2013 was certainly a massive year both personally, professionally and in the world of Project. With the Project & SharePoint Conferences just around the corner, I am sure 2014 is shaping up to be bigger! To all my readers, thank you for your support in 2013 and I wish you a happy and prosperous 2014 (and a few more blog posts).

This past year has been massive for epmsource.com, with record numbers of readers and traffic. Next year looks to become an even bigger year with the release of Project, SharePoint and Project Server 2013. To get ready for this, I am taking a blogging holiday for a couple of weeks to spend some time with my family and will be back in late January. To all of our readers, thank you for your continued support and happy holidays.

One of the many exciting additions to Office 2013 was the introduction of apps, through these apps it is possible to add, extend and enhance the functionality available to users, for example you could have an app to help track election results, add Facebook social to your sites or build workflows. The apps themselves are available for a number of the desktop clients, as well as SharePoint 2013 and Project Server 2013.

A couple of weeks ago I traded in my iPhone for a new Mango based Windows Phone 7. For those of you that haven’t tried WP7, I would strongly suggest you do. In addition to being able to view your favourite EPM software through the mobile browser, the whole platform and experience seems vastly superior to the Apple offering. Whilst the WP7 marketplace has a wide variety of application that is growing on a daily basis, it is a little light on Project related applications.

This morning I was once again lucky enough to receive confirmation that I had been re-awarded as an MVP for Project. I am still humbled by the whole experience and would like to continue to thank the readers of this blog, the community and Microsoft for your support and recognition.   

Today I was lucky enough to receive the 2010 MVP award for Project from Microsoft. For those of you that are unaware, Microsoft definition of an MVP is as follows: MVPs make exceptional contributions to technical communities, sharing their passion, knowledge, and know-how. Meanwhile, because MVPs hear the opinions and needs of many others in the technical community, they are well-placed to share highly focused feedback with Microsoft. MVPs are independent experts who are offered a close connection with people at Microsoft.