Unofficial Spiceworks

David Scammell has setup a Twibbon for Spiceworks

I found a neat way to promote Spiceworks via your Twitter avatar. For those who missed my latest tweet, here it is:

@dscammell just created #Spiceworks – http://twibbon.com/join/Spiceworks – #twibbon

By joing this Twibbon group, you’ll have a transparent overlay added to your Twitter avatar that will place the Spiceworks icon in the lower left hand corner of your Twitter avatar.

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http://it.tmcnet.com has posted about Spiceworks 4.0

Jun 18, 2009 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) — Spiceworks, which provides what it called the first free social IT management application for small and medium businesses, announced the release of the Spiceworks IT Desktop version 4.0.

Spiceworks stated that the new version has several enhancements that make it easier for small and midsize businesses to manage “Everything IT.” They include the ability to visually map a company’s IT network and the addition of 3rd party management plug-ins from Microsoft, LiveOffice, Intel and Trend Micro. In addition, Spiceworks now integrates with Twitter and allows users to turn Windows events into social media alerts for collaborative problem-solving and to share real-time SMB IT trends with the world’s largest network of IT professionals.

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Fredric Paul on http://www.bmighty.com posted about

The latest version of the popular free IT management tool for SMBs adds the ability to visually map your company’s IT network, Twitter integration, and 3rd-party management plug-ins from Microsoft, LiveOffice, Intel, and Trend Micro.

bMighty has long been a fan of Spiceworks. The company sponsored the first bMighty SMB Theater and Pavilion at Interop in New York last year, and I moderated a couple panels at the inaugural SpiceWorld user conference in Austin, Texas last fall.

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Bob Tarzey, Service Director, Quocirca has posted up on http://www.it-analysis.com/ about Spiceworks and the social media size.

Can social networking actually be useful? There are plenty of claims made about Twitter’s usefulness for getting concise messages to a broad audience or using LinkedIn to track down old colleagues who may be able make an introduction to a new prospect. But what about direct benefits—such as finding quick solutions to problems or getting better deals on products?

It seems that the lesson from systems management vendor Spiceworks is—yes it can. Spiceworks has a business model that sounds very bubble 2.0. It provides a set of systems management tools for free and makes its cash by other means. But can Spiceworks actually return a profit where Facebook, Twitter and many others have not? Spiceworks is a private company with VC backing and does not disclose its profitability, but having gone through two rounds of capital raising, it says it has no need for a third.

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Its the morning after the community update and seem seemed to go well (the community is working at least)

We are still awaiting a full list of things that have changed but here are the things I have spotted so far:

Spiceworks News

All the latest Spiceworks news is now shown on the My Community Page to help make sure you don’t miss anything

Points System

Due to the outburst of point cheating the points system has changed.

You can now get points for windows even comments.

Insted of getting 10 points for every post you now one get one point per new topic you talk in, meaning it is more contribution based.

If you fill out all of your profile you automatically get 100 points.

Channels

There are now channels in the community but i have yet to find a full list of them, the networking one is http://community.spiceworks.com/channel/show/3-networking

Channels are aimed to help organise groups, If you visit the Networking channel you’ll see all the topics from groups like Cisco, DNS, etc.

Share-It

At the bottom of all topics there are now social media buttons so you can share something from the community on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Linked In, and Reddit.

So hopefully Tabrez will post up a list of everything that has changed soon and I can do a full write up, but I think I got most of them.

Tabrez has just posted:

We’re planning on pushing out an update to the Spiceworks Community tonight (Jul 14) at 7pm CST. The Community will be offline during this time. We should be back up in 4 hours. For those of you with S.C.A.D – rest assured we’ll be back and spicier!

Some of the changes you’ll see are:

• A few changes to the point system (I’ll post back tomorrow with the details but in a nutshell: you can now earn points for providing troubleshooting advice and comments on Windows Events)
• We’re testing out a new way of organizing groups around a concept called Channels. For eg: If you visit the Networking channel you’ll see all the topics from groups like Cisco, DNS, etc.
• Topics will now have social media buttons so you can share something from the community on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Linked In, and Reddit. When you share something you found interesting on Spiceworks you’re also helping spread the word about Spiceworks!

I’ll post more details once we get the release out.

Its going to be a hard time of everyone with SCAD but well fight though it.

Scott Alan Miller has made it to the Ghost Chili (70,000 – 100,000 points) level on Spiceworks… Well done

Want to know more about Spiceworks levels, checkout this post

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