Adapting Communications For The Situation

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Kia Ora, from New Zealand, Friends and Colleagues

A work experience form today made me think about what lesson there might be in it for how we approach our Blogs in the coming weeks and months.

Many Voices

For the last week I have been the lead, for my part of the organisation I work for, in relation to COVID 19 Crisis Response. This has entailed a physical meeting of a number of parties each morning at 9am.

This meeting is about forward planning, monitoring progress and setting priorities against a backdrop of increased demand on scarce and high value resource.

Until today, it involved about 8 people in a room with 2 or 3 more joining by phone. With our ramping up of our COVID alert state in NZ yesterday I chaired the first meeting today with 19 people on a voice conference with no video.

It took a quite different coordination style and communications style to run this meeting.

This made me think......

Write The Same Things?

Where my thinking took me was to how we are writing our blogs in this current and emerging crisis. Do we, should we, contextualise them in the light of what is going on. Some people are already being criticised when promoting WA being told that they have no right to take advantage of the vulnerable by offering false hope..... I know we would say that it was anything other than false hope and we don't exactly march people to the ATM!

It does worry me though that some health Blogs jump quickly to seize on dubious at best, wild or outrageous at worst, claims about their products in relation to COVID19 which are patently untested because when exactly would they have been tested?

I am not suggesting for a moment that anyone here at WA is going down this road, but it might just be food for thought as to what the detrimental effect may be to branding should such claims be made and challenged with less than pleasing results.

Maybe we should just write the way we always did in preparation for when the world goes

back to it's next normal. I say its next normal because like it or not it is unlikely to be the old normal for a whole raft of reasons.

I don't have the answers but I would be interested in as many opinions as we can muster to inform us what we are all thinking about our business at this time?

Do let me know what you think.

Goodnight from New Zealand Folks

KIA KOA, KIA KAHA

Hamish🧐

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I think we are writing blogs that will still be connecting months and perhaps years down the track. Therefore we should not make them too limited to a time zone like this one because they'll be out of date and irrelevant sooner or later.
Don't worry about the cynicism - a well prepared, ethical blog will outlast that.

I tend to agree with your sage advice Helen 🧐

Thanks hamish.

Always Welcome Helen be safe 🧐

I am feart!!...loooools
R.

Dinnae fear mon just hae anither bevvy an’ at least it’ll look guid 🧐

Och awa man mak yer mind up.. ye noo the man 'tellin me the ather day I was aways placin ma heed abave the parapet an kenned fer it....lols..;)
R.

Still think the amber nectar is the medicine fur that 🧐

Agreed the amber nectar is the medicine for Aw things!!
R.

Yon’s the truth plain speaking mon 🧐

Writing as always but with the different niche I'm in it automatically ties in with self sustainability but I never mention it in my writing.

Its a wise policy !!
R.

Aha! There you are McTavish how is the fortifying effect of good claret working out 🧐

Just what the Doctor ordered!! Have you been driven mad from being confined yet? This is all a strange liberty I tell you!!
R.

A great idea, Goose! I'm essentially writing like I always do!

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Good for you Skip you are made of stern stuff πŸ§πŸ£πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ

You're too kind--not always made of stern stuff, but a lot of the time!

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This morning, before I read your post, I was thinking of going thru boot camp and promoting WA. Now I am convinced to continue with my niche. It will help people in the long run. Thanks so much Hamish.
With gratitude
Jeannette

Most welcome Jeannette, what is your niche 🧐

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