If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!
-
@bknudtson said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
@scottalanmiller Thanks Scott! Glad to find a new community to join and participate in.
How would you compare/contrast Mangolassi (did I get that right) to Spiceworks? Apologies if there's already a place with this answer. Haven't had a chance to poke around yet.
No official thread on that, we try not to promote a head to head comparison atmosphere because that's not the idea, but given our close proximity of communities and members, it tends to come up pretty naturally.
From a high level, SW has a product around which it is officially centered and ML does not. ML is pure community. SW is much older, about 3-4 times as old. ML is 2.5 years.
The biggest high level difference is that ML is a full open community, vendors and non-internal IT are all seen as peers at the discussion table, whereas SW operates on a hierarchy where IT pros are one tier, vendors are another, MSPs are mostly pros but kinda vendors, etc. So vendors (like Simplivity) are equal conversational participants with IT pros. ML lives off of the "Cluetrain Manifesto" theory, the conversation is the market and the market is the value. So all vendor participation is free and open, any vendor can jump in at any time.
ML does not use groups, except for a handful of very high level ones, but uses tags for taxonomic purposes. SW is group based for the same function. That takes a bit to adapt to.
ML has no private groups, what you see is what you get (there are some threads about us testing a few, but they were removed after about a month of testing long ago.)
ML will normally update while you are looking at the conversation rather than needing the page to reload.
I think that those are the high level differences.
-
Welcome to @aidan_walsh
-
welcome aboard @aidan_walsh !
-
Welcome to @hellonadya
-
Welcome to the newbies, @aidan_walsh @masterarts
-
@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
Welcome to @hellonadya
Greetings @hellonadya
-
Welcome @hellonadya
-
Welcome @aidan_walsh
-
Welcome to @dotsage
-
Hey @dotsage welcome to MangoLassi.
-
Welcome @ammarmalhotra
-
@ammarmalhotra welcome to the ML community.
-
Welcome to @MustaasamSaleem who appears to be from CloudWays?
-
@StrongBad Thanks for a warm welcome. Yes - I'm from Cloudways.com - A Managed Cloud Hosting Platform.
-
@MustaasamSaleem said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
@StrongBad Thanks for a warm welcome. Yes - I'm from Cloudways.com - A Managed Cloud Hosting Platform.
Welcome to the MangoLassi community!
-
@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
Welcome to @aidan_walsh
@Ambarishrh said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
Welcome @aidan_walsh
Oh, hello
I've been lurking a couple of weeks and finally decided to make an account.I spent about 5 years working in telephone support for various large companies but always wanted to get hands on behind the scenes, so for the last couple of months I have been interning at a local education board. I mostly play with Linux at home so working in a Windows environment is good experience.
-
@aidan_walsh said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
@scottalanmiller said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
Welcome to @aidan_walsh
@Ambarishrh said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
Welcome @aidan_walsh
Oh, hello
I've been lurking a couple of weeks and finally decided to make an account.I spent about 5 years working in telephone support for various large companies but always wanted to get hands on behind the scenes, so for the last couple of months I have been interning at a local education board. I mostly play with Linux at home so working in a Windows environment is good experience.
Welcome to MangoLassi!
-
Hi everyone,
Just joined today at Mangolassi.it, which was recommended by a friend from another IT forum!
IT Pro working full time for a plumbing company, in the UK, part of the construction industry, but, do some private IT work at weekends too. :nerd:
Some good topics on here - shame work gets in the way!!
-
Welcome @itpete
-
@itpete said in If you are new drop in say hello and introduce yourself please!:
Hi everyone,
Just joined today at Mangolassi.it, which was recommended by a friend from another IT forum!
IT Pro working full time for a plumbing company, in the UK, part of the construction industry, but, do some private IT work at weekends too. :nerd:
Some good topics on here - shame work gets in the way!!
Welcome to the MangoLassi community!
