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Mexico is getting bigger - How to build an island upate 2008-03-05 18:43:19 Last year I posted about How to make an island and solve a few of the worlds problems, 8 months on and a whole bunch of volunteers have now got involved in building the 2nd Spiral Island, and here’s where its at
Find more photos like this on Richie Sowa's Spiral Island
From Randy McCallum - [...] Read more:Mexico
Make it Real - and open your mind 2008-03-05 01:44:37 Our friends over at Ponoko who let you make real things that get cut out of wood and plastic from your designs that you put on their website, are running a design competition, details here. One of my real good buddies Pete Black makes and designs all sorts of stuff. I’ve worked on with Pete [...]
Enhanced Team Security on Financials 2008-03-02 20:32:53 Plenty of people have been asking for some additional security around the financial aspects of PlanHQ and who in there team can see and manage what parts of it, and I’m pleased to say that we’ve just put in some simple security roles that allow you to provide limited access to financials for some of [...]
Finished - Change the world one wall at a time 2008-03-02 20:00:10 If you missed it here’s day 1 and day 2 of the wall painting, and below the finished product… speaks for itself… Big thanks to Ruth Abraham - The Scotish Muralist, this is magic and lights up the wall in my house that doesn’t look out to the ocean.
A few shots from day 3 and [...] Read more:world one
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Jeremy Olliver joins PlanHQ 2008-02-28 16:45:47 Jeremy has been on the team as a new ruby on rails developer for the last few months over the summer of code program, but with that now over (the sun is still shining though!), we’re keeping Jeremy on board close to full-time while he finishes off his last year at Uni. Godo to have [...]
Hit it Hard and do something properly 2008-02-27 17:07:32 Following on from the video on Patrick saving the then dying garageband.com and raising fresh money and changing the thinking to pull off the now successful ilike.com, this Video is of entrepreneur James Currier (behind www.tickle.com, www.ringo.com, and www.lovehappens.com) [...] Read more:something
Day 2 - Change the world one wall at a time 2008-02-27 16:40:28 Day 2 and 3 and my favorite - the waves - start coming in. This is the only part of the painting that wasn’t exactly the same as the original photo, as the surf at our place at Ohope isn’t very big, so Ruth turned to a surf mag and put in the dream waves…
Some [...] Read more:world one
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Upload Files on PlanHQ 2008-02-24 21:10:27 We’ve been adding and tweaking up PlanHQ a lot over the last few months, one thing that plenty of people have been asking for has just been added - You can now upload files to Goals on PlanHQ. If you upload pictures it will show you nice little thumbnail versions of them. Enjoy! Read more:Upload
Changing the world one wall at at a time - day 1 2008-02-21 22:41:19 I’ve been very lucky in the last couple of weeks a new friend over from Scotland painted me a picture of one of my favorite views, the view out to the surf from our family beach house. The thing that made me extra lucky, is that she made it 8 foot long and 4 foot [...] Read more:Changing
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Knowing when to keep going, and what to change 2008-02-21 18:03:23 One of our early PlanHQ customers has been an entrepreneur Patrick Koppula who founded one of the worlds biggest social music sites and facebook applications ilike and now founded and heads up video recommendation site FFWD. This video below is from an event I arrived late to last year where Patrick tells his story of [...]
Like PlanHQ? Become an Affiliate 2008-03-12 15:03:16 Quite a few people have asked whether they can make a little money for passing on people to PlanHQ, and the answer is yes! So we’ve just started our affiliate program, if you’re interested in being part of it just drop us an email at support at planhq.com and you’ll et setup in no time. [...] Read more:Become
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Share the love - happy customers are cool 2008-03-11 23:03:11 Nik just sent an email around our team with a few cool comments he’s received in the support box from customers
over the last few weeks, to share the love with the rest of us.
It’s great to get this sort of stuff come in from customers, we like many cool companies don’t just make a [...] Read more:Share
Koz and Anika are Married : ) 2008-03-13 22:40:06 Today Koz just got married to Anika. Big congrats Koz and Anika and look forward to partying tonight on you guys!
Marriage confirmed… By twitter
Where do you fit in the conversation? 2008-04-01 05:28:47 We spend a lot of time talking with people, and we also spend quite a lot of time designing product and marketing and communications stuff, and the