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Hot Topics

This section of the site provides a growing collection of very popular topics that have been discussed at length in the TIAA Forum. TIAA’s trusted servants have gathered some of the best information on these topics from within the Forum into a single area for your convenience. The following are some of the topics that can be accessed at this time.

View Current Hot Topics
  • Phone Service for 24/7 Hotline For Alcoholics
    The original poster of this topic to the TIAA Forum requested recommendations for a 24-hour hotline phone service with an app for call forwarding. As you may be aware, a hotline answering service is one of the most important services provided by AA entities like Intergroups since they are often the first point of contact for alcoholics reaching out for help. Several Forum members offered suggestions:
  • A.A. Website Starter Toolkit
    This discussion centers around Recovery Source, a project that offers tools and resources for free and easy-to-own websites for AA and 12-Step programs. This project was spearheaded by an AA member who found their personal recovery journey greatly delayed by their inability to find accurate meeting data (i.e. meetings that still exist).
  • Electronic Voting for A.A. Purposes
    Discussions in the TIAA Forum explore various electronic voting options for Area Assemblies within A.A. Several members of the Forum shared their experiences and recommendations on electronic voting solutions. The discussion highlights the need for secure, affordable, and user-friendly electronic voting solutions for A.A. Area Assemblies, with DirectPoll emerging as a popular choice. Several Areas are actively exploring and testing different platforms to find the best fit for their needs.
  • Fellowship Connection
    Fellowship Connection is an AAWS database and associated process for record keeping of groups, districts and areas. GSRs, DCMs and Registrars/TCOs can use their unique login to Fellowship Connection to enter information, generate and utilize reports listing information about groups, districts, and areas, as well as the latest contact data, including email addresses and phone numbers.
  • Google Workspace for Non-profits
    Many of our service organizations have begun utilizing or considering Google Workspace under its free non-profit license for eligible entities. The Google Workspace suite, when strategically implemented, can enhance our support for service organizations and for those in recovery.
  • Migrating a Website to New Web Hosting
    Discussion on migrating a website to new hosting is widely varied within the forum. Members of the forum have outlined several methods in this Hot Topic.
  • A.A. Archives Category
    The TIAA Forum now has a specific Category devoted to the service work of Archives and archivists. Within that Archives Category, AA members can share their experience, strength, and hope in leveraging technology to support that work.
  • Code for Recovery (C4R)
    A community of volunteers in service building and maintaining open source solutions to help the recovery community meet, organize, and recover from addiction.
  • Hybrid Meetings
    Experience from our contributors suggests the “Hybrid Meeting” may be here to stay. We’ve assembled some suggestions for your reference.
  • Digital 7th Tradition
    Numerous options are currently in use, including Venmo, PayPal, Zelle, Cash App, and Square.

The Forum

The Forum is for A.A. members to share about using technology for accomplishing the primary purpose of A.A. We range from technology giants to complete novices just interested in the subject. All are AA members or support AA technology, and  all are welcome.

To join the forum, sign up or email: info@tiaa-forum.org.

You can come here to:

  • Share your experience about using technology in A.A.
  • Ask questions about how to use technology in A.A.
  • Just follow the many discussions to see how technology is being used in A.A.
  • Share your progress as you explore or develop technology in support of A.A.
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By the group conscience of the members, this forum is only open to members of AA and those non-members of AA supporting AA services (e.g. Intergroup offices, AA service structure, etc.).

Topic interests:

If you are interested in conversations in more than one  technical topic area (e.g. web sites, answering services, virtual meetings, etc.) or have a general curiosity about AA discussions in general (e.g. topics above and beyond technology like committees and group dynamics), you would probably want to select the default “General” option.

If your primary interest is in Archives only, you probably want to select the “Archives” option. Note that with either option, you will still have access to all topics on the forum but with the “Archives” option, your “home screen” will automatically place you in the “Archives” category where most of those conversations happen.