{"id":9305,"date":"2008-12-15T15:14:00","date_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9305"},"modified":"2008-12-15T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"1999-11-29T20:00:00","slug":"the-microsoft-mvp-award-program-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9305","title":{"rendered":"The Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard the term &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/mvp.support.microsoft.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MVP<\/a>&quot; and wondered what the heck they are (outside of American Sports, that is).\u00a0 Microsoft has just set up a blog to help publicise their Most Valuable Professionals.\u00a0 In short, an MVP is an award given to worldwide experts who share their knowledge with others.\u00a0 This can be through writing, public speaking, forums, etc.\u00a0 MVP&#8217;s are re-evaluated on an annual basis so MVP&#8217;s need to keep up their efforts and expertise.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>The next question is, how do you become one?\u00a0 The answer is: get noticed.\u00a0 Focus on one product and work on it.\u00a0 Share your knowledge.\u00a0 Eventually either someone inside of MS or another MVP will nominate you.\u00a0 You&#8217;ll then be asked to participate in building a case which will be presented to the product group.\u00a0 They decide yea or nay on your case.\u00a0 If you&#8217;re lucky, you get a nice email.\u00a0 There&#8217;s no exams to cram for.\u00a0 This is based purely on your efforts in the community.<\/p>\n<p>How many of there are us?\u00a0 It seems to be split 50\/50 between developers and IT pros.\u00a0 There&#8217;s just over 4,000 MVP&#8217;s globally.\u00a0 And there&#8217;s just 8 of us in Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever heard the term &quot;MVP&quot; and wondered what the heck they are (outside of American Sports, that is).\u00a0 Microsoft has just set up a blog to help publicise their Most Valuable Professionals.\u00a0 In short, an MVP is an award given to worldwide experts who share their knowledge with others.\u00a0 This can be through writing, public &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=9305\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Microsoft MVP Award Program Blog&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}