COVID-19 & DevRel/Community Teams
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Read David Spinks' predictions for how COVID-19 will impact your community strategy in the long run, over the next 6-12 months.
What can your DevRel team do when no one is traveling?
Developer Relations has an image problem. The job itself is an ambiguous catch-all for activities ranging from coding to public speaking, and everything in between. People spend an exorbitant amount of time arguing about defining DevRel: what title should they have, how to measure it, who has the better program and/or team, and on and on and on. Amongst all this discussion, we have individuals who
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An internal community can help enhance your company culture and maintain innovation, not only during these hard times, but also as a long-term strategy.
Looking back at it from the vantage point of the current coronavirus pandemic, it’s clear now that most organizations missed a golden opportunity about five to seven years ago. This was the h…
What does a developer advocate do during a time without any physical conferences or meetups to attend?
The IT industry is an intensely social industry with programmers getting together at Meetups, Hackathons and Workshops. It is difficult to…
Connection, community, collaboration, creativity…these c-words are the why for most event pros. It’s our passion to create spaces ripe…
These tips will help you manage the unhelpful spread of Coronavirus chatter in your community.
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Online meetups (webinars, web conferences or webcasts) is one of the best ways to scale Developer Relations. In most companies Developer Relations teams are small, probably under ten people. Even i…
Developer relation folks, those who attend conferences to preach the gospel and help users get more from their tools, most certainly are in that 15 percent of people who do 70 percent of the flying. The worldwide COVID-19 pandemic sees them grounded for the foreseeable future, deterred even from local meetups. Now they must rethink how they carry out their duties without travel.
Q1. We’re #suddenlyRemote. How are companies around the world responding? Q2. What are the wider implications for the #digitalworkplace now we’re #suddenlyRemote? How do companies become more remote friendly? Q3. What does #suddenlyremote mean for #ESNs and community managers? Q4. For those not used to it, how do we cultivate a distributed or remote working mindset and skills? Q5. How can #ESNs h
The Value of Online Communities During the COVID-19 Crisis in communicating, mobilizing, and collaborating with a large population is enormous. Communities increase speed, transparency, trust, and capacity when time is of the essence. Online access and engagement will determine outcomes and which organizations can adapt quickly to changing circumstances.
Community forums not only provide us with connections during this time of social distancing, but it also provides us with lessons to move forward with.
Coronavirus is having a profound impact on how we live our lives and do business. Developer relations is no different. In this series, dev rel leaders from around the world will tell us how they’re adjusting to a world without travel or even in-person meetings. This time it’s Jessica West from Launch Darkly. Transcript Matthew: …
How is coronavirus impacting developer relations? In this series we’re speaking to dev rel team leaders to hear first hand what’s happening. This time it’s Vonage’s Phil Leggetter.
How community leaders can build trust in times of crisis.
It’s time to build your online presence when in-person events aren’t an option.
How is the coronavirus lockdown affecting developer relations at Google? Their Head of Global Developer Programs, Uttam Tripathi, shares.
Companies across many sectors, have sent employees home to work from home, remotely. Here is how community can support this new WFH world.
Jason Lengstorf weighs in on how he started live streaming, what makes for an engaged community and why finding the right medium makes all the difference.
COVID-19 is the biggest disaster of our generation. But it is also a wake-up call for many industries. As traditional business and…
We are not on the other side of this pandemic and quite frankly it doesn’t seem like we are close. But I’m already starting to think about…
I have been self isolating since early March. For the first week and a half the kids were still at school, which was actually more stressful than having them at home. But we’ve all been doing the Stay at Home thing for a few weeks now. What a great time for my eldest to prove
Almost every tech company is facing unprecedented challenges during the COVID-19 crisis, and at Jump24 it’s been no exception. The tech world has been switched to fully virtual overnight, which is bringing some very interesting debates forward (that I will discuss), most notably “how well is your business currently designed to deal with that?”
Dev rel veteran Steve Pousty discusses how someone who focuses mostly on conference speaking can adjust to a world where travel is impossible and conferences are postponed.
In episode #4 Rachel is joined by Gretchen Schmelzer, to discuss ways being an effective leader in times of crisis. Every week Rachel Happe chats for 30 minutes with a new guest – no script, no rules. Working from home is one thing, managing from home is another. How do you know you are being an …
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Kitfox Games' Victoria Tran on the positive role of community management during times of stress and upheaval
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By this time each year, my fellow developer advocates and evangelists are usually knee-deep in planning for the coming onslaught of fall tech conferences. In the same way Black Friday often brings the retail sector back to profitability, conference season is when we typically see our air and hotel miles really rack up. Covid-19 and the lockdowns it caused have changed everything.
If we try to entirely replicate our in-person interactions with online substitutes, we’re not actually grasping that this is a different world.
In a world with no physical contact, digital and accessible communities can redefine human connection
Heroku’s Chris Castle discusses how the global pandemic has affected their events plans and more.
We're several months into the COVID-19 pandemic and the daily loss of lives is still devastating and the longterm effects on our communities and society as a whole have yet to be seen. For many of us, the pandemic has affected our routines, our families, our work, and our livelihood. While some onli
Anthony Kiplimo chats about how Covid-19 is affecting developer relations in his home city of Nairobi and more broadly across Africa. Transcript Matthew: Okay Anthony. Hello. Thanks for joining me. Where abouts in the world are you? Anthony: I am in Nairobi, Kenya. Matthew: Cool. Okay. And tell me about your role right now. So […]
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Connecting with our communities online is more important than ever right now. However, this isn’t something ALL DevRel teams are accustomed to. In some cases, much of the online efforts have been relegated to “community management” or support. Marjorie Anderson and Wesley Faulkner join us to talk about online communities, sharing tips, tricks, and best practices from their combined 20 years of exp
Can hackathons go ahead in a world where we cannot meet? Jon Gottfried shares the approach Major League Hacking have taken.
Dawn Parzych shares how LaunchDarkly has developed digital programs like ToggleTalk while real-life interactions are impossible.
Business travel has all but disappeared and conferences have moved online in light of COVID-19, forcing many developer relations (DevRel) teams to pivot their advocacy efforts primarily to online content. Moving from in-person to online content delivery can be a challenge in the best of times and DevRel teams are do...
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The results of the Pandemic survey are available here. The survey is still open, but with 230 responses, I’d like to describe a few highlights and thoughts about it.
Q1: An important aspect of #ESN success is leader engagement. Has that changed during the pandemic? How? Q2: Are the traditional barriers to leader engagement easier to overcome now? Q3: What are some examples of successful leader engagement on an #ESN during the pandemic? Q4: How can community managers #cmgr support leaders who are newly discovering the value of their #ESN? Q5: What advice woul