>Serious question: does your public online tally accurately represent your contributions this year? And whether likely or not, if you weren't granted a MVP next time, what would you do?
First, here's a pic of me being photo-bombed at a Microsoft event in Philly back in March:
https://twitter.com/alvinashcraft/status/581904067665862656To answer your question - at the moment, for the year, no....because I'm really bad ( as are a few other MVPs) at keeping mine up to date. I haven't updated my profile since end of last year.
Actually I just realized my bio up there is really out of date. Ouch. Need to update that :)
That is usually the case every year. I obviously need to update it before my next renewal cycle, but I really should do a better job of keeping it current. I am really bad at administrative stuff in general. Even my clients joke that I'm often late sending in my invoices. :)
As of right now, this year I've done 15 community sessions (1 in DC, 1 in Pittsburgh, 4 in NJ, 1 in Boston, 4 in NYC, 4 in Philly) plus 2 conference sessions in Vegas, plus 2 CoDe articles. By the end of the year I'll probably have a total of about 25 community sessions, 8 conference sessions, 4 or 5 webcasts, and either 3 or 4 CoDe articles. That is roughly the same volume I do every year, more or less.
As CoDe articles are available online for free, conferences are the only commercial endeavor I'm involved with. I am not a big conference person - the truth is that a good friend of mine invited me to start participating in Live!360 a few years ago. The people who run the conference are very nice and it's a good conference brand to be a part of. It's a good chance to see places like Vegas and Orlando and DC, etc.
