Stop, Collaborate and Listen (to your devs)
As I started to put this post together, something hilarious and borderline weird hit me… there’s a perfect anthem for what I want to share today:
Why is this (very) early 90s jam by the artist born Robert Matthew Van Winkle so perfect? A few reasons:
- It immediately lets you know how old I am
- I spoke at a virtual workshop on April 17th for Vanilla
- I recently moved back to very ICE-y Montreal
- The first two words of this song (“alright” doesn’t count OK?): The virtual workshop I’m speaking at is all about how developers should Stop (and) Collaborate… with each other in their communities
- … And Listen is the name of the developer community consultancy I just founded after years of building inclusive developer communities for tech companies!
While I didn’t actually subject folks to Vanilla Ice on April 17th, here’s what they learned by joining us:
- How do you encourage dev to dev support from day one of community building?
- When to jump into developer community conversations, and when to lay low
- Approaches to monitoring and engaging with proprietary developer communities (online communities, docs, etc) vs. external developer communities (Stack Overflow, Reddit, etc)
- Stories of successful developer community collaborations: from bug fixes, to hires, to business building
This workshop should be especially interesting to folks who work with developer communities. If you’re in a developer relations or developer advocacy role definitely watch the recording now! However, anyone who works with developer communities will get something out of this.
If you’ve got a (dev community collaboration) problem, I’ll solve it:
Anything you wanted me to address in the workshop, but I missed? Hit me up!
