The document outlines various ways to contribute to the Force.com community, including participating in discussion boards, Idea Exchange, and StackExchange forums. It also lists social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter that can be used to engage with the community. Additional contribution opportunities include blogging, answering questions on Success Community, and working towards developer certifications. High contributing members can become MVPs, gaining recognition and perks like speaking at events.

1. How to Contribute to Force.com Community

2.  Force.com Discussion Boards
 What is Force.com Discussion Boards (http://boards.developerforce.com/)
 What kind of help we can get
 “General Development”
 “Apex Code Development”
 “Visualforce Development”
 “Formula And Validation Rules Discussion”
 “Job Boards - Developer”
 Many Other
 Benefits
 Enhance your skills
 Help yourself by helping others

3.  Customer Resource (http://success.salesforce.com)
 Idea Exchange
 Post Ideas
 Vote for existing
 Interact with product Managers
 Answers
 Partners, Product Specialists and Salesforce Employees are waiting to
answer
 Learning Center
 New Features
 Best Practices
 Tips Sheet
 Insight Newsletters
 Training and Certification

4.  StackExchange (http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/)
 Earn badges
 Immediate response from community
 Answer ration is always above 95%
 Chat rooms to discuss directly with Admins

5.  What do we mean by this
 Facebook
 www.facebook.com/forcedotcom
 Twitter
 @forcedotcom
 @salesforce
 #askforce
 Google hangout
 https://plus.google.com/u/0/118327959233932983591/posts
 LinkedIn
 http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Developer-Force-Forcecom-Community-37

6.  Known Issues : http://success.salesforce.com/issues_index
 CodeShare http://developer.force.com/codeshare
 Cookbook Recipes http://developer.force.com/cookbook
 GitHub
 https://github.com/forcedotcom
 Integration of salesforce with other platforms like IOS, android etc.
 https://github.com/apex-commons
 Utilities related to Apex
 Blogs
 Blogspot (http://forceguru.blogspot.com/)
 Wordpress (http://teachmesalesforce.wordpress.com/)
 Domains (http://blogs.salesforce.com/)

7.  CloudTrivia
 TwitterTrivia
 Certification – 201, 301, 401, 501 etc to build strong community
 Dreamforce
 Cloudforce
 Google Hangout Sessions

8.  Highlighted Community Profile
(http://developer.force.com/mvp_profile_ankit)
 Exclusive invitation to the MVP submit and networking activities at
Dreamforce
 Early access to feature previews and releases, with direct feedback to the PMs
on these products
 As an invited technical speaker at Dreamforce, meetups, or other industry
events
 MVP Schwag : Rickshaw Bag (laptop bag), Force.com MVP Cap, Trophy, Cool
Jacket for winters
 Other benefits

9.  Mobile : +91-8107010867
 Email : ankit.salesforce@gmail.com
 Blog : http://forceguru.blogspot.com
 MVP Profile : http://developer.force.com/mvp_profile_ankit
 Facebook : http://www.facebook.com/forceguru
 Twitter : https://twitter.com/forceguru