Topic Leaders 2010!
Instead of watching the Golden Globes Award ceremony tonight, and placing bets on the contenders for the upcoming Oscars, I am writing this blog. See how dedicated I am to my readers 😉
Some of you have waited for this announcement and I apologize that I could not write sooner. My first week back in the office was filled with many things, and left no time for blogging. I hope to do better the rest of 2011, and blog more often and more timely.
Without further ado, these are the SCN members who where the top 3 contributors in their area of expertise in 2010:
Congratulations everyone! We may “just” be talking about points here, but your contributions enlightened your fellow community members last year, I’m sure.
You will soon receive the official certificate that we send to all Topic Leaders every year.
Remember to check out the 2009-2010 Topic Leaders too:
Earlier in 2010 I announced the Congratulations to the current Topic Leaders (2009-2010) just in time for SAP TechEd. This was the old “contest period” that Craig Cmehil introduced a couple of years ago, running from early August to end of July the following year. Make sure you check out who these people are! They will also get a certificate from me soon, they deserve it.
The contest period:
On SCN, you get recognition for points you get along the way, and your content of quality is sometimes highlighted in blogs or on the home pages of the site. There is also this little star, the Active Contributor badge, that recognizes different levels of contributions on SCN.
Active Contributor recognition was recently changed from an annual period to a 12-month rolling period, as I recently explained in a Active Contributor Status: A 12-month rolling period. To make things consistent and easier, and because there are now less reasons to look at achievements over a calendar year period, my suggestion would be to get back to the “old” contest period, i.e. every year in August we look back at the last 12 months, August-July period, and highlight the Topic Leaders of all SCN categories. It makes sense to do this just before the TechEd season starts. After all, TechEd is THE place where the Community meets, and where I have the chance to meet Topic Leaders too 🙂 So let me know what you think by commenting on this blog, I’ll be listening!
The benefits:
Additional recognition and certificates are one thing, but I know that most of you are waiting for something more tangible, something valuable in your daily activities. I don’t have anything to announce yet, and I know you’ve been waiting a while, but as I look to improve the recognition program this year, I’ll be working with the community and my new manager Jeanne Carboni to bring something new to Topic Leaders. Thank you for your patience.
Wishing everyone a happy, successful new year!
Now on seeing this blog, I was amazed and cant believe that you have compiled the entire list and published within two days which is commendable. Thanks for the marvelous work done.
By the by, you have indicated that certificate for 2009-10 topic leaders will also be sent soon. Is this apart from the one I got from Craig "Certificate of Appreciation" last year ??
thanks
G. Lakshmipathi
there is such a forum?
Anyhow, you'll find it under "Community user Groups" or /community [original link is broken]
Juan
Sorry!
Laure
I received my certificate; it is indeed a prized possession.
Thank you to the entire SAP Community!
Thanks,
abhishek salvi.
Thanks Juan......
Thanks
G. Lakshmipathi
Laure
Thank you! Yes it was partly a manual process, and I'll share the secret: I had to go into the admin system for each category, copy and paste the info into an XLS (our XLS export function is to be improved...) and since I want to promote the business card and have people maintain it, find the business card link for each one of you and hyperlink it to your name. And then copy-paste everything into our SCN blog system and voila!
It takes some time but once I start this, I'm on a roll!
I found out that this manual work is useful for me too; I always refer to my list with a lot of information about the Topic Leaders.
Sure, we could make my work easier and I could ask for better reports, but our IT resources are limited and I'd rather use them for improvements that the Community will see and benefit from. Plus, I'm an optimistic person and I know that someone is working on our reporting and I hope to see enhancements made in 2011 🙂
I'm not sure which "Certificate of Appreciation" you mean, could you please forward it to me per e-mail? My e-mail address is visible in my business card.
Many thanks, and talk to you soon,
Laure
Certificate sent to your mail.
Thanks
G. Lakshmipathi
You must have received it now 🙂
And I have to tell you: an improved report came faster than I was expecting. This morning I got confirmation that a dashboard built on Xcelsius will deliver a much nicer reporting capability for the Topic Leaders initiative. YAY!
Thanks to my colleagues from IT, and Maya Bahar for her help coordinating 🙂
Laure
Yes I definitely want to encourage people to maintain their business card! It's on my To Do list to write a blog about this. Last year I found out many times that people don't realize what they're showing and what they're hiding. So we'll work to improve this.
That's why I didn't put just a list, I wanted links to the BC to promote it 🙂
Thanks,
Laure
IMHO the best is to create an idea on Idea Place. Although I believe it will be hard to create such a topic: SAP UI is distributed over several products (Portal, WDJ/A, BSP, SAPGui, NWBC, BSP, CRM, ...)
I'm taking note of this - UI topic addition - and will discuss with our "taxonomy committee". Adding it to Idea Place is great, it's the best way to make sure there is a trace of it 🙂
This year, anyway, we plan to revise all these categories. They were always added per request or when there was a need, and we need to look at them and see what makes sense, think about what major topics our SCN members are expert at. Some categories are old, some don't make sense, some strategic or "trendy" topics are not included.
Expect to see something in 2011, but not in the first half of the year; unfortunately this is more of a mid-term project. Reshuffling things, introducing new things, this all means we need to think about where the existing points go and if we can make it retroactive or not, etc.
Laure
Thanks for recognizing me as a topic leader...I am really delighted..
Regards,
Harshit
Thanks
This is really good that we will be receiving certificates..
Thanks Craig and SCN and congrats to all the other members...Keep posting..Keep Blogging...
Regards,
Lekha.
Hope this happens 🙂
Amen,Siddharth
I'm still planning on it, yes. A lot of internal coordination as you can imagine 😉
Laure
Thanks for your commitment made last year. Indeed you are man of word.Thanks for encouraging every one.
Muthu
I also received certification of appreciation on last
monday(14/02/2011).
It will encourage me & others to contribute more.
/Frank
These areas are determined by the point categories we have on SCN. They need to be refreshed and we're currently doing a taxonomy alignment that will give us the opportunity to align our point categories as well. Because such changes have a big impact in terms of moving points, or deleting categories, etc, we are working on it with care and it takes time. But you can expect changes in Q3 this year.
Best,
Laure