The document summarizes new features in Spiceworks 6 Partner Edition. It highlights improved integration between the application and community, including easier navigation and connections. It also outlines new ways for partners to engage with users, such as customized alerts and notifications, publishing content to the knowledge base, and connecting through sponsored groups and product pages. The focus is on helping partners better contribute, share resources, and get their messages and content in front of SpiceHeads.

1. Tour of
Spiceworks 6
Partner Edition

2. Spiceworks 6
The application & community have been upgraded!

3. Yeah, yeah, yeah…
So, what’s in it for me?
Been hard at work making IT easier
for you
 How do I know when and where to
contribute?
 How can SpiceHeads and my
company connect easier?
 How can I get my content ‘in their
hands’ easier?
 How do I share more of my content
with SpiceHeads?

4. There’s all these conversations
How do I keep track so can jump in?
1,000’s
of conversations happening in
community every day

5. Now, conversations at your fingertips
Customized by you… for you
Be there, when & where
it’s happening:
 Custom for you
Categories
 Create own categories Keywords
& keywords
 Track how you want
 Set your frequency or
log in any time
http://community.spiceworks.com/alerts

6. They do lots of other things too
How do I let ‘em know I’m there to help?
Spending 380M minutes a month doing their jobs

7. Making sure they know you’re there
Connections, and questions and prices… oh my!
Sharing the SpiceLove
for you:
 Connect with vendor
in sponsored groups
 Ask a question on
product pages
 Streamlined research
to purchase potential
BETA

8. So, I am posting all this good content
How can I better get it ‘in their hands’?
More than 1.42M followers of vendor pages and
their green guys in Spiceworks

9. Tickle their fancy, in the way they expect
A digest of the best, and the rest
Helping getting you
message ‘out there’:
 Connect beyond the
activity stream
 Summarized view
 Delivered direct to
inboxes

10. I’ve got all kinds of resources to help
How do I make it widely available?
7,500+
How-to’s in knowledge base to
help IT pros, growing every day

11. Strut your stuff
Share your smarts, and get published
Sharing the SpiceLove
for you:
 Easy to create
content via how-to
 Published to KB in the
app
 Becomes ‘searchable’
and ‘categorized’ for
you

12. Phew, that’s a lot
Questions? Go ahead… make our day
Ask Now Ask Anytime

13. Thanks!

14. Several new core features in the app
In case you want to really know
Continue history of crowd sourced
development, including…
 An agent option
 Broader mobile solutions
 Cloud service discovery
 Improved software discovery &
management
http://www.spiceworks.com/6.0/

15. And continues with community
Revving the engine
Seamless connection between app
and community gets even better
 Updated look & feel
 Easier navigation
 New Topic Pages
 Product pricing & comparison
http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/246609

16. Some hygiene for the fun of it
Simplified navigation and settings
 New dropdown with logical ‘categories’ for discussions
 Simplified dropdown for your account settings

17. Threads spruced up as well
With a whole lot more WIFU…
Changes in replies:
 “Reply” and “Spice”
beneath post
 Partner designator is
below your name
 Ability to tag your
products & company
 See who’s in discussion
and who ‘Spices’ it

18. Home base, landing on your vendor page
Straight into dashboard
http://community.spiceworks.com/alerts
 Set up custom alert page, by user
 Core activity and reporting still here- & more coming soon