Thank you, SharePoint MVPs!
The Microsoft MVP Global Summit concluded this past Thursday, and on behalf of the SharePoint product teams, I’d like to thank the 45 SharePoint MVPs, a bunch of Excel MVPs, a few InfoPath MVPs, and a couple of special guests for sitting through many hours of “deep dive” sessions and providing plenty of constructive feedback about the 2007 version of our products along with many creative ideas for the next version.
In his keynote on Monday to about 600 MVPs of the Office system set of products, Jeff Teper announced a new, friendlier URL for the SharePoint Community Portal at http://mysharepointcommunity.com and encouraged non-SharePoint MVPs to take a look. At least one other Office product group is already planning to implement their community portal on the same infrastructure, and I hope that a few more will follow.
Given SharePoint’s role as the “business productivity server” to which all of the Office (business productivity) clients connect to enable collaboration scenarios, the SharePoint community will undoubtedly play an ever increasingly important role in the broader Office community, and I look forward to establishing a stronger relationship between the SharePoint MVPs and the Office MVPs and to sustaining the spirit of community that’s evident in the picture below (taken at the inaugural SharePoint MVP Paintball Outing).
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