The MVP Award is refreshed yearly. Most of this group help out in the community whether they currently have the award or not.

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• Help History

MVP History

• 1995: Bill Meisheid & Stefan Olson become WinHelp MVPs under the Windows SDK group.
  
• 1997: The MVP movement was mostly for developer types. Peter Plamondon [MS] formed his own group of Microsoft Help technology experts for HTML Help.
  
• 2000:  In Oct 2000, the Microsoft MVP queen bee Jannie Clark, announced that the charter members (recruited by Peter) were now official Microsoft Help MVPs.
  
• 2002:  Paul O'Rear (Help MVP 1992-220) joined Microsoft, working with help technologies in the developer division.
  
• 2004: Mid 2004 Peter Plamondon left Microsoft for green pastures leaving the job of Help MVP lead to Paul O'Rear.

Help MVPs

1995 - Early WinHelp MVPs     Bill & Stefan were the very first Help MVPs (1995-2001),         part of Windows SDK group.    Bill Meisheid 1995-2001, USA, Sageline Publishing    Stefan Olson 1995-2001, New Zealand, OlsonSoft 1997 - Founding Members of charter MVPs     Peter Plamondon formed the original group of 4 help experts.
	Cheryl Lockett Zubak	1997-2005, USA, Work Write Inc, KeyWorks
	Dana Cline	1997-2005, USA, LogicSmith - Now MCE MVP
	Scott Boggan	1997-2006, USA, HelpCraft
	Mary Deaton	1997-2000, USA, www.mmdeaton.com
1999 - Big growth for HTML Help
	Robert Chandler	1999-****, Australia, The Helpware Group
	Paul Neshamkin	1999-****, USA, Paul Neshamkin Group
	Jeff Hall	1999-2002, UK, Eon Commerce Ltd
	Paul O’Rear	1999-2002,USA, Helpfulsolutions.com, Now with Microsoft.
	MJ Plaster	1999-2002, USA, World Wide Winnovations, Inc
	Josef Becker	1999-2000, Germany, HelpMaster (died 2006-04-29)
	David Liske	1999-2006, USA, HTMLHelp Center
2000     Oct 2000: MVP queen bee Jannie Clark announces the charter members are now all officially Microsoft Help MVPs.
	Yuko Ishida	2000-2010, Japan, KeiYu HelpLab
2002 - Help 2
	Bill Burns	2002-2008, USA, www.verbumcomm.com
	Char James-Tanny	2002-****, USA, www.HelpStuff.com
	Dana Worley	2002-****, USA, www.campbellsci.com
	Rick Stone	2002-2011, USA, Adobe Community Expert
	Rob Cavicchio	2002-2007, USA
2003
	Pete Lees	2003-2006, UK
2007
	Frank Palinkas	Feb 2007-2008, Oslo Norway, frank.helpware.net
	Ulrich Kulle	Oct 2007-2009, Germany, www.help-info.de

 

	Bill Burns (2002-2008)  USA  > www.verbumcomm.com    > Linkedin | Facebook
	Bill Meisheid (1995-2001)  USA  > Sageline Publishing    > Linkedin | Facebook
	Char James-Tanny (2002-Current MVP)  USA  > Help Stuff | Blog  > HAT-Matrix.com  > Linkedin | Facebook
	Cheri Lockett Zubak (1997-2005)  USA  > www.workwrite.comhttp://www.workwrite.com/  > Linkedin | Facebook
	Dana Cline (1997-2005)  USA  > LogicSmith  Dana later became a Media Center MVP.
	Dana Worley (2002-Current MVP)  USA  > www.campbellsci.com  > Linkedin | Facebook
	David Liske (1999-2006)  USA  > Help Technologies
	Frank Palinkas (2007-Dec 2008)  An American working in Oslo, Norway  > frank.helpware.net  > Linkedin | Facebook
	Mary Deaton (1997-2000)  USA  > MMDeaton.com
	Paul Neshamkin (1999-Current MVP)  USA  > Paul Neshamkin Group  > Linkedin | Facebook
	Paul O'Rear (MVP 1999-2002) (MS Tech Lead)  USA  > Helpfulsolutions.com  > LinkEdin | Facebook  Paul joined MS in 2002 and eventually became  the new Help MVP Lead.
	Peter Plamondon (Original MS Lead)  USA  > LinkEdin | Facebook  Peter formed the first Help MVP group in 1997.  With MS for 10 years (Nov.94-July2004) and  now working for HP.
	Rob Cavicchio (2002-2007)   USA  > Linkedin | Facebook
	Rob Chandler (1999-Current MVP)  Australia  Author of FAR HTML Software.  > The Helpware Group | Blog  > Linkedin | Facebook
	Rick Stone (2002-2011)  USA  > Adobe Community Expert  > Linkedin | Facebook
	Scott Boggan (1997-2006)  USA  > HelpCraft
	Stefan Olson (1995-2001)  New Zealand  > OlsonSoft  > Linkedin | FaceBook
	Ulrich Kulle (2007-2009)  Germany  > www.help-info.de | Blog  > Linkedin | Facebook
	Yuko Ishida (2000-2010)  Japan  > KeiYu HelpLab