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Developer Avocados 🥑 Weekly
📺Storytelling from the Developer Perspective - Adam DuVander and Kin Lane discuss some of the common content-related pitfalls in the API world—whether it’s confusing documentation or a boring announcement about a developer tool’s new features—and how to create great content and tell API stories that make an authentic impact.
📻Demystifying DevRel - Christina Gorton, Pachi Carlson, Ben Halpern & Nader Dabit talked about the giant umbrella that is developer relations.
📻7 Common Content Marketing Mistakes - Stephanie Morillo shared constructive feedback and tips for how to avoid common mistakes and how to take your developer content to the next level.
📖The 7 Biggest Reasons Why Online Communities Fail - Waves looked at their top 7 biggest reasons why online communities fail and how you can turn those reasons into actionable solutions if you just do the opposite.
📖How Amazon made me better at Writing - Gaurav Dadhich shared his key learnings from Amazon’s writing culture and processes.
📖From SysAdmin to Developer Relations! - Sarah Lean shared some practical advice that might help you make the transition into DevRel.
📖On the Air Digitally - Paul O'Brien wrote about hosting a show in the era of podcasts, Clubhouse rooms, and live-streaming.
📖Designing Docs - Simeon Lee shed light on the design decisions that culminated in the latest major release of the Merge docs last week.
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🗞CFP Advice Edition🗞
📖Responding to a Developer Conference CFP - Helen Scott has been on both ends of the CFP process and provides unique insight into the whole thing.
📺How to create a conference talk or presentation submission that gets accepted - Jono Bacon shared a hands-on approach to creating a conference abstract and his tips for increasing your chances of being accepted.
🐦Advice after reviewing submissions for a conference - Mathias Verraes shared a Twitter thread with advice for your CFPs while reviewing submissions for a conference.
📢 A Word From Our Sponsor - Stream 📢
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📚 CFPs 📚
🛤The Big Transaction - https://www.thebigtransaction.com/
CFP: https://www.papercall.io/the-big-transaction
Deadline: July 15, 2021
Location: New Orleans, LA, USA
Date: November 4-5, 2021
Travel & Accommodation: Travel stipend
Code of Conduct: https://www.thebigtransaction.com/policies/
🧩UX Y’all - https://www.uxyall.org/
CFP: https://sessionize.com/ux-yall-2021/
Deadline: July 10, 2021
Location: Online
Date: September 23-24, 2021
Code of Conduct: https://www.uxyall.org/coc
🏔PWA Summit - https://pwasummit.org/
CFP: https://sessionize.com/pwa-summit-2021/
Deadline: July 12, 2021
Location: Online
Date: October 6-7, 2021
Code of Conduct: https://pwasummit.org/code-of-conduct/
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