Unofficial Spiceworks

Jenn (Unitrends) just announced the cool Unitrends website to show off all the adverts the community has made

What started off as a conversation about a funny looking ad has evolved into a contest to see who can do better. The creator of the winning ad will receive a $50 Visa gift card, a Unitrends swag bag, and their ad will run on Spiceworks!

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Good luck to all the contestants, you can checkout the entries on the community here
or on the unitrends ad contest page here

With Spiceworks 5.0 still in beta it may surprise you to hear that some reports and plugins are already being produced and shared for it.

Lawrie Dalman (Lawrie5252) (checkout his blog posts) is one of the first to start making reports. Aimed at the MSP market it allows you to see what you have purchased for your customers within the last 30 days. A very useful report to track what you have sold to who.

Purchases by Customer for 30 days (Spiceworks 5.0 Beta 3 and later)
Our first offering of a report written for Spiceworks 5.0 (Note: this report relies on tables and fields only available from version 5.0 and higher).

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So pop on over to the reports section of the community and download it now.

Yesterday Nic announced the “Finalists in the SpiceRex ad contest”

Thank you again to everyone who took the time to create an entry! After serious deliberation by the selection committee, we have the finalists selected. Once our designers have had a chance to do some minor post-production work on the ads, we’ll run them live on sites that we advertise on. The ad that works the best in each category will be the winner.

The five finalists in the graphical ad category are:

• James3977
• Striker090871
• Don Whitehead
• EDB
• akp982

In the text ad category:

• Jaguar
• Bart894
• Lawrie5252
• EDB

Checkout the finalists and more info on the community

Jen has just announced Spiceworks SpiceRex advert making contest

Geico has a gecko.
Pets.com has a sock puppet.
Aflac has a duck.
…and Spiceworks has SpiceRex – a friendly-yet-fierce orange T-Rex! Who we’re hoping you will help become as recognized and well loved as the famous mascots listed above! See below for how….

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The challenge is to build a advert in which features SpiceRex promoting Spiceworks

WHAT WILL I WIN?
Top 5 Finalists (in each category):

• A cool, limited edition SpiceRex t-shirt (commemorating 1 million users)

Grand Prize Winners (in each category):

• 1-foot custom created cut-out of SpiceRex (he’ll stand on your desk!)
• SpiceWorks Ultimate Swag Bag (which will include a SpiceRex t-shirt!)
• Bragging rights as creator of Spiceworks first ever crowd-sourced ad– to be run on a variety of IT websites

Checkout the full details of the contest, enter and checkout mine on the community “Contest: Create An Ad. Win a SpiceRex Tshirt!”

Yesterday SpiceHead Scott Alan Miller reached Pure Capsaicin the highest Spiceworks SpiceLevel, he is the second person to ever make it after akp982 earlier this year.

Well done Scott on a great achievement, it is well deserved you are a great asset to the community.

Scott managed to get there with a mixture of gaining points in the community:

As well as running 4 SpiceCorps throughout the US.

Congratulations again Scott, enjoy your new black SpiceLevel.

Checkout other peoples comments on the community Congratulations to Scott Alan Miller for reaching Pure Capsaicin!

On Monday SpiceRex made it to Alamo City to meet Slava so fair he seems to be having a great time having a had a look around Slava’s office and then going for a River walk.

Checkout the other pictures of SpiceRex in Alamo City on the Spiceworks Community here

But we also have some more exciting news, Billdozer came up with a great idea

I am thinking that we who are on the list to host Rex besides transporting everyone’s favourite mascot should include a present for the next host. Nothing major but a little something extra from your desk as a token of friendship in our great IT world.

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Which has been another hit and Slava will start it off and hopefully everyone will continue on sending little gifts onto the next person.

Tonight Spiceworks will be carrying out a community update, this month’s is full of great new features:

• Classification of Software Reviews – The first new feature is designed to allow SpiceHeads to categorize the software reviews by software type. This is aimed to help people find the right solution for them as well as related software packages they maybe interested in checking out.
• Mobile View – This has been a long awaited feature for some people, with more and more smart phone devices being used to checkout the community Spiceworks have added a mobile view. The community will automatically detect if you are using a mobile device and display a simplified view to allow you to read and reply to topics. This feature will be released as beta while they fine tune it to ensure it works on as many mobile devices as possible so if you have a problem let them know.
• New User Permissions – As the community is growing some people have spotted a increase in junk posts, scripts and how-to’s. After the release tonight Pimientos will be restricted to asking only 2 questions, and restricted from sharing how-tos, scripts, and reviews.
• Advanced Search Options – You will now be able to search the community based on date using the new advanced search options link.
• Unanswered Questions on What’s New in the Community sidebar – As well as the recent, popular and news tabs in the “What’s New in the Community” box in the sidebar of the community we will also have a unanswered questions one to help you quickly help your fellow IT pro’s.
• Improvements to Group Admin Weekly Update email – Some more information as been added to the group admin’s weekly update emails to help you manage your group better.
• Upload SpiceCorps meeting notes as attachments – You will now be able to upload your meeting notes as a document rather than coping and pasting.
• Speed up subscription & verification emails – The priority for subscription and verification emails has been raised so they go out before the digests. Finally this looks like it might get fixed, some people have been having this problem for a good few months now.
• And as always plenty of bug fixes.

The full official notes will be released onto the community news section soon.

The update will happen at 00:00 tonight for people in the UK (GMT) or 7:00pm CDT. Convert it into your time zone.

Update: The notes are out see them here

SpiceRex has finally made it to Cole1436 (Cole Lakes) in Montana. His stay in Montana will be followed by another visit to Spiceworks HQ when Cole takes up his new job as Software Support Engineer. After a flying visit to the Spiceworks HQ he will be off again in his little brown box to San Antonio with Slava.

Does make you wonder what customs think when they see a box labelled “Paper Dinosaur”

Checkout all the photos and comments on the community here. For all the latest SpiceRex news checkout the SpiceRex community group.