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 \u2013 this is my second year being awarded. Thanks to everyone who helped make this happen. <\/p>\n
To be included with the SharePoint MVP community is really cool \u2013 everyone I\u2019ve met has been incredibly gracious \u2013 eager to help and to share. As with the greater SharePoint community, they are a community themselves \u2013 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. <\/p>\n
2009 was an interesting year for the MVP community. Maybe this happens every year and I wasn\u2019t 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\u2019m 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 \u2013 people that love to learn and to share \u2013 people that will continue to advance our communities through their efforts \u2013 people that should be recognized and thanked. Kudos go out to them as well.<\/p>\n