Uncommon Conversations: Deep Talks with Community & DevRel Leaders

In this 14-minute convo, Gabrielle Leith, Community Manager at Bramble, discusses balancing multiple communities' needs and making the community more discoverable across surfaces.

Community and DevRel leaders perform incredible feats to grow, engage, and support their communities, empower their businesses, and build products and experiences people love. Each day, they bring their companies and communities closer together. These are the stories of their work. The Uncommon community is powered by Common Room, the intelligent community growth platform that enables you to unlock community insights so you can grow happier customers, measure outcomes, and drive business impact. Learn more about how you can help your community thrive with Common Room at commonroom.io, and join the Uncommon community at commonroom.io/uncommon.

In this 54-minute convo, Erica Kuhl, community consultant and strategist, talks about distilling her learnings across 17+ years building the Salesforce Trailblazer community into core strategies for building communities across market spaces, sizes, and scopes.

Community and DevRel leaders perform incredible feats to grow, engage, and support their communities, empower their businesses, and build products and experiences people love. Each day, they bring their companies and communities closer together. These are the stories of their work. The Uncommon community is powered by Common Room, the intelligent community growth platform that enables you to unlock community insights so you can grow happier customers, measure outcomes, and drive business impact. Learn more about how you can help your community thrive with Common Room at commonroom.io, and join the Uncommon community at commonroom.io/uncommon.

In this 12-minute convo, Tessa Kriesel and Rachel Sunderland, at the time both at Lacework, discuss hiring for and stepping into a new community management role, and how to empower new community team members to be successful from the start.

Community and DevRel leaders perform incredible feats to grow, engage, and support their communities, empower their businesses, and build products and experiences people love. Each day, they bring their companies and communities closer together. These are the stories of their work. The Uncommon community is powered by Common Room, the intelligent community growth platform that enables you to unlock community insights so you can grow happier customers, measure outcomes, and drive business impact. Learn more about how you can help your community thrive with Common Room at commonroom.io, and join the Uncommon community at commonroom.io/uncommon.

In this 13-minute convo, Steph Nakano and Jephtah Abu discuss specific actions community leaders can take to bring more diversity, equity, and inclusion into both their communities and the internal teams that support them.

Community and DevRel leaders perform incredible feats to grow, engage, and support their communities, empower their businesses, and build products and experiences people love. Each day, they bring their companies and communities closer together. These are the stories of their work. The Uncommon community is powered by Common Room, the intelligent community growth platform that enables you to unlock community insights so you can grow happier customers, measure outcomes, and drive business impact. Learn more about how you can help your community thrive with Common Room at commonroom.io, and join the Uncommon community at commonroom.io/uncommon.

In this 13-minute convo, Ryland Goldstein, Head of Product at Temporal, discusses how he and the team are working to open up Temporal to a broader set of developers.

Community and DevRel leaders perform incredible feats to grow, engage, and support their communities, empower their businesses, and build products and experiences people love. Each day, they bring their companies and communities closer together. These are the stories of their work. The Uncommon community is powered by Common Room, the intelligent community growth platform that enables you to unlock community insights so you can grow happier customers, measure outcomes, and drive business impact. Learn more about how you can help your community thrive with Common Room at commonroom.io, and join the Uncommon community at commonroom.io/uncommon.

In this 49-minute convo, Richard Millington, community consultant, founder at FeverBee, and three-time author, discusses what every community builder can learn from Gordon Ramsay: Do less so you can focus more on what truly delivers value. It starts with creating a well-defined community strategy.

Community and DevRel leaders perform incredible feats to grow, engage, and support their communities, empower their businesses, and build products and experiences people love. Each day, they bring their companies and communities closer together. These are the stories of their work. The Uncommon community is powered by Common Room, the intelligent community growth platform that enables you to unlock community insights so you can grow happier customers, measure outcomes, and drive business impact. Learn more about how you can help your community thrive with Common Room at commonroom.io, and join the Uncommon community at commonroom.io/uncommon.

In this 25-minute convo, Jeff Barr, VP & Chief Evangelist at AWS for over 20 years, talks about the importance of making developer education accessible and approachable, showing up for your community both in-person and online, and truly welcoming new members into community spaces. 

Community and DevRel leaders perform incredible feats to grow, engage, and support their communities, empower their businesses, and build products and experiences people love. Each day, they bring their companies and communities closer together. These are the stories of their work. The Uncommon community is powered by Common Room, the intelligent community growth platform that enables you to unlock community insights so you can grow happier customers, measure outcomes, and drive business impact. Learn more about how you can help your community thrive with Common Room at commonroom.io , and join the Uncommon community at commonroom.io/uncommon.

In this 35-minute convo, Joshua Zerkel, Head of Global Engagement (Community and Lifecyle) at Asana, discusses the importance of internal roadshows to evangelize community within your company, why reporting on two types of metrics—program health metrics and business impact metrics—is table stakes, and building community programs with end goals in mind.

Community and DevRel leaders perform incredible feats to grow, engage, and support their communities, empower their businesses, and build products and experiences people love. Each day, they bring their companies and communities closer together. These are the stories of their work. The Uncommon community is powered by Common Room, the intelligent community growth platform that enables you to unlock community insights so you can grow happier customers, measure outcomes, and drive business impact. Learn more about how you can help your community thrive with Common Room at commonroom.io , and join the Uncommon community at commonroom.io/uncommon.

Community and DevRel leaders perform incredible feats to grow, engage, and support their communities, empower their businesses, and build products and experiences people love. Each day, they bring their companies and communities closer together. These are the stories of their work. The Uncommon community is powered by Common Room, the intelligent community growth platform that enables you to unlock community insights so you can grow happier customers, measure outcomes, and drive business impact. Learn more about how you can help your community thrive with Common Room at commonroom.io, and join the Uncommon community at commonroom.io/uncommon.