Trailblazer Community Roundup: Experience Cloud Help, Pardot, Winter ’24, and More!

Posted on October 3, 2023  (Last modified on December 10, 2024) • 3 min read • 614 words

As Dreamforce shrinks in our rear view mirrors, the Winter ’24 Release rises over the horizon.

As Dreamforce shrinks in our rear view mirrors, the Winter ’24 Release rises over the horizon, and (what feels like) the world’s fastest year avalanches into Q4, the ever-helpful Trailblazer Community is abuzz with opportunities for skill development, release preparation, accomplishment celebration, and more!

In today’s installment of the Trailblazer Community Roundup, we’ve gathered up some of this week’s most exciting updates so you don’t have to worry about anything slipping through the cracks as we head into spooky season! Let’s dive in!

Experience Cloud Technical Office Hours  

Got a question, obstacle, or hang-up of a more technical nature on the Experience Cloud side of things? (Community Cloud for those of us that still call it Candlestick Park).

Tomorrow at 9am PST, join Salesforce for their Experience Cloud Technical Q&A Office Hours to “ask any questions that you have (including no-code, low-code, and pro-code). [They’ll] have a panel of experts answer customer and partner questions about Experience Cloud development and attempt to demystify some of the technically challenging areas of the platform”.

You can register right here and, if you really want to make sure you get your Q A’d, you can submit your questions ahead of time to be given priority!

Release Readiness Live: Winter ’24  

The word “live” has a lot of meanings, and we’re using a bunch on this one! Release Readiness Live: Winter ’24 is live on Salesforce+, that is to say a recording of it is live. It was broadcast live, when it was recorded, and now that recording is live, on the site, ready to be watched on demand! So, experts and Trailblazers are no longer in the studio, but you can watch a replay of when they were and prep for the Winter ’24 Release!

See them answer questions, demo features, and take the opportunity to Learn, Connect, Grow, and Innovate on your way to Salesforce’s latest release.

Pardot Demo Orgs  

Ever wanted to try out “B2B Marketing on the World’s #1 CRM”? Well you’re in luck because you can hop into a sample/demo org and give it a spin! I still need to give it a full run through to find out where the functionality limits are (I imagine you can’t actually send a mass email to 10,000 contacts), but if you’ve been curious about Engagement Studio, what’s possible with Completion Actions, building Pardot Landing Pages, or prepping for a Pardot certification, it’ll be a great place to start!

Eagle-eyed viewers will have noticed that I’m not saying “Marketing Cloud Account Engagement”, Pardot’s new name as of last year. I know, I know, bad habit BUT, in my defense, the landing page here still says Pardot, so I think it’s ok… for now :).

Weekly Answer Leader:  

Salesforce is celebrating this week’s answer leader: Max Mlinarić-Subotec!

The Trailblazer Community is one of the most helpful in the world and that’s thanks to Trailblazers like you, me, and Max here! On the Answer Community, Trailblazer Groups, Ohana Slack, and in-person, Trailblazers are always happy to help each other out and share the knowledge that comes from working with the world’s most powerful CRM.

Salesforce has started highlighting a weekly answer leader who embodies that sense of community, and this week it’s Max! You can check out Max’s Best Answer specializing in: Prompt following a picklist value chosen and be sure to scroll for questions you might be able to help out on if you’d like to see your own name on leaderboard one of these days!

Aaaand, now you’re all caught up! We’ll see you next time and, until then, keep working hard, smart, and happy. And we’ll see you in the cloud!