[Brink]

Seven Forums
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Microsoft Community Contributor Award

SevenForums.com has partnered up with Microsoft as the first non-Microsoft managed community to have the Microsoft Community Contributor Award offered to our members.



What is the Microsoft Community Contributor Award?

The award seeks to recognize those who are making a difference in online technical communities. These contributions can vary from answers in forums to translating content for members of the community to learn from. Previously, awardees were chosen only from Microsoft’s own online communities, such as MSDN or Microsoft Answers. Now Microsoft has expanded their search for awardees to sites such as SevenForums.


You can visit the award’s official site at www.microsoftcommunitycontributor.com. There you’ll find links to FAQs, current awardees, and more. Be sure to also visit Microsoft's Facebook page for program updates and more about the award itself.

• Members must be 18 and over to be eligible.
• MVPs are not eligible.

How does this work:

We the staff at SevenForums will sift through our members and give a list of nominees (member user names only) to Microsoft for consideration of getting the award. The Microsoft MCC Team will then review each nominee's posts and activities here at SevenForums for award consideration. When Microsoft has finished evaluating the nominees, they will give us a list of awardees that we (SevenForums) will send an award notification email to directly from SevenForums. From here, you (our member) can accept or decline the Microsoft Community Contributor Award.

Awarded members will get a Microsoft Community Contributor Award badge added to their profile here at SevenForums.




Example award notification email:

Quote:

Congratulations! Your contributions on Sevenforums have made you eligible for the Microsoft Community Contributor Award. This award recognizes individuals who make notable contributions to online technical communities. We have partnered with Microsoft to select those within our community who make a difference in the community and you’re one of them. As part of this award, you will receive an award certificate, complimentary access to the Safari Books Online library, access to the official award logo and more.

Please note that we have not shared your contact information with Microsoft and are handling the communication to you.

Great! Now what do I need to do to claim this award?

Simply visit the award verification site InvitationURL and enter the following verification code and your email.

Identification code: XYZ12345

This simply lets Microsoft know how to contact you about this award. Within a few moments of entering this information, you will receive an official award with your log-in information to the official award page. There you will complete a few easy steps and you’re done.

Should you have any questions about this process, you can contact the official award support team.

Once again, congratulations on reaching this great accomplishment!

Congratulations to our first group of MCCA 2012 awardees.

• richc46
• whs
• seavixen32
• kado897
• SIW2
• ignatzatsonic
• derekimo

[Brink]

Good luck to everyone.

[Joan Archer]

This is wonderful news, mind you we always knew that the members here have a lot of knowledge between them but it's a nice touch that Microsoft will now recognise that fact.

I'm sure that's the award a friend of mine was given a little while ago, he helps here as well.

[JaidynM]

   Quote: Originally Posted by Brink

Good luck to everyone.

+1

A huge congratulations in advance to everyone that manages to receive this prestigious award.

[seavixen32]

What a great way to recognize those that perform above and beyond the call of duty on this great forum.

Brink & John, you must be very proud that Microsoft are prepared to give this forum the recognition it deserves and you and your staff are to be congratulated for the way it is run.

[Corrine]

This is a wonderful compliment and acknowledgement of the overall accomplishments of Seven Forums!

[Kari]

How Microsoft has chosen Seven Forums and its members to be the first non-MS forum to get these awards should make all of us proud. Congratulations Seven Forums, congratulations awardees.

Kari

[Britton30]

Makes me feel proud to be a member of a community that MS has noticed. Well done everyone.

[boohbah]

What an Accolade for sevenforums, congratulations staff and members,

[A Guy]

Congratulations to Seven Forums and all that contribute. We certainly have some worthy candidates here as well. Looking forward to them receiving this acknowledgement

A Guy