Need to get back to writing articles and blogging, a little bit behind with the photographs…
When I first started answering VMware/Virtualisation Questions at Experts Exchange, approximately 2 years ago, I was a ranked outsider, this weekend, I’m now in the Top 25 Overall Experts, some of these experts are not very active at EE, so watch this space, hopefully within the Top 10, by the end of 2013!
It’s official, I received 7 emails last night, I’ve won six awards this year at Experts Exchange.com.in the 9th Annual Expert Awards, this is my second year as Expert of the Year.
I started the year with 4,688,803 points, and ranked 84th.
This year I totaled overall 5,369,940 this year and I’m currently Ranked 29th! I’ve been ahead for most of the year, with a clear, 2,500,000 points over 2nd place! 250,000 points ahead in the Articles (Authors), and No.1 in VMware and Virtualisation Zones. (by 5,500,000 and 2,000,000 points ahead of the No.2!)
All this answering questions on VMware and Virtualisation ONLY!
A Happy VMware & Virtualisation year to you!
I was quite surprised to receive two emails from Experts Exchange late last night, Congratulations, you have earned a new rank! and noticed my new Eeple (avatar).
Experts Exchange have introduced two new Ranks
Prodigy – 5,000,000 points
Ace – 3,000, 000 points
So, I now have two new ranks,
Prodigy – VMware (the 1st Expert!), Ace – Virtualisation (the 1st Expert!), I also get two new T-Shirts for these as well!
My Bio has recently been published on the Experts Exchange Company Blog
it reads…
Andrew Hancock (a.k.a- hanccocka) first joined Experts Exchange in 2003 at the prompting of another Experts Exchange expert, Richard Quadling.
…
A belated birthday present, and today I became the 33rd Savant at Experts Exchange.
You become a Savant, when you hit 10,000,000 points. No T-Shirt, you only get a T-Shirt for Zones, so I’m a little way off from that prestigious Savant in VMware! Stay tuned!
So my Badge has changed from
to this:-
Some other Experts Exchange statistics, last year my end of year overall point score was 4,688,803, this year I’ve passed that already, and currently at 5,148,594
Not bad, since I started answering questions just under two years ago, in December 2010.
Greetings to @demazter (Glen) at #35, and @alanhardisty (Alan) at #37. Two exceptional UK based Experts!
If you checkout my Experts Exchange Profile, you will see I’ve got a new Badge
The “badged members” are Community Volunteers, and I’ve recently been “upgraded” to a Zone Advisor (ZA) for VMware and Virtualisation Zones, sometimes called Topic Advisors.
I’ve just received an email from Experts Exchange, it reads
Welcome to the 5 Million Point Club.
You’ve done it: you’ve earned enough points to become one of the founding members of our Five-Million Point Club. You’re among an elite group of experts who will have a membership to Experts Exchange for life.
Thank you for your generous contributions! Here’s to many more productive, exciting years solving technology problems together.
and I’ve got a new badge to display….
The Annual Expert Awards are announced at the beginning of each year to celebrate the best Experts throughout the years from a competitive field of Experts worldwide at Experts Exchange.
The award winner in each category receives the following:
I believe the Trophy is a cast of the original hard drive which recorded the first Question/Answer at Experts Exchange. Each Trophy weighs approx 2kg.
I was the Award winner in the following
and this is what you receive from Experts Exchange if you are lucky enough on Being The Best of the Best!
oh, and a wardrobe full of Expert Exchange T-Shirts!
Yes, sorry for the few days outage, it would appear that a WordPress plugin just decided to go bad!
and the answer is or was:-
The Plugin “Tweet This”! I”m running version 1.5.1
Adds a “Tweet This Post” link to every post and page. Shortens URLs in advance through Th8.us (19 characters). Customize under Settings > Tweet This. By Richard X. Thripp.
there is new version 1.8, but I do not like upgrading for the sake of upgrading, and not being able to upgrade to 3.3.1 of WordPress because if the php on the host, and most plugins are now designed for 3.3.1…
Stange how a plugin went bad. I’m going to leave for a few days….
Shoutouts and thanks to the Guys at Experts-Exchange.com
Role Calls as follows:-
Taking a break whilst Experts Exchange Upgrades to EEv10! So if you currently visit the site, you’ll be greeted with:-
still top after 8 months!
So, before the site went dark for it’s upgrade, I’m still Top after 8 months! and here are some of my EE Articles
VMware Articles
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