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It’s important to remember that as a Developer Relations professional, your personal brand is just as important as your company brand. There are two key things to remember about this: on the one hand, as a public face of your company, your personal views reflect on your company, but on the other hand, you can use your platform to amplify the good that your company is doing for the community.
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<IndexTerm ID="ITerm8"> For example, the Twitter moment about this book: https://twitter.com/i/moments/983238008429133825
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DevRel Weekly is a weekly newsletter full of relevant articles, job postings, and events that shows up in your inbox every Thursday, curated by yours truly ( https://devrelweekly.com ).
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REdeploy is a conference that explores the intersection of and interactions between resilient code, teams, and people. Coproduced by J. Paul Reed and me, the inaugural conference took place in August 2018 ( https://re-deploy.io ).
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Some of us have needed a teacher to perfect our gif game—shout out to Gareth Greenaway, Software Developer at Saltstack, for helping me improve mine. He’s @garethg on Twitter—come for the gifs, stay for the content.
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See https://twitter.com/mary_grace/status/569316539989516289 . Fun note: I actually still have my tiara!
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Thengvall, M. (2018). Building Your Personal Brand. In: The Business Value of Developer Relations. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3748-9_10
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