Sarah-Jane Morris
Co-Host of Community Pulse
For the past 17 years, Sarah-Jane Morris has been growing and nurturing developer communities at various stages of growth; at startups like Context IO and Keen IO, at high growth companies like Shopify and HubSpot, at corporations like Intel, and through her own devrel consultancy, Listen Community Consulting. She's currently building developer community at Mailchimp. SJ has an audacious vision to make every developer community diverse, welcoming, and sustainable. She's also the proud mom of the world's cutest cat, Joni.
Sarah-Jane Morris has hosted 33 Episodes.
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So Long, SJ, and Thanks for All the Quips (Ep 69)
June 10th, 2022 | 44 mins 24 secs
community management, developer experience, developer relations, devrel
In this episode, we say goodbye to our dear friend SJ Morris as co-host of the Community Pulse. Like many of us, sometimes the business of life and work makes it difficult to make time for the things we enjoy or even just time to take care of ourselves. We wanted to take the opportunity to say goodbye to SJ and also to talk about what folks can do to honestly and boldly confront their own burnout in DevRel.
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After Pulse: Your Content, Their Brand
March 3rd, 2022 | 19 mins 46 secs
community management, developer experience, developer relations, devrel
PJ, Wesley, and SJ sit down to discuss what they learned from our guests on content creation and ownership, as well as setting expectations for this with the brands we work with.
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Your Content, Their Brand (Ep 66)
February 24th, 2022 | 35 mins 8 secs
community management, developer experience, developer relations, devrel
When we create content, the ideas and concepts typically come from ourselves or our community members. But when we work for a larger organization, things get complicated. Some of us create content as a part of our day-to-day role; some of us create content outside of work hours. Now that we as DevRel professionals produce even more online content to connect with our community, there’s some ambiguity about the ownership of this content.
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DevRel: What's Your Story? - Community Pulse Live! (Ep 65)
January 21st, 2022 | 48 mins 18 secs
community management, developer experience, developer relations, devrel
The journey to DevRel is a winding one. We all have our own stories about how we wound up where we are — from intentional plans to happy accidents, as hosts of this podcast we’ve heard them all. One thing’s for sure, y’all’s stories are interesting, so we wanted to get together and talk about our journeys — what we have in common, funny anecdotes along the way, and what we can do to uplift the next generation of folks wanting to get started on this wild ride.
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End of Year Wrap-up - 2021 (Ep 64)
December 13th, 2021 | 41 mins 13 secs
community management, developer experience, developer relations, devrel
All five hosts meet and discuss the year in review.
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DevRel Resources (Ep 63)
November 18th, 2021 | 37 mins 30 secs
If there’s one thing that’s true across developer relations professionals, it’s that we live to educate and support. That extends to our fellow devrels - and in recent years, a flurry of developer relations related supporting materials have surfaced; from blogs to books, tweets to (ahem) podcasts, and more. What’s the best way to dig through them all to get the support and guidance you need? Today’s guests will cover that from several angles - from someone new to the devrel world, to someone looking to get more folks connected to devrel, and us hosts that are somewhere in between.
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DevRel Salary Survey Results (Ep 62)
October 15th, 2021 | 39 mins 4 secs
Figuring out what the standard pay is for a DevRel professional can be difficult, especially when considering expectations, experience, and different niche industries within tech. What’s the average, what makes sense for the role, what’s fair - these are all questions that come to mind when considering compensation for what we do. Luckily, today’s guests have gathered some information and crunched the numbers to help you make a more informed approach to what a fair salary is for your role.
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After Pulse: Everything in Moderation
June 25th, 2021 | 17 mins 54 secs
Jason, PJ, Wesley, and SJ sit down to discuss what they learned from our guest on moderation and some of the pitfalls they've experienced in being a part of moderated communities.
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Everything in Moderation (Ep 60)
June 4th, 2021 | 35 mins 29 secs
One of the most difficult parts of managing a community is ensuring everyone adheres to a universally acceptable system of behavior. With events, there is generally a Code of Conduct that makes it clear what behaviors are acceptable, what behaviors aren’t, and the consequences of operating outside of the rules. Sometimes it falls on an individual or a team to handle this in the online world. Today, we’ll be talking about moderation with a guest who knows exactly how it works.
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DevRel Around the World (Ep 59)
May 28th, 2021 | 29 mins 6 secs
It’s easy to say that Developer Relations and Community Management is not universal, but sometimes, we focus so much on what is being done in our part of the world that we can forget how things might be different in different places. In this episode, we decided to try something a little different. We reached out to folks around the world to tell their stories, to let us know what makes their experiences unique. We wanted to get a sense of what unites us in DevRel and what small or large tweaks need to made to adjust for geography and culture.
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Online Community Platforms (Ep 58)
April 16th, 2021 | 44 mins 48 secs
Creating a place for your specific community to gather online is a challenge every Developer Relations or Community team is likely going to address at some point, whether it’s because your executive team is asking you to create this space or you see a need for it. In this episode of Community Pulse, we talk to two specialists in the community industry about what to keep in mind when evaluating how to create a place for your community to gather online.
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After Pulse: DevRel Content Channels
March 31st, 2021 | 15 mins 42 secs
The hosts sit down to discuss what we've learned from our guests on pushing limits, finding new ways to deliver content, and how the community can benefit from the larger amount of information flowing through the DevRel ecosystem now, and moving forward.
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After Pulse: Hiring and Recruiting in the Modern Era
March 1st, 2021 | 16 mins 18 secs
SJ, Jason, Wesley, and PJ sit down to discuss the most recent episode.
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Hiring and Recruiting in the Modern Era (Ep 56)
February 26th, 2021 | 44 mins 3 secs
As the number of engineering and developer jobs continues to grow and the skillsets diversify, DevRel has seen a wave of people being let go, followed by a sudden growth in hiring across the tech industry. Taking a look at these trends over the last year or so, we decided we would go to the experts to explain how hiring looks from the recruitment side, what people can do to improve their hiring experience, and what’s different in today’s DevRel hiring landscape. Our hosts sit down with Jill Wohlner of Underpin and Will Staney of Proactive Talent to see where things stand, and what to expect moving forward.
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2020 Wrap Up (Ep 54)
December 14th, 2020 | 42 mins 40 secs
It's been a long year in the world of DevRel! In this episode, our hosts take a look back at 2020, discuss the trends they noticed along a wave of change driven by outside forces, and give their predictions for 2021. Have a chat with Mary, Jason, SJ, Wesley, and PJ about everything community in 2020!
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After Pulse: Budget Rules Everything Around Me
November 13th, 2020 | 9 mins 8 secs
Host SJ, Wesley, and Mary discuss the big budget episode and share some anecdotes on things that have been successful and others that were a bit of a trip up.