Unofficial Spiceworks

As some of you already know Spiceworks are going to be holding a SpiceRex Party next month the trouble is Nic may have dropped SpiceRex down a drain although he wont admit it various Spiceworks staff saw him do it after SpiceRex bit his bum for a joke.

Raychelle is now running a world wide poster contest with the help of his biggest fans us SpiceHeads to ensure he gets back safe, even if he’s a little wet.

Its a great prize this time around! The top 3 posters will get a mention at the party, a cool SpiceRex Plushie and a T-Shirt.

The grand prize winner will end up with:

• Up to $1000 USD towards a trip to Austin for the SpiceRex Party
• 1 full workday at Spiceworks HQ for 1:1 training, troubleshooting and Q&A with our top Spiceworks experts – Monday March 14 – before the party.
• and a chauffered ride to the SpiceRex party with Nic, our now hated Community Manager

The Image Specifications for the contest are:

• Final poster will need to be 2100×2100
• Format: JPG or PNG.
• When posting your submission here in the community, make sure it’s 500KB or smaller, larger better quality files can be emailed to Nic if you win.
• Submissions must include the following (see bottom of post for images):
  • Spiceworks Logo & Microsoft Business Logo
  • SpiceRex Image (Image 1 or Image 2)
  • These words/phrases: The SpiceRex Party, March 14, 2011

Post your submission on the community here!

Need an idea to get you started? Check out this submission by Steve from a previous contest.

Last night announced the winners of the Spiceworks SpiceRex ad contest are:

Image ad: akp982

Text Ad: EDB

We had to adjust the copy a bit, so this is the final version that ran was as follows:

“Spiceworks does Network Management
…and 1 million IT pros would call it the best Network Management Solution in the world!
Spiceworks – IT’s EVERYTHING IT
DOWNLOAD NOW!”

Congratulations to both the winners!

Note: The criteria used for winning in both cases was most number of downloads from clicking on the ad. I can’t give out exact numbers, so that we don’t leak any data to our competitors

So what did they win?

• 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

Congratulations

EDB and akp982 (can I congratulate myself I wonder?) for winning!

Does mean we can now use our bragging rights to say we have been the first SpiceHeads to create a crowd-sourced ad– to be run on a variety of IT websites promoting Spiceworks.

Checkout the official News Story and Post by Nic.

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

The SpiceRex “Contest to create An Advert!” has been running for two weeks now and with only 6 days left its getting hot with some great designs coming though.

If you enter into the competition and win you could get:

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

The contest is already hot with some great entries like:

But just look at how awesome this one is from Striker090871 who took special care to change out some of the banners in a New York scene with Spiceworks ones as well as giving SpiceRex special powers.

Checkout his entry fully on the Spiceworks Community Here.

So what are you waiting for?

Checkout the rules and enter now!

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!”

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.

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.

The Spiceworks 1million user party last night looked like a great event, there were just over 350 people at the peak on the stream and some great interviews with the Spiceworks employee’s and SpiceHeads including Scott Alan Miller, Ben Harned, Andy Phelps, Lawrie Dalman and David Scammell.

5 people got “beamed in” (Jen’s name for it) using Skype which was a new experience for me and for Spiceworks, it worked really well though and was a great way of getting some SpiceHeads and even a couple of SpiceCorps involved from around the world.

We also managed to see what appears to be the first public sighting off the 6 foot SpiceRex model. Which for me and I believe a lot of people was a shock, you you also look closely at Lawrie’s webcam (above) you can see SpiceRex sitting on a tree covered in peppers behind him (it is also his current picture on the community). From a photo contest to having a 6ft model made up SpiceRex really has become a big hit with the community and Spiceworks employees, wonder what will be next? There was a sighting off a SpiceRex t-shirt which looks good.

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