Category: DevRel
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Using Subtitle Edit to create amazing audio to text SRT transcripts
Subtitle Edit is a free and open source tool that does a WHOLE lot of things, but the key piece it is doing for me in my workflow is transcribing audio to text so that I can get SRT transcripts with very little editing required. The accuracy on this has…
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How can you test out if a DevRel career is the right fit for you?
Sometimes, you just aren’t sure if a career is right for you. Do you really want to be a developer advocate or a dev community manager? Is that going to be a fulfilling full-time job for you? There are a few things you can do to try it out before…
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Level up! Driving Collaboration in your Team
Discover how to advance from intermediate to senior level positions by learning the crucial skills of driving collaboration, managing cross-team projects, and planning timelines. Start leading your career today.
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Level Up! Show you know how to drive execution of a project
If you are looking to transition to a senior role you’ll need to demonstrate your ability to lead and drive the execution of projects effectively. Your manager will be looking for signs that you can take charge, set priorities, follow through, and ultimately be trusted to handle projects independently. I…
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Level up! 5 tips for practicing mentoring and coaching skills
Reaching the senior level in your career often requires demonstrating certain skills and qualities that set you apart. One key area that can significantly boost your chances is mentoring and coaching. In this article, we’ll explore five tips on how to develop and showcase these skills, ultimately helping you make…
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First thoughts on using Buffer for social media
I do a lot of posts to my personal accounts, so I’ve been looking for a way to make this easier across my channels. A former colleague mentioned using Buffer and wrote a nice post about it so I decided to look into for my use case. My channels scenario…
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First 7 thoughts on editing videos with Clipchamp
Over the holiday break, I decided to try to record a new Bunkers and Badasses video about the Siren class, but this time without using the built-in TikTok creator tools. I tried using Clipchamp, with mixed success. I learned a lot trying this out. Here are 7 things I learned…
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How do you convince developers to stick around for the long run?
How do we in #DevRel make developers sticky? Is it the docs? Is it the community? Is it the people you interact with at the vendor? What brings someone past that initial awareness point? #1. Be helpful I came into DevRel via tech evangelism, where I focused a lot on…
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Becoming a Leader – Facing the Unknown
In this series I’ll be writing about some of the challenges of transitioning to being a leader within the team you are in. In this article, I’ll discuss some of the difficulty in changing how you make decisions. When you first transition to go from member of the team to…
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Becoming a Leader – Letting it go
In this series I’ll be writing about some of the challenges of transitioning to being a leader within the team you are in. In this article, I’ll cover delegation and letting go of your previous responsibilities. When you first transition to go from member of the team to leading that…
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Mixed emotions: Saying goodbye to a team member
NOTE: This content was inspired by an earlier post of mine as a thread on Twitter. Something I’ve struggled with when leading a team is saying goodbye. Such a mix of emotions! When somebody gets that next step in their career, it’s so great to see that success! At the…
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Using Camtasia Pixelate options to make your video feel like a retro video game
This is a quick little read covering how you can use the Pixelate transition and annotation to achieve a ‘retro gaming’ feel. I was working on some video production for a #VoiceTheDocs video about Helix and I wanted to do something that felt “8-bit”. You can watch the video I…
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Announcing: #VoiceTheDocs (and Episode 1)
I’ve decided to try out something new: a series of videos trying to bring a voice to documentation! As a dad, I do a lot of reading out loud for my kids. Doing funny voices, or just trying to make a story engaging and interesting. I started thinking… what could…
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Tech Salaries: All that goes up, must come down
This content was originally posted as a thread on Twitter: https://twitter.com/StCyrThoughts/status/1458802830484119561 Some folks are mad about this tweet by @laurieontech but it is important to understand what happened in our field’s history. I saw this as I was starting into tech. Telecom companies drastically cutting staff after years of booming,…
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4 speaker tips to focus on your camera while recording a video
I’m not sure about everybody else, but since we’ve switched to doing a lot of virtual events I have really noticed how easily distracted my eyes are while I’m presenting. It’s important for engaging with your audience to make eye contact with the camera, but keeping focus on the camera…
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An exciting day for me as the Developer Portal launched!
