Become a C# Corner MVP

hello and welcome to C-sharp corner videos my name is Mahesh Chand I'm the

founder of C-sharp corner in this video my focus will be introduction to C-sharp

corner MVP's MVP stands for most valuable professional and how one can

become a C-sharp corner MVP in this today's agenda what I'm going to do is start with the introduction of

C-sharp corner what C-sharp corner community is what we do here what a C-sharp

corner MVP is what are different benefits of being an MVP and how one can

become an MVP so let's get started C-sharp Corner is an online community and

what we really do here is learn share and grow together C-sharp Corner started

in 2000 to share I started C-sharp Corner to share my C-sharp code with other

developers so anybody can pretty much learn and then read and download code

for free. If you want to share your code or your articles, blogs, tutorials, anything

you learn about technology, coding, data, you are free to join. Welcome to join

Free to contribute your articles, blogs, and code samples. We also do events

Events means meetups, conferences, webinars and if you know you want to

become a speaker or you want to attend these conferences that's something else

C-Sharp Corner committee is involved with. At the end of the day we also, we are a

community where everybody meet, learn, share, grow together and the last thing

we also do is get recognized. So some of our members who are contributing more

than others, they are influencers, thought leaders in the space, they get

recognized in terms of being an MVP or VIP or expert in the field

So what is a C-Sharp Corner MVP? C-Sharp Corner MVP is a community member who is

helping grow community by sharing their code contents via articles and blogs

They also answer forum questions. Speaking is another thing MVPs do. MVPs

speak at C Sharp Corner chapter events, webinars, or even at conferences. Some

MVPs are also involved in writing ebooks and these ebooks are available for

free on the ebook section of C sharp corner We also appreciate if some of the members who are helping us spread the word about the community by sharing content on social media

One major difference between C Sharp Corner MVPs and a good expert programmer is that regardless of you are an expert or not, you have to be a good human being

If you're not a good human being and you just come to solve your purpose to the community

that's not what C sharp corner MVP is. The person who is an MVP is a genuine person, he's an honest person, transparent and does

not have hidden agenda to misusing the community. how do you become an MVP well it's pretty simple it's all about contributions

and how you are giving your valuable time to the community and helping others

you could do this by writing articles blogs news and videos writing articles

blogs pretty much same thing articles are little longer written in a tutorial

format have code samples descriptions images downloads blogs are smaller

articles kind of code snippets and how to do things. We also appreciate members

contribute news what is happening in the industry and videos. Some of our MVPs you

can you can start writing your book we can publish that in ebook. We have an

editorial team that helps you create the book content and edit it to review it

for copy editing and everything else quality and then we convert that to PDF

and publish that as a book. We also help your book or articles anything you write

on the website to millions of our followers. Keep in mind anything you

publish on C-sharp corner it is your copyright you own it and you are most

welcome to publish it anywhere else you want. You can publish on your own personal

blog, you can publish on your other websites, you can also publish your own

articles or blogs on C-sharp corner anything that you feel like this can

benefit to other fellow developers we do have a strong editorial team we look for

quality control we look for a copied content we look for duplicacy we look

for quality of the grammar spelling and image quality good quality all the

things are part of our editorial process. MVPs also help other developers answering

their questions on the forums. Moderator is another member type we have on C-Sharp Corner

A moderator usually looks for quality of the content, including code, duplicacy, piracy, all those things combined

Then speaking speaking on local chapters and user group events participation of in helping us improve the website and the app and spreading the word on social media or some other activities these members do

So if you think you want to do some of these activities on the website

you have a chance to become an MVP. So what are different benefits of being an MVP

Here's a list of some MVP benefits. They are not a big thing. Most of our MVPs really don't come

for the benefits. They just come because they genuinely and naturally they are community people

They want to just help community. They want to get their name out there. In return, what we do is

our goal as a community is to make sure that people you know our members and MEPs who are

you know putting their valuable time get something out of it at least they get a

recognition they get a global recognition among millions of members and people if you write an

article on c-sharp corner and share a tutorial or a video we will make sure that you get recognition

We'll make sure that millions of people, if not millions, maybe hundreds of thousands of people easily see you in a couple of months

And that's what we do. So end of the day, you become a community leader, influencer and expert

Our MVPs get speaking opportunities at meetups, local chapter events and conferences

I know some of our MVPs, sometimes they ask me, hey, I want to speak at this conference

This could be a C-sharp corner conference or it could be a third-party conference

If I know the organizers, I'm always happy to help and connect our MVPs with conference organizers

A lot of our MVPs do get authoring opportunities, and I am surprised to see today that how many of our MVPs are actually writing books for real publishers

It was amazing to see that almost more than half of the MVPs are engaged in some kind of writing activities or project development to the community

Professional networking is very important. So our goal is always to make sure we connect our MVPs for whatever help they need from us

We also do an annual conference, C Sharp Corner annual conference, and MVPs, all MVPs are invited there

We take care of their hotel, estate, tickets and everything, food and everything else

Sometimes we also cover some, you know, small expenses, travel expenses as well

And in the end, there's an award, MVP award. It's a token of appreciation

Basically, it tells you that we really appreciate what you do to them

And thank you for your time. That's really what this award is all about

So that was about what C-Sharp corner is, what an MVP is, how to become an MVP and what

these MVPs do I will skip this and what I will show you So you want to know where these MVPs are What you can look at is on if you go to C corner website

and You go to more here. There is something called members in the members you click here

what you will see is the list of C-sharp corner members and

and in the members tab it's opening here there is an option called MVPs. So this is a list of

current MVPs. One thing I want to mention here is that a C-sharp Corner MVP award for one year. So

to become an MVP today we will have to consider your last one year's contribution to the community

That's how you become MVP. And we select top 100 some MVPs from members from the top contributors

Once you become MVP for a year, then next year again, there's a renewal again for next year and so on and so forth

There is also private groups, MVP groups, which we talk. and I am actively involved in the C Sharp Corner team, editorial team

everybody's involved there, product team. So what we do is we basically talk on a monthly and weekly basis

and also group messaging for the MVPs. So this could be sometimes some MVP says

hey, I'm interested in writing a book. Who can help me to connect to the publisher

or I want to speak in this city or I want to speak at a conference

or I want to speak at a chapter event and things like that

One other thing we do for our MVPs is that we have exclusive meetings

and educational webinars and live communications with experts. For example, if MVPs want to become a better speaker or they want to become better writers

so we have regular webinars and events and meetings. We bring these experts and they explain how to do things better

For example, it could be career advice. For example, I do a webinar where MVPs can join and learn how to build a better business or how to start a startup or how to become a consultant

Then I may bring our editorial manager tricks for, hey, how do you write better articles

How do you format better and things like that? So there are other hidden benefits of being an MVP as well

But end of the day, if you want to help community, you really want to give back

And that's really the rewarding for being an MVP is that you become a prominent community member

You get this recognition at global stage and wherever then you go

Sometimes people know you. That's about it. Thank you for watching. I hope to see you soon in my next video

Thank you