Unofficial Spiceworks

The post that opened Spiceworks-News was this time last year, taking 2 weeks for Spiceworks to find it and to declare what a big hit it was.

Since then we have changed our name to Unofficial Spiceworks and we have gone from having a blue coloured theme to a Spiceworks Orange one.

So what have we ( well I ) done in the year?

• 150+ unique visitors a day
• ~50 returning visitors a day
• 18 Google subscribers
• 300+ Track able referrals + countless none track able
• 360+ posts (just under one a day)
• 30+ Categories
• 130+ comments
• 840+ tweets
• Made it into the Spiceworks monthly update email twice
• Got 120+ links back to us
• Got 3 guest posts by Justin Dorfman
• Was the inspiration for SpiceworksLounge.com the Hebrew Spiceworks site

With some outstanding and loved posts like

• How good can support for FREE software be?
• Ups and Downs of working in the social media / community world
• HTML Email Templates
• All the latest beta and sneak peak reviews and info
• The invention of SpiceRex who made it to America

As well as then creating Let Me Spiceworks Search That For You and working hard on the community to answer questions.

I know were not the biggest blog but its not bad?

So what’s to come?

Well my plan as with any website is to continue to grow. Some key things coming up will be:

• New logo and slogan, this has been in the works for a while. I will be shorty posting up more information about this and how you can get involved.
• A new theme? Maybe, Maybe not… not sure on that one.
• The closure off spread-spiceworks.org.uk, this was the inspiration for Unofficial Spiceworks but quickly found it copied too much off the official Spread Spiceworks area and recently ended up being a holding page with not a lot of info or visits. I’m in the process of deciding if I want to port the theme on to Unofficial Spiceworks. Either way in the coming months the site will just redirect to here.
• Better insider information, hopefully I can try and wiggle my way into Spiceworks HQ more this year to get some more information to you first.
• More guest posts, from doing things in the community to making plugin’s, what ever people want to talk about. If you want to guest post drop me a email via the the contact form or add a comment anything Spiceworks related.
• Work on my spealing, I know its really bad at times, I’m working on it…

And thank you

Too all the readers for continuing to read

It’s what makes it worth while.

And as always if you have any comments or suggestions for this site drop me a email via the contact form or add a comment

Birthday wishes from SpiceworksLounge.com

Thanks Yasaf and SpiceworksLounge.com for their Happy Birthday Post

Unofficial Spiceworks is celebrating its first  birthday today!  Launched just a year ago Unofficial Spiceworks quickly became the best source for Spiceworks community news. Andy is doing FANTASTIC job spreading the word by bringing us Spiceworks news and reviews from the underground

Read the whole post on SpiceworksLounge.com

So you may have seen Spicerex mentioned on these forums before, he was invented for the Show the World your Spiciness as something fun and creative, but he got lose and have invaded Spiceworks offices.

Somehow Spicerex has escaped from the Show the World your Spiciness contest and has made his way across the Atlantic. Since arriving here in the US, he has setup shop in the Spiceworks offices. Here are a few pictures of him making himself at home. We first found him raiding the candy bowl.

Read Nic’s news post here

So what did Spicerex get up to on his trip to Texas?

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So one weekend I enter the Spiceworks “Show the world your Spiceness” contest with some standard things to start with. Just bits and bobs I found around the office like a moose head and a random set of oversized batteries.

After a while I ran out of ideas and wanted to come up with something new and exciting, I started to think back about things I had done and seen before as well as doing a Google of bits and bobs.

Getting creative

I got creative and along came the SpiceVan failing to get peoples avatars into the windows of the bus I just stuck some logos on it.

Not very exciting, and well not as good as I hoped I tried something else.

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