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Dynamics Profile: New Microsoft MVP finds balance in leadership, community support

by Linda Rosencrance
Contributing Writer, MSDW
Nick Doelman

When Nick Doelman received an email alerting him to the fact that he had received the Microsoft MVP award for his work with Dynamics CRM, he reacted a little differently than most others in the same situation - he thought it was a joke.

The reason: he received the notification on April Fools' Day.

"Because it was Saturday morning and it was also April Fools' Day, at first I thought it was a joke that one of my friends or one of my colleagues was playing on me," Doelman says. "It took a minute to kind of sink in that it was actually legit. Then I was pretty happy."

A boost of confidence

Doelman, the manager of CRM solution development at BDO IT Solutions in Canada, nominated himself for the award last summer. After he filed the necessary paperwork, a Microsoft employee from the Mississauga, Ontario office contacted him.

"He was really helpful in guiding me through the process, telling me what I needed to do to be considered," he says. "I kept him updated and finally, a few weeks ago, we realized I had quite a bit of content. We said, ‘OK, let's see what happens.'"

However, Doelman admits that initially he was probably a little overconfident about his chances of being named a Microsoft MVP.

"I had done a few blog articles and I'd done a few presentations and I was fairly active on the forums and the CRMUG sites," he says. "I've been working with CRM since Version 1 and I thought ...

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About Linda Rosencrance

Linda Rosencrance is a freelance writer/editor in the Boston area. Rosencrance has over 25 years experience as an reporter/investigative reporter, writing for many newspapers in the metropolitan Boston area. Rosencrance has been writing about information technology for the past 16 years.

She has covered a variety of IT subjects, including Microsoft Dynamics, mobile security issues such as data loss prevention, network management, secure mobile app development, privacy, cloud computing, BI, big data, analytics, HR, CRM, ERP, and enterprise IT.

Rosencrance is the author of six true crime books for Kensington Publishing Corp.