Four tips to maximize value from the Board Community

Helmut Heimann
Helmut Heimann Employee, Community Captain
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edited May 28 in Blog

Author: Helmut Helmann, Community Captain.

The Board Community exists to support members in their platform journey. As an active member myself, today I’m sharing four tips to maximize your Community experience.

Active participation maximizes the benefits of the Community

The value of Community increases as we all participate.

  • Ask your questions, adding as many tags as possible to maximize the search capabilities.
  • Participate in the forums by answering the questions of others. Even if you’re not right, your potential solutions might help someone achieve resolutions on their own.
  • Learn from the answers given by others. There’s so much valuable information already out there!
  • Use the documentation you can find here, like Best Practices, How-to Guides, and Support Articles.
  • Network, build relationships, and support the ecosystem. Recommend the Community to your peers.

Don’t reinvent the wheel

It’s rarely necessary to reinvent the wheel as there is usually someone who has already faced the same, or a similar, problem. Then, it is also often the case that these difficulties cannot be solved in just five minutes, but, rather, require some thought. Because the Community has existed for a long time, the chance of finding an answer here is also relatively high.

There are many Best Practices and How-to Guides that describe basic and sometimes somewhat unusual scenarios. It is always worth taking a look here. A general search with the relevant keywords will give you quick technical guide results and relevant forum discussions as well.

Try it out

Build sample applications from the Best Practices and How-to Guides and extend them with your own ideas. Learn as you develop and document what you have done to achieve a specific goal. Remember, anything you have done yourself will be better remembered than something you have only read about.

Share key learnings

Share what you have learnt by writing your own article or participating in the Platform Forum answering questions. Together, we can all help each other out and make this Community a great place to be!

What tips do you have to share with the Community? Share your thoughts in the comments below.

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