# Path to success for DevRel

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## Summary:

* Foundational Categories- ***Awareness***, ***Enablement*** and ***Engagement***
* Functions of DevRel - ***Developer*** ***Advocacy***, ***Experience*** and ***Community*** ***Management***
* ***Understanding the balance b/w the three*** functional categories

## Scribbles:

### Foundational Categories-&#x20;

* ***Awareness***&#x20;
  * Making sure that developers know about the product, making them aware of the targetted product's existence.
* ***Enablement***&#x20;
  * Documentations, guides, tutorials, existing libraries, use-cases, etc. to enable the developers to use your product.&#x20;
  * Making developers understand that using your product solves their problems can be a huge plus point for them to adopt the product.
* ***Engagement***&#x20;
  * Engaging with the community. \ <br>

### 3 Functions of Developer Relations-&#x20;

* Developer Advocacy
* Developer Experience
* Community management<br>

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### Developer Advocacy

* Responsible for making sure the community is ***aware***
* Producing content like blog posts, live streaming, public speaking/talks, etc.
* Building relations ships in the tech industry.&#x20;
* Making sure the team is aware of relevant feedback from the community.<br>

### Developer Experience&#x20;

* Responsible for standardization, accessibility of documentation for developers.&#x20;
* ^ allows the team to put a finishing touch after a fantastic talk from the developer advocate at a tech conference.&#x20;
* Gives people the confidence to know that the product can solve their problems with the help of fantastic guides and resources available.&#x20;

### Community Management

* Working with the most engaged community members.
* ^ those who run meetups, speak at events on the company's behalf.
* Goal is to build a stronger community of people as well as connections.

### Internal Community

#### Internally -> Co-workers

* Awareness OF
  * team's existence
  * the feedback that the community is willing to provide
  * types of processes that can be provided
  * DevRel qualified leads
* Enabling to&#x20;
  * serve the community better&#x20;
  * better communicate with customers
  * write, speak and code in public.&#x20;
* Engaging co-workers with the community with conferences, social media, forums, etc.

#### Externally ->

* Awareness OF
  * existence of various products and projects
  * team and mission
  * resources
* Enabling THEM
  * get up and running quickly and easily
  * successful in their role
  * try new things along with amplification of work
* Engaging
  * using forums, slack, social media, conferences, meetups
  * contributing and collaborating to move members up the pyramid of engagement

### How to find balance b/w the 3

* Understand company goals
* Find allies in your company
  * Awareness in the marketing dept.
  * Enablement in product and engineering.
  * Engagement in support and customer success team.&#x20;
* Prioritizing your task and working across teams to accomplish goals.&#x20;