Showcasing Your Community Participation with Community Badges

We are excited to announce the introduction of Office 365 Community badges! If you’re paying attention, you may have already seen some badges starting to appear. Badges will display on your profile and on the community side bar under “Your Badges”. You can find badges displayed for other community users by viewing profiles and hovering over usernames.

Badges are a great way to see who’s who in our community, and they will change over time as community roles and participation levels change.

We’ll be introducing additional badges in the next few months.

	Awarded to community participants who posted the most verified answers to forum questions in the past six months.
	Awarded to community participants who started the most forum discussions in the past six months.
	Awarded to community participants with the most forum posts marked helpful in the past six months.
	Current members of The Grid will display this badge. The Grid is a community of top-notch IT pros and other experts who share their considerable knowledge about technology and Office 365.
	Those who have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional Award will display this badge. MVPs are independent experts with a close connection with people at Microsoft. They can often answer your most challenging questions.
	Those who have been recognized with the Microsoft Community Contributor badge. MCCs freely volunteer their time and energy to help improve the Microsoft online technical community experience for others.
	Microsoft employees or vendor employees participating in the community have a badge that says Microsoft. They may have community specific responsibilities, or they may be employees with particular knowledge and interest who choose to participate in the Office 365 community.
	Microsoft Support are Engineers who are engaged by Microsoft to moderate in the community and help answer your questions.