Community Talk

Speaking with Turing students about engaging with their community

Transcript

1. How to Engage with your Community by @jessicag
2. Poll Who went to Boulder Startup Week/Gluecon?
3. Poll What was the last meetup you went to?
4. Poll Who was the last stranger you turned into a friend? And no, Turing students don’t count ;)
5. Fact: Community != beers with your friends 5
6. Your community doesn’t know you. Fact:
7. You can be a part of your community; and you’ll be better off for it. Fact:
8. Because, #FridayHug
9. How to Start? Use the 3 to 1 rule
10. GitHub
11. Documentation Double whammy: Give back and learn something
12. OpenSource https://github.com/trending
13. Personal Brand
14. Twitter
15. Blog Posts Solve an interesting problem? Share your experience!
16. Stack Overflow Gain those reputation points
17. Be your own Megaphone!
18. @j3 “Don’t talk about it, be about it”
19. Efforts Minimal: Twitter, LinkedIn
20. Efforts Standard: Twitter, LinkedIn, One Meetup, Stack Overflow
21. Efforts Optimal: Twitter, LinkedIn, Four Meetups, Blog Posts
22. Efforts SuperStar: Twitter, LinkedIn, 5+ Meetups, Blog Posts, OpenSource Contributions, API Documentation, Stack Overflow
23. But, WHY
24. Community Step 1: Find Cool People Step 2: Build Cool Shit Step 3: ???? Step 4: Profit
25. Meetups
26. Conferences Talk about your passion! Practice within your community
27. Why is this important Want a Job?
28. 3 Easy Steps Online Presence: Blog Posts(personal and community), GitHub, Twitter, Stack Overflow, Open Source contributions, documentation In Person Presence: Meetups, speaking engagements Pulling it together: Contributing on open source projects, blogging about it, speaking about it
29. That’s a Wrap!