SIA has developed a solution for groups wishing to move their meetings online. This solution is FREE to groups and SIA and leverages the groups’ existing SIA email account (ending in suffolkny-aa.org) and Google Hangout Meets. If your group hasn’t claimed its SIA email account yet, this is the perfect opportunity to helped them do so. If your group has their account but has misplaced the password, we can help you reset it. If you’re just interested in helping as a moderator but don’t want to use your group’s account, we have a dedicated online meeting moderator account you can use. If your group would like to move your group’s meetings online or would just like to help SIA with one of our online meetings we encourage you to do the following:

1. Participate in one of the SIA hosted meetings held nightly at 8pm. This will allow you see a well moderated online meeting in action.
2. Volunteer to moderate a future meeting. SIA can support you as you grow comfortable with Google Meets and the role of moderator.
3. You can then choose to run your group’s own online meeting, having acquired the necessary tools and experience by then.
4. This meeting could be public to the entire SIA community or private to that you can share the link with a more limited audience

We hope your group opts for the former.

Here is a link to a set of instructions for moderators. This is an evolving document:

https://tinyurl.com/sia-online-meeting-moderator

Here is a link to the script that we are using:

https://tinyurl.com/sia-online-meeting-script

Here is a link to a sheet where you can sign up to moderate an upcoming meeting.

https://tinyurl.com/sia-online-meeting-signup

If you sign up for the first time, please email websup@suffolkny-aa.org your Name, Home Group and Phone Number.