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AREA 62 WEBSITE COMMITTEE
This Committee has been in existence since 1999. It became official in
the revised Structures and Procedures of October 2001. Prior to the creation of the
Website Committee, a member suggested to the Area Assembly that we ought to have a website
for public information purposes (sometime in 1996!). The Assembly allowed him to develop
a draft site, but he retired from the effort due to health reasons. A second member
offered to resume creation of the website. We owe the site's general layout decisions to
her work. She set up the district folders and group, weekday, and news pages. She
organized the first committee of District representatives and began the tradition of
member participation in site maintenance using FrontPage. When her server went out of
business, the Committee scrambled to revive the site. A few revisions were instituted, and
the Committee developed Guidelines for our website. A screenshot of
the website in 2002 is included below.
Those Guidelines and the Committee's adherence to A.A.'s Traditions
contributed to the trust the Area 62 Assembly placed in the Website Committee. Mistakes
were made and rectified. The website expanded to allow our standing
Service Committees room to describe in detail their responsibilities and activities in
South Carolina. The Area Newsletter, Keeping In Touch aka KIT,
went online in PDF files. The Committee participated in our (and other) Delegate's
expression of concern that the General Service Conference, through the Public Information
Committee or a Secondary Committee, should have oversight of the A.A.W.S. Board's
development and implementation of the aa.org website.
In 2004, our new Website Coordinator recommended an overhaul, mostly in the
color and design, of our entire site. A few internal layout changes were made and
additional directories were added. Email contacts for all Area trusted servants became
available through our server. A members-only section was added for posting confidential
Area-specific items. A virus driven spam attack resulted in revision of the update process
by the Districts. The changes and updates were completed in 2005 with the help of
dedicated web reps all over the Area. A member of the Committee suggested an online
database-driven meeting lookup section with a simpler interface for our District web
representative to update and maintain. This improvement is still being designed.
Our website is fully funded by the Area. Since it was designed and is
maintained by members, the expense is very reasonable. We have assisted other Areas in the
development of their sites. The Website Committee and
Coordinator work closely with the Area
Secretary, each Service Committee, Intergroup, and the Area Registrar to assure that
information posted on the website is as accurate and up-to-date as possible.
Thank you for your interest in our Area 62 Website Committee. Please email
comments, questions and concerns to the address link above. |
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Guidelines for the Area 62
SC Alcoholics Anonymous Web Site Committee |
- The Area 62 Web Site Committee is organized under the provisions of
Article VI - Committees, in the "Suggested Procedures
of the South Carolina General Service Assembly of Alcoholics Anonymous." Regular
meetings of the Committee are held at each Area 62 Assembly.
- The Committee shall consist of a Web Site Coordinator, appointed by the Area
Officers, and Web Site Representatives appointed by each District of Area 62 to
coordinate, manage and, if possible, upload their data for the web site. Other
interested members of the Area are welcome.
- The Area Finance Committee shall include a reasonable line item for Web Site
Committee expenses in the annual budget for Area 62. The Area Treasurer shall
reimburse the Committee for expenses at regular intervals.
- The Committee shall create an Area 62 Web Site conforming, in all of its details,
to G.S.O. suggestions for AA web sites found at the AA link above.
- The Web Site shall be simple, easy to navigate, and include, at the least, pages
for each Service Committee and for each District to list
registered group meeting schedules, news,
events, contact information, and printable schedules.
- No links to internet sites outside the Area 62 Web Site are allowed on District,
Group or Committee pages.
The only exceptions are as follows:
- Links to the official Alcoholics Anonymous and Grapevine Web Sites.
- Email forwarding links to Web Site Reps and other Group
and Area contacts.
- Links to Expedia Maps for Group meeting place addresses. An alert box has been
implemented to tell viewers they are exiting our website.
- Requested copyright or acknowledgement links for CGI or Javascript
programs used with permission. These links should be on the HTML document,
but invisible to viewers of the web site.
- A page listing other United States and Canada AA Area web sites provided
and updated by the Area Delegate. (No longer applies; we link to G.S.O.'s list.)
- Other web pages are welcome to link to our site; i.e., Intergroups, non-aligned
District or Group web pages, and alcoholism help or referral sites.
- The Web Site Chairperson shall provide to the Web Site Reps directions clearly
outlining the process of uploading and updating information on the website (see link below).
- The Web Site hosting account contact and address, login, password, DNS administration
and technical data, all billing account numbers, and any other pertinent information,
shall be in the possession of more than one member of the Committee.
- Records of the progress of this Committee; consisting of meeting minutes,
guidelines, and such periodic electronic backup of the web site deemed appropriate;
shall be turned over to the Archives Committee to provide historical reference for
future Web Site Committees.
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