Uncommon Conversations: Deep Talks with Community & DevRel Leaders
Community and DevRel leaders perform incredible feats to grow, engage, and support their communities, empower their businesses, and build products and experiences people love. Each day, they bring their companies and communities closer together. These are the stories of their work. The Uncommon community is powered by Common Room, the intelligent community growth platform that enables you to unlock community insights so you can grow happier customers, measure outcomes, and drive business impact. Learn more about how you can help your community thrive with Common Room at commonroom.io, and join the Uncommon community at commonroom.io/uncommon.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 29
- Years Active
- 2022
28. DevRel for modern apps, with Chris Riley at HubSpot
In this 32-minute convo, Chris Riley, Senior Manager of DevRel at HubSpot, talks about getting started in a DevRel career, the evolution of the DevRel industry, and leading DevRel for modern apps tod…
27. Gaining cross-functional stakeholder investment in community work, with Alina Din at Retool
In this 32-minute convo, Alina Din, Community Manager at Retool, talks about leading the Retool community and what it took to earn internal, cross-functional stakeholder excitement and investment to …
26. Building content and community around serverless development, with Jeremy Daly at Serverless Cloud
In this 21-minute convo, Jeremy Daly, GM at Serverless Cloud, gives a glimpse into creating content that both empowers and brings communities together: newsletters, podcasts, blog posts, events, and …
25. Building community flywheels and having conversations B.C. (Before Community), with Community Executive Officer Rosie Sherry
In this 25-minute convo, Rosie Sherry, Community Executive Officer and founder of Rosieland, talks about activating community engagement flywheels and having conversations that lead you to the right …
24. What's Web3 and how community builders should think about using it, with Mark Tan and Mike Ma
In this 13-minute convo, Mark Tan, Product and Community Builder for Web3 communities, and Mike Ma, co-founder at Research Rabbit, give us a foundational overview of what Web3 is and discuss how it m…
23. Building end-to-end user education solutions, with Lacey Kesler at Webflow
In this 11-minute convo, Lacey Kesler, Senior Community Education Manager at Webflow, discusses how she and the team determine which educational programs they need to build, for who, and how.
Communit…
22. The value of a cloud advocate, with Olympia Trumbower and Kyler Middleton at IAM Pulse
In this 14-minute convo, Olympia Trumbower and Kyler Middleton, Head of Community and Cloud IAM Advocate at IAM Pulse respectively, talk about the importance of advocacy roles, onboarding as a new te…
21. The who, what, why, where, when, and how of building an ambassador program, with strategic community consultant Jenny Weigle
In this 16-minute convo, Jenny Weigle, Chief Community Officer and Strategic Community Consultant, lays out a timeline and roadmap for building an ambassador program including the who, what, why, whe…
20. Why community health matters so much, with Jared Jones at Moov
In this 11-minute convo, Jared Jones, Director of Ecosystem and Partnerships at Moov, talks about why Moov's thriving open-source community was such a big factor in convincing him to join the team—an…
19. Hands-on education + workshop design to empower technical builders, with James Beswick at AWS
In this 12-minute convo, James Beswick, AWS Serverless DA team leader, talks about creating educational content and workshops that enable people to get started and grow with new technologies like AWS…
18. Building community with an open-source ethos, with Ale Murray at Confluent
In this 29-minute convo, Ale Murray, Director of Community at Confluent, discusses how she and her team built the Confluent community on five pillars: Hackathons, Leaders, Digital Platforms, Conferen…
17. The intersection of customer education and community empowerment, with Sandi Lin at Skilljar
In this 41-minute convo, Sandi Lin, co-founder and CEO at Skilljar, discusses how investing in customer education is a triple win: A win for customers who just started with a product, a win for busin…
16. The importance of building with and for your user community from the beginning, with Shahed Khan at Loom
In this 24-minute convo, Shahed Khan, co-founder of Loom, discusses the importance of building with and for a product's user community from the very beginning and how he and his co-founders baked a r…
15. Building the SuperHi community, why and how, with Max Pete at SuperHi
In this 12-minute convo, Max Pete, Community and Customer Support Lead at SuperHi, discusses co-creating and delivering programs, like community-run Accountability Clubs and AMAs, with the SuperHi co…
14. Bringing community to the C-suite and elevating community as a brand pillar, with Mary O'Carroll at Ironclad
In this 34-minute convo, Mary O'Carroll, Chief Community Officer at Ironclad, talks about building Ironclad's community V2, what it means to have Community in the C-suite, and embracing community as …
13. Community building through meetups, hackathons, and more, with Kyle Eaton at Superconductive
In this 10-minute convo, Kyle Eaton, Growth Lead at Superconductive and Community Manager of Great Expectations, talks about building community through consistent programming like meetups, hackathons…
12. Community as a differentiator, with Jake Randall at Common Room
In this 12-minute convo, Jake Randall, Chief Operating Officer at Common Room, talks about the power of community to change the trajectory of business—today and in the future.
Community and DevRel lea…
11. Empowering great moderators, earning internal buy-in, and activating lurkers, with Evan Hamilton (formerly at Reddit)
In this 51-minute convo, Evan Hamilton, Director of Community at HubSpot, former community manager at Reddit, and strategic community consultant, discusses the layers of community (audiences, fandoms…
10. How and why the Friends of Lenny's Newsletter community came to be, with Lenny Rachitsky, author of Lenny's Newsletter
In this 35-minute convo, Lenny Rachitsky, creator and author of Lenny's Newsletter and the "Friends of Lenny's Newsletter" community, discusses the inspiration behind Lenny's Newsletter, how the comm…
9. Creating community-based courses and curriculums, with Kyle Hagge at Morning Brew
In this 17-minute convo, Kyle Hagge, Lead Community Manager at Morning Brew, talks about building and designing community-based curriculums and implementing cohort feedback to uplevel the skills of e…