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# Role: Community/DevRel
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment
From Community Leadership to Business Impact: Executive Insights with Dani Weinstein

Joshua Zerkel
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Event Replay: Executive Insights with Gradual: Navigating Community Leadership in the B2B World
Dani Weinstein & Joshua Zerkel
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Joshua Zerkel · Jan 27th, 2026
A practical guide to designing an early-stage community operating model that supports learning and alignment.
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Theme: Leadership & Executive Perspectives
# Challenge: Early Growth
# Format: Best Practices & Playbooks
# Role: Community/DevRel
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Joshua Zerkel · Jan 23rd, 2026
A practitioner-led recap of Gradual’s January Community Roundtable, exploring how community signals and shared context are shaping GTM strategy decisions.
# Format: Event Recaps
# Theme: GTM Strategy & Trends
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment
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Joshua Zerkel · Jan 20th, 2026
A practical approach to translating GTM priorities into community programs that surface insight and guide better decisions.
# Theme: GTM Strategy & Trends
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment
# Format: Best Practices & Playbooks
# Role: Marketing/Growth
# Role: Community/DevRel
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Joshua Zerkel · Jan 16th, 2026
A practical recap of how Splunk’s community team approached migration planning, communication, and member trust during a major platform change.
# Format: Event Recaps
# Challenge: Retention
# Role: Community/DevRel
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
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Ryan Paredez & Joshua Zerkel · Jan 15th, 2026
In this Community Tactics with Gradual session, Ryan Paredez, Sr. Community Manager at Splunk, shares what it took to migrate the AppDynamics community into Splunk successfully. You’ll learn how Ryan balanced technical precision with empathy and communication, what worked well, what didn’t, and what he’d approach differently next time.
# Format: Event Recaps
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Challenge: Retention
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Joshua Zerkel · Jan 6th, 2026
A practical framework for aligning community planning with GTM priorities during annual goal-setting season.
# Theme: GTM Strategy & Trends
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Challenge: Cross-Functional Alignment
# Format: Best Practices & Playbooks
# Challenge: Early Growth
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Joshua Zerkel · Dec 18th, 2025
A practical guide to increasing member engagement and reengagement with clear pathways, steady rhythms, and supportive experiences that make participation easier.
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Format: Best Practices & Playbooks
# Challenge: Retention
# Stage: Community Size 100–1K
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Joshua Zerkel · Dec 18th, 2025
Learn how to optimize community onboarding by reducing friction, asking the right questions, and guiding new members to early value.
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Theme: Customer Success & Support
# Format: Best Practices & Playbooks
# Stage: Community Size 100–1K
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Kyle Sutton · Dec 10th, 2025
We just shipped a fresh set of product updates focused on community customization, learning experiences, events, integrations, and analytics—including a more powerful pre-login homepage builder, customizable welcome emails, native course quizzes and certificates, streamlined event duplication and event-type switching, plus expanded Marketo and Common Room integrations. You’ll also find notable improvements like upgraded club metrics, search history reporting, and a unified global chat experience, with more enhancements on the way.
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Joshua Zerkel · Dec 9th, 2025
Learn how to make your community content readable and relevant for large language models and answer-engine discovery.
# Theme: Community Building & DevRel
# Theme: Emerging Tech
# Format: Best Practices & Playbooks
# Challenge: AI Adoption
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