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🌀 Step 5 (Optional): Microsoft MVP / Regional Director employee verification

If you are a Microsoft MVP or RD you can get a label on your profile by

1️⃣ Updating your MVP/RD profile to include your Bluesky profile link as a social media address

2️⃣ Entering your MVP/RD profile and clicking Verify

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Pick the technology areas that you post about.

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Use the Support link on the left nav to request adding new topics ➕ other feedback

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💡 TIP

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→ Switch back to bluesky.ms

→ Paste the password

→ Click Connect Bluesky Profile

Click the small icon on the right to copy the password that was created.

✅ Type in blueskyms as the name of the password

✅ Don't check 'Allow access to your direct messages'

✅ Click 'Next'

→ Click the 'Add App Password' button to add a new password.

🌀Step 3: Connect Bluesky Profile

This step checks that you are the owner of the Bluesky profile that you are registering.

Fill in your Bluesky username or email address

🔺 The password you enter here is NOT your Bluesky password. It's a temporary app password that you can generate in Bluesky.

🌀Step 2: Connect & Verify

Once you are signed, in select the

→ Connect & Verify

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💡 TIP

Use a personal email address so you can continue to sign into the site even if you no longer work for your current employer.

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🌀 Step 1: Register

→ Browse to Bluesky.ms
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✅ Starter kits
✅ Feeds

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🧵👇 Read on for the full guide.