Remote discussion: Techcomm in the times of pandemic

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Speakers: Tom Johnson and Kirk St.Amant

Context

Tom recently put out a 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/

Agenda

12:00pm - 12:10pm: Introductions and Welcome
12:10pm - 12:20pm: Kirk talks about the article and how this came about
12:20pm - 12:30pm: Tom provides context on the survey and results
12:30pm - 12:40pm: Discussion
12:45pm - 13:10pm: Participant questions (via chat)
13:15 pm: Wrap up

About the speakers

Tom Johnson is a senior technical writer for Amazon in Sunnyvale, California. He is best known for his blog, which has one of the largest followings in the tech comm community.

Tom has also created an extensive online API documentation course that has helped hundreds of technical writers transition into API documentation.

Kirk St.Amant is the Eunice C. Williamson Chair in Technical Communication at Louisiana Tech University where he is also a member of the University’s Center for Biomedical Engineering and Rehabilitation Science (CBERS) and serves as the Director of the University’s Center for Health and Medical Communication (CHMC).

He is also an Adjunct Professor of Health and Medical Communication with the University of Limerick in Ireland and a Research Fellow in User Experience Design with the University of Strasbourg in France.