2010 was welcomed in with a SharePoint Server Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award renewal message from Microsoft for the new year. What a wonderful honor and great way to start the new year – this is my second year being awarded. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen.
To be included with the SharePoint MVP community is really cool – everyone I’ve met has been incredibly gracious – eager to help and to share. As with the greater SharePoint community, they are a community themselves – a lot more cohesive than some of the other MVP product groupings out there. They are amazing technical resources and provide so much energy to the community at large, making the products we support and the people we work with so much better and more fun to work with.
2009 was an interesting year for the MVP community. Maybe this happens every year and I wasn’t aware of it, but being a part of the MVP community this past year has made me more aware of it. There were changes driven by the economy as well as conversation and criticism regarding who is awarded and how awardees are chosen – amongst other topics. There are still plenty of things I’m not privy to, but I do know that regardless of who receives the MVP awards, there are a lot of people in the SharePoint community and other technical communities that are amazing contributors out there – people that love to learn and to share – people that will continue to advance our communities through their efforts – people that should be recognized and thanked. Kudos go out to them as well.
A huge thanks goes out to the SharePoint community that I’ve been blessed to be a part of. I hope we can continue to learn, share and grow in the coming year. See you at the Minnesota SharePoint User Group (MNSPUG), other SharePoint user groups, SharePoint Saturdays, SharePoint Camps, conferences and other events online and in person.
God Bless.