After several weeks of hard work from many competing authors, the SharePoint Magazine Aspiring Authors jury has reached its decision on the three finalist entries. Since then, we have gone through an accelerated editing process to get these finalist entries ready. Today, we’re making the finalists known along with their entries.

Now it is time for the community, meaning you, to decide which of these entries and authors deserves the grand prize.

The Entries

We have now posted each of the finalist entries as featured articles on SharePoint Magazine. The finalists are, in no particular order:

Mikael Svenson’s “Three Main Reasons Why You Should Upgrade to FAST for SharePoint”

Josh McCarty’s “Best Practices for SharePoint Groups”

Andrew Vevers’ “A Guide to Leaving Lotus Notes and Moving to Microsoft SharePoint”

Please read each of these entries and decide which author you think deserves to win.

How to Vote

The SharePoint community has always been great at utilizing social features. As such, we’ve decided to utilize a social feature, namely Facebook, to run the vote. It’s as simple as this:

At the top and bottom of each finalist article is a ‘Like this’ button. For the article, or articles, you think deserves to win, click that button to cast your vote. You can vote for either a single or for multiple articles, but we only count one vote per person per article.

At the end of June 3, 2011, Central European time zone, we count the number of Likes for each article, and the article that has most often been liked will be the winner.

Sounds like a plan? Good, then get to it and help decide which author most deserves the grand prize!