Developer relations teams are responsible for creating and distributing content that helps developers succeed with a product or platform. From planning a content calendar and producing tutorials to repurposing conference talks and tracking performance, DevRel content work has its own vocabulary. This exercise practises the collocations used in DevRel content strategy and operations.
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The DevRel team gathered for their quarterly session to ___ the content calendar for the next three months.
Plan the content calendar is the standard DevRel workflow collocation — content calendars are 'planned' as a forward-looking activity mapping themes, channels, and publication dates. 'Build' is more structural; 'create' focuses on the artefact; 'prepare' is a broader prior step. 'Plan' is the idiomatic verb for the structured activity of mapping future content production.
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The technical writer was asked to ___ a series of getting-started tutorials for the new authentication SDK.
Produce tutorials is the professional DevRel content collocation — content teams 'produce' finished, publication-ready materials. 'Write' focuses on the text; 'create' is also natural; 'develop' implies an iterative process. 'Produce' is the standard verb in content strategy for the full end-to-end activity of taking a piece from brief to publication.
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The DevRel manager proposed to ___ the conference talk as a blog post and a YouTube walkthrough to maximise reach.
Repurpose content is the standard DevRel and content strategy collocation — 'repurposing' means adapting existing content for new formats or audiences. 'Adapt' and 'convert' are also used; 'reuse' implies minimal modification. 'Repurpose' specifically captures the idea of extracting maximum value from a single content investment by reformatting it.
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The DevRel lead used RSS feeds and a newsletter to ___ new tutorials to the developer community every two weeks.
Distribute content is the standard content operations collocation — content is 'distributed' through channels to reach the intended audience. 'Share' is more informal; 'send' implies a direct push; 'deliver' is also correct. 'Distribute' is the preferred term in content strategy for the systematic act of publishing across multiple channels.
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The DevRel team built an analytics dashboard to ___ content performance across blog, YouTube, and docs.
Track content performance is the natural content operations collocation — dashboards 'track' metrics over time to reveal trends. 'Monitor' implies watching for anomalies; 'measure' is the act of capturing a specific metric; 'analyse' is the deeper interpretation. 'Track' is the standard verb for ongoing visibility into content performance metrics across channels.