Virtual Meetings

Meetings taking place at the Atlantic Club in West OC are still on as scheduled at this time, in accordance with Mayor Hogan’s guidelines. All other meetings held in area churches and community centers are still temporarily suspended.

Some Home Groups have set up online meetings. If your Home Group is doing this, please email the details to info@ocaa.org and we will post it so others can join in. Here’s some guidance on how to set up a remote meeting with Google Hangout, Zoom or FreeConferenceCall.

Listed below are some Virtual Meetings taking place now in the Ocean City Intergroup:

• 6 pm   Happy Hour via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84911801487   Dial in: +1 (301)-715-8592   Meeting ID: 849 1180 1487   Password: 075822

• Noon   Happy Joyous and Free Women’s group reads “As Bill Sees It” via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86421946835?pwd=cytBUmJLVndrMVhRQVQycFhhWHh0Zz09   Dial in: +1 (301)-715-8592   Meeting ID: 864 2194 6835   Password: 010397

• 8 pm   Free To Be Women’s group via Zoom: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/358229631   Dial in:+1 (301)-715-8592   Meeting ID: 358 229 631   Password: 9S1PSg

• 7 pm   Primary Purpose group Big Book Study Meeting via https://ppgmd.org

• 10 am   Happy, Joyous and Free Women’s group reads “12 and 12” via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84631768850?pwd=S0F3a2xtRWN5WE9QMFlrbCtDRmRZQT09    Dial in:+1 (301)-715-8592    Meeting ID: 846 3176 8850  Password: 313033

Saturday 

• 7 pm   Saturday Night Live! Apr 11, 2020 via Zoom https://us04web.zoom.us/j/954508347?pwd=TDJ0UnNuYmZIYm9Ed1pHQmxEWHR0Zz09   Dial in: +1 (301)-715-8592   Meeting ID: 954 508 347   Password: 646266

Sunday

• 8 pm   CDA (Chemical Dependents Anonymous) • Step To It! via Zoom https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86011984838?pwd=RHdSaTdJSUhpNk5tUE0zcUloZnJmUT09   Dial in: +1 (301)-715-8592   Meeting ID: 860 1198 4838   Password: 611310

Intergroups outside of Area 29 are also maintaining lists of online meetings:

• Southern Delaware
  • https://sussexaa.org/meetings/?tsml-day=any&tsml-type=ONL
•  Baltimore
  • https://baltimoreaa.org/upcoming-phone-online-meetings/
• Hagerstown
  • https://www.hagerstownaa.org/covid-19-updates-for-aa/
• Mid Shore
  • https://1ff6716a-bbac-4643-a36e-8b7bbdaf4807.filesusr.com/ugd/3a7348_e4132bd8c64141cd83fc25ac8cba802e.docx?dn=Conference%20call%20meetings%20v3.docx
• Northeast Maryland
  • https://www.nemdaa.org/virtual-meetings
• Southern Maryland
  • http://www.somdintergroup.org/olm.html
• West Central
  • https://westcentralaa.org/online%20meetings/

Events

District 7 sponsored Zoom Workshop • Saturday 8/8/2020 • 10-N00n • ‘Sponsorship In The Age of Zoom’     Learn More Here

Online Meeting Resources: with the statewide orders to limit in-person gatherings, many of us are experiencing online, virtual, or dial-in meetings for the first time. Please keep in mind that not everyone has online access from their home and consider ways to include those alcoholics in your virtual meetings! I want to highlight a few resources that we’ve run across which might be generally helpful as you participate in or host online or dial-in meetings:

• • Baltimore Intergroup Updates on Virtual Meetings (Anonymity, 7^th Tradition, etc.)
    • https://mailchi.mp/e207727ac28d/covid19announcement32092020-2593798
    • https://mailchi.mp/9d87b5502184/covid19announcement3252020-2596350
      
  • Protecting Anonymity in Zoom Meetings:
    • https://aasfmarin.org/zoom-meetings-protecting-anonymity-default-settings
  • Personal Anonymity in Zoom Meetings:
    • https://aasfmarin.org/maintain-anonymity-online-zoom-meeting
  • Managing Attendees in Zoom Meetings:
    • https://www.nyintergroup.org/managing-meeting-participants/
  • How to Move an AA Meeting Online in Five Simple Steps:
    • https://aasfmarin.org/how-to-move-an-a-a-meeting-online-in-5-simple-steps
  • Setting Up a Remote Meeting:
    • https://aasfmarin.org/setting-up-remote-meetings-help
  • Suggested Best Practices for a Digital Seventh Tradition:
    • https://aasfmarin.org/online-contributions-your-digital-7th-tradition-guide-to-best-practices

AA Grapevine Available Free: the 2020 digital editions of AA Grapevine,as well as the audio versions, are available free online at: https://www.aagrapevine.org/we-are-here-to-help.