Videos

Peter Cooper

Peter Cooper

Writing newsletters and sharing content that developers will enjoy

If you want to create a newsletter that developers will read, you first need to create one they will open.

Nahid Samsami and Jeff Dickey

Nahid Samsami and Jeff Dickey

Designing a delightful command line interface

A well-designed command line interface can give its users superpowers.

Olia Dukova

Olia Dukova

Yet another flight: travelling in dev rel

How can you make the most of the trips you take for work?

Brian Douglas

Activating developers to drive your advocacy program

Building an excited and loyal developer community can amplify your own developer advocacy programmes.

Jono Bacon

Building effective community leaders: a guide

Effective leadership is critical if a community is going to be successful. But how do we create those leaders?

Chloe Condon

Let me entertain you: how theatre influenced building a developer community

Engineers are people too: they like to be entertained.

Brian Proffitt

Media 101 for communities

Making friends with the media is not as difficult as it may appear.

Erin McKean

User research for dev rel: asking the right questions

How can user research inform your developer relations and developer experience strategies?

Shayne Parmelee

Shayne Parmelee

How Shopify created an API go-to-market strategy

Here’s the story of how Shopify launched their API to the developer market.

Tao Dong

Tao Dong

How to apply UX principles and methods to API usability

An API’s usability is central to its success – but what affects that usability and what lessons can we learn to make it better?

Mano Marks

Mano Marks

Who do you work for?

Do you work for your developers? Your company? Or someone else?

Bear Douglas

Connecting dev rel and product

Acting as a bridge between your developer community and the product management team is an important role for any dev rel team. Bear Douglas shares her experience of doing it well.

Matt Asay

Developer secrets your customers want to tell you … if only you’ll listen

Different communities have different expectations and needs: what fits the internal may not suit the external.

Peter Merholz

Addressing user emotional needs and where developer experience fits in

Understanding your user’s emotional journey can make or break a product.

Dev rel with agile makes for a good cocktail

Mixing Developer Relations with Agile working is simple, transparent and immediately effective.