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title: "WTD Australia event recording – ‘Remote discussion: Techcomm in the times of pandemic’"
date: 2020-05-31
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# WTD Australia event recording – ‘Remote discussion: Techcomm in the times of pandemic’

> I recently co-presented in a [WTD Australia event](https://www.meetup.com/Write-the-Docs-Australia) titled [Techcomm in the times of pandemic](https://www.meetup.com/Write-the-Docs-Australia/events/270641270/) on May 28, 2020. The other presenter was professor Kirk St. Amant. A recording is available below.

## Watch the event

[Video: Video](https://www.youtube.com/embed/RbQOFgBRnGk)

## Audio only

If you only want the audio, you can listen here:

**Listen here:**

[Audio](https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/podcasts/wtdaustralia_pandemic_discussion.mp3)

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## Event description

You can read the event description here: [Remote discussion: Techcomm in the times of pandemic](https://www.meetup.com/Write-the-Docs-Australia/events/270641270/)

> Tom recently put out a survey [https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/quarantine-pandemic-impact-on-tech-comm-survey/](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/quarantine-pandemic-impact-on-tech-comm-survey/)
>
> Kirk published an article about the tech comm facets of the pandemic that health communicators have been working in or against [https://communicating-about-covid19.weebly.com/](https://communicating-about-covid19.weebly.com/)

[![](https://s3.us-west-1.wasabisys.com/idbwmedia.com/images/wtdaustraliaeventpandemic.png)](https://www.meetup.com/Write-the-Docs-Australia/events/270641270/)

## What we chatted about

We talked about two main topics, primarily. First, the [results of the pandemic survey](https://www.questionpro.com/t/PGzGMZhSHg). (I also recently posted thoughts about this here: [Results of Pandemic Impact on Tech Comm survey](https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/results-of-pandemic-impact-on-tech-comm-survey/).)

Second, we discussed the pandemic from the health tech comm perspective, specifically looking at information in some essays Kirk has written on this topic:

- [Communicating about Covid-19](https://communicating-about-covid19.weebly.com/)
- [Prepositions for Planning Post-COVID-19 Processes](https://communicating-about-covid19.weebly.com/prepositions-for-planning-post-covid-19.html)