Unofficial Spiceworks

So this week has been a busy week for the Spiceworks team, they have cam all the way from Austin, Texas to London to join SpiceHeads for a SpiceCorps, 2 Unplugged events and lots of press releases so many infact that poor old Chief Spice (Scott) lost his voice by the end of day 1!

For those of you who don’t know the Spiceworks unplugged events are pretty much panels for IT Marketers to ask SMB IT Pros’ questions about how what and why they buy to try and get more vendors to engage with the community. Combine this with the opening off a 6 staff London office (more about this later), the SpiceCorps and also various press meetings with high profile papers and IT article writers its been a packed time for them.

The SpiceCorps London Event

We were lucky enough to have around 10 Spiceworks employees turn up to our SpiceCorps UK event on Tuesday giving all the SpiceHeads that turned up the chance to talk to the team directly to give feedback on the UK / Europe Spiceworks developments.

During the event we spoke about the upcoming release of Spiceworks 5.3 (set to be out of public within around a week and a half but you didn’t hear that here ) Hubba Bubba (Ben) also spoke about the SpiceUni program where you can pay for training in various locations though-out the UK to help you get more out of Spiceworks. Finally I (akp982 – Andy) was presented with a star for managing to get to pure capsaicin twice!

Checkout all the photos on Unofficial Spiceworks’ Google+ page here and keep an eye on the community for more events early next year.

The launch off Spiceworks Europe Limited

To help Spiceworks grow in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) the team have worked hard to launch a new office in London with a starting staff of 6 people it promises to help get more vendors in the UK geared up and involved in the community. Unofficial Spiceworks is planning to do a tour of the new office, take lots of pictures and report back as soon as we can.

“Spiceworks has become the best place in Europe for technology brands to connect with IT pros at small and medium enterprises,” said Scott Abel, Co-founder and CEO of Spiceworks. “Our online traffic in the UK alone is expanding by 70 percent year-over-year. The Spiceworks Europe team will help us take advantage of this tremendous opportunity and better serve our marketing partners and users in the region.”

This new office really will do great things for getting more vendors into the community and hopefully even some more giveaways

For those of you interested you can checkout the full press release here.

Yesterday was the first SpiceCorps Nottingham meeting which was a great success there were around 9 SpiceHeads who turned up to talk about various bits of Spiceworks from the new 5.1 beta to getting more out of Spiceworks and even how we ended up in IT.

SpiceCorps are a great way to get to meet people in your local area and we found out how much fun they can be with a pepper costume when we popped down to a Goth pub after.

You can checkout all the photos here.

Thanks stefuk for a great event. It was a good afternoon and was great to meet some new faces and say hi to people I had met before, and yes I did get lost trying to find my car after the event…

Hopefully we will continue to have meetings in Nottingham and around the UK to keep track of when and where the next one is pop into the SpiceCorps Of United Kingdom Group on the community.

Curious about starting or joining a SpiceCorps & would like a taste before diving in? Plus heard about the latest Spiceworks version 4.5 & want to get the skinny before downloading?

Tune into this Monday, December 14th at 6:30 pm for SpiceCorps of Austin’s 1st Meet Up! In addition to getting a feel for a SpiceCorps meeting, we are kicking off the SpiceCorps by sending a staff member to give a 4.5 overview!!!

Remember this is your first chance to receive 4.5 training directly by a SpiceStaff! Don’t miss out on this two-in-one learning opportunity!

More information and your chance to come along – http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/80938

Can’t make it? On the day you can watch the stream – http://www.ustream.tv/channel/spicecorp-austin

The home of Spiceworks (Austin) will be having its first SpiceCorps meeting on Monday.

There’s going to be lots of information about Spiceworks as well as it being a great chance to network with people from your local area.

When: Monday, December 14 @ 6:30pm

Where: Brushy Creek MUD Recreation Center (16318 Great Oaks Dr. Round Rock, Texas 78681)

More information and your chance to come along – http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/80938

Can’t make it? On the day you can watch the stream – http://www.ustream.tv/channel/spicecorp-austin

SpiceCorps Golden Horseshoe finally have a date. Sorry for the short notice, can’t be helped.

We are still looking for a great venue (looking for a conference room either at a SpiceWorks’ users’ office or maybe at a sponsor’s office like CDW or someone like that?)

So the date is 18th December 2009. The place, Greater Toronto. The time, 6:30pm.

Read more on the community

Austin, the home of SpiceWorks, is finally joining the ranks of SpiceCorps cities. Join us for our first Austin SpiceCorps meeting.

When: Monday, December 14 @ 6:30pm

Where: Brushy Creek MUD Recreation Center (16318 Great Oaks Dr. Round Rock, Texas 78681)

If you are anywhere in the area, come on out for some great fun, great information, and great networking.

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Checkout SpiceCorpsCF NOW on live stream embedded on the community.

Check it out at http://community.spiceworks.com/group/show/309-spicecorps-of-central-florida

Less than two months after releasing Spiceworks 4.0 we’ve released Spiceworks 4.1.  That would be our 16th release in three years (and I’m not counting the 20+ community releases).  Summer vacation?  What’s that?

Spiceworks 4.1 included 183 fixes, changes and new features, 159 of which we’ve documented in our 4.1 release notes. If you’ve used Spiceworks for a while you know that one of the reasons we can move so quickly between releases is we’ve “crowdsourced” product management.  More simply, users tell us what to build and vote on what they think is most useful with a Digg-like voting system (though we use chili peppers… natch).

Read more of this post on the SpiceBlog

Spiceworks is slowly but surely growing into everything IT.

As you can see by the image on the right timshady has been searching the Spiceworks before using Google. This is giant proof that Spiceworks is slowly growing and the information that Spiceworks user’s are producing is useful to everyone.

The community has so much information about a wide range of products from Microsoft to Cisco and round to Apple there is something for everyone.

We have more great posts about how Spiceworks is everything IT on there way… Well when I get around to writing them up… The ideas are there.

Spiceworks… It’s (becoming) Everything IT.  Join us.