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📖 A Framework for Brainstorming Talk Ideas

Melinda Seckington shared a framework to help you change your perspective in how you approach your talk ideas, and consider the needs of the event and the community.

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📖 Developer Content Strategies That Work (and Scale)

Karl Hughes explores effective strategies for developing and scaling content for developers, through experimentation, ongoing refinement, and iteration.

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📖 User Centric Technical Writing

Kosara Golemshinska discusses the role of documentation at FINN, leaning into User Experience research methods to craft impactful documentation, and their current docs strategy and challenges around it.

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📖 Community is the Business

Rosie Sherry talks about what happens when treating your community as the bussiness becomes a competitive advantage for the trust and relationships you've built up along the way.

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📻 Demystifying DevRel and Tech Writing

Kruno Golubic and Katarina Šupe explain the benefits of a successful mentorship initiative, the different definitions of developer experience, and the challenges of technical writing that set it apart from other disciplines.

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📺 Community Management And Content Creation

Eleftheria Batsou and Ganesh Patil talked about community management, community building, content strategies, event management, and ways to monetize a community.

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📻 From Evangelism to Advocacy

Jeremy Meiss outlines the growing importance of DevRel in community and Developer Experience as well as the diverse career paths for DevRel professionals.

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