Sitecore Community Resources
Below are a list of Sitecore community resources to help you out on your Sitecore community journey. The list is ever-evolving. To stay up to date with the newest Sitecore Community Resources, Training, Events, User Group Meetings, receive a personally curated list of resources for your role, your aspirations, your products in use, and location, get notified of upcoming events and topics, and connect with us and peers like yourself in the Sitecore Community, fill out the form below.
Sitecore Community Resources:
Learning:
doc.sitecore.com: Detailed documentation of each of Sitecore’s products and each of the features within the products from a user and a developer perspective.
learning.sitecore.com: Your personalized learning portal with all the courses offered by Sitecore. It also includes transcripts of courses you have completed and you can create and track your own learning path with Sitecore.
Discover Sitecore YouTube channel: Video content put out by Sitecore. Sitecore collaborates with experts on this content. So, if you have a topic to discuss, Sitecore would love to hear about it and work with you on the video. These videos include anything from interviews with experts to tutorials to what’s new in the releases of Sitecore’s products.
Sitecore Blog: Sitecore insights put out by various members of the Sitecore team. They include product and implementation tips and tricks, as well as announcements and customer case studies.
Sitecore Partner Network: A resource for Sitecore partners only. But if you belong to a Sitecore partner, this is an amazing resource for Sitecore news, branding, sandboxes and licenses, support, and partner specific Sitecore training.
Instructor led training courses: Unlike most of the above learning content, which is a self-learning at your own pace, the Instructor led courses have a real life training instructor from Sitecore. These courses allow you to ask questions, interact with the instructor, and discuss your scenarios as you learn Sitecore. This a great way to start your journey with any of the Sitecore products.
Paths: Sitecore curated learning based on your job role and products that your company or client owns or might be in the process of acquiring.
Networking/events:
Sitecore Symposium: Sitecore’s yearly or bi-yearly conference where they reveal their product roadmap, new features, and make big announcements. You can also hear from experts throughout the ecosystem, and from clients on their specific implementations. Sitecore partners also generally reveal their own innovations and Sitecore product compliments, offerings, and services. It’s a great event to network with like-minded individuals and meet others in similar situations, job roles, or industries as your self, as well as learn from others who maybe further along their Sitecore journey.
Sitecore DX: A series of one day events help throughout the world, and sponsored by Sitecore. Generally, Sitecore DX occurs on off years from Symposium, and features product roadmaps, new features, etc. It also has expert speakers, customer stories, and panels from the industry and from within Sitecore.
SUGCON: Sitecore User Group Conference (SUGCON) occurs once a year in Asia. Europe, and Australia/New Zealand. Generally, SUGCON in North America occurs in years where there may not be a Sitecore Symposium. SUGCON is put on by the Sitecore community and is completely Sitecore community run and sponsored. The format is similar to Sitecore Symposium, but will have fewer announcements and releases, while the greater focus is on technical content.
Sitecore User Groups (virtual, in person): This is a list of all the local and virtual Sitecore User Groups that advertise on meetup. User groups are a great way to network with Sitecore professionals in your area. They are also a low commitment, low stakes environment to share and gain expertise in Sitecore. Fill out the form above to get linked with your local user group.
Strategy Lunches/Happy Hour: Get together of Sitecore Strategy experts as they tackle various topics on Sitecore Strategy. These sessions are all virtual and tend to be less developer/technical focused, and more focused on marketing and strategy.
Strategy Webinars: Hosted by Sitecore, these quarterly webinars (also called SMAC for Strategy MVP Advisory Council) are focused on content presented by Strategy MVPs or experts. The webinars are virtual and have great insights, tricks and trips with using, configuring, and strategizing with Sitecore.
Hackathon: This is a community hosted event. Community members form teams and join the hackathon, where they are given a challenge to complete within the weekend. There are several different categories of awards for the best solutions to the challenges. The hackathon is not only a great event to showcase your Sitecore technical chops, network and bond with teammates for a weekend, but also a place to find some innovative community developed modules.
Sitecore Community Lunch: Weekly lunch conversation that occurs every Friday within the Sitecore Community, highlighting and conversing all things Sitecore. This is a fairly low key, casual conversation and is a great opportunity to network and discuss and challenges or problems that you maybe facing with experts within the community.
Virtual community for questions and conversations:
Sitecore Slack: Various channels on different topics, events, and products within the Sitecore ecosystem. Join channels that are of interest to you, or sign up above to get your curated list of topics to join. This is a great forum to ask and answer questions, give feedback, or simply join conversations within the Sitecore community based on your topics of interest.
