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Get in the L↻↺P: a modern framework for Developer Enablement and Support

LOOP is a holistic, 4-stage framework for Developer Enablement and Support. LOOP helps companies shift left critical parts of their developer experience, increasing developer productivity and improving the ROI of support.

Insights, updates, and the occasional space pun 🚀

Get in the L↻↺P: a modern framework for Developer Enablement and Support

What is a Contributor Program?

Planning a Successful Contributor Program

Launching and Growing Your Contributor Program

What is a Beta Program?

Planning a Successful Beta Program

Launching Your Beta Program

What is a Champions Program?

Planning a Successful Champions Program

Launching and Growing Your Champions Program

Behind the Community: The DM Dinner Club

How to Build a Successful Champions Program: A Guide

A Simple Community Positioning Framework

Laying the Groundwork for Your First Developer Relations Hire

6 Books for Community Builders

Introducing the Orbit Community Stars Accelerator

Curb Unproductive Meetings with Asynchronous Videos

Unlock Resources by Understanding the 3 Leadership Mindsets

Why Writing Down Community Rules is Important

A Practical Guide to Building a Community from Scratch

10 Methods for Driving Community-Led Impact

Tracking In-Person Event Attendance

Navigating Community Growth: A Recap of Nexus 2022

Creating a Saved View to track Product Users active in the community

Measuring the community impact of company programs

The Guide for Driving Business Value with Community

From Sales Funnel to Community Building

Introducing Gravity - the Field Guide for Product Communities

The Role of a Community Advocate

Community Strategy Is Growth Strategy: These Recent IPOs Prove It

Build, don’t borrow, your own community influencers

What's really stopping your community from acting?

The Community Discovery Framework

Let’s expand the community builder’s dictionary

The engagement traps of modern-day communities

To build community, start with community discovery

Community events can be distributed too

How Corey Haines built Swipe Files

Build spaced repetition into your community

The Big Community Tools Survey 2021

How process drives flywheels

The future of community

Staying up, not starting up: How Matt Studdert built Frontend Mentor

Making Our Open Source Communities More Like Starfish

Good things come to those who have conversations

Who should own community?

Magic on the outside: conversations that create community

The community craze is a symptom of what the world is going through right now

Looking for the natural next steps: How Sarah Nöckel built Femstreet

Introducing Communitree: a network of community conversations

Classifying Communities with the 3Ps: Product, Practice, and Play

Gravity is the key to community growth

Let’s build some community flywheels

Giving is the 💜 of community building: here's how to use boundaries to do it well

It was never just a Slack: How Charlie Ward built Weekend Club

Using Twitter questions to build a parallel community

Community Built: Real down to earth and practical conversations with community builders

A tactical guide to kickstarting your community

Migrating Our Community from Slack to Discord: Tips & Lessons Learned

Welcome to our podcast: Developer Love

Visualize Orbit Levels with JavaScript and p5.js

State of the Orbit Model - Fall 2020

What a Michelin star chef taught me about community building

Love is the currency that drives community

How we use Orbit to build Orbit

Slack vs Discord vs Discourse: The best tool for your community

Use this segmentation grid to plan your community outreach

What’s Your Community’s NRG?

The Art of Gathering Online

International Developer Relations Day 2020 has been cancelled

Empathy at Scale

Listen in as we go under the hood of the Orbit Model

How to use Slack and Airtable to easily collect swag information

How to get a Slack notification when someone stars your GitHub repository

What I learned raising money as a first-time founder

When and How to Offer 1:1 Onboarding to Developers

How Facetime Can Improve Developer Onboarding

Our guide to using DEV for DEVeloper relations

Collaborating with Developer Relations: a Three-part Series