Building a Tech Community in Ten Easy Steps
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This document provides 10 tips for building a tech community from Jen Looper's experience managing communities like NativeScript Community and Vue Vixens. The tips include finding the right platform to host the community, setting the right atmosphere, providing tools for members, cultivating community helpers, running activities and contests, amplifying contributions, featuring community members, giving rewards and badges, helping members develop careers, modeling positive behavior, and referring to a code of conduct. The overall message is that building a community takes time and empathy but can be very rewarding.
Building a Tech Community in Ten Easy Steps
- 2. Communities I’ve managed: NativeScript Community Vue Vixens Front-End Foxes Front-End Foxes School
- 5. Everything I know, right here! industry-shredding tips! top-secret hints! any more, and you'd have to sign an NDA!
- 6. Teams works! Other platforms might be a ‘culture fit’ like Discord for game-friendly audiences Tip 1: Find a platform to grow your community
- 7. Use Apps! Donut on Slack Kudos apps on Teams Tip 2: Set the atmosphere
- 8. Make sure folks know about student- friendly or beginner-friendly content to get folks up and running Stay on the lookout for interesting initiatives and giveaways Tip 3: Get people the tools they need
- 9. Tip 4: Cultivate your helpers Appoint community manager helpers as a “Welcome Wagon”
- 11. Grow the next generation of helpers Model > Coach > Care
- 13. Tip 5: Spin up contests and activities Example: Secret Santa bot on Slack to pair people for kudos Try a mini-hackathon Meet for virtual coffee/networking
- 14. Tip 6: Amplify blogs & great contributions RT, repost
- 15. Write a blogpost about them Tip 7: Feature a community member
- 16. Tip 8: Send swag, stickers, and badges Virtual badges work! Make your own with Canva
- 17. Tip 9: Build careers Run mock interviews and resume workshops. Cloud Advocates can help! Participate in Global Diversity Speakers Day to polish presentation skills. Practice in meetups
- 18. Shout-out your community! Tip 10: Model acts of love and joy
- 19. Epilogue
- 20. Sometimes you will get crazy people
- 21. trolls you
- 22. Toxicity some people are rough around the edges some are inexperienced some want to help but don't know how empathy and kindness take time
- 23. Protect yourself! Publish and refer to a Code of Conduct
- 25. It will be ok!
- 26. The rewards are real!
- 27. And one bonus tip…try to improve.
- 28. How are YOU building your tribe? Chat with me on Teams! Jen Looper, Cloud Advocate Lead, Academic Team