Yes, the areas of activities that MS looks like has changed.

>Well, when I first got my MVP award in 2003, pretty much the only place I participated in forums was the UT. I had started branching out to some of the other forums round about then, but I'd say that 95% of my online presence was right here on the UT. And that is *all* I did ... no presentations, no blogging, no authoring ... strictly forum presence.
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>I have subsequently participated more in other forums and some authoring (my Tips column in the ill-fated Level Extreme .NET magazine, which hasn't published an issue since April ... but I digress).
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>So obviously things have changed if what I have been doing all along is no longer enough. =0(
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>~~Bonnie