What’s techy, spicy, bacon-lovin’ and orange all over? Why, the Spiceworks Community, of course! Not only are there over 4M IT pros using the Community to do their jobs, research products, and talk shop with vendors, they’re also having some jolly good fun! Hear from one of Spiceworks’ very own IT pros as he highlights Spiceworks humour, shows how you can take the Community goodness offline, and shows you how easy it is to spread the spice to other IT pros and tech vendors near and far.
1. Milking Spiceworks for all IT’s worth
Sean “the LoLz” Dahlberg
Community Manager, Spiceworks
Jeff “Rico Suave” Grettler
Windows System Administrator, Spiceworks
2. Session Overview
What’s techy, spicy, bacon-lovin’ and
orange all over? Why, the Spiceworks
Community, of course! Not only are there
over 4M IT pros using the Community to
do their jobs, research products, and talk
shop with vendors, they’re also having
some jolly good fun! Hear from one of
Spiceworks’ very own IT pros as he
highlights Spiceworks humour, shows how
you can take the Community goodness
offline, and shows you how easy it is to
spread the spice to other IT pros and tech
vendors near and far.
5. Who are you and why should we care?
http://community.spiceworks.com/people/sean-dahlberg
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9. SpiceHeads, Green Guys, and OGs, oh my!
This is the name chosen
by the community to
refer to Spiceworks
users. Because who
wants to be called a
“user”?
Spiceworks Partners are
official brand
representatives more
commonly known as
Green Guys, Green
Gals, or lately “GG”.
Spiceworkers are often
referred to as “OGs”
but not because we’re
pretty gangsta, but
because we’re Orange
Gals and Guys.
15. • Category
Top Level Navigation
that is a collection of
discussion groups
• Group
Where all the action
happens and is a
collection of
conversations
• Topic
The actual conversation
where SpiceHeads are
talking
Categories, Groups, and Topics, Oh My!
• Post
An individual
contribution to a
conversation
Overview of the sessions, point out that a lot of discussion points will be about the official site but that isn’t the true beauty of the Spiceworks Community. Instead it is…
While we do our best to create great features and functionality, at the end of the day, it is you SpiceHeads that really make the Spiceworks Community an amazing place. And you’ll see that theme throughout this presentation.
While we do our best to create great features and functionality, at the end of the day, it is you SpiceHeads that really make the Spiceworks Community an amazing place. And you’ll see that theme throughout this presentation.
While we do our best to create great features and functionality, at the end of the day, it is you SpiceHeads that really make the Spiceworks Community an amazing place. And you’ll see that theme throughout this presentation.
Definition of SpiceHead, GGs, and Ogs
Andy’s Story - http://www.unofficialspiceworks.com/2010/06/why-are-community-members-called-spiceheads/
Internationally famous IT pro and blogger, akp982, a.k.a. Andy Phelps, discovered SpiceRex as a baby near Marlow, England (90 minutes west of London) and affectionately dubbed him “SpiceRex.”