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Listening: How to Measure Developer Content Sharing and Engagement

Defining Developer Content Sharing Developer content sharing is content about programming/information technology that developers or IT professionals share with each other. Engagement is evidence that these developers care about that content as seen by comments, replies, likes or other digital interactions. To measure developer content sharing and engagement you can easily leverage the tools that content marketers normally use to measure social share and engagement. However, you need to expand your share and engagement search (possibly through the share of voice measurement) to look for shares from other sources like developer-to-developer communities (D2D), specifically in forums, bulletin boards, or [...]

Listening: How to Measure Developer Content Sharing and Engagement2023-03-06T10:09:19-05:00

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 the content most likely to be shared by developers with their peers. Why? Because it is perceived as useful. However, there are important steps you can take when structuring that useful content. Even if your content is primarily [...]

Structuring Content With Developer Engagement In Mind2023-03-06T10:09:18-05:00

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: where you place the content, where you promote the content, and where you point the content (and the reader). Placement. With something more deep, technical, and evergreen, like a white paper, you might be committed to a landing [...]

3 Ways to Maximize Technical Content Marketing Campaign Results2023-03-06T10:09:17-05:00

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 what does it take to make developers taste (much less consume) technical content? All They Want Is Extra Time — K.I.S.S. It’s not what you think. Remember K.I.S.S.? (That’s Keep It Simple, Stupid.) Matthew Pruitt, Head of Global [...]

How to Create Consumable Technical Content2023-03-06T10:09:17-05:00

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 your investment and provide a seemingly infinite content source for your campaign, including your social media campaigns. Why Social Media? Social media networks are just one of many channels where you will find a developer audience. Serving content [...]

Social Media and The Snack-Size Campaign2023-03-06T10:09:16-05:00

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 engage our brain’s ability to see patterns and trends. While developers lack patience for infographic overuse, they will respond to judicious use. Increase your technical content ROI by finding an image you can create that is more impactful [...]

Maximize Your Content: You Can Infographic That!2023-03-06T10:09:15-05:00

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 developer communities all over the interwebs. Here’s the thing: You may use paid channels to promote the content, but truly persuasive developer buzz happens organically. Why? Organically shared information is much more authentic. For a highly skeptical community [...]

The Making of Developer Buzz2023-03-06T10:09:14-05:00

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. Enter the tech resource hub. Why? Well, some of it is about building developer enthusiasm for your product. But they can’t talk about it if they don’t know how to use it. So there’s the developer/tech buzz factor. [...]

What Should a Tech Resource Hub Look Like?2023-03-06T10:09:13-05:00

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 offered these best practices: Research what kind of members you want to attract, so you’re able to draw them in with authentic interactions and relevance. Put a plan in place before you launch, making sure you’ve got perfect [...]

Your Developer Community Technical Content Starter Guide2023-03-06T10:09:12-05:00

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 occurs at least a few times per week. Now what? Start simple. There are some voice-activated search principles that translate into creating content across markets, including developers. The translational voice-activated search principles for technical content are common sense [...]

Talk Technical to Me: Voice Search and Developer Content Marketing2023-03-06T10:09:12-05:00