I received news today from Microsoft:

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.

Great news! I really enjoy telling the community about my work and findings when researching new techniques. For those who don't know what I'm doing for the community, apart from posting news on our company's blogserver: I'm the guy who organises the monthly meetings for the Dutch user group DotNED. I've spoken there myself a couple of times and spoken at the DevDays for a couple of years in a row and at quite few meetings of the SDN.