The final top ranks are (final stats here):
- 1st – Amit Vasu – $200 gift card
- 2nd – Steven Andrews – $75 gift card
- 3rd – Dimitri Ayrapetov – ACS SharePoint Courseware
- 4th – Raghavendra Shanbhag – Copy of my SharePoint Inside Out book
- 5th – ME! I don't win anything but I did hit my goal of 1000 points! Woohoo!
NOTES: Trevor Seward is a moderator and is excluded from the final ranks, but was unofficially tracked as our GOLDEN standard. Gokan is a TechNet Wiki contributor and all his points came from the wiki and not the forums.
The ForumJam has become one of those really fun and awesome things to do each year. It has sooo many benefits I can't even begin to explain them all, but here's just a few:
- It helps to inspire people to help others – I have no doubt that many of the questions that we answered would have been missed, inadaquetly replied too or simply left unanswered if the ForumJam did not exist!
- I get to meet cool new people – The people that step up and ask to participate are amazingly smart individuals and many of them I did not know before or have any idea of just how smart they were, I'm looking forward to hanging out and even working with many of the people that participate in the ForumJam this year and for many years to come!
- Its an outlet for people to get recognition – I have a pretty good idea of all the outgoing, news causing, awesome sauce amazing SharePoint bloggers and consultants out there, but there are just sooo many that it is hard to really know every one of them. I know that the people on the list that totally jammed out have impressed me a great deal and with the views that the points total blog post garnered, I can tell you, they are known now!
- I gain valuable insights for my blogging and consulting activities – I learned a lot in this ForumJam, many things which have helped me with my conference session materials. But in addition, I learned quite a few quirks about SharePoint that I did not know existed before that I'm sure I'll run into later in the year when I kick back into consulting mode.
With that, I'd like to specifically point out Trevor (@NaupliusTrevor), Amit (@AmitVasu), Steven (@backpackerd00d) and Dimitri (@dayrapetov). If you don't know these guys, then you should! They are up and coming SharePoint stars and we'll be seeing a lot of them this year and I'd like to thank them personally for all the hard word and time they put in for the past two months. As an example, these guys tore it up in the forums for the past two weeks. Just to give you an idea of the difference everyone made, combined we had:
- Total points of 30,728
- Total helpful posts of 668
- Total answered questions of 1686
I think the we did pretty good for two months! So now that all the questions are taken care of, we'll take some time off to let them build up again (that's if Trevor takes a vacation anyway!). See everyone later in the year for ForumJam 2014!