Microsoft MVP Award – July 2011 !

It’s the first of July and I’m here to announce another important milestone in the MVP Award Program.

We evaluated, scrutinized, “monitored” and got recommendations of outstanding community contributors in the Region I represent (Italy & CEE, excluding Russia + CIS Countries).

And it’s always a challenge, making sure we got all the information, making sure we nominate people in the right expertise (and it’s not always a piece o’ cake). But we ended up, hopefully, to Award the people that really deserve it !

I’m of course helped in this journey, which happens every 3 months: by dear colleague Marjorie, who really works hard on that period of time (and not only during that time ), by the local stakeholders, including the Audience Marketing Managers up to the DPE Leads, Directors and BMO Lead who can (and actually is very appreciated) give their opinions on the candidates that are in review. I guess the actual process really works thanks to all the people that are involved in this (and they are a lot, believe me ).

Having said that I would like to announce the newly Awarded MVPs for the 1st of July (sorted by name):

MVP	Technical Expertise	Country/Region
Darko  Milevski	SharePoint Server	Macedonia F.Y.R.O
Grzegorz  Rycaj	Visual Studio ALM	Poland
Hajan  Selmani	ASP.NET/IIS	Macedonia F.Y.R.O
Joanna  Subik	System Center Operations Manager	Poland
Kaido  Järvemets	System Center Configuration Manager	Estonia
Karel  Klatovský	Remote Desktop Services	Czech Republic
Margarita  Naumova	SQL Server	Bulgaria
Martin Wilhelm Angler	SharePoint Server	Italy
Peter  Gubarevich	Enterprise Security	Latvia
Peter  Holpar	SharePoint Server	Hungary
Piotr  Pawlik	Exchange Server	Poland
Radi  Atanassov	SharePoint Server	Bulgaria
Rok  Bermež	Windows Azure	Slovenia
Salvatore  Di Fazio	SharePoint Server	Italy
Slavko  Kukrika	Windows Expert-IT Pro	Slovenia

As soon as they’ll publish the good news (hopefully it’s a good news for them ) by blogging, micro-blogging and/or on their MVP Profiles, I will add the links to their names so you can start familiarize with them.).

A BIG CONGRATS to the MVPs who have been renewed this Award cycle: the list is long but I want to congratulate them for their hard community involvement. Being renewed is as tough as being awarded for the first time. Being involved in the online and offline community environments is a challenge (time constraints, few or no help from other community members, several trips to make speeches, spending big amount of time reviewing and writing articles and books and so forth). It’s the PASSION that drives us all, and it should always be like that.

 

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Enjoy your Award and join me in congratulating them !

@alead