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End of my MVP journey
It is said that all good things must come to an end. I did not apply for renewal [1] for the Microsoft MVP award, and as a result, I will no longer be part of the program as of the end of June 2025. Why am I not applying for renewal? There are many reasons;…
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MVP Renewal for 2024/2025
This is quite delayed as I am writing this in September, two months after the fact! I was re-awarded the Microsoft MVP award, my 8th award, in July 2024. What’s new this time around is I am no longer a “Business Applications” MVP, I have been awarded instead for 2 categories – M365 (for Excel),…
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MVP Renewal for 2023/2024
I am pleased to share that I was renewed for the Microsoft MVP awards, my 7th! As I was last year I am a bit in shock but grateful for the support of those who have kept me going. Last year, I didn’t have many visible contributions but more behind-the-scenes things, but I wasn’t sure…
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MVP Renewal for 2022/2023
I’m happy to share that I have been renewed today for the Microsoft MVP award, my 6th award. I am still a little shocked, as I truly did not believe I was consistent enough this past year with my contributions. I am grateful as always to the MVP Program team and Betsy Weber for believing…
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MVP Renewal for 2021/2022
I was fortunate to be renewed today for the Microsoft MVP award, for the 5th time. When I got awarded the first time in October 2016, I never dreamed that I would be still here 5 cycles later. This year is bittersweet for me, as I’m only getting renewed due to the generosity of the…
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MVP Renewal for 2020/2021
Today was a good day. It is Canada Day, which is a national holiday, and already a great day for us Canucks, but July 1st is also MVP renewal day for close to 3,000 Microsoft MVPs worldwide. I’m pleased to share that I was awarded for the 4th time today, within the Business Applications category…
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MVP Renewal for 2019/2020
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been renewed as a Microsoft MVP in Business Applications (Dynamics GP focussed) for the next year, through to July 1, 2020. Email notification for MVP renewal for 2019-2020. Renewal is never guaranteed and I don’t take it for granted that I will be renewed. What is a Microsoft MVP?…
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Keeping up with the MVP firehose
It’s January, which means we’re coming to the end of another contribution year for those of us Microsoft MVPs that are up for renewal on July 1st. By the end of March, we need to have submitted our contributions, and new this year, answered the four magic questions on the MVP site. This is the…
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MVP Renewal for 2018/2019
Today is Canada Day and I’ve been fortunate to get the official notification earlier today that I’ve been re-awarded for the next year. Woohoo! It’s a great way to start Canada Day! An email notification of my MVP renewal. This year’s renewal is a little bittersweet as there are several people I know who I…
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MVP emails gone mad!
At the end of April, I thought I would experiment with something. I kept track of nearly every email that I received as a part of the MVP program for the entire month of May. I deleted nothing. However, some emails such as calendar invites are auto-deleted in Outlook once I accepted or declined the…
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MVP Summit 2018
I’m fortunate to be attending my 2nd Microsoft MVP Summit, in Bellevue & Redmond, Washington. The first one I attended was in November 2016, shortly after I was first awarded my MVP award. It was pretty overwhelming! I was still getting used to the idea that I was an MVP let alone being able to…
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My First Year as an MVP, part 2
This is a continuation of Part 1 of my blog… all written on the same day but broken up into two parts due to the length! NDA, Yammer and PGI, oh my! My first inclination as a new MVP was to sign up for as much of the experience as I could. Others warned me…
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My First Year as an MVP, part 1
One year ago, I was notified via email of my first Microsoft MVP Award. It was a pretty surreal moment! I captured some of my thoughts and emotions in a blog post last year. Now that a year has gone by, very quickly I might add, it’s time to look back at my first year…
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Women in Tech Week 2017 & Female MVPs
February 27 to March 3, 2017, is Women in Technology Week! Next Wednesday is International Women’s Day (Wednesday, March 8, 2017), which, according to the official website, is “a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women”. I’ll be honest, I didn’t realize that it was Women in Tech Week this week until my…
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Becoming a Microsoft MVP for the first time
So, yesterday I found out that I was awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award for my contributions over the last year in the Microsoft Dynamics GP community. Yay! I must say, the entire day was a whirlwind of emotions, varying from “holy cow” (yes, I used a different word there!), to “oh my…
