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Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
📖Learning to Speak Confidently - Alexandra took the “Confident Speaking for Women” course and shared her main takeaways after practising them.
📖How to write a tech talk that doesn’t suck - David Whitney dissected a few of his talks to develop a pattern that works for him in the hopes it'll help you remove some of that empty page anxiety.
📖The trouble with blog post views and vanity metrics - Helen Anderson wrote about getting so caught up in chasing the numbers that we forget why we are writing in the first place.
📻Getting into DevRel - Eddie Jaoude hosted a Twitter Space with Developer Advocates and Community Managers in the hopes it would help others join DevRel.
📖All Paths Lead to Rome and If You Are Lucky Your Path Will Guide You to the Field of Technical Communication - Ivanka Radkova wrote about a journey that turned out to be the perfect cross-point between childhood dreams and fortune’s plans.
🐦The problem with devrel is that people don't talk about their products enough - Jonan Scheffler wrote an insightful Twitter thread disagreeing with the above statement.
📖Not All Developers are the same - Giri Venkatesan wrote about understanding the persona of developers and community members and organizing the content in a meaningful way so the onboarding journey can be made engaging.
📺Being a Developer Advocate at Google - Stephanie Wong talked to Francesco Ciulla about her experience with Developer Relations.
📢 A Word From Our Sponsor - Orbit 📢
🎉Orbit enables DevRel teams to build relationships, not spreadsheets with tools to grow your community and data to prove ROI. This guide takes a look at how we use Orbit to build our own community.
🎥 Community Edition 🎥
📻What does community mean to you? - David Burns shared what an open-source community looks like from his perspective.
📖Tried (& Tested) Community Engagement Tricks To Revive Your Community - Waves outlined their best practices and strategies to boost community engagement or start building it.
📖How to facilitate inclusive, effective discussions online - Janel Torkington wrote about leveraging the unique opportunities and constraints of the “metaverse” to connect with each other meaningfully.
📖An Anatomy of Your Community Members - Safia Mendez explained Port's user profile as an anatomy of the members in a developer community.
📖Making Our Open Source Communities More Like Starfish - Ben Greenberg drew a parallel between the resourcefulness, awareness, and decentralization of a starfish and open source communities.
📖Do you really need to measure that? - Katerina wrote about data strategies for community management.
📚 CFPs 📚
🧑🍳ChefConf - https://www.chef.io/chefconf
CFP: https://sessionize.com/chefconf-21/
Deadline: June 30, 2021
Location: Online
Date: September 7-9, 2021
Code of Conduct: https://www.chef.io/code-of-conduct
🎼Music City Tech - https://musiccitytech.com/
CFP: https://sessionize.com/music-city-tech-2021/
Deadline: June 30, 2021
Location: Online
Date: September 15-17, 2021
Code of Conduct: https://musiccitytech.com/about/code-of-conduct/
🥅DevNet Create - https://developer.cisco.com/devnetcreate/2021
CFP: https://www.cvent.com/c/abstracts/5ad9cb64-1635-4659-9904-27d9e05a0e2a
Deadline: July 9, 2021
Location: Online
Date: October 19-21, 2021
Code of Conduct: https://developer.cisco.com/devnetcreate/2021/codeofconduct
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