Announcements include special meetings or social events, and other business items. Members will sometimes announce here that they plan to be absent at the next meeting for vacation or some other reason. Members here share such events as sobriety anniversaries, relapses, job losses or promotions, graduations, marriages, births, deaths, injuries, and the like. After announcements and special concerns comes the main part of the meeting. How this is handled varies from meeting to meeting.
Some meetings simply go to open discussion with no definite theme.
Below are some of the points you may want to consider when deciding which format to use. Sharing is an exclusively one-way form of communication. It is a monologue. In crosstalk, a person expects a response and may respond in turn, creating a conversation. If you use the topic system, you will want a person to introduce the topic and get the talk rolling.