Focus on (the Right) Content - Oracle Developer Community Day 2017
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Developer relations means many things to many people, but one of the core pieces everyone comes back to is content. Whether that takes the form of videos, code samples, talks, documentation, or anything else, content is central to your efforts. To use your tools, practitioners need to know why and how. This session focuses on the core types of content, how to prioritize what content you provide, and how to relate them to your company goals.
Focus on (the Right) Content - Oracle Developer Community Day 2017
- 1. Focus on (the Right) Content Understanding Developer-Oriented Content Mano Marks, @ManoMarks
- 2. Who Am I Whats my perspective? 9 years developer relations, Google 2 years Developer Relations Director, Docker Consumer of APIs
- 3. Questions to answer Why do you offer the product? Why does someone use your product? What learning objective are you trying to achieve?
- 4. Why are you doing this?
- 6. Developer Tools are Produced by Companies P.S. Yes even most open source tools
- 7. Companies exist to make money
- 8. Content producers Ask: How does your tool benefit the company? How does your tool benefit the user?
- 9. Content consumers Ask: How does your tool benefit the company that produces it? If Im not paying for this with money, how am I paying for it?
- 10. So back to the money...
- 12. Charge for the product Charge for support (Freemium Model) Charge for professional services
- 13. Examples Enterprise software companies Microsoft Oracle Canonical RedHat Docker
- 14. Examples Services MapBox GitHub GitLab IAAS AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform (or G Suite or whatever) Oracle Cloud
- 15. User benefits They can pay for what they need Direct investment by company in needed features Product support
- 16. Dangers Some users cant afford it Charging for professional services makes product more complex
- 17. USERS USERS USERS USERS USERS USERS USERS USERS USERS USERS USERS USERS
- 18. Free products, create users Examples Identity Services Google Login Facebook login Google Maps Drove search Builds Brand Mobile OSs Android iOS
- 19. User benefits Links to other services Low to no cost Wall gardens can be big
- 20. Dangers Shapes product Walled gardens Users arent your own Originator Brand Maintenance Limited feature growth
- 22. User benefits Benefit from others contributing data Data heavy product
- 23. Dangers Provider loses interest Low quality collective data
- 24. Who cares?
- 26. Would they really do that? Source: https://sensortower.com/blog/facebook-and-parse-launch-bolts-on-github-to-simplify-mobile-app-development
- 27. Goals of content Reach lots of developers Help them succeed Make them feel good about your tools
- 29. Inform Inform: Developers need to know!
- 30. Developers need to know how!
- 31. Inspire: Developers need to know how to put it together!
- 32. Delight: Developers need wow!
- 33. Refresh: Questions to answer Why do you offer the product? Why does someone use your product? What learning objective are you trying to achieve?