DevRel Weekly - Issue 191 - The way we treat people matters

Welcome! 👋

It's been a rough few weeks, y'all, from the news (local, US, and international alike, to many friends and acquaintances I know who are struggling, to a new COVID wave hitting a number of cities. Make sure you're taking care of yourself in addition to your communities, please. ❤️

As this week marks the start of June (how?!), I'm looking ahead to Q3 planning, a few events (including Orbit's Nexus event which I recorded a panel for last week!), and trying out some new experiments with my team. What are you looking forward to? As always, I'd love to hear!

Best,
Mary (@mary_grace)
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Tidbits 🕔

The way we treat people matters

In community, it matters that people feel valued, not used. It matters that people feel heard, not drowned out. It matters that people feel respected, not dismissed. The way we treat people matters.

-Serena

Patience is Key

A community builder's biggest and most valuable trait?

Patience.

Humans are extraordinarily trying so patience is key.

-Shannon Emery

What does Developer Relations mean to you?

This tweet from Mark Bennett spawned quite the discussion this week!

What does Developer Relations mean to you?

Is it about community building? Developer Exprience advocacy? Adoption? Something else?

Click through to share your own thoughts.

Tangibles 🤓

Content for Developers: What and How

If you're building out a developer content plan at your company, you'll want to catch up on Parts 1 and 2 of this recap of a recent panel discussion from DevRelX. In it, the participants cover everything from keywords and SEO to documentation and finding writers.

Help! Three Questions Community Managers Need to Ask When They're Struggling

If you've been around for more than a few issues of DevRel Weekly, you'll likely know that I'm passionate about preventing burnout in myself as well as others, particularly those in the DevRel industry. This week, Lindsey Leesmann gives us 3 items to consider in order to better define our community needs. That way, we'll be able to more effectively lay out our request for help when we need it.

Bonus: Kurt Kemple also walks through some of the necessary skills for getting buy-in from stakeholders in this article from a few months back.

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DevRel Podcasts and Videos

Scaling Developer Success with Michael Jolley
AWS Amplify, Transitioning to Developer Advocacy, and the State of Full-Stack in 2022 with Michael Liendo - AWS FM
Events and Collaborating with Cross-Functional Teams with Nicole Saunders - Peers over Beers
Getting Started in DevRel (Twitter space)
How to be a Web3 Developer Advocate (Twitter space)

Events 📆

Nexus

Join Orbit at Nexus on May 31 for a free, virtual event for community builders. Get fresh insights and tactics to grow and scale your community. Connect, learn, and navigate community growth, together.

Events 📆

DevRel Events

This season has been so full of conferences and events; it seems we are making up for lost time. There are still some great events coming up soon! Be sure to check them out.

Jobs 👩‍💻

Developer Advocate

Adapty helps mobile app developers grow in-app subscriptions. We’re looking for our first DevRel/Dev Advocate who can be the voice of our 3k+ community. We’ve seen companies growing 10x with our product and it’s our mission to help developers learn how to make money with their apps. You’ll start hands-on building trust and knowledge in our community and later lead and build our devrel team.

Senior Developer Advocate

With the explosive growth of data and the accelerated movement to digitization, data has become the lifeblood of businesses. But these businesses are unable to build delightful data-driven experiences fast enough. Join us in our journey early-on and help shape the future of data infrastructure! At Tigris Data our Developer Relations team is tasked with building awareness and adoption of Tigris database platform.

Jobs 👩‍💻

Developer Relations Jobs

There are so many new positions coming our lately, we try to maintain only 6 months worth in our Job Collection as to not overwhelm you! Have you seen what's new?