Unofficial Spiceworks

So you joined the best community of the best network management software around? Now what?

The up coming posts (unsure of how many yet) will guide you though the different things you can do within the community.

From Ratings and reviews to the best practices from IT pro’s like you. Then right back to simple questions about installing windows to complex ones about creating multiple VLAN networks with Cisco gear.

The community will provide you with all the tools you need to make your job easier. All of this for free…

Over the up coming day’s well be going though bit by bit the different things within the Spiceworks community.

• Ratings and Reviews
• SpiceLists
• Whitepapers
• Asking and Answering Questions
• How-to’s
• Discussions Groups
• Spreading Spiceworks
• Water Cooler
• Jobs and Careers
• IT Calendar
• Shared Reports
• IT News
• Plugins
• Badges

Coming tomorrow, Part 2 – Ratings and reviews

Spiceworks not only helps in the IT world but is also helping with cancer…

Spiceworks Planet Cancer was setup to support

From Planet Cancer

Welcome to the Planet Cancer Group aka “The Pink Flamingo Party” Group. The Pink Flamingo Party — aka Flamingo-a-Go-Go — is the annual fundraiser for Planet Cancer, a worldwide organization supporting young adults with cancer, and based right here in Austin Texas. Spiceworks is a big supporter of this charity. Why? Well, it has lot in common with Spiceworks… Read More »

With a couple of the Spiceworks team being affected by Cancer it seemed fitting to the whole team to support Flamingo-a-go-go.

If you donate to Planet Cancer you’ll get a pink flamingo badge for your profile.

It occurred to me while thinking what could I blog about next that I havn’t looked at or thought about Spiceworks TV in ages, after doing a quick google search i managed to find it.

Spiceworks TV is designed to have a bit of a laugh with IT Comedy but also to prove IT pros with helpful videos on Spiceworks, product reviews and the webinars they have held.

If you missed stuff from Spiceworld 2008 or 2009 pop over and catch up, its quick and easy to watch the videos you want to, like Spiceworks, Spiceworks TV is free to use.

If you want to see more videos of Spiceworks or have an idea for IT comedy pop over to the Spiceworks IT community and post away. One of the Spiceworks IT community team will find and pickup your idea and if possible action it.

Got a minute? Pop along to Spiceworks TV now

michaelellerbeck.com has written a review on Spiceworks check it out:

http://michaelellerbeck.com/2008/08/04/network-monitoring-zenoss-spiceworks-nagios-hyperic/#comment-714

If you love and use Spiceworks why not help people people find out about it?

Help spread the love of Spiceworks with your fellow IT members.

Why not:

• Email A IT pro about Spiceworks – Email other IT professionals so they can find out about and start to use Spiceworks, if its made your life easier its sure to make theirs?
• Review or blog about it – Review or Blog about Spiceworks and help spread the word, the more people who use Spiceworks the better it becomes.
• Sport some logos – Download logos and images to put on your website. The more links we get the better google ranks Spiceworks
• Or just wear it – Buy a Spiceworks T-shirt and wear it when you go out.

Pop along now to the official Spread Spiceworks site or the unofficial one and help spread those peppers

Why not join in the fun and games over at the Spiceworks community water cooler.

With topics from Bad drivers to your first IT horror story, their is something to entertain everyone no matter what area of IT you work in.

What type of Car do you drive? – Find out what type of car other Spice users drive

First IT Job Horror Stories – Find out if you had the worst IT job horror…

If your not already part of the Spiceworks community join in now. You’ll find everyone friendly and willing to help you with IT and Spiceworks problems

Join in now

For Spiceworks to realise their is now a unofficial blog floating around on the web?

I may have forgot to tell Spiceworks I was building this site to go inside with www.spread-spiceworks.org.uk once the blog is up and running their will be a lot more integration between the sites but for now they run separately this is mainly to help with SEO and making a presence.

The site went live yesterday and the countdown has started, only time will tell how long it takes and if they care or hunt me down and beat me with a large pepper. I decided I would wait and see how long it took for a bit of a laugh, im sure they’ll love the publicity…

This is the first blog I have ever made and that actually has content which i will be able to continue to produce. I have been using Spiceworks for around half of my IT carer so fair and don’t plan to stop. It is the best network management solution around with so many people in the community and so much you can do with it you really should give it ago if you haven’t already.

Ill let you know when I find out they know…