DEV Inc.
Improving your developer brand
You're your own "company"
Kudobuzz is your "customer"
Every company needs a brand
Find a your own goal
What do want to be known for?
The Basics
The boring stuff first
- LinkedIn is your professional profiles so keep it professional
- Get the All-star profile status (fill in all the spots)
- Take a professional profile picture
Things get a little interesting
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Pick cooler profile image (you want)
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Put it on Gravatar (http://en.gravatar.com/)
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Pick a unique username and short bio
Things get a little interesting
Start a blog
Platforms
- Medium
- Wordpress
- Ghost
Static site generators
- Jekyll
- Hexo
Write in markdown host on Github
Write
- Write about you've learned or are learning
- Write about stuff you've noticed others haven't written about (esp. basic/simple stuff)
- Write course/book reviews
- Write tutorials
- You could even put up slides like this one on your blog
- Blog at least once a month
- Repost on Medium and link back to your blog site
- Get reposts on Dev.to, Hashnode or any popular sites
Don't panic
Write StackOverflow Answer (Or Questions!)
Give back!
Engage the community further
Get a Twitter account and use it!
- Follow leaders and interesting people who built or use the same tools you do.
- Tweet at them/Ask them questions.
- If they follow back DM them.
- Share your blog posts with them
Get a Twitter account and use it!
Attend meetups
- Attend local meetups
- Talk at local meetups
- https://speaking.io/
Use your Github account (besides work)
- You could always start a project
- Or contribute to one
- Make sure you have README
- Tweet about it