{"id":56,"date":"2014-06-03T18:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vdssystems.wordpress.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2016-10-26T12:43:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-26T12:43:06","slug":"vexpert-2014-paths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vdssystems.be\/en\/2014\/06\/vexpert-2014-paths\/","title":{"rendered":"vExpert 2014 paths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vdssystems.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/vmw_logo_vmware-expert.gif\"><img class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-31\" src=\"http:\/\/vdssystems.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/07\/vmw_logo_vmware-expert.gif?w=150\" alt=\"vmw_logo_vmware-expert\" width=\"150\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Evangelist Path<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Evangelist Path includes book authors, bloggers, tool builders, public speakers, VMTN contributors, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others with the leverage of a personal public platform to reach many people. Employees of VMware can also apply via the Evangelist path. A VMware employee reference is recommended if your activities weren\u2019t all in public or were in a language other than English.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Customer Path<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Customer Path is for leaders from VMware customer organizations. They have been internal champions in their organizations, or worked with VMware to build success stories, act as customer references, given public interviews, spoken at conferences, or were VMUG leaders. A VMware employee reference is recommended if your activities weren\u2019t all in public.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VPN (VMware Partner Network) Path<\/strong><br \/>\nThe VPN Path is for employees of our partner companies who lead with passion and by example, who are committed to continuous learning through accreditations and certifications and to making their technical knowledge and expertise available to many. This can take shape of event participation, video, IP generation, as well as public speaking engagements. A VMware employee reference is required for VPN Path candidates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Apply for vExpert 2014<\/strong><br \/>\nCurrent 2013 vExperts use the 2014 vExpert Fast Track application:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ikZ8hi\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1ikZ8hi<\/a><br \/>\n2014 vExpert application:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/LMJqB5\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/LMJqB5<\/a><br \/>\nRecommend a colleague to apply for 2014 vExpert:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1bobFfF\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1bobFfF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/vmtn\/2014\/02\/vexpert-2014-applications-open.html\">http:\/\/blogs.vmware.com\/vmtn\/2014\/02\/vexpert-2014-applications-open.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evangelist Path The Evangelist Path includes book authors, bloggers, tool builders, public speakers, VMTN contributors, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others with the leverage of a personal public platform to reach many people. Employees of VMware can also apply via the Evangelist path. A VMware employee reference is recommended if your activities weren\u2019t all in public or were in a language other than English. Customer Path The Customer Path is for leaders from VMware customer organizations. They have been internal champions in their organizations, or worked with VMware to build success stories, act as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>vExpert 2014 paths - Vds Systems<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vdssystems.be\/en\/2014\/06\/vexpert-2014-paths\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"vExpert 2014 paths - Vds Systems\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Evangelist Path The Evangelist Path includes book authors, bloggers, tool builders, public speakers, VMTN contributors, and other IT professionals who share their knowledge and passion with others with the leverage of a personal public platform to reach many people. 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