Welcome! 👋
Whew! Happy... Wednesday?! Somehow, we're already halfway through this week! Apologies for the delayed issue this week -- I'm on my first business trip since March 2020 and my brain is a bit scrambled as a result 😅 Add on some good ol' jet lag and the excitement of hosting a conference and hopefully you can understand why things are a bit out of sync this week 🙃
The content I have in store for you isn't out of sync, however! It's spot-on in so many ways, as y'all keep delivering on the fantastic links as well as insights.
Speaking of insights... the latest DevRel industry survey is available for you to participate in. As you all know, gathering (and subsequently publishing) this information is incredibly important as the DevRel industry continues to mature. If you haven't already, please take the time to fill it out, and spread the word to others!
Go ahead - do it now! I'll wait...
Back? Great! Let's dig into this week's content.
Best,
Mary (@mary_grace)
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Tidbits 🕔
How to Give Equal Space to Everyone
Struggling to encourage quieter community members to speak up in your online forums? You're not alone! Evan Hamilton wrote a thread about how to encourage people to speak up (and others to be quieter).
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The Most Important Skill in 2021
twitter.comThe most important skill to develop in 2001 was learning how to code.
The most important skill to develop in 2021 is learning how to build a community.
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How to Create Inclusive Business Goals for your Community
When looking ahead to goals for 2022, be sure to pay attention to what your company goals are (y'all know I feel strongly about this!) but also, think about how you can integrate inclusivity into those goals. Ashleigh Brookshaw offers some good tips in this recent interview.
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Slow Declines Are Far More Worrying Than Sudden Drops
If you're analyzing engagement metrics on your online forums, keep an eye out for the "slow decline." While we often dig into the sudden spikes or cliff-edge drops, we don't always investigate a slow decline until we realize we're far below our engagement from last year. Richard Millington gives a few tips on how to keep an eye out for this reduced engagement, as well as how to turn it around in this recent article.
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In the News...
I had the honor of speaking to two different journalists in the past few weeks about the value of Developer Relations and how it fits into the broader tech industry. Several other prominent DevRel professionals (including Lorna Mitchell!) bring their perspectives as well. Take a look here:
- How to make a Developer Relations Team Work for your Company by Veronica Combs
- What is developer relations? Understanding the 'glue' that keeps software and coders together
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DevRel Podcasts and Videos
- How to Build a Strong Developer Community with Global Engagement with Robin Moffatt and Ale Murray - Streaming Audio
- David Spinks on Building Communities - Conversations With Bacon
- CMX and Chill: Watch the best moments of CMX Summit 2021 (videos)
- Why You Should Become a Developer Advocate Right Now with Anais Urlich, Darin Pope, Kostis Kapelonis, and Viktor Farcic - DevOps Paradox (video)
- The Relationship Flywheel with Pablo Gonzalez - Masters of Community
Events 📆
DevRel Events
We are in full swing this conference season! There are lots of events lined up for the upcoming weeks, come check out our Event Listing to see what's new!
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Jobs 👩💻
Developer Advocate
At Stream, our DevRels combine engineering excellence with community outreach. If you’d like to join our growing team of talented engineers, check out our open positions.
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Developer Relations Engineer - Croquet
The job will involve writing sample apps, troubleshooting the work of our customers, and providing general developer support. The ideal candidate has professional experience with JavaScript coding and the wider JS ecosystem. They are familiar with web development tools and bundlers, and they understand what’s required to release production-quality web apps.
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Developer Advocate
To achieve our mission: make communication between humans and machines universally accessible and natural, and eventually get to AGI - we’re looking for a Developer Advocate to help grow our values-driven, all-remote team. Reporting to the CEO, you’ll define and build out our developer evangelism program to support and grow Dasha’s community, connecting with developers through content, social channels, events, and contributions to the open source ecosystem. If you always wanted to build Jarvis from Iron Man - join us!
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Jobs 👩💻
Developer Relations Jobs
Our Job Collection keeps growing! If you're looking for a change, we have lots of options here.
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