meeting schedule data for groups that are not registered with G.S.O. and to again provide a printable trifold schedule.
Contact webmaster@athensaa.org for access to shared cloud storage

​committee members

  • Share with their homegroup monthly Communications Committee minutes
  • Participate in serving on one of five existing "subcommittees":
    • Hotline - Team Lead & five volunteers
    • Website - Webmaster, Co-Webmaster
    • Facebook Page - Admin, Moderator
    • Online Digital Storage - Technical Admin
    • Printed Meeting Schedule - Editor
  • Actively seek to provide assistance to all District Service Committees

Service projects

Hotline

All phone calls & text messages are forwarded via Google Voice to volunteer's mobile phones. We have six people answering incoming calls and text messages at any one time; therefore, someone is always readily available. This also gives every person an equal opportunity to answer, so no one individual takes all calls.

This is an extremely important form of Twelfth Step service, as many of our callers are contacting Alcoholics Anonymous for the first time. ​

hotline handbook

If you are interested in volunteering for District 16B's Hotline, send us a message here.
At least one year of sobriety required

Website

OUR POLICY/GOALS
  • Provide accurate and consistent information about Alcoholics Anonymous to the general public, media, students, professionals, current members and to the still-suffering alcoholic who wishes to know how to contact A.A. or to determine if his or her drinking is a problem.
  • Facilitate the communication of services and activities provided by District 16B.
  • Encourage participation of members, groups and committees in services and activities.
  • Be vigilant in protecting the spirit of A.A. Tradition and not affiliating or linking our website to any non-AA entity.
  • Provide a website solely for public information, merely a general service vehicle.
  • As a committee, welcome suggestions

Website Policy
Frequently Asked Questions about A.A. websites

FACEBOOK PAGE - Private

Anonymity serves two different yet equally vital functions:
  1. At the personal level, anonymity provides protection for all members from identification as alcoholics, a safeguard often of special importance to newcomers.
  2. At the public level of press, radio, TV, films and other media technologies such as the Internet, anonymity stresses the equality in the Fellowship of all members by putting the brake on those who might otherwise exploit their AA affiliation to achieve recognition, power, or personal gain.
When using digital media, AA members are responsible for their own anonymity and that of others. When we post, text, or blog, we should assume that we are publishing at the public level. When we break our anonymity in these forums, we may inadvertently break the anonymity of others.

Today, Facebook and other social networking websites are public in nature. Though users create accounts and utilize usernames and passwords, once on the site, it is a public medium where AA members and non-AAs mingle.


As long as individuals do not identify themselves as AA members, there is no conflict of interest.

However, someone using their full name and/or a likeness, such as a full-face photograph, would be contrary to the spirit of the Eleventh Tradition, which states in the Long Form that, “…our [last] names and pictures as A.A. members ought not be broadcast, filmed or publicly printed.”


By General Service Office of Alcoholics Anonymous

online digital storage

OUR POLICY/GOALS​

Tri-fold meeting schedule

OUR POLICY/GOALS​

For anyone interested in service opportunities with the Communications Committee, please use this contact form.

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