I happened to meet an a guy who was an MVP in SharePoint, naturally that made me to get to know more on the MVP program and its benefits. During the talk, he was mentioning about his acquaintance who is a Microsoft Regional Director. Initially I was under that impression that the person he was referring to is an Microsoft employee, but later only I did realize the fact that 'Microsoft Regional Director' is a title awarded by Microsoft for those, whose contributions had inspired and had made a positive impact on the technical community at large through delivering speeches and presentations at major events like PDC, TechED, MIX etc. The crux with 'Microsoft Regional Directors' is that, they are the champions of Microsoft technologies and above the MVP's.
I think you must have heard about this guy 'Scott Hanselman'. He is a popular figure in Microsoft community programmes, who was conferred with Microsoft Regional Director status.
While searching on this elite Microsoft programme, I came to stumble upon some links that sheds some light on 'Microsoft Regional Director' (RD) programme, here are they.
Who are the Microsoft Regional Directors? - By "J Michael Palermo"
Microsoft Regional Directors site. Here in this site, RD's from all around the world are listed by their names. I came to see that N.America happened to be region with the most number of RD's. Here's some more titles which you might see occasionally with professionals evangelizing Microsoft products\services.
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