{"id":550,"date":"2018-07-01T11:59:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-01T15:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2018-07-01T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T19:43:04","slug":"re-awarded-as-an-mvp-for-the-11th-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=550","title":{"rendered":"Re-awarded as an MVP for the 11th Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MVP_Logo_Secondary_Blue288_RGB_300ppi\"<\/a>For the last 10 years July 1st has always been a day that I both looked forward to and dreaded.  I\u2019ve looked forward to it because its anniversary of the day that I was awarded the honor of being named as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the first time. But I\u2019ve also dreaded it.  Because no matter how many presentations you\u2019ve made or how much you\u2019ve answered questions on the forums or active you\u2019ve been in the community, you always wonder if its been enough. But then sometime around mid-day the email arrives saying that you have been re-awarded for another year as an MVP.  That email arrived for me today around 11:40 AM (9:40 AM Redmond time). So for the 11th year Microsoft has decided that my contributions to the SharePoint and Office 365 community were sufficient to earn  me an MVP award again for the category of \u201cOffice Servers and Services\u201d.  <\/p>\n

But this coming year will be a little different than previous years because I plan to move towards partial retirement from my consulting career. Before you get the idea that I\u2019ll be less involved as an MVP, think again. Being an MVP has always been about your contributions to the technical community over and above your regular job. So in the past I often took vacation time to speak at conferences or spent time on the forums before and after work.  Since I won\u2019t be focusing on \u201cearning a paycheck\u201d anymore I\u2019ll be able to devote even more time to community activities. I\u2019m expecting my contributions to the community will go up as I move to retirement, not fade away.<\/p>\n

So, I make this offer to Community Leaders<\/u><\/h2>\n

If you are looking for a SharePoint or Office 365 speaker for your event, and you can help me defray travel expenses, I will be willing to travel almost anywhere, at anytime to share what I have learned over the years.<\/font><\/em><\/h3>\n

SharePoint, Office 365, and Dynamics CRM are subjects that I\u2019m passionate about. And my moving towards retirement is just a partial thing. I still plan to continue to do consulting and training for many years to come. If consulting\/training opportunities come my way I will continue to work. Because that\u2019s now I keep learning new things. But if paying jobs don\u2019t happen to come my way then I\u2019ll live off my retirement savings and spend even more time speaking and answering questions.  <\/p>\n

So here\u2019s to another year as an MVP. I think it will be an exciting one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the last 10 years July 1st has always been a day that I both looked forward to and dreaded.  I\u2019ve looked forward to it because its anniversary of the day that I was awarded the honor of being named as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the first time. But I\u2019ve also dreaded it.  … Continue reading Re-awarded as an MVP for the 11th Year<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[81,13,56,87,3,29,49],"tags":[14,55,90,77,80,50],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mvp","category-news","category-office-365","category-sharepoint","category-speaking","category-training","category-usergroup","tag-mvp","tag-office_365","tag-sharepoint","tag-speaking","tag-training","tag-user_group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}