Videos

What technical outreach can (and can’t!) do for you

Technical outreach is pretty fantastic – but it’s not a magic wand. Particularly if you have a stubborn boss.

Mozilla Tech Speakers – Growing skills for developer outreach

Public speaking can strike fear into the heart of many, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Mozilla Tech Speakers offers an adaptable programme for devrel events.

Cassidy Williams

Lift as you climb – training new evangelists as you grow

Cassidy Williams believes in giving others a hands-up. Here she shares her experience of setting up Clarifai Champions and offers tips for training new evangelists.

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TaijiHagino-v2

From rock musician to developer advocate

There are so many different routes into developer relations. Here’s Taiji Hagino’s story.

Liz Couto

Liz Couto

Developer community through content marketing

Effective content marketing is the key to scaling and growing your developer community, says Shopify’s Liz Couto.

The Hackathon Field Guide

Everything you ever wanted to know about hackathons but were too afraid to ask.

Nicholas Chen

Nicholas Chen

Monetizing Your Developer Community

Nicholas Chen discusses a flexible framework for financial success.

The Art of Slide Design

Melinda Seckington distils the basics of impactful slide design

Making the implicit explicit

Developer education is all about setting the right context, according to Wordnik founder and IBM developer advocate Erin McKean.

Live API Teardown

Are the products we develop actually that easy to use? Are we actually testing them with the people they are intended for? Cristiano Betta picks an API at random and puts it through its paces.

Maga Seghete

Maga Seghete

How to grow and use a strong community

Building a strong community takes content, commitment and consistency. Mada Seghete shares six key lessons she learned as one of the co-founders of Branch which powers deep linking for over 15,000 apps and 2 billion monthly users around the world.

Luke Marsden

Luke Marsden

Docs at Weaveworks DX: from open source to SaaS and beyond

Luke Marsden discusses the challenges and changes in transitioning from a pure open-source company to becoming open-source + SaaS.

Cristiano Betta

Cristiano Betta

The Seven Deadly Sins of Developer Onboarding

Cristiano Betta wants to talk sin. The rage-inducing developer on-boarding sort.

 

Adam FitzGerald

Adam FitzGerald

Which metrics matter?

Is it users? Or love? Perhaps volume or money? Amazon’s Adam FitzGerald looks at the metrics that matter in developer relations.

DevRel Leadership: all the pieces matter

Ade Oshineye offers some tips for completing a complicated jigsaw.