Notice Me, Senpai! Get Discovered with Creative Technical Content Tomomi Imura (@girlie_mac)

Tomomi does: ● ● ● ● ● ● @girlie_mac advocate open web & technology code JavaScript & Node.js writer & speak about tech hack useless stuff mentor & advisor currently work at

Where I Have Been Doing DevRel at: Slack API Nexmo SMS, Voice, 2FA API HTML5 (W3C) & Windows Phone @girlie_mac PubNub Realtime API webOS Apps

I Write & Have Written Articles on: Technical editor for some books by: @girlie_mac

Get Discovered by Developers!

How Do Developers Find Your… Word of mouth, on Slack, etc. Tweets, newsletters, etc. API, Platform, Framework, Tools, etc. Search

Awareness When devs find your shiny new stuff passively on TechCrunch, ProductHunt, announcement / marketing blog, etc: Sounds awesome! @girlie_mac

Awareness & Acquisition When devs find your use cases, and with even better, easy-to-follow step-by-step tutorials on how to build: Sounds awesome! @girlie_mac I may wanna try!

Get Devs Hands Dirty! ● Workshops ● Hackathons ● Blog & Tutorials ○ ○ ○ ○ @girlie_mac Docs Diagrams and Illustrations Videos & Screencasts Webinars My focus!

Make It Practical!

Practical & Fundamental Tutorial examples: ● ● ● ● ● ● [Awesome API] 101 Beginner Guide of [Awesome API] Getting Started with [Awesome API] in [Node.js] How to Build To-Do App with [Awesome.JS Framework] [Awesome API] Tips & Tricks [Awesome API] Best Practice @girlie_mac

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Make It Interesting!

Creative Projects (and How to Build Them!) ● ● ● ● ● ● ● GIPHY Chat App Slack Message Analysis w/ Watson Tweet Emotion: Sentiment Data Visualization w/ D3.js Raspberry Pi Spy Cam w/ Facial Detection Call Alexa from Phone Robot Dance Party Gotta Get’em All! Pokémon Go Relatime Mapping @girlie_mac

Brainstorm @girlie_mac

Project Types ● Purely fun ○ Pokémon ○ IoT - cat camera ● Targeting a community / Ecosystem ○ ○ ○ ○ @girlie_mac Programming Language, Platforms Frameworks - e.g. Standard Web APIs, React, Angular, D3 Hardware - e.g. Arduino, Raspberry Pi AI - e.g. Amazon Alexa, IBM Watson

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Let Devs Adopt the Ideas “Pokemon is not how we win the big $$$ companies” “Don’t get me wrong. We are providing the ideas” @girlie_mac

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Notice Me, Senpai!

But Senpai doesn’t even know me… @girlie_mac

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…and get THEIR Social Bandwagon! @girlie_mac

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Community is magic! @girlie_mac

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Developer-Focused Social Space Code Samples & Demo Newsletters @girlie_mac

TL;DR ● Create attractive content ○ Make them practical / interesting ○ Focus on communities ○ Be inclusive ● Syndicate the content ● Go social ○ Use social media meta tags ○ Use developer-focused social space @girlie_mac

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