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title: "How to keep your developer community active?"
author: "Lax Mariappan"
date: "2022-08-17"
categories: ["Communities", "Events"]
excerpt: "Practical and easy tips to keep a community diverse, safe and engaging"
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# How to keep your developer community active?

Yesterday I attended Twitter Spaces called “All Things Developer Community with Wesley” by the Auth0 team with Wesley Faulkner.Here are the takeaways from the discussion

Find your people, then it gets easy to maintain the community

Remove certain people who do not follow the code of conduct. Let everyone participate otherwise community might become a broadcast where only certain people can share their views. Treat everyone equally, people with special permissions might break the rules and abuse others in a diverse group.

Reward participation by acknowledging the member’s suggestions, virtual badges, etc. Passionate members will find ways to share their views. 

Hear the discussions, observe what the people like, and talk about. Read between the lines and acknowledge and amplify those natural engagements.

Be a connector between people on similar projects in the space. Let community members talk to each other. Don’t just share links and code snippets, sometimes people visit a community to talk with other members.

Lower the barrier so that anyone can ask questions and get help.

Share resources even if it is from competitors, all we should focus whether the community is helpful or not and worth their time. 

Refer people to your competitors if they are the better option for the problem.

Each medium has it is own personality, find the best place or multiple places to get the content. Go with the native experience. Limit cross-posting and allow people to consume content in their preferred way. 

Community is like your character, every bit of information, is building to the character arc. Make sure that the story is tailored for the audience.

Do not take members for granted, they are not stupid, they listen and observe what is happening. So be proactive, helpful, and supportive.

Social media is like a river that is continuously flowing. It is okay if you missed a few discussions, you can catch up by reading headlines later. You cannot be there everywhere, every time to keep you updated.

Communities can allow you to be yourself, you can talk about various topics that interest you. 

When you are delivering content via a blog post, talks, etc, keep it personalized. Let the audience resonate with you through your personal experience.

On the whole, it was fun and informative to listen to the discussion. Wesley hosts a podcast called Community Pulse go listen to it.And thanks to Jess and Ceora and the whole Auth0 Dev Rel teamIf you are a developer and interested in security and identity, join the Auth0 Ambassador program. Be part of the growing community of developers, see you there!