Unofficial Spiceworks

A bit of old news but some how I missed them out of a much deserved post.

All the levels are based on the Scoville scale in which measures how Spicy a pepper is. The scale ranges from Pimiento to Capsaicin which is as spicy as it gets!

Start getting your SpiceLevel up today by posting in the community or reviewing IT related products.

I currently have 38,492 points which makes me a (at the time of posting only 6,508 points till Habanero)

You can now follow SpiceworksNews and the travels of me (akp982) on twitter @SpiceworksNews as and when I see something on the community website which you will want to know ill twitter it

Jay (Co-founder & VP Marketing of Spiceworks) is planning on doing a bit of travelling over the next few months. He’s planning on meeting up with press, bloggers and business partners about the Spiceworks 4.0 launch happening very soon.

He’s also going to give up some off his time to meet with us the users to chat about Spiceworks, 4.0, and well anything IT…

Join Jay and other SpiceHeads for a pint or two, the dates so far are:

10 June – New York City

15 June – London (Ill be there)

16 June – Amsterdam

17 June – Munich

Did you know you can use the Status updates in Spiceworks to update your twitter page?

When you connect your Twitter account to Spiceworks, you will be able to have your Spiceworks Community status updates posted directly to your Twitter account.

Its quick and easy to setup, login to the Spiceworks community, go to my profile, edit profile, status updates.

Another great feature for IT pro’s around the world to use

Spiceworks 4.0 is set to be out of beta soon… Get ready for it… Its going to be big… Its going to be free… Its Spiceworks 4.0

Checkout the beta and sit tight

Spiceworks have just added two new features and update the community interface to look like and work with Spiceworks 4.0 better.

• Helpful Posts: ChristopherO made a suggestion in the feature request section for helpful posts, it was hard to work out what post to pick as the best answer in some cases so now you can mark up to two helpful posts. All helpful posts get 25 points added to their SpiceLevel.
• IT Service Provider Directory: In Spiceworks you can add your IT Service providers now with Spiceworks you can “Find the expert help needed for your IT projects”. You can now add your companies profile into the Spiceworks community and let 1000’s of SpiceHeads find your company, the great team at Spiceworks HQ have also built in SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) to help get you listed on Google as well!!!
• Subscription Center: You can now quickly opt-in and out of community emails with the new subscription center  or pick to receive no emails (great if your going on holiday)
• The biggest one: If you log into the community the first thing that will hit you is the new UI look. With the 4.0 release coming soon the community has been updated to the new look, its clean, its smart, its still FREE!

Spiceworks have done it again, great new features, for free.

Want to join in with the best IT community? Then download Spiceworks

Thanks Simul4ti0n for posting about Spiceworks.

Hey, for anyone with a small business or larger home network I found this awesome software called Spiceworks. It’s flippin’ sweet! We started using it at work (we have roughly 250-300 devices on our network) and it’s gathering all kinds of data to help us manage it. It grabs all software installed on PC’s with serials and even tells you if you’re compliant or not (if you enter how many licenses you own). The best part, it’s FREE! It also has easy help desk services.

http://forum.xcpus.com/software/17032-spiceworks.html

ms23blog.com had just used the standard Spiceworks post and on the 13th have now revisited Spiceworks, they now talk about how they feel. 

As you noticed, a wrote a post the other day about Spiceworks.  Funny thing was, that post was not mine.  That was a premade post I got from Spiceworks themselves.  I used it as a filler, something to get my first post up and see how this blogging software worked.  I wanted to follow up with another post directly from me telling you exactly what I thought I Spiceworks. Read more

The post speaks a lot of truth about how some people feel about Spiceworks.

I have been using Spiceworks for some time now.  There have been some good, and some bad, just like any software.  Overall they are headed in the right direction.  I originally started using the software for inventory.  When I got started using it, I found the helpdesk feature very useful, so I implemented that for my users.  I started using the inventory less and less because of the duplicates and speed issues. Before long the only thing I was really using it for was helpdesk.  After about a year of pushing the helpdesk on my users, I finally gave up.  I finally came to the belief that pushing the users to do something they don’t want to only makes things worse.  I could not get them to see the benefits of using a helpdesk, and since we are “small” and I am the only IT person, I decided to go back to phone calls and email.  No harm done, the users are much happier and I am doing my job just the same.  Read more

Give Spiceworks a try yourself, you may feel the same as Matthew or find it helps you. What harm could come.

If you are already using Spiceworks what do you think about his comments? Personally I agree with the fact I started using it for a inventory then used the helpdesk and now most of my time on Spiceworks is spent on the Helpdesk and the inventory just ticks away in the background. Sometimes making duplicates or throwing errors in which I read when I can.

Spiceworks 4.0 will really help with a lot of these issue and the problem off Speed.