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(or in my case shouting). From the MVP blog: SharePoint MVP Alex Pearce is head of IT at Great Barr School in Birmingham, UK. Recently, he travelled with two teachers to Sierra Leone. The UK team travelled to Africa to learn how they could transport redundant computers from their school in Birmingham to a school in Sierra Leone. In a recent interview, MVP Alex said: "First of all the school has no power so we are going to need to raise the money to buy a generator and to build something in which to house it. Secondly, we...
"Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others." Technorati Tags: MVP,Microsoft MVP,Microsoft Most Valued Professional
Microsoft have a role called a developer evangelist. They’re the people that engage with the community, promote the new stuff coming out, through out swag, that sort of think. Think "marketing", but with the short skirts and good legs. As such, certainly in the UK, they’re well known and "loved" by the user group community (well, they come speak to us for free; they have to, it’s their *job*). One of the UK DPEs is leaving us; his last appearance is this week at Fest08. The community is obviously sad to see him go (but it does mean that there...
Friday and Saturday saw the annual UK MVP Open Day. Aside from the excellent presentations (and the sulk at being accused of heckling by Colin) a thought and conversation I’d be having with a wee blonde lass all week was proven. I had been receiving a large amount of grief for not being on the social "networking" site facebook and a bunch of people threatened to create an account in my name on there; so I ended up making a pre-emptive strike. This nicely illustrates the problem of identity versus persona. My argument (for Maz) is that we don’t have...