My team has been working on this one for a while, so I was really proud of the work done here to build a great experience for developers. It’s just the first version, but there is a lot we can do to make it easier and better for developers to…
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Building a timeline with Polywork
So a little while back, a member of the DevRel community made me aware of a new social platform called Polywork. I wasn’t sure what to make of it at first, or how to best use it, but I decided that for me I wanted to use it as a…
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How to add your PowerPoint presentation to your camera with OBS
Have you ever wanted an “over the shoulder” feel to your video presentation? Like a broadcast news style, right in your web camera? You can add your PowerPoint presentation to your camera feed using OBS software and a few easy steps. You can watch the video to see how, or…
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St-Cyr 2020: The Hindsight Review
As the new year begins, I took a look back at what I managed to pull off in 2020. This was my first full calendar year managing the Technical Evangelism team at Sitecore, so my way of contributing changed a little bit this year. One of my most proud accomplishments…
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Baby Steps to Metrics – Starting your content analytics
Hi there and welcome back to the Baby Steps to Metrics series! At this point in our story we started small with a few numbers by counting things done by the team. However, like I’ve said before, counting things is a pretty terrible metric overall. We need to start seeing…
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4 Baby Steps to getting started with metrics
I find getting started on things is one of the hardest things to do. When I started into looking at metrics, there were a lot of great examples of end results and amazing dashboards, but nobody yet mapping out how to get there. This quick primer gives you a background…
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Baby Steps for Metrics – DevRelCon Earth 2020
My slides for my talk at DevRelCon Earth 2020 are now posted online on Notist. Got questions on getting started with your DevRel reporting? Let me know! UPDATE (November 2020) The video recording of the presentation is now available on the DevRel YouTube channel. Baby Steps for Metrics DevRelCon Earth…
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DevRel metrics – Counting things is terrible. Do it!
Upon seeing some activity numbers from a recent quarter, a leader I respect told me “I know everybody is busy.” They wanted to know what the impact of our activity was, not how much we did. Of course! Anybody talking to you about metrics tells you that counting things is…
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So you work from home now…
With the current pandemic a lot of people are now working from home full-time and we all need to adjust to a new way of balancing work and life. Not only that, we are not having a normal “work-from-home” situation. This is a “work-from-home-while-living-through-a-pandemic-that-can-potentially-wipe-out-the-family” situation. So there are a few…
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DevRel metrics – Which video in a series is the best performer?
When working with a technical audience, we create a lot of content in a variety of ways: documentation, blogs, presentations, and videos. Some people learn best by watching somebody else do something, or explain a concept with visuals. As we create this type of content, we need to be able…
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Building Trust – Have you been kind today?
Bringing kindness to marketing and developer relations sounds like something that couldn’t possibly work in a hyper-competitive business world, where we value “crushing the competition” and “winning at all costs”. However, consumers are tired of that, they are tired of the shouting, the constant pushing. They want it to be…
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Building Trust – Is Honesty Always the Best Policy?
When we were little kids, we were taught that we should always tell the truth. Never lie, that’s not the right thing to do! Nobody will trust what you say. Always telling the truth sounds great on the surface, but as we grow up we learn that things are not…
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Trust – The Power of Being a Better Neighbour
I took my first attempt trying out the blog editing on both dev.to and on Medium with my thoughts around advocacy, Developer Relations, and being kind! Read the full article on dev.to
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Tiny tips for speakers
With our Sitecore Virtual Developer Day just wrapped, and more speaking events around the corner, I was thinking back to some tips I provided for speakers right before Sitecore Symposium 2018. Here they are, in one place, for you to find if you ever need them! PPTX files are…
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Evangelist Year One – a Retrospective
Just over one year ago, I wrote about a big change in my career as I joined the Sitecore Technical Marketing team to work as the North American Technical Evangelist. Over the last 12 months, a lot has happened, and in typical agile fashion I’m looking back at what has been…
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