{"id":584,"date":"2019-07-05T16:05:42","date_gmt":"2019-07-05T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2019-07-05T16:05:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T20:05:42","slug":"12-years-as-an-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=584","title":{"rendered":"12 years as an MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MVP12year.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-585 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MVP12year.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MVP12year.png 234w, https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/MVP12year-135x300.png 135w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a>July 1st is always a day that I both look forward to and dread.&nbsp; That&#8217;s the morning I find out whether my MVP status has been renewed or not. I was particularly worried this year since its my first year after I semi-retired. I&#8217;m still working as a consultant, but I&#8217;m letting business chase me rather than me chasing business.&nbsp; So I&#8217;m not as busy as I used to be. That&#8217;s been both a good and a bad thing. Its a good thing because I have more time to spend with my family and doing things for the Office 365 community. Its a bad thing because I don&#8217;t feel like I&#8217;m doing as much as in previous years. But I have evidently been doing enough because I was renewed for my 12th year as an MVP this year. I&#8217;m looking forward to another year of learning new things and helping spread that knowledge throughout the community.<\/p>\n<p>Last year as I contemplated retirement I made an offer to community leaders.&nbsp; I would like to expand on that offer this year.<\/p>\n<h2><u>Community Leaders this is for YOU<\/u><\/h2>\n<h3><em><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">If you are looking for a SharePoint, Office 365, PowerApps or Flow 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. If you don&#8217;t have any funds I can also do remote presentations.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n<p>Over the last few years I&#8217;ve been spending my time working with SharePoint, PowerApps, Flow, and Office 365 Security &amp; Compliance center.&nbsp; I&#8217;m still working to learn new things in the industry and plan to keep&nbsp; consulting and training for many years to come.&nbsp; 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<p>So here\u2019s to another year as an MVP. I&#8217;m really looking forward to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>July 1st is always a day that I both look forward to and dread.&nbsp; That&#8217;s the morning I find out whether my MVP status has been renewed or not. I was particularly worried this year since its my first year after I semi-retired. I&#8217;m still working as a consultant, but I&#8217;m letting business chase me &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/?p=584\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">12 years as an MVP<\/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":[1],"tags":[111,14,55,108,90],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-flow","tag-mvp","tag-office_365","tag-powerapps","tag-sharepoint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","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=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dontpapanic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}