Microsoft revokes MVP status of dev who complained about request to promote

"Nothing of value was lost."

What a boss.

This is what often happens when you have community management report into marketing instead of engineering. A good MVP program is about having a tight feedback loop with engineering, and the ROI is about identifying and fixing customer issues.

There is room for community programs that roll up to marketing when they are explicitly at the outset about spreading the word about something that the community members love. But turning MVPs into shills was doomed.

$13K USD per year in Azure credits?

Microsoft screwed up their reputation with this move big time.

Wait, this is something that would have been cool to have had on those startup lists: do this and become an MVP and you get $13k free Azure credits. I don't even like Azure and that would have been $1k free spend per month.

I learned another buzzspeak term today:

"Infuse Energy"

I can now talk about a paradigm shift that generates awareness by infusing the kind of energy required to help our lateral engagements hit the ground running.

The original title is much more informative (though probably over the character limit):

> Microsoft revokes MVP status of developer who tweeted complaint about request to promote SQL-on-Azure

> Programme members were asked to make noise ahead of Amazon Web Services conference