

Community Pulse
Mary Thengvall
Community Pulse is the spot for Developer Relations and Community professionals who are looking for information on building technical communities. Community Builders and DevRel veterans Jason Hand, Mary Thengvall, PJ Hagerty, and Wesley Faulkner interview experts in the field of Developer Relations and Community Leadership on a broad range of topics related to building community.
Episodes
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Apr 27, 2020 • 18min
After Pulse: Developer Relations and Developer Marketing
 Join Mary, Jason, and PJ as they reflect on their conversation with Karen and Elizabeth. They share some of their personal experiences that have shaped their opinions of marketing departments in the past and talk through the new concepts that were introduced in this episode.
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Apr 22, 2020 • 42min
Developer Relations and Developer Marketing: the differences, the similarities, the partnerships (Ep 46)
 It’s not hard to say there is a difference between Developer Relations and Developer Marketing...but where does that line sit? There is definitely overlap, but how do we identify efforts or activities that fall more into one category or the other? To help us define these roles and where those lines might be, we are joined by guests Elizabeth Kinsey and Karen White.
Checkouts
PJ Hagerty
Guided Explorations by RZA
AuxParty! - The much-heralded return of Turntable.fm!
Jen Myer’s Modern Adventuress Newsletter
Karen White
It’s Been a Minute with Sam Sanders (podcast)
Elizabeth Kinsey
Fiona Apple’s new album (the first 10/10 album on Pitchfork in almost a decade)
Lauren Duca’s newsletter, Pancake Brain, and Sarah Stockdale’s newsletter, We Need to Talk About This: a lovely dose of political action, self-care and clarity without any of the toxic positivity
Mary Thengvall
The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerlins - D&D podcast turned graphic novel
The Daily podcast from New York Times - COVID-19 news plus “A Bit of Relief”
Some Good News - weekly dose of goodness compliments of John Krasinski
Jason Hand
Red Rising Series
365 Meaningful Conversations
Links
Developer Relations and Developer Marketing…they aren’t the same thing by PJ Hagerty
Cover image by Ricardo Gomez Angel.
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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: Elizabeth Kinsey and Karen White. 

Apr 1, 2020 • 1h 7min
COVID-19 Retrospective - Community Pulse LIVE!
 This has been a surreal and historic few weeks across the globe. We recently gathered a group of DevRel professionals to talk about how COVID-19 has impacted them and their DevRel role, from what their current focuses are, how their Q2 goals have changed, whether they're transitioning to online events (and what that will look like in the future), and more. Join us for a special live episode as we dig into the potential long term changes to our industry post COVID-19.  
Mentions
Sarah Thiam’s post on online events
Tech Events Cancelled
DevRel Weekly COVID-related resources
Minute on the Mic
Zoom features
Online Events Platforms (outside of Zoom):
Hopin: Online Events Platform
 BlueJeans
 Mozilla Hubs
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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. 

Mar 24, 2020 • 26min
After Pulse: The Ethical DevRel
 PJ, SJ, and Mary chat further on the subject of ethics following Episode 45. Tune in to hear more from their own unique perspectives once the guests have left.
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Mar 17, 2020 • 46min
The Ethical DevRel (Ep 45)
 Events have a code of conduct. Projects often have rules of behavior for those who participate. There are expected rules we follow when creating content, from adhering to MLA style to ensuring ideas are delivered in a succinct way with value to the consumer. But when it comes to DevRel, there is no specific rule set or guidelines for practitioners. Beyond the external rules we need to follow as generally good humans, there is nothing to show how to be an ethical DevRel practitioner. So where does that leave us?  Coraline Ada Ehmke and Don Goodman-Wilson join us to discuss this difficult topic.</p
Checkouts
PJ Hagerty
Personal Record Club - A spotify API consuming way to share your album choices socially (based on the @PJAlbumoftheDay twitter account)
A Drop of Midnight - Jason “Timbuktu” Diakité’s memoir on growing up African-American in Sweden and what finding his roots really means.
SJ Morris
Burnout Index: A quick pulse on how work is affecting you
This tweet of an otter playing with an iPhone set to Careless Whisper
Mary Thengvall
Geekbot - asynchronous standup bot on Slack for distributed teams
Don Goodman-Wilson
Andrew L. Russell’s Open Standards and the Digital Age: History, Ideology, and Networks
Coraline Ada Ehmke
Title of Conf - A joyful new musical conference showcasing the brilliant talent thriving the tech community.
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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: Coraline Ada Ehmke and Don Goodman-Wilson. 

Feb 14, 2020 • 17min
After Pulse: Finding the DevRel in You
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Jan 28, 2020 • 36min
Finding the DevRel In You: Common characteristics of developer relations professionals (Ep 44)
 Checkouts:
SJ Morris
Microsoft OneNote
Feals - CBD subscription service
PJ Hagerty
Lost in Space - Netflix show
Alexisonfire - Season of the Flood
Amanda Folson
User Stories Applied by Mike Cohn
Geertjan Wielanga
Tweets from Venkat Subramaniam: On burnout. On listening.
Review of “Developer, Advocate”
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Dec 5, 2019 • 51min
2019 Closing Thoughts (Ep 43)
 Checkouts:
PJ Hagerty
OSMIHelp.org is part of Amazon smile - donate today!
Mary Thengvall
Care/Of - personalized vitamins based on geographic location, goals, habits, etc
Jason Hand
Ignite and the Tour content and demos
SJ Morris
Good American Jeans
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Nov 26, 2019 • 17min
After Pulse: What's After DevRel?
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Nov 19, 2019 • 50min
What's After DevRel?: Job fluidity, career paths, and new roles (Ep 42)
 Check Outs
PJ Hagerty
Rage Against the Machine Reunite in 2020
Modern Love Season 1 (Amazon Prime) - Especially the Anne Hathaway episode (Episode 3)
OSMIHelp.org will be at Kubecon 2019 in San Diego
Mary Thengvall
Space: An Invitation to Create Sustainable Rhythms of Work, Play, and Rest by Manda Carpenter - There’s a Christian devotional slant to it, but the information and messages are valuable no matter what religion you do (or don’t) practice
Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven series by Bella Forrest
Songland - NBC show on Hulu
Jason Hand
Dog Monitor (iOS)
Microsoft Ignite Tour (watch for the videos and tutorials)
SJ Morris
free-for.dev: super handy list of free tiers for myriad of developer products
Short Path Distillery in Everett, MA
Shannon Burns
William Larson’s An Elegant Puzzle - a really interesting and useful book on the intricacies of engineering culture, organization and leadership challenges.
The Heavyweight Podcast. It’s just nice to have something heartwarming to listen to instead of getting depressed by the news ;)
Lauren Cooney
Redshirts by John Scalzi
Twitter’s Statement around political ads
Fascinating number of people joining RedHat! Keep an eye on that space.
Matt Broberg
TLDR command-line utility. Plain-Rnglish explanation of complex tools.
 Rhythm & Flow on Netflix. A really authentic version of The Voice but for rap, with Cardi b, T.I., Chance the Rapper.
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:  Lauren Cooney, Matthew Broberg, and Shannon Burns. 


