Last week, I got some great news: I have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for 2009!

To quote the Microsoft MVP site:

"Since the early 1990s, Microsoft has recognized the inspiring activities of MVPs around the world with the MVP Award. MVPs freely share their deep knowledge, real-world experience, and impartial, objective feedback to help people enhance the way they use technology. Of more than 100 million users who participate in technology communities, around 4,000 are recognized as Microsoft MVPs."

Those 4000 awardees are selected from across a variety of disciplines, specializing in a wide array of Microsoft products. Only a small fraction of them are SharePoint MVP's. This is not the first time I have been given this award, but it has been a few years. (A person's community contributions are analyzed each year - there is no "automatic" extension.)

I am deeply honored to have once more been selected for this group. Thank you, Microsoft! I hope to continue providing the SharePoint community with as much help as I can over the next year.