Customers can now browse the breadth of the Alexa skills catalog and discover new Alexa skills on Amazon.com. In this episode Dave chats with Nora Kelly, a Sr. Marketing Manager on Alexa whose team covers consumer marketing and customer experience for Alexa skills. The two discuss how Alexa skills are ranked, how skills appear in the weekly trending placements, how to ensure customers know your skill has been updated and how you can interact with customers directly on your skill's Amazon.com detail page.

Links:

Alexa Skills Department on Amazon.com - http://amazon.com/skills

In this episode Dave chats with Alexa Champion, Mark Carpenter, about his popular ASK Weekly Newsletter, the growing Alexa Dev community and Mark's Talking Alexa Podcast.

Links:

Ask Dev Weekly Newsletter:

http://askdevweekly.com

Talking Alexa Podcast:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-alexa/id1150803413

More About Mark:

https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/champions/mark-carpenter

In this episode Dave chats with Alexa Champion, Mark Carpenter, about his popular ASK Weekly Newsletter, the growing Alexa Dev community and Mark's Talking Alexa Podcast.

Links:

Ask Dev Weekly Newsletter:

http://askdevweekly.com

Talking Alexa Podcast:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/talking-alexa/id1150803413

More About Mark:

https://developer.amazon.com/alexa/champions/mark-carpenter

In this episode Dave chats with UK Alexa Evangelist, Dean Bryen, about the Alexa international launch. The two discuss the developer community in the UK and Germany as well as how to use multiple spoken languages within your own Alexa skills. You can follow Dean on twitter @deanbryen.

In this episode Dave chats with UK Alexa Evangelist, Dean Bryen, about the Alexa international launch. The two discuss the developer community in the UK and Germany as well as how to use multiple spoken languages within your own Alexa skills. You can follow Dean on twitter @deanbryen.

In this episode Dave chats with Alexa Champion, Walt Quesada, about his experience building Alexa Skills with .NET and the Alexa Skills Kit. Walt has also written a course for Pluralsight on the same topic as well as on his website.

Walt's Website: http://qnovations.com

Alexa Skills Kit .NET Pluralsight Course: http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/amazon-echo-developing-alexa-skills

Github projects:

https://github.com/AreYouFreeBusy/AlexaSkillsKit.NET

https://github.com/boblautenbach/amazon-ask-linking

In this episode Dave chats with Alexa Champion, Walt Quesada, about his experience building Alexa Skills with .NET and the Alexa Skills Kit. Walt has also written a course for Pluralsight on the same topic as well as on his website.

Walt's Website: http://qnovations.com

Alexa Skills Kit .NET Pluralsight Course: http://www.pluralsight.com/courses/amazon-echo-developing-alexa-skills

Github projects:

https://github.com/AreYouFreeBusy/AlexaSkillsKit.NET

https://github.com/boblautenbach/amazon-ask-linking

In this episode Dave chats with Alexa Hackathon Team Manager, Paul Cutsinger. The two chat about early Amazon Developer Day events, how that has turned into a formal Alexa hackathon team, ways developers are learning at these events and the interesting projects that have been created around Alexa.

In this episode Dave chats with Alexa Hackathon Team Manager, Paul Cutsinger. The two chat about early Amazon Developer Day events, how that has turned into a formal Alexa hackathon team, ways developers are learning at these events and the interesting projects that have been created around Alexa.

In this episode Dave chats with Alexa community members Galactoise and Chiaco about building for the Alexa Skills Kit, creating an engaging Alexa skill, how to test and debug your skills, how they build an Alexa emulator as well as important lessons they have learned along the way.