Welcome back to another How to Become an MVP every Monday coming to you via
YouTube. So this week I want to talk
about how you could find ideas for
creating contributions. If you've
looked at the series of video which
you'll find in the YouTube playlist
you'll see that I've touched on some of
these ideas before but I've had more
questions so I want to go deeper on this
where do I come up with ideas. At the
end of the day I feel that in your
journey on how to become an MVP, it is
actually around finding contributions
from what you're learning. In other
words it's an extension of learning.
Creating contribution is an extension
of learning and if you ever find that
you're jumping into a search engine and
you're searching around trying to
find help on a specific feature maybe
it's on how a list of component is
displayed, maybe it's on how the gallery
is laid out on canvas at, maybe it's on
a unique formula for a Flow and you're
searching and searching and you can't
find the answer. So what you do is
you sit about you work it out and
finally, you come up with a workable
solution. You've learned something great
and that's an opportunity to share with
other people in the community what
you've learned. You will find in your day
to day life as you work on projects as
you engage in building out applications,
in modifying and creating Flows,
creating business processes, creating
unique solutions that you will be
learning and that learning is an
opportunity to create content and give
it back to the community. It's empowering
others. Many times I have found I am running
into a problem, I go on search for it and
I find my own blog post written on it in
the past. In the businesses I've worked in where blogging was a key feature of
those businesses, many many times other
staff members had blogged on a specific
thing that another staff member was
looking for. If that content is not
published it's not
available or made available publicly
we don't all collectively learn together.
So anytime you search for something,
that search phrase is an idea for a post, a
video, a blog post, a podcast. There are
ideas everywhere once you sit out and
stop looking for them. So think about
this every time you Learn - Share. Every time you learn - ask yourself - "Is this a
user group presentation that I could do?"
"Is this a blog post I could write?" "Are
there questions or do they find
unanswered questions in the forum's that
these addresses?" "Is this an opportunity
for me to create a how-to video that
enables everybody else?" There are
opportunities everywhere. The next thing
is you are unique. No matter what
language you speak, no matter what part
of the world you come from, or your
upbringing, your view of the world has a
specific context that is unique to you.
So don't think that your uniqueness
stops you from creating content and
sharing the information you have. Don't
worry about whether English is your
second language. Do what you can. We're in
a very supportive community that embraces and want to see everybody
be successful. So don't let
english as a second language be a
blocker to your creating content. Do the
very best you can. As I've said
before use tools like Grammarly,
Spellchecker etc if you want to kind of
polish it up. Maybe have a friend, have
a fresh set of eyes across it before you
publish could be a great idea. The last
thing I want to say is you work in
specific industries. You might be in
healthcare, you might be in education or
manufacturing, you might work in call
centres or you might work for any
airline. All of us come from different
industries and have different
perspectives and when you share content
specific to an industry, you are going to help others globally in that industry. So if
you're working with Dynamics 365 Field
Service
and you're working in a specific
industry might be building maintenance
as an example and you develop solutions or come up with ideas or think about
things that you haven't been able to
find before specific industry - be
targeted. You can share that content in the context of that industry.
So no matter what industry, putting your
lens, your view on it from that industry
viewpoint can be massively helpful to
the community. I hope you found that
helpful. Other ways of finding areas of
contributions really an extension of
learning is sharing so that we can all
grow and learn together around this
incredible technology - Microsoft
Business Applications. If you found this
video helpful please like it, please
share it. If you know other
people that want to become MVPs share
this video with them. If you have
comments or you want to message me
privately and ask questions about how to
become an MVP and I think other people
would benefit from it, I'm happy to make
a video. If you want to be mentioned
in that video as somebody that asked a question,
I'm happy to do that
and give you a shout out. I hope you find
this video helpful
this Monday. Remember, I'll be back next Monday
with another one. Ciao for now.
