November 29. 2009 by admin.

Minus seven of the final shows is up: Clancy I discusses Steps 1 2 and 3 from the Stateline conference.

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July 30. 2009 by admin.

The next VSM goes up this week, and after the next one, I’ll be offering a complete MP3 disk of Season One on a computer CD.  30 speakers … and I’m going to ask money (gasp). $5 for the CD shipped.While working on the Newcomer and Sponsorship self-paced educational disks, an idea came up. It is for a sign for sponsorship and if you like it, feel free to snag it (option-click on Mac, left click on Windows) and use it. Let me know where you are using it so I can go see. This is a Creative Commons, Noncommercial, No Alterations, Share Alike with Attribution as (anonymousreview.org) … for commercial license, get in touch with me.

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December 28. 2008 by admin.

The newsletter is up and out.  It is NOT being sent with a large mailing list.  One person will forward it to the people we think might be interested. You need to subscribe directly if you want to receve the news on ANONYMOUS REVIEW PODCAST, THE VIRTUAL SPEAKER MEETING, and the new series of instructional CDs for recovery.

If you don’t subscribe, you aren’t on the list. And if you are on the list we do not share our lists with <i>anybody!</i>

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December 5. 2008 by admin.

Happy Holidays, whatever those holidays may be. And if you don’t do “holidays” you might get a paid day off of work, but you have a very good chance for another day of Recovery.In the coming year we hope to improve Anonymous Review - and to keep the improvements coming.

First, ANONYMOUS REVIEW PODCAST will go to weekly, with more on AA History and a new focus on aspects of Recovery covered by specific speakers or mulit-part presentations from AA events around the world.

Listening to all those speakers from AA while finding the speakers for the Anonymous Review has brought up a LOT of really great speakers.  You can download hundreds of these speakers in MP3 files from the web (my highest recommendation goes to XA-Speakers.org in Iceland, but there are other sources on the links page of the Anonymous Review). We have enjoyed listening to great AA speakers and have decided to so the work of presenting them in a format as a new, companion podcast to Anonymous Review.  It is the Anonymous Review Virtual Speaker Meeting, once a week.  You can download it for your MP3 player, or computer, or to burn to a CD, or listen to it online. Unlike the regular podcast, we will not be leaving the old editions up for later reference.  We have a free service hosting our podcast and there are limits on the space available for storage.

You can listen at the day and time of your choosing, but after that speaker is gone, you can go to the next Virtual meeting.

We will be extracting topics from the Sunday  night introduction to the Big Book that was done over the past few years at a local recovery center. It won’t be a podcast, but a website where you can pick a topic and hear what these guys from the homeless shelter and the detox center heard. The working title is Big Book 101 and it will probably go up in early spring - we are still editing the excerpts.And a small group of us are working on a series of disks for educational purposes. They won’t be a replacement for meetings or sponsors or working the steps, but may be helpful. The first disk is for newcomers with lots of information and dozens of speakers specifically addressing issues for early recovery.

It will be a CD that plays on Windows, Mac and UNIX systems with a simple web-page interface so you can proceed at your own pace, and repeat something as long as you like. It will be sold, but is produced under a Creative Commons license, so buyers are free to duplicate the disk for friends.  It will be cheap - like $5 including shipping - but can be useful. Similar “educational” disks are being planned for Stepwork and Sponsorship. There will be an online preview and a simple click-to-by button to order.  Look for that toward the beginning of Summer (sooner if we can).

2009 looks to be an interesting year - more Anonymous Review regular podcasts, the new Anonymous Review Virtual Speaker Meeting, the Big Book 101 Project and the Newcomer’s Disk, first of the series of proposed “educational” disks.  All that and maintaining our own recoveries.

But it can all be one, one day at a time. Right now we’re working on the next podcast - our holiday show.  It won’t be a speaker talking about any of the official religious, but a man from 1948 with a much stronger “Christian” approach than most modern speakers, which is very common in early AA. But his message of Recovery is worth hearing … and from 60 years ago, it seemed like a good present.

Also, there is a comedy bit at the end we hope you will enjoy.

Whatever your beliefs, have a good Today with everything you need for a sober Tomorrow.

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October 3. 2008 by admin.

Over the past year I have had a lot of satisfaction with this podcast.  It is clear that it needs to be approached on a more serious/respectful level.

The ‘cast needs a schedule.  My target is a minimum of one per month, on the 16th of each month, until the end of the year.

In January it will go to a minimum of two times per month, and *IF* I can do more, I will.

The ‘cast will continue to focus on the personalities of early recovery, and there are other things I want to do.

Right now I am collecting talks on the Steps.  My intent is to extract fifteen or twenty speakers talking about how they approach each step and produce them into documentary style podcasts for download.  Maybe an hour per show, so it may take several shows to cover one step

A similar thing would be by topic; prayer, serenity, family, forgiveness, etc.

I also want to provide some resources for Sponsorship so I am taking about 9 differentt talks about sponsorship and produce a similar documentary.  There are also  whole talks and files I want to make available, so I will start a disk service.  Almost everything is available on the web and those URLs will be made available on that side, but I will offer to burn a disk with these materials for some fee - like $5 shipped Media Mail in the US, or 5 for $20.

But the most important change is the podcast is that I will stop “winging it.”  To this point I hae just rurned on the recorder and chatted as things came to mind.  Improvisation.  For the programs after #8 I am going to do a simple script and read it - just like I used to do on the electric radio.

It is clear to me that this podcast project is for me and it keeps me focused and sober.  It is my hope that others can get someting of value from the shows.  The ancillary productions are just an extension of that desire.

One day I may grow beyond desire.

I haven’t done so yet.

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September 30. 2008 by admin.

I have pulled togetehr a good number of talks on Sponsorship, as well as a good number of support documents for sponsors and sponcees/pigeons/babies/protogés.

The plan is to put these together and publish it as a cheap disk on eBay. I think it will include some material on traditions and service and all be pulled together with a web page front end.  People will be able to read the material online from the CD, download to a hard disk, transfer MP3s to their iPods or other players, and share the whole shebang to whoever they like.

I like hearing different people’s versions of topics because it provides an arsenal of choices to use with a newcomer.  One size does NOT fit all, and people need to be addressed where they are, not at the level someone thinks they should be.

I’m thinking $5, including shipping within the U.S.  About 600 Megs of materail, with 400+ of that being talks. I cana provide links to more material on the web, but the 50-60 talks and documents should keep them busy for a while.

Any Comments?

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