Community can have a very positive impact on most areas just about any business, but there isn't a one size fits all play book for how to do it at your company. This presentation shares some of the things I've learned building developer community over the years and gives some ideas that you can try to see if they might work for you too.

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Building Community
at a company that makes things for makers

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Hi I'm Justin
VP of Developer Advocacy at Keen IO
Been building community (professionally) for 5 years
I have a high-fiving problem and I'm not interested in fixing it

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Community
a unified body of individuals

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Community
a unified body of individuals
Guild
an organized group of people who have
joined together because they share the
same job or interest; especially : an
association of people who made or sold
goods in the Middle Ages

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• Community is not just business, but it can drive
business.
• It's quickly becoming more and more important.
• How the community perceives you is the greatest
representation of your brand.
• It's about building a sustainable business and
thriving in the long term.
Ok, OK! What's your point?

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–Patch Adams
"We can never get a re-creation of community
and heal our society without giving our citizens
a sense of belonging."

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Always give more then
you get.

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Building community is
building a defensible
brand.

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Ok, cool. This sounds
interesting, but, um, what
do you actually do?

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On the World Wide Web

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Mentoring and Office Hours

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Events!

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teaching

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Speaking

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Some are easy and don't take much work

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Some take a ton of work, but are totally worth it.

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Most of the time you should plan things with friendly
companies and partners.

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People love swag, have fun with it.

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The really love it!

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Seriously tho!!!!!!

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Advocates accelerate growth & scale things that don't scale.

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Be Genuinely Helpful

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Golden Rule: BE NICE

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Measurement!?!
This is a whole other talk I'm working on, but you can join
the conversation before it's done >>
http://dashboards.community/
https://github.com/keen/dashboards-dot-community
https://github.com/keen/dashboards-dot-community/
blob/master/examples.md

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High-Five
Last but not least have fun.

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Thanks!
justin@keen.io
@elof on all the things!