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Today VMware opened up the nominations for vExpert 2012. This is definitely a very cool designation that VMware gives to those individuals who significantly contributed to the VMware community in this past year. Last year I missed the designation and hopefully this year things may go my way. Either way it is a great award and those who receive the designation are deserving and are community leaders.
This year VMware had made some changes in the nominations and even though there is just a single vExpert designation you can be nominated through 1 of 3 tracks. Below are the descriptions as defined on the VMware vExpert page.
Evangelist Path
The Evangelist Path includes book authors, bloggers, tool builders, public speakers, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others with the leverage of a personal public platform to reach many people. Employees of VMware can also apply via the Evangelist path.
Customer Path
The Customer Path is for internal evangelists and community leaders from VMware customer organizations. They have contributed to success stories, customer references, or public interviews and talks, or were active community contributors, such as VMUG leaders.
VPN (VMware Partner Network) Path
The VPN Path is for employees of our partner companies who lead with passion and by example, who are committed to continuous learning and to making their technical knowledge and expertise available to many. This can take shape of event participation, video, IP generation, as well as public speaking engagements.
For full details on the designation, to fill out a nomination form or recommend a friend or colleague to apply check out the VMware vExpert 2012 page.
Good Luck to everyone this year.
Pete