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Case Study: How TomTom Built a Developer Portal Content Runway with the Help of ContentLab
The Client TomTom is the leading independent location technology specialist, shaping mobility with highly accurate maps, navigation software, real-time traffic information and services. To achieve our vision of a safer world, free of congestion and emissions, we create innovative technologies that keep the world moving. By combining our extensive experience with leading business and technology partners, we power connected vehicles, smart [...]
Your Developer Community Technical Content Starter Guide
Developer Community Building 101 There are many sources of developer community building information, including conferences (DevRelXCon), training, and articles. An interesting article about developer community building best practices by SparkPost CMO Josh Aberant made it to a mainstream marketing media site, MarketingLand. This worthy piece invited the question: What content accompanies these useful best practices? The 6 Best Practices Josh Aberant [...]
Talk Technical to Me: Voice Search and Developer Content Marketing
Really, though? Really. Even for technical information, voice search is on the rise, and developers, DevOps teams, and other IT professionals are using it. Don’t believe us? Believe Evans Data. Results from their 2019 Developer Marketing Survey reveal that developers commonly use voice-activated search or voice-recognition-based search to look for technical information. How common is it? >60% said that this activity [...]
What Should a Tech Resource Hub Look Like?
Before Tech Support If you are marketing to developers or other experts in tech, it’s likely you are building some kind of community. Sure, you have your existing customers who need documentation, tutorials, etc. However, what attracts new techies to your brand and your product is all the information you provide before they hit Download, and certainly before they hit Purchase. [...]
The Making of Developer Buzz
Developer Buzz What makes for developer buzz? Getting regular programmers to share thoughts and information in developer communities (not necessarily just social media). What makes them valuable is that their posts get engagement. So how do you ignite developer buzz? You give them a technical story to tell, then let them — and hopefully several developers like them tell it in [...]
Maximize Your Content: You Can Infographic That!
It’s Like a Map It’s true, a picture is worth a thousand words. But infographics often include words, and even need them to tell a story. That’s because an infographic is more of an information map, helping the viewer understand a frame of logic, a concept, a process, and the significance of information. By using eye-catching graphics with minimal words, infographics [...]
Social Media and The Snack-Size Campaign
What Is That Loud Sucking Sound? Whether you have produced content in-house or have it produced for you, content is a huge investment. Your content marketing campaign likely feels like a vacuum of endless content need. However, it’s doubtful you have the budget to feed what seems like a force of nature. No worries — Repurposing content allows you to maximize [...]
How to Create Consumable Technical Content
Even Developers Get Bored Yep — No matter how cool the technology, topic, or tutorial, if it’s not served in the way your audience wants to receive it, they’ll just ignore it. Developers are just as likely as any other audience to ignore a technically rich deep dive if they can’t easily connect it to information they need or want. So [...]
3 Ways to Maximize Technical Content Marketing Campaign Results
Maximize Your ROI You’ve acquired authoritative, developer-community resonant technical content. Now what? Is it just going to sit on a landing page or get buried in your blog? Not if you want to maximize exposure and your ROI (return on investment). Focusing on location can help you maximize your technical content campaign results. Location There are three critical aspects to location: [...]
Structuring Content With Developer Engagement In Mind
Developer Engagement Measuring developer engagement is an important part of making meaningful measurements of a content marketing campaign targeting a developer audience. So, how should content be structured to encourage developers to share content to promote subsequent engagement? Mix It Up The most important thing is to feature content that helps with professional skill building or training. Tutorials or how-to’s are [...]