Mapping developers communities with Github profiles
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eCairn has recently supported several B2B software companies, helping them map and listen to developer communities on social media.
Our experience includes:
Data Science communities
No-Code communities
Front End developer communities
Cybersecurity communities
Developer communities around specific products.
Our clients are mining these communities for various purposes, the main ones being:
Identifying people to invite to their “owned” communities
Identifying content partners or micro-influencers
Curating/Crowdsourcing content from a community of developers
Understanding what is trending in the community to drive the content marketing agenda.
Here is a sample of the Data Science developer community that we have mapped:
When you are working with developers, it is quite interesting to have access to their Github profiles. (https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-github-profile/customizing-your-profile/about-your-profile) In our last release we have added the detection/search of Github profiles.
The Github profile provides information about the contribution, the type of languages and environment the developer is familiar with. It also provides access to the person’s email. One thing that you cannot get is the Twitter or Linkedin profiles.
