DevRel Weekly - Issue 158 - Onboarding, Iterating & Experimenting, and Prioritizing Your Time

Welcome! 👋

Apologies for the delayed newsletter today, DevRel Weekly friends! It's been a busy few weeks at my full-time gig and I'm still trying to figure out what day of the week it is.

Luckily, the content keeps coming even when I'm a bit off-kilter! This week, the community brings you information about onboarding new community members, allowing your team to iterate and experiment in order to find the right methods, and finding ways to protect your time. Enjoy!

Best,
Mary (@mary_grace)
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Tidbits 🕔

Are In-Person or Virtual Events More Valuable?

As someone who is planning a number of BOTH in-person and virtual events right now, this reminds me that NOTHING will take the place of the personal connections you make when you come together.

-Mike Washburn

Clear and Compelling Calls to Action

↗️ Members are more likely to get involved if you give them clear direction on how you expect them to interact with your content!

📝 Create clear and compelling calls to action in your community, so your members know exactly how to get involved

-Hivebrite

Provide the Flexibility to Experiment and Iterate

As a company, investing in Developer Relations is a long term project, you might not get value immediately but with time you'd begin to see the gaps that have been filled between your product and your customers in terms of overall experience, knowledge base etc.

Also you need to actually give your DevRel team the autonomy and flexibility to experiment, there’s no single way to get DevRel right, you have to reiterate various steps and initiatives to really find what works for your product/company.

-Shedrack Akintayo

Tangibles 🤓

Find Multiple Eternal Sources Of Community Growth

Getting your community up and running is a big task, but it's not a "once and done" situation. The long-term growth and health of your community is an ongoing task; one that requires a lot of research, care, and intent. Feverbee has a few tips on how to maintain this long-term growth in a sustainable fashion.

DevRel Hacks: 6 Ways to Manage your Time Like a Time Lord

I have to agree with Joe Gabriel -- in Developer Relations, life moves fast. In this article he gives some tips on how to prioritize important work and make sure you still have the time and energy to pursue your own hobbies.

Onboard Newbies but also Cater to Existing Members

Onboarding is an incredibly important part of building an online community, as we've discussed before. This week, there are a few new articles talking about the importance of content to onboard newbies, as well as making sure your new members aren't undervalued or underestimated.

Storytime 📚

DevRel Podcasts and Videos

GitHub Campus Experts with Juan Pablo Flores - The Campus DevRel Show (video)
What is Developer Relations, Community Building, and More with Wassim Chegham - Auth0 Community Hour (video)
Developer Advocacy or Engineering? with Anaïs Urlichs - DevOps Paradox
Solving the Puzzle Yourself with Mike Elissen - Developer's Edge (video)
The Incredibles with Sam Julien - Frontend Heroes (video)
MRR (Monthly Recurring Relationships) with Rosie Sherry - The Community Experience
Growing With DevRel with James Q Quick - JamStack

Events 📆

Defining Success & Metrics | Episode 3 | October 6 @8am PT

This year’s Future Developer Summit explores what does the future of DevRel hold? Enjoy the benefits of remote and be part of the industry discussion together with the thought leaders. Event’s agenda is tailored for each, from CXO Pioneers and program leaders to professionals and enthusiasts in DevRel, Advocacy and Evangelism.

In Episode 3, we will discuss how to define and measure success of your DevRel efforts. Industry leaders will share their success and failure stories as well as what comes after you achieve your metrics.

Grab your free Community Pass or request an invite for a richer experience with a full-access Thought Leader Pass at futuredeveloper.io

Events 📆

DevRel Events

More and more events keep popping up so be sure to check our listing to see what's new!

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.

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.

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!

Jobs 👩‍💻

Developer Relations Jobs

Are you in the market for something new? We can't believe how many jobs there are right now! Come check out our enormous collection to see what's new and what might just be your new role!