DevRel Weekly - Issue 185 - A few of my favorite things

Welcome! 👋

Ever since writing the summary for this issue of DevRel Weekly, songs from The Sound of Music have been running through my head. Anyone else have a tendency to get songs stuck in your head at a moment's notice? 😅

While I hope you don't have too many "earworms" plaguing you this week, I do hope some of these resources stick with you long-term! There are a lot of great links, including tips on how to write great content, how to get started as a new DevRel manager, and more.

Best,
Mary (@mary_grace)
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Tidbits 🕔

Never Stop

Never stop talking to your members, I repeat never.

-Community Folks

What's your favorite thing?

A few weeks back. Tessa Kriesel asked what everyone's least favorite thing about DevRel is and Liran Tal posted a recap. This week, Liran asks the opposite question and a great discussion broke out.

Behind the Scenes of a Gaming Community Manager

Kristen took the time to write up a few tips specifically for Community Managers who are interested in the gaming industry, but there are some nuggets in here that are good for anyone pursuing Developer Relations! Check it out.

Tangibles 🤓

How to Drive Business Growth By Fostering Your Community

What's the difference between a go-to-market strategy and a go-to-community strategy? Patrick Woods explains how they complement each other in this recent article. When set up properly, Patrick notes there's a "clear relationship between GTC and GTM, with community members transitioning to leads when the time is right."

Taking a DevRel approach to developer onboarding

Over the past few weeks, I've seen a lot of conversations about developer journeys and onboarding experiences. If you're tackling this issue at your job as well, perhaps this article from Sonia John will help you figure out where to start. This quote really resonated with me:

Having a fundamental understanding of human interactions and using this knowledge to anticipate developer needs before they get started is a great way to stay ahead of the curve.

Content 101: Writing for Developer Relations

There were so many awesome tweets and articles about content this week that it was hard to choose which ones to highlight! I've chosen a few for you below, but stay tuned for a "Best of: Creating Content" edition of DevRel Weekly in the next few months... there have been too many good resources to pass up lately!

Don't fall into the product-focused content trap
Focus on use cases and problem solving
How to Create a Content Strategy for Your Community (downloadable guide from Hivebrite)
Writing for Developer Relations by Adam DuVander

Storytime 📚

Common Room

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Storytime 📚

DevRel Podcasts and Videos

Growing developer experience: from 10 to 100 developers with Anton Drukh - DevX Pod
Moving From Execution to Strategy with Mo McElaney and Ashley (McNamara) Willis - Community Pulse (video)
How to become a community manager with Yashraj Nayak - DevRel Jobs (video)
DevRel: como essa tendência vai influenciar o mundo tech? with Gabs Ferreira, Danielhe4rt, Awdren Fantão - Inside the Ring - Startups and Technology (in Portuguese)
How to become a Web3 Developer Advocate with Vitto - Unblocking Chain
Unboxing DevRel with Christina Monti (video)

Events 📆

DevRel Events

Are you looking to meet up with some of your peers? There are some great events coming up in our Event Collection that will allow you talk about all things DevRel and you even might make a new friend!

Jobs 👩‍💻

Developer Advocate

Raycast makes work frictionless. We're looking for our first Developer Advocate to grow, inspire and empower our community of 4k+ developers. Our community is at the center of our strategy. Developers have built more than 250 extensions with our Extensions API. You'll start hands-on and tackle our most pressing issues. Later, you'll build and lead our Developer Relations team as we grow to support our community even more.

Developer Relations Engineer

At Seaplane, we are building the future of cloud development. We are looking for a DevRel engineer to join our team. You will be the face of Seaplane towards the developer community. Growing our global audience through code, community-building events, and working directly with developers to highlight the newest solutions in distributed systems across cloud markets.

Senior Developer Advocate

Battle Big Tech! Vultr is the independent cloud alternative to AWS, GCP, and Azure. As our Senior Developer Advocate, you'll be the 'face' of Vultr to the developer community, and will be responsible for rich storytelling and content regarding our platform, with special emphasis on Kubernetes, high performance cloud infrastructure, and managed databases.

Jobs 👩‍💻

Developer Relations Jobs

Whether you’re browsing to just see what’s out there, or hunting for a new job, we have some jobs for you to take a look at! Check out our collection of open Developer Relations and Community Manager jobs.