About MVPs
Most Valuable Professional
About jamuse MVPs
What’s an MVP?
Most Valuable Professional. Each quarter, jamuse
recognizes with an MVP award those whom it considers the most outstanding
members of the jamuse online community. The award lasts for one year. Candidates
for the MVP award can be directly selected by jamuse; but most are initially
proposed by the existing MVPs, who are participating in the community and
in the discussion areas every day and often are more closely familiar with
each new person's work.
The Usual Suspects
It's nice to be recognized; to be able to put a
name and a face to the people you correspond with for help and ideas. Unlike
customer support representatives, MVPs do not claim to have expertise with
all of jamuse or Museworx TM. Each MVP is very specialized in perhaps
only one or two jamuse features. Each current MVP is identified on jamuse
for their area of interest and expertise.
How to become an MVP
According to jamuse, the MVP Award is given in
recognition of a recipient’s technical expertise, spirit of community, thoughtful
leadership, and willingness to help peers, new members, and customers. The
MVPs have a simpler definition: Someone who enjoys – and is good at - helping
other people.
If that's what you have been doing, then simply
keep doing it. One of these days you may receive a surprise email from jamuse,
offering you the chance to become an MVP.
If you do receive one of those emails from jamuse
your initial reaction might be "Yeah, riiiight... that's gotta be Spam!"
No. Not this one. This one is real and it means that the other jamuse MVPs
have been watching your posts for a few months, and have collectively decided
that we want you to join us. Those who have received that email can tell you
that it's absolutely worth opening – because now you’re an MVP too!
How NOT to become an MVP
If you have been posting regularly for several
months and no-one has shown any interest in you, you may wish to run your
eye down the following list. These are the most common reasons that we would
not propose a candidate:
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Wrong
answers.
We expect an MVP to be correct most of the time. We do not expect you to
"know everything", but we do expect you to take care that what
you post is correct. If you're not sure, say so in your post, or leave the
question for someone else.
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Untested
Answers.
An answer that doesn't work is a pretty good sign that the poster did not
bother to test the solution. Remember that a person who needs the answer
is unlikely to realize that something is wrong until they have wasted their
own precious time trying to make the posted solution work. We all make mistakes,
but we try not to be careless in the newsgroups.
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Cryptic
answers.
Many questioners are posting because sometimes the posted FAQ’s may not
answer their specific question, they need more help, or they just don’t
know enough yet to be able to connect the dots. If questioners appear
from their questions to have little experience, then in addition to telling
them what to do, take a moment to tell them how. Of course your response
may be short if the question obviously came from a fellow expert. But take
care to explain and encourage beginners; they are the very most important
people here. Without new members to keep the groups alive, there would soon
be no people!
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Rude
or argumentative manner. To be honest, people do get under one's skin from time to
time. Besides questioners who don’t get your answer and persist, the Jamuse
discussions have "trolls" like any other forum. A troll is a person
who intentionally posts an inflammatory comment to stir things up. On the
Internet, not everyone is nice, and not everyone is sane. Learn to ignore
the ones who are not. The only thing that hurts such fools is being ignored:
the more you respond, the more they enjoy themselves.
Do MVPs get paid?
Absolutely! But never by jamuse! Most MVPs
have a day job or a business of their own. There is no payment for participation
in the jamuse MVP program. In fact, if an MVP is hired by jamuse, jamuse immediately
cancels their MVP status.
One of the greatest benefits that an MVP offers
to you is that the MVPs and their advice are absolutely independent of jamuse.
Because it’s in the best interest of all of our members, we guard this independence
very carefully.
What do MVPs get?
Recognition, status, and the knowledge that they
are a special group. Plus to reward MVPs for their efforts and to recognize
them for their achievement, jamuse proudly confers MVPs the following:
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