Microsoft's most valuable experts I know

On Microsoft forums, you can often see people with the words "MVP" (Microsoft's most valuable expert. What kind of people do they write? In my personal experience, I will introduce some of these people I know. As an MVP in the Visual C ++ field, most of the MVPs I know are in the development direction. Among them, there are more MVPs in the Visual C ++ field than those in other directions, so here is just incomplete statistics.

People who have built their reputation and become community leaders are also in real life jobs that require knowledge and experience, such as teachers or consultants. Only a handful of MVPs under the age of 20 have I met. Only about of MVPs are female, so at the global MVP summit, you will see a lot of mid-aged glasses. Some MVPs are versatile. For example, you will see a lot of people coming to the stage to show their music cells during several summits at the Seattle music experience Museum. At the opening meeting a few years ago, we can also see the Korean MVP Taekwondo performances. Unfortunately, in recent years, the MVP Summit has become more and more technical. The MVP summit has gradually changed from a celebration to a Microsoft Community technical feedback meeting, at the Summit, MVPs are now more similar to a community representative, discussing with the Microsoft product team what is to be improved ).

Most of the MVP activities that I am familiar with usually focus on one or more forums. For example, in MVP members of a newsgroup activity, most IDs are only contributed to one or several newsgroups, such as Microsoft. Public. VC .*. This also results in a few newsgroups where questions are concentrated, resulting in an increase in digic issues and too many emails posted across multiple newsgroups. In addition, the regular customers of these news groups form small circles. Sometimes they will discuss topics in some circles. In the opinion of outsiders, these discussions may be separated from the question. After Microsoft closed the newsgroup, although the same people continued to appear in Microsoft's webpage-based forums, Microsoft's strict server management and increased participants, discussions in such small circles have vanished from public forums. The connection between them is now more focused on the communication between MVP members in the MVP project team.

The growth of some MVPs is inspired by other MVPs, from the consumer community to the contributor. A newbie becomes a regular patrol community reader after asking questions or searching for existing answers to get answers. I feel that a few of them feel that they have enough experience to answer questions within a period of time, while most people stay in the role of searching for answers. A few respondents will become experts after perseverance, So Microsoft recognizes them as MVPs. I personally estimate that this reputation building process usually takes at least two or three years. After becoming an expert, these people have very few or no questions at all, even in areas where they are not good at, but respond to a lot of questions from the community. Their replies occupy a large part of the posts posted on the first floor and those marked as answers. The questioner's appreciation for the answers provided by experts is the motivation for them to answer questions in time and energy.

MVPs occasionally have concerns about whether to answer questions from other users. Some people feel it is necessary to answer the question of reaching out to the party, while others feel that it is not necessary to encourage the question to become a searcher. In Microsoft news groups and forums, an MVP may hesitate to answer questions about unfamiliar fields, because the questioner trusts the answers of Microsoft MVP and sometimes exceeds the confidence of Microsoft employees, this problem may cause some MVPs to add their expertise to their signatures to avoid being misunderstood as the MVPs In the unfamiliar forum. In addition, an ambiguous or out-of-the-box question may also dispel people's desire to answer a question. It is not always someone who has the energy to clarify the question to the extent that they can start to work.

MVPs trying to obtain economic benefits from MVP projects are considered to reduce the quality of the MVP brand. Some people try to obtain material benefits from them when answering questions, for example, if you promote your own consultancy services or books, these people are not welcome in the MVP community, because the MVP election standard means that the technical help given to others should be free of charge. Some MVPs provide free answers to protest after such marketing replies. Microsoft provides free msdn subscriptions and shopping coupons to MVPs, and some people will stop contributing to the community after being elected to the MVP project, and sell them to themselves, it also caused new MVPs to doubt their enthusiasm for technology. The value shared freely by old MVPs is incompatible with the word "greedy"-some may even forget that they have signed a confidentiality agreement. Of course
Most MVPs do not add their website links for profit when answering questions. If you see an MVP joining its website in the answer, you can expect the website to have many technical resources with the MVP expertise in most cases.

All in all, MVPs are a group that is willing to share technologies and help others selflessly. If you have been helped by MVPs, the best way to return is to help the next person in need. If you are enthusiastic about technology, join the MVPs and create a technical community for everyone and for everyone!