Blog | DevRel Guide to Slack and Community Size Metrics | Tools Catalog #80

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Content Type

• Announcement
• Guide/Tutorial
• Case study
• Other: ___________

Topic/Subject

This is related to the Tools Catalog project. We'd like to have a blog post that explains how to gather metrics from Slack, Discord, etc. as a measure of community size and growth.

https://github.com/DevRel-Foundation/tools-catalog/blob/main/docs/index/by-label/community.md#community

This should be a very pragmatic how-to / tutorial where the reader is a DevRel or DevRel-adjacent person who wants to understand trends and health of their community as it relates to communication platform tools.

• what metrics to use from the platform
• how to get it
• how to track it over time
• how to present it to stakeholders
• examples of good benchmarks could be interesting

So for example, if it was Slack, this how-to would talk about the analytics that slack provides, how to pull that data out, and give examples of a few communities where the data can be shared. Same for Discord would be ideal.

Target Audience

• DevRel Leaders / Experienced Professionals
• Early Career DevRel
• Executive Sponsors
• Open-Source Community
• Other: ___________

Content Goals

• Educational/How-to
• Thought leadership
• Community showcase
• Foundation updates
• Other: ___________

Preferred Format

• Long-form article (1500+ words)
• Medium article (800-1500 words)
• Short post (400-800 words)
• Other: ___________

Timeline

• ASAP
• Within 2 weeks
• Within 1 month
• No specific deadline
• Other: ___________

Potential Authors

• I can write this myself
• Foundation team member
• Community contributor
• External expert
• Not sure - need suggestions