Hooray for Kate. She’s just became an MVP too. Well, she has been most valuable and very professional for a long long time. But the award is new. Kate is an MSDN Regional Director out of Toronto, author of numerous books (including the new Visual C++.NET KickStart), very involved wtih the Toronto.NET user group, a popular conference speaker and INETA speaker and just an all round really nice person. I finally met her last May after having so many people ask me if I knew her. We didn’t even need an introduction. Just looked at each other and said “Kate?“ “Julie?“ 🙂

Here you can read more about what Kate does and has done…

Sorry if I’m drooling, but has become a good friend and I’m just thrilled that she got the MVP award.

Ken Getz has been an MVP since the program began in 1994.

Kathleen Dollard has been an MVP for years.

While we are all very busy congratulating the brand new MVPs (as we should be and I am doing it as well), don’t forget there are many who have been MVPs year after year for a long time. I think they should be offered continued congratulations as well. The MVP program is growing because there are just so many more people getting very actively involved in the community, which is exciting. But do remember it’s roots. MVP status does not roll over. These people have been earning it year after year. Also, there are MVPs for every area of Microsoft technologies : consumer applications, windows operating systems and server systems, office applications and developer applications. 

Here is the mvp website www.microsoftmvp.com

It’s Scott Hanselman. Absolutely well-deserved. Scott almost missed his “congrats” email since Outlook dumped it into his spam folder! That makes me laugh because I think this is what happened to a few other very important emails that I waited for from Microsoft about participation in some beta programs. Luckily I wandered over to BetaPlace, logged in and found them on my page.