Mary Thengvall
Co-Host of Community Pulse
Mary Thengvall is a connector of people at heart, personally and professionally. She loves digging into the strategy of how to build and foster developer communities and has been doing so for over 10 years. Mary is the Director of Developer Relations at Camunda, an open source process automation platform. She's the author of The Business Value of Developer Relations (© 2018, Apress).
Mary Thengvall has hosted 80 Episodes.
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Technical? Or Tech-Savvy? - what's actually required to be a developer relations professional? (Ep 34)
March 26th, 2019 | 46 mins 57 secs
As Developer Relations becomes more mainstream, the understanding of what makes someone qualified to be a Developer Relations professional is getting cloudy. Do you have to have a technical background? And if so, does that mean that you’ve held a “Software Engineer” title? Or simply that you’ve taken the time to understand the technical pieces of your product? Jason, Mary, and PJ are joined by Karissa Peth, Sr. Developer Relations Program Manager at Microsoft, and Matty Stratton, DevOps Advocate at PagerDuty, as they dig into the nuances of the various Developer Relations career paths.
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After Pulse: Lessons Learned From Organizing Tech Events
March 12th, 2019 | 14 mins 52 secs
Jason, Mary, and PJ sync up after Episode 33 to discuss event management, creating new events, and where event organization fits into community management as a whole.
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Lessons Learned while Organizing Tech Events (Ep 33)
March 12th, 2019 | 47 mins 2 secs
In this episode, our hosts are joined by Aaron Aldrich and Quintessence Anx, both of whom are Developer Advocates who also have experience organizing community events. Together, they discuss the challenges, lessons learned, and tips for organizing events for a technical audience
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2018 Wrap-Up (Ep 31)
December 19th, 2018 | 39 mins 9 secs
Mary, PJ, and Jason gather to chat about 2018: the rewards as well as the struggles. Per usual, there are tangents galore from the hosts you've come to love along with observations about how DevRel has come and what we might see in the future.
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After Pulse: Codes of Conduct
November 15th, 2018 | 36 mins 38 secs
Mary and PJ join Jason to sync up on the recent episode that he hosted about Codes of Conduct. We cover a lot of ground: from the purpose that Codes of Conduct serve, to the fact that we agree to these standards in day-to-day life without realizing it, to the recent news stories about CoCs.
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Relationships IRL (Ep 28)
October 5th, 2018 | 36 mins 55 secs
Mary opens up to PJ and Jason about struggles to create an in-person personal community when we're so often on the road. Even we extroverts need some downtime from the tech community and a chance to connect with friends, but how do we go about creating deep friendships when we aren't home to invest in them?
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Content is Key! - technical writing for the unprepared (Ep 27)
August 21st, 2018 | 39 mins 51 secs
One important part of the Dev Advocate lifestyle is content creation, which can range from penning the perfect tweet to blog posts to docs and tutorials. Content matters when it comes to interacting with the Community. In this episode, we talk with Lorna Jane Mitchell about content creation and the process of working with folks who are not content creators to make the best of your project or community’s written record.
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After Pulse: Team Dynamics
June 30th, 2018 | 17 mins 34 secs
PJ, Jason, and Mary sync up after the podcast recording with J. Paul Reed and Greg Bulmash (Episode 25: Team Dynamics) to recap the episode and share a few more thoughts.
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Team Dynamics - your team, other teams, and the company 'team' (Ep 25)
June 14th, 2018 | 45 mins 33 secs
PJ, Jason, and Mary sit down with J. Paul Reed (@jpreed) and Greg Bulmash (@yiddishninja) to chat about team dynamics, working between departments, and setting boundaries for your DevRel team.
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After Pulse: Imposter Syndrome
June 7th, 2018 | 7 mins 7 secs
PJ, Jason, and Mary sync up after the podcast recording with Kelsey Hightower (Episode 24: Imposter Syndrome) to recap the episode and share a few more thoughts.
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Imposter Syndrome (Ep 24)
May 28th, 2018 | 50 mins 15 secs
PJ, Jason, and Mary joined up with Kelsey Hightower from Google Cloud Platform to chat about imposter syndrome: - What is imposter syndrome? - Is it a "thing"? - How can we overcome imposter syndrome in ourselves? - How can we prevent imposter syndrome in others?
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How to Submit the Best CFP of your Life (and what to do when it gets accepted) (Ep 23)
April 14th, 2018 | 45 mins 40 secs
Conference season is fast approaching, but we all know that the true preparation starts months ahead when all of the CFPs open. In this episode of Community Pulse, Mary, PJ, and Jason sit down with VM (Vicky) Brasseur to chat about how to craft the best CFPs, navigating the land of limbo before you find out whether your talk has been accepted, and how to prepare the best talk once you've gotten your acceptance notice.
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Breaking into DevRel (Ep 21)
February 9th, 2018 | 41 mins 53 secs
What is Developer Relations, Anyway?
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Meetups (Ep 20)
January 22nd, 2018 | 27 mins 47 secs
What makes them great, should a company host a meetup, and more.
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2017 In Review (Ep 19)
December 14th, 2017 | 55 mins 49 secs
Jason, Mary, and PJ do an end of year wrap-up on the highs, lows, and day-to-day of 2017. We talk about the tough parts of being in DevRel, the importance of diversity, and other topics we've seen this year.
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Anil Dash: The Importance of Interaction (Ep 17)
June 12th, 2017 | 1 hr 10 mins
In this episode, Mary, Jason, and PJ sit down with the illustrious Anil Dash of Fog Creek Software to discuss interactions with people, why DevRel is so important yet misunderstood, and Anil's cool new project, Glitch.com.