What's in the 2012 MVP Award Pack

Mike Halsey MVP
Jan 10, 2012
Updated • Mar 21, 2018
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I was pretty delighted when my Microsoft MVP was rewarded on the 1st of January for a second year.

Microsoft award their "Most Valuable Professional" award each year to around 4,000 individuals covering almost all of their product lines.

In a statement on their website they say...

We seek to recognize the best and brightest from technology communities around the world with the Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award.  These exceptional community leaders come from a wide range of backgrounds. They are teachers, artists, doctors, engineers, as well as technologists, who actively share their high-quality, real-world technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft.  With the MVP Award, we thank these inspiring individuals for representing the voice of thousands in the community through the powerful and independent feedback they give us, and for helping our customers maximize the potential of their software.

Getting an MVP is pretty cool and my renewal came as a big though very welcome surprise and does come with some tangible benefits (software mostly) and access to product groups within Microsoft to feed back comments and ideas, and find out what's up and coming with their products in the coming months.

I received my award pack yesterday and I thought you might be interested to see the physical goodies that Microsoft give awardees.  They include a lovely glass trophy which you get in your first year with a small lug with the year written on it.  In successive years they just send you more lugs.  These include blue 5 year lugs for long-time awardees (some have been MVPs for as long as 17 years!).  Also in the pack you get a Microsoft ID card for when you visit company sites, a metal lapel badge, a framed certificate and this year, which seems a little out of place, a set of MVP stickers.

In fact I've been challenging people to come up with the most imaginative use for the MVP stickers and I'm offering a small prize for the best suggestions (why not give your suggestion in the comments below) and ones so far have included being stuck to a car dashboard so the traffic police in the Microsoft car parks don't give you a ticket, marking your coat hook at work or covering the glowing Apple logo on a Macbook (alas they're not quite large enough for this).  For now I've settled with one on my laptop lid.

I was renewed in part because of my writing here at gHacks and our sister site Windows7News and I'd like to thank all of you for your support this last year.  2012 is going to be great as I have at least two Windows 8 books coming out  :)

Despite the MVP renewal I will continue to call out Microsoft whenever they get something wrong and, in all honesty, I'm considering buying my first Mac this year too!  Photos of the 2012 MVP award pack are below along with the use I put at least one sticker to.

 

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  1. An Annonymous MVP said on July 11, 2012 at 9:16 pm
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    Isn’t it nice that the MVP program is always searching for ways to serve us better? This year, it’s STICKERS!

    I was trying to figure out what one could POSSIBLY do with these stickers — I mean, what in the WORLD were the people who make these awards thinking we would do with them — when I Googled and found your blog.

    The only use I’ve found so far is to stick them to the door of a colleague’s office. He’s also an MVP.

    I suspect there are rules in the MVP Code of Conduct that prevent us from using them in the most obvious way.

  2. jelson said on January 12, 2012 at 2:13 am
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    Congratulations Mike!!!

  3. charliechan said on January 11, 2012 at 5:34 pm
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    Congrats Mike!

    However get some better lighting for taking your pictures or else a better camera!

  4. JMJ said on January 11, 2012 at 4:09 pm
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    Congratulations! And, THANKS for the classy gesture of sharing this well-deserved good news.

  5. Cool said on January 11, 2012 at 2:16 am
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    Well done you are truly deserve this award. Keep it up buddy and all the best in the future ;)

  6. Mike said on January 11, 2012 at 2:06 am
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    Very well done, Mike … always great to see one’s endeavours recognised.
    How about using the stickers on the back of luggage tags (so that the airport authorities know that they are dealing with cyber-royalty) or perhaps on luggage for easier carousel identification :)

  7. Paul(us) said on January 11, 2012 at 1:14 am
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    I thought that main suggestion to put your mvp stickers on your waist bin wash quit alright./original :) Hopefully you find your groove with the at least two Windows 8 books you are writing this year so everybody (even a dummy like me) understands windows 8 and his features. Again congratulations with MVP number 2 hopefully you are finding inspiration to top 17 MVP awards. (This not only because I like to see that picture with all your 17 MVP awards in a row in 2027).

  8. Robert Palmar said on January 11, 2012 at 12:12 am
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    In reading the Microsoft description for MVP
    it is easy to see how you earned another award.
    I expect you will repeat again for the year 2013 too.

    Congratulations for a job well done, Mike.
    It is good to see excellence recognized.

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