Community Pulse

Creating a place for your specific community to gather online is a challenge every Developer Relations or Community team is likely going to address at some point, whether it’s because your executive team is asking you to create this space or you see a need for it. In this episode of Community Pulse, we talk to two specialists in the community industry about what to keep in mind when evaluating how to create a place for your community to gather online.  Checkouts Mary Thengvall Demystifying Management course by Lara Hogan PJ Hagerty Liz Phair - Spanish Doors Wesley Faulkner An NDA Was Designed to Keep Me Quiet by Ifeoma Ozoma - California legislature begins hearings on the Silenced No More Act - Ms. Ozoma is a tech policy expert with experience leading global public policy efforts at Pinterest, Facebook and Google. SJ Morris Meg Stalter: My pandemic savior Noele Flowers Gardening is “growing” in popularity (pun compliments of Wesley) C School Jono Bacon Tools: Topia.io / Superhuman Rahul Vohra’s Product Market Fit Engine The Obstacle Is The Way I created a heavy metal project across the US, Germany, Finland, Denmark - all because the Internet is amazing Photo by Prateek Katyal on Unsplash Enjoy the podcast? Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.Special Guests: Jono Bacon and Noele Flowers.

The hosts sit down to discuss what we've learned from our guests on pushing limits, finding new ways to deliver content, and how the community can benefit from the larger amount of information flowing through the DevRel ecosystem now, and moving forward. Enjoy the podcast? Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.

Developer Relations professionals are known for creating a lot of content and the platforms that are available to us seem to grow by the day. For this episode of Community Pulse, we’re diving into what platforms exist today and what types of content works best for each channel. We’re joined by two guests: Cassidy Williams and Joe Karlsson, who are known throughout the tech industry for their humorous tech-centric content. We’ll talk about how to know which channels and types of content are most effective in reaching our specific audience, and how to measure our success. Checkouts Mary Thengvall Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb- a fantastic (non-fiction) book about therapy, from a therapist’s viewpoint PJ Hagerty Renegades: Born in the USA - a podcast from Barack Obama & Bruce Springsteen Wesley Faulkner Beyond the Gender Binary Demi Lovato Alok Vaid-Menon Cassidy Williams Itaewon Class - a really good k-drama on Netflix [Obsidian](obsidian.md) for notes (obsidian.md) Joe Karlsson Working through the Best Picture Noms * Minari/ Judas and the Black Messiah - My personal favs * Nomadland - The one I think will win Photo by Georgia de Lotz on Unsplash Enjoy the podcast? Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.Special Guests: Cassidy Williams and Joe Karlsson.

SJ, Jason, Wesley, and PJ sit down to discuss the most recent episode. Enjoy the podcast? Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.

As the number of engineering and developer jobs continues to grow and the skillsets diversify, DevRel has seen a wave of people being let go, followed by a sudden growth in hiring across the tech industry. Taking a look at these trends over the last year or so, we decided we would go to the experts to explain how hiring looks from the recruitment side, what people can do to improve their hiring experience, and what’s different in today’s DevRel hiring landscape.   Our hosts sit down with Jill Wohlner of Underpin and Will Staney of Proactive Talent to see where things stand, and what to expect moving forward. Checkouts PJ Hagerty * SPOTcon 2021 Wesley Faulkner Fintech DevCon SJ Morris Reckless by Selena Montgomery (aka Stacey Abrams) Trader Joe’s Everything Bagel Seasoning Jason Hand New Show on LearnTV with Jason Jill Wholner Twitch, Lego & Love Island Underpin.company Will Stanley Proactive Talent Blog WandaVision Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash Enjoy the podcast? Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.Special Guest: Jill Wholner.

Wesley and PJ spend some time after the show to continue chatting about similarities and differences of internal and external developer relations. Enjoy the podcast? Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.

While DevRel holds some universal truths, there is at times a difference between how we handle our external communities as opposed to our internal communities. While we are still bringing people together, some of the approaches and interested parties may change. How do we foster communities and communicate feedback within an organization? Is it so different from “traditional” DevRel?   To find out more, Wesley and PJ sit down with Aja Hammerly, Davey Shafik,  and Kevin McIntosh to talk about the ins and outs of both sides. Checkouts PJ Galactic Camera Wesley Email Dumpster Fire: Send an email, watch it printed out and immediately burned Davey PHP 8.0 released! New JIT, moar types, named arguments, annotations Kevin The Hearthstone platform changed it monetization model and the community is up in arms about it Lunch Club Aja Exposure Notifications platform - Apple/Google Project Using technology to help public health authorities fight COVID-19 Photo by Jonas Jacobsson on Unsplash Enjoy the podcast? Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.Special Guests: Aja Hammerly, Davey Shafik, and Kevin McIntosh.

It's been a long year in the world of DevRel! In this episode, our hosts take a look back at 2020, discuss the trends they noticed along a wave of change driven by outside forces, and give their predictions for 2021. Have a chat with Mary, Jason, SJ, Wesley, and PJ about everything community in 2020! 2020 Episodes Finding the DevRel in You: Common Characteristics of Developer Relations Professionals - Amanda Folson & Geertjan Wielanga The Ethical DevRel - Coraline Ada Ehmke & Don Goodman-Wilson COVID-19 Retrospective (Community Pulse LIVE) Developer Relations And Developer Marketing: The Differences, The Similarities, The Partnerships - Elizabeth Kinsey & Karen White Online Community Management: How DevRel Is Going Virtual - Marjorie Anderson & Wesley Faulkner A Talk About Racism, Privilege, And DevRel: Community Pulse Live - Summer Edition Advocating For DevRel As A DevRel Professional - Elizabeth Ruscitto & Jaime Lopez Metrics, KPIs, and OKRs - Oh My! - Donovan Brown and Patrick Collins DevRel at the Foundation - Aydrian Howard, Taylor Barnett, David Simmons Events in the Pandemic - Community Pulse LIVE! - Rahmona Henry & Floor Drees Budgets Rule Everything - Bear Douglas Enjoy the podcast? Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.

Host SJ, Wesley, and Mary discuss the big budget episode and share some anecdotes on things that have been successful and others that were a bit of a trip up. Enjoy the podcast? Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.

As we’ve mentioned in previous episodes, budget concerns are an ever changing part of working in DevRel. Now more than ever, DevRel teams are expanding their functions and responsibilities while stretching the idea of how we do the things we do. In this episode, we sit down with Bear Douglas of Slack to talk budgets, what budget allocations mean to a DevRel and how do you calculate what you need vs what you want? Checkouts SJ Morris The Dodo empire Mary Thengvall Boop My Nose Instagram Wesley Faulkner Wesley’s kittens Bear Douglas Attracting Native Pollinators Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Enjoy the podcast? Please take a few moments to leave us a review on iTunes and follow us on Spotify, or leave a review on one of the other many podcasting sites that we’re on! Your support means a lot to us and helps us continue to produce episodes every month. Like all things Community, this too takes a village.Special Guest: Bear Douglas.