Unofficial Spiceworks

Not long till SpiceWorld

Not long till SpiceWorld, tonight the celebrations start with the Welcome Kick–off Party at Six Tap Room in Austin.

Hopefully will get to meet a load of you over there during the course of the event.

Also make sure if you can't make it follow the livestream at http://www.spiceworks.com/spiceworld/2011/

This post originally came from Andrew’s Google+ to make it easier to ensure updates are posted though-out the event. Make sure you look out for the full in-depth write-ups when they come out.

Well I (akp982) have make it to 500,000 points which is double the amount you need to reach pure capsaicin (250,000) which is currently the highest level within the Spiceworks community.

I orginally made it to pure in feb last year, Unofficial Spiceworks post, Official Spiceworks post. 5 months later Scott Alan Miller made it, Unofficial post, Official post.

It is believed that its still only me and Scott who have made it this far. Hopefully someone else wont be too far behind.

My current stats:

• Joined Mar 27, 2008
• 12,126 Contributions
• 450 Reviews
• 2,594 Best Answers
• 1,422 Helpful Posts
• 51 How-tos
• 5 Plugins
• 7 Reports
• 10 Scripts
• 673 Referrals

I set myself the goal of making it before Spiceworld 2011 and I have managed this with a week and 1 day to spare. I look forward to meeting a load of you over there and good luck with your point quests.

Spiceworks entered more into the social market with SpiceButtons  allowing SpiceHeads to SpiceUp webpages where ever they go. The team behind this new feature  have already got some big names to add the buttons including Eaton and untangle and well now Unofficial Spiceworks although I do need to tidy the buttons up a little but that’s another nights job.

At the moment there is one style of button but it sounds like there may be more styles if successful, would like to see the amount of spices displayed, well see what happens. I’m also not 100% sure how often the shared links section of the community are viewed but this will probably grow as the new feature grows.

Follow Button

Wanna make sure IT pros to engage with you, where they work, when they’re working?

This is a simple button which works as a link and sends visitors off to a vendor page on the community, when on the page SpiceHeads can then follow the vendor to get updates. Hopefully this will drive some new smaller vendors into the community in which actively participate in the forums and engage IT Pro’s like me where and how we want to be engaged not with cold calls. It will be exciting to see how well this works and if it brings on more vendors.

SpiceButton

Content is King! Especially when it’s easy for IT pros to Spice Up IT content in the Spiceworks community.

This is more interesting upon clicking the Spice button SpiceHeads get a pop up which they can enter comments about the site and publish it onto the community for other users to see and comments on. If this works and becomes a success (and I hope it does) it will be a really useful tool for IT pro’s to keep tracks of websites / links that other IT Pro’s feel are important and worth sharing. Overtime I do expect to see a re-haul of the shared links section but I can’t confirm this, would seem sensible.

We’ll keep tabs on how well this works. For now make sure you goto the new developers site and give it ago. Also make sure you Spice Up this site

Spice IT

ALSO 14 days till SpiceWorld 2011!!!! See you there!