Orbit Blog
Connecting Zapier to Orbit: Now with New Zap Templates
May 3, 2022
Connect thousands of apps to Orbit with our Zapier Integration and get going faster by using our pre-made Zapier templates.
Read More ›Level up Your Orbit Workspace With These Community Integrations
May 24, 2021
Discover all the new sources of community information you can add to your Orbit workspace
Read More ›Magic on the outside: conservations that create community
May 19, 2021
So much magic happens on the outside, and it’s our challenge and opportunity as community builders to go find those conversations, to get involved, and to try to learn something about what the conversations say about the people having them.
Read More ›How To Send Product Events to Orbit
May 17, 2021
Connect product-related activities to your Orbit workspace and get the full picture of your product users and community members.
Read More ›The community craze is a symptom of what the world is going through right now
May 12, 2021
The community craze is a symptom of what the world is going through right now
Read More ›Looking for the natural next steps: How Sarah Nöckel built Femstreet
May 11, 2021
As part of Community Built, Patrick and I had the opportunity to dive into a live discussion on how Sarah built Femstreet — a community for tech and venture capital minded women.
Read More ›Introducing Communitree: a network of community conversations
May 11, 2021
We're co-creating a network of community building audio conversations.
Read More ›Classifying Communities with the 3Ps: Product, Practice, and Play
May 10, 2021
A 3-part taxonomy for defining and discussing your community
Read More ›Gravity is the key to community growth
May 6, 2021
This week we’re diving into how gravity drives growth, and how this mindset is critical when it comes to building your community.
Read More ›Say Hi! Our New Discord Integration Just Landed
May 4, 2021
Automatically add Discord members and activity to Orbit and explore Discord data in reports
Read More ›Let’s build some community flywheels
April 29, 2021
Join Rosie on a community flywheel creation journey.
Read More ›How to Add DEV Comments to Your Orbit Workspace With Ruby
April 27, 2021
A step by step guide to bringing DEV blog post comments into your Orbit workspace with the Orbit API and Ruby
Read More ›Building a Component Library in Rails With Storybook
April 26, 2021
A step by step guide to deploying a component library with Storybook for a Rails app
Read More ›Giving is the 💜 of community building: here's how to use boundaries to do it well
April 22, 2021
At the heart of community building we need to have the freedom and power to give.
Read More ›It was never just a Slack: How Charlie Ward built Weekend Club
April 21, 2021
A summary from our Community Built audio discussion.
Read More ›My Surprising Journey To Working At Orbit
April 19, 2021
My unusual path to working as a developer advocate at Orbit and what it reveals about Orbit as a company
Read More ›Using Twitter questions to build a parallel community
April 14, 2021
A practical guide on using Twitter questions to build a better community.
Read More ›How to Add Docs Feedback to Your Orbit Workspace With Ruby On Rails
April 12, 2021
A step by step guide to bringing user feedback on your docs into your Orbit workspace with the Orbit API and Ruby on Rails
Read More ›Community Built: Real down to earth and practical conversations with community builders
April 8, 2021
We're starting by having a conversation with Charlie Ward of Weekend Club.
Read More ›March Product Updates from Orbit
March 19, 2021
We're kicking off Spring in style with a fresh new look, CSV imports, updated reports, and more.
Read More ›Forecasting 500 GitHub stars
March 12, 2021
A scientific wild guess to making predictions of the future.
Read More ›A tactical guide to kickstarting your community
March 9, 2021
An inside look at how we built the Orbit community from zero to one.
Read More ›From Cybercafe to Rocketship: My First Month at Orbit
February 26, 2021
The story of how I joined Orbit and my onboarding
Read More ›Migrating Our Community from Slack to Discord: Tips & Lessons Learned
February 11, 2021
A how-to guide with a timeline, lessons learned, and examples
Read More ›How to Test Code Shared by Controllers and Helpers in Rails
February 4, 2021
Using view_context to test a method's presence in controllers and helpers in Rails
Read More ›Creating Orbit Activities For New ConvertKit Newsletter Subscriptions
February 1, 2021
Using ConvertKit, the Orbit API, and Zapier to create a powerful integration
Read More ›Pinned Activities
January 21, 2021
Pin any activity on a member’s profile to surface important activities at a glance.
Read More ›My data-centric approach to tracking investor relationships
January 12, 2021
How I use Orbit to as a personal CRM to keep track of what matters
Read More ›Setting up Rails 6 and PostgreSQL on Windows using WSL and Ubuntu
January 11, 2021
How to set up Rails 6 and PostgreSQL on Windows Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux and Ubuntu
Read More ›Declaring multiple sets of scopes for the same provider with Devise and OmniAuth in Rails
January 6, 2021
How to configure Devise and OmniAuth to offer two scopes of authentication to the same service
Read More ›Rails test suite benchmark: Apple Silicon M1 vs. Intel Macbook Pro
January 3, 2021
I compared the performance of our Rails test suite on a 16" Macbook Pro, Intel Mac Mini, and new Apple M1 Mac Mini.
Read More ›Welcome to our podcast: Developer Love
December 15, 2020
How do you build thriving developer communities? That’s the core question behind our podcast: Developer Love.
Read More ›Powering community-led growth with $4 million in seed funding
December 2, 2020
Here’s what next for Orbit
Read More ›Visualize Orbit Levels with JavaScript and p5.js
November 30, 2020
A fluid, open-source solar system visualization for your Orbit community using p5.js
Read More ›Introducing Orbit's new Discourse integration
November 12, 2020
Automatically add your Discourse community members to Orbit, and see them alongside folks from GitHub, Twitter, and integrations built with the Orbit API.
Read More ›Towards a Lightweight Jamstack
November 9, 2020
For it to be fast, Jamstack needs to be lightweight.
Read More ›State of the Orbit Model - Fall 2020
October 9, 2020
An overview of recent community-driven changes to the Orbit Model.
Read More ›What a Michelin star chef taught me about community building
August 10, 2020
A chef, a farmer, and the results of perennial attention to detail.
Read More ›How to: add Twitter and Instagram Embeds on an Eleventy website using Sanity
July 13, 2020
In this post, we will walk through the Sanity setup and the Eleventy configuration that makes Twitter and Instagram embeds possible and really simple to use for editors
Read More ›Open Sourcing our Chrome Extension
July 6, 2020
The Orbit Chrome extension adds useful developer information right into GitHub issues and PRs. It’s now Open Source!
Read More ›Love is the currency that drives community
July 1, 2020
A community member weighs-in on love, care, trust, and the Orbit Model.
Read More ›How we use Orbit to build Orbit
June 30, 2020
A guide to how we use our product to build our community.
Read More ›June Product Updates from Orbit
June 25, 2020
Including a new Twitter integration, powerful reporting, API integrations, and more.
Read More ›Black Lives Matter
June 5, 2020
From George Floyd to Ahmaud Arbery to Breonna Taylor to Adama Traoré and the untold victims silenced and covered up by systemic corruption, we weep.
Read More ›Slack vs Discord vs Discourse: The best tool for your community
May 26, 2020
An in-depth comparison of 3 top community platforms across dozens of factors.
Read More ›Use this segmentation grid to plan your community outreach
May 7, 2020
How to use Love and Reach to better understand your community.
Read More ›What’s Your Community’s NRG?
April 24, 2020
A new SaaS metric for demonstrating the ROI of community.
Read More ›The Art of Gathering Online
April 17, 2020
Quotes & questions for rethinking online events.
Read More ›International Developer Relations Day 2020 has been cancelled
March 31, 2020
The annual April 1 event to celebrate the world's DevRel professionals has unfortunately been called off.
Read More ›Introducing the Orbit Model Airtable Template
March 18, 2020
Measure the Love and Reach of your community and visualize the results.
Read More ›Listen in as we go under the hood of the Orbit Model
March 12, 2020
Hear Orbit CTO Josh Dzielak introduce the Orbit Model on the "Under the Hood of Developer Marketing" podcast.
Read More ›Download these Orbit Model icons for your Slack workspace
February 26, 2020
Join us in orbit with these spacey custom emoji for your Slack.
Read More ›How to use Slack and Airtable to easily collect swag information
February 18, 2020
Star a message in your community Slack to kick off a flow that collects swag info from a helpful developer.
Read More ›How to get a Slack notification when someone stars your GitHub repository
February 12, 2020
Gain more visibility into your community with our 5-step Zapier guide.
Read More ›What I learned raising money as a first-time founder
February 11, 2020
Even though I can’t fully prepare you for what’s coming, I hope my experiences will shed some light on parts of the process I found surprising and provide some useful context along the way.
Read More ›When and How to Offer 1:1 Onboarding to Developers
January 30, 2020
With the right developer, 1:1 onboarding can increase product and community activation, resulting in happy and successful developers and a more vibrant community.
Read More ›How Facetime Can Improve Developer Onboarding
January 24, 2020
Why a hands-on approach to activating developers actually makes sense.
Read More ›Our guide to using DEV for DEVeloper relations
January 14, 2020
Learn how to create a presence for your DevRel team on the welcoming, fast-growing DEV community site.
Read More ›Laying the Groundwork for a Successful Developer Relations Hire
January 9, 2020
Two steps to increase your chances of a successful hire and reduce the likelihood of burnout.
Read More ›Collaborating with Developer Relations: a Three-part Series
December 19, 2019
How DevRel can partner with Marketing, Sales, and Product teams for maximum effect.
Read More ›DevRelCon London 2019: Tweets, photos, and congrats
December 18, 2019
A roundup of tweets and slides from DevRelCon London 2019, plus a special congratulations.
Read More ›Introducing Orbit
November 18, 2019
Orbit helps companies drive adoption by understanding and growing their developer communities.
Read More ›Why Orbit is Better Than Funnel for Developer Relations
June 6, 2019
DevRel teams need tools and models created specifically for our discipline, and not just those adopted from other fields.
Read More ›World Celebrates International Developer Relations Day
March 31, 2019
Today the world recognizes developer advocates, evangelists and everybody else on the “DevRel” team.
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