The 2010 Shout-Out Awards

[#1]

Product Expert of the Year

Which associate demonstrated an outstanding level of expertise in 2009?

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»  Reply to this post with the username of the person you are nominating and a brief (couple of sentences) explanation of why you think they are deserving of the Shout-Out Award.

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[#2]

Guess I can't nominate Dave again this year.

My nomination here goes to roparadi. He's the associate I see most consistently, helping with the most problems, often beating me to the punch! He's a knowledgable guy, and he gets my vote.

[#3]

I have to agree here Robert (roparadi) Has made such a huge impact on the forums, he makes it hard for his Fellow Online Support memebers to get a Post. Hes always just snagging them up and providing Awesome Ideas and Posts.

Go roparadi !

[#4]

I would like to nominate  Tanarus.

He's one of the few (if not the only) Product Expert who joined when this community was first created who are still with us today. He's been replying to users' questions with great care in 2007 and 2008. 2009 wasn't different, he still took some of his precious personal time to help as many people as he humanly could.

If anything, he's like the Energizer Bunny, he keeps going and going and going and...

[#5]

*post deleted, my mistake "

[#6]

Chris, I'm very touched by your vote of confidence but "Product Expert" is only for:

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Laura wrote:

Product Expert of the Year

Which associate demonstrated an outstanding level of expertise in 2009?

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As you probably know, I'm not working for FS.

Still, you could probably nominate me for the same thing if you find an appropriate category for it.

[#7]

Then I recant my nomination. 

Future Shop could use some outstanding experts like you on their team!

[#8]

I nominate roparadi for Product Expert of the Year. I always see him jumping in first to answer questions and always being able to guide people in the right direction on a wide variety of different topics.

JB

[#9]

I'm in full agreement with the others, but there are definitely other very deserving FS employees on here who maybe don't provide as much tech support as the ConnectPro team does but do a variety of other things.  Many of them are very active in the Communications and iPods boards.  There was also one FS employee that took things to a different level.

As the product buyer over in the Movie department, Ian filled a special niche by keeping people informed about upcoming movies and taking a lot of feedback regarding steelbooks.  He actually did a lot to get the Movie boards up and running as up until last year, they had been quite slow.  I think everyone who frequents the Movie boards is sad he'll no longer be around there this year as he's now the buyer for Home office (yeah for us!).  That says a lot about the quality of info he was able to provide and the impact he had on a small but important section of the forums.

Again though, any of these nominees (or others as may be named) would be very deserving!

[#10]

I'll nominate ryanwong for his great new game reviews, announcements, chatter on the blogs as well as helping out in the gaming section.