{"id":383,"date":"2012-09-30T10:11:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T16:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/2012\/idera-ace-program\/"},"modified":"2012-09-30T10:11:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T16:11:59","slug":"idera-ace-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/2012\/idera-ace-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Idera ACE Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This past summer, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idera.com\" target=\"_blank\">Idera<\/a> introduced a program to the SharePoint community \u2013 an expansion of an existing program for the SQL Server community \u2013 called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.idera.com\/ACEs\/SharePoint-ACEs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Advisor and Community Educator (ACE) program<\/a> for SharePoint.<\/p>\n<p>The ACE program is one of Idera\u2019s ways of contributing to, and investing in, the SharePoint community by assisting active community members by sponsoring their travel to SharePoint events. This allows those of us who don\u2019t have large companies supporting our community efforts to go to events we might not have submitted to.&#160; In exchange, we recognize Idera for that sponsorship and community contribution.&#160; We don\u2019t advocate for their products or company as a salesperson would, but we are given access to their products to learn about them ourselves and provide feedback to Idera.&#160;&#160;&#160; <\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to be selected to be part of the first \u2018class\u2019 of SharePoint ACEs along with John Ferringer, Liam Cleary, Nedra Allmond and Michael Lotter.&#160; We only get to participate for a year, after which a new class will be chosen. Being this was the first year that Idera offered the program, the community exposure was pretty low \u2013 spread by word of mouth.&#160; We hope there will be a lot more interest in it next year as word gets out. <\/p>\n<p>My first trip through the program was to attend the Ozarks SharePoint Saturday a few weeks ago.&#160; I hope to get some more trips in and make the best of the opportunity. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/209.95.55.158\/~idubbsco\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ACE_SP_badge2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"ACE_SP_badge2\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"ACE_SP_badge2\" src=\"http:\/\/209.95.55.158\/~idubbsco\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/ACE_SP_badge2_thumb.png\" width=\"184\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This past summer, Idera introduced a program to the SharePoint community \u2013 an expansion of an existing program for the SQL Server community \u2013 called the Advisor and Community Educator [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,12,16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sharepoint","category-sharepoint-2010","category-sharepoint-events","category-sharepoint-saturday"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgWQ1-6b","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idubbs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}