Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Benefits

MVP’s for Quarter 2 of Year 2010 has been recently announced. MVP is a recognition by Microsoft to the community leaders who believes in sharing and caring. Microsoft recognizes the best and brightest from technology communities around the world with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award for an Year. An MVP can enjoy a lot of Benefits which are provided to him by Microsoft.

Benefits of a MVP

As an MVP, a host of benefits that are available:

• Welcome letter/ Mail Directly from Microsoft, announcing the new MVP’s and welcoming you in the group.
• MSDN subscription (Online) Worth 2499$ . A 12-month subscription provide access to the latest information about Microsoft technology and products.

• TechNet Subscription (Online) Worth 349$ . A 12-month subscription provide access to the latest information about Microsoft technology and products.

• MVP Trophy A beautiful Trophy together with a Tie Pin and MVP Id card. And it includes a Certificate as well.

• Employee Recognition Letter You may avail 4 of such letters which can be sent to your Dean, Principle or Employer. The ERL provides broad recognition of your expert participation and outlines the impact of the MVP program and the significance of the MVP Award.
• MVP Summit and MVP Open day are exclusive MVP events conducted by Microsoft

• Technical Support free assistance on three technical support incidents during an MVP’s award year.

• My MVP Profile Create a personal profile to share with other MVPs, all of Microsoft, or all Microsoft customers on Microsoft.com product Web pages. Profile page can be used to promote speaking engagements, books, white papers, and other activities. This increased exposure across Microsoft.com highlights you as an expert and an important member of the technical communities in which you participate. https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Vasu.Jain

• MVP Leads MVP’s receive the special benefit of a dedicated Microsoft advocate as direct connection to Microsoft. MVP Lead keep MVP’s informed of product news, events, and opportunities that are available to you. MVP Lead can help connect with Microsoft team members in Redmond, Washington and in your region.
• Networking & Learning opportunities from other MVPs : Interactions with MVPs & Microsoft Employees. Direct connection to people with other expertise to help out in community.
• MVP Source Licensing Program gives eligible MVPs access to Microsoft source code.
• Knowledge Base Resources enables MVPs to view articles on pre-release products and issues, and extend rights to republish Knowledge Base articles to the Web.
• MVP Private Newsgroups are a Product Feedback events in MVP Connect Services enables MVPs the option to participate in Product Improvement Opportunity events and postmortems (PIOs), Product Group Interaction events (PGI’s), maintain an events Communication profile, and to send Microsoft Early Warning Signals (EWS) from Technical Communities. Newsgroups venue for MVPs from around the world to share their ideas about Microsoft products and technologies with other MVPs and with Microsoft.
• Third party benefits like free Tutorials, Software’s exclusively for MVP’s.
• MVP Mail digest that bridges communication between MVP’s and provide latest product news, events & Opportunities.
• Technical training & resources
• Exclusive Invitation to Microsoft Beta Products.
• Exclusive Reservations in Microsoft events.
• There are some indirect benefits too, including Reputation in your community .

More Info about MVP Award program here : https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/