2009 Microsoft MVP Award
July 2nd, 2009
This morning I received an email from Microsoft…
Dear Paul Woods,
Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2009 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Word technical communities during the past year.
The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say "Thank you for your technical leadership."
Toby Richards
General Manager
Community Support Services
My first thought… It must be the first time anyone has said Thank you for your technical leadership” to a Marketer! 
Seriously though, I am very honoured and humbled to be presented with this award – officially for my contribution to the Word 2007 community through my little pet project – http://www.thenewpaperclip.com/. Thank you to the folk at the MVP program at Microsoft, thank you to Alistair who I am sure is behind my nomination, and thank you to the almost 300 000 people who visited The New Paperclip last year to overcome their challenges with Office 2007. This is for you!
July 3rd, 2009 at 10:57 pm
Good work and congratulation!
July 8th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
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