I mentioned last year about my plans to write this, and to make it a semi-collaborative effort by incorporating comments back into the finished product (if I like them that is!). I thought I’d start by outlining what I have in mind, and then I’m going to try to post more on this project about once a week.

For each of these I want to add detail, maybe it’s a paragraph, maybe several pages, that I can to someone at any point in their career and have it be a map on where to go next as far as community involvement

How to Participate in the SQL Community

1. What is the SQL Server community?
2. Reading and attending is participating
3. Commenting and asking questions is participating more
4. Answering questions in forums/etc
5. Posting a question
6. Writing an article and answering comments…is participating more
7. Blogging
8. Twitter
9. Attending user group meetings
10. Volunteering at user group meetings
11. Speaking at user group meetings
12. Attending community events
13. Volunteering at community events
14. Speaking at community events
15. PASS Summit
16. Writing a magazine article
17. Tech editing article/book
18. Writing a book
19. PASS
20. LinkedIn
21. List of web sites, newsletters, resources

Thought it might also be interesting to profile a few people that are prominent now, and to see if the topics cover how they made it to prominence.

Post your thoughts, and then I’ll see about doing some work!