Unofficial Spiceworks

As you may have seen or will see soon the latest community email shows off how close they are getting to 1 million SpiceHeads.

In just over four years Spiceworks has gained so much momentum that we’re nearing 1 million users!

Will you help us reach 1 million SpiceHeads even faster? Join the Spread Spiceworks group, chock-full of tools you can use to let IT pros everywhere know that Spiceworks is your place for “everything IT.”

The bonus? You’ll get a cool badge for your profile (not to mention some pretty good IT karma!).

They have also revamped the Spread Spiceworks group to help you spread the word by emailing others, showing banners and well being Social

Can’t wait till they finally hit the target.

Spiceworks have recently released a new plugin Sponsored by EMC it is designed to allow you to:

See how much drive space is in use on any given drive, and the past usage history.  Project your backup needs based on backup schedule and projected drive usage.

Having just installed it on my Spiceworks install it looks promising, showing you how much backup Space you need for 12 months. You pick how many full and incremental backups and also the size of the data increase. If you are finding it hard to work out how much space you are using make sure you check it out.

Get the plugin now

So one weekend I enter the Spiceworks “Show the world your Spiceness” contest with some standard things to start with. Just bits and bobs I found around the office like a moose head and a random set of oversized batteries.

After a while I ran out of ideas and wanted to come up with something new and exciting, I started to think back about things I had done and seen before as well as doing a Google of bits and bobs.

Getting creative

I got creative and along came the SpiceVan failing to get peoples avatars into the windows of the bus I just stuck some logos on it.

Not very exciting, and well not as good as I hoped I tried something else.

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Make sure you enter before its too late

The winners of Most Familiar & Most Original will each receive a Flip Camera. The GRAND PRIZE winner will receive FREE admission to SpiceWorld, the ultimate IT event of the year!

So today I celebrate my Spiceversity, it is official I have been a member of the community and using Spiceworks for two years.

So here are my entries

Make sure you enter before its too late!

Click here to see the entries so far and add yours

Good news! Spiceworks have finally finalized the SpiceCorps logo. This is aimed to help you promote your local SpiceCorps event easier as well as using it to help point people to the right place in banners or signs.

After many hours of revision, they have come up with something simple with a Spiceworks- twist. Check out the screenshots below!

The new logo appears on the SpiceCorps Group page and soon in the how to start a SpiceCorps documentation.

I will also be have also robbing it shortly it for the Unofficial Spiceworks SpiceCorps Twitter (unless Spiceworks don’t want me to)

So I though I would share some cool Spiceworks Community news with you, none of this has a release date yet but from what I have heard it could be before the end off the month.

• Product Comparison Feature – A while ago Martin9700 wrote a product comparison guide on virtualization this was great but the plan was to make it editable so that over time people would be able to add to it and make it better and more accurate. With one of the upcoming community updates we are going to see this come to life. You will be able to update product comparison guides by adding product information as well as new things to compare. This will hopefully provide a huge database unbiased product comparisons to help you pick the right one, only people over a set SpiceLevel will be able to update them stopping people signing up just to promote there products.
• In Community Toolbar – Like your Spiceworks application the community will have a Toolbar along the bottom. This will provide you information like new PM’s, community activity, quick links and maybe in the future allow you to add favourite pages to pop back to.
• Possible “fluid layout” – Now this hasn’t been confirmed or denied yet but with the deployment of fluid layout / widescreen by default in Spiceworks and the new toolbar it appears it could be rolled out to the community as well to provide you more space to work with.
• Chat – The IRC chat has been a great hit with lots of “off topic” talk and is a great laugh, Nic the community manager is still collecting the stats and working out if this will be a permanent feature on the community and how it will be managed, make sure you leave your feedback.

As always Unofficial Spiceworks will keep you in the loop with what happens and any more news as we get it.

Today we see the opening off SpiceworksLounge.com which is a new website for Hebrew speaking Spiceworks user. Over time its creator the great Yasaf Burshan with the help of members provide FAQs, best practice tips and pointers for many common common problems in user’s native tongue.

Yasaf has so far done a great job in getting the first localised Spiceworks website up and running with some useful information, blog posts and more.

I would like to thank Yasaf for producing such a great looking website and wish him all the best.

Checkout the website at http://spiceworkslounge.com/

or check it out in English thanks to Google translate