Community Pulse

About the show

Community Pulse is the spot for Developer Relations and Community professionals who are looking for information on building technical communities. Community Builders and DevRel veterans Jason Hand, Mary Thengvall, PJ Hagerty, and Wesley Faulkner interview experts in the field of Developer Relations and Community Leadership on a broad range of topics related to building community.

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Episodes

  • 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.

  • Justin Reese at Uptime Conf (Ep 18)

    August 29th, 2017  |  26 mins 18 secs

    Episode 18 finds Jason and PJ in Pittsburgh at Uptime Conf! We took the opportunity to sit down with Community Organizer and Pittsburgh Advocate, Justin Reese.

  • 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.

  • DevOpsDays and Beyond (Ep 16)

    April 20th, 2017  |  42 mins 41 secs

    After all 3 hosts being in the same physical place at the same time, Mary, Jason, and PJ come together to recap DevOpsDays, talk about different communities, and chat about all the things we're thinking.

  • Ignite'ing Your Community (Ep 15)

    March 20th, 2017  |  40 mins

    While none of our guests for this episode have "Community Manager" in their title, these folks know a lot about building local communities. Jason and Mary chat with some of the top people behind Ignite Talks (ignitetalks.io) about building...

  • Let's Start at the Very Beginning (Ep 14)

    February 13th, 2017  |  51 mins 34 secs

    How to Launch a Community

  • New Year, New Plan (Ep 13)

    January 13th, 2017  |  44 mins 17 secs

    Developer Relations Retrospectives

  • Same Job, New City (Ep 12)

    December 13th, 2016  |  54 mins 30 secs

    Travel Tips for Community Managers

  • Burnout - Part Two (Ep 11)

    December 7th, 2016  |  47 mins 2 secs

    Recognizing and Preventing Burnout

  • Burnout - Part One (Ep 10)

    November 21st, 2016  |  25 mins 43 secs

    What Is Burnout and Why Do We Suffer From It?

  • Balancing Your Public and Private Lives (Ep 9)

    October 31st, 2016  |  45 mins 40 secs

    In this Halloween-ish episode of Community Pulse, PJ and Mary talk to Coraline Ada Ehmke and Ed Finkler. We explore the the two sides of the same coin that are the life of technical advocates.

  • Introducing PJ (Ep 8)

    July 27th, 2016  |  25 mins 59 secs

    The one where we introduce , the new guy. Jason and Mary talk about why they’ve decided to add a third person, as well as their plan for the next few episodes and their hopes for the podcast going forward.

  • Making The Jump From One To Many (Ep 07)

    May 20th, 2016  |  1 hr 15 mins

    In this episode of Community Pulse we were joined by Nathen Harvey (VP of Community Development, Chef) and Phil Leggetter (Head of Developer Relations, Nexmo) to talk about learning to scale a community role.

  • #DevRelsFTW (Ep 6)

    April 11th, 2016  |  53 mins 1 sec

    Jason Yee, PJ Hagerty, and Carina C. Zona join Jason and Mary to talk through some of the prevalent struggles in community management: what our roles actually entail (and how to communicate that to the rest of the company), how we define ourselves, how to protect our roles, what we need in order to survive the day in and day out of this job that we love, and if a company decides to let their community department go, how (and when) to do that.

  • The Community for Community Professionals (Ep 5)

    January 30th, 2016  |  34 mins 9 secs

    CMX is the community for community professionals. We talk to Carrie Jones and David Spinks about the future of community professionals.

  • Metrics: Arch Nemesis Of The Community Builder (Ep 04)

    December 18th, 2015  |  48 mins 50 secs

    Metrics tend to be the community builder’s arch nemesis. In this episode, Jason and Mary sit down with community folks from Keen and Bitergia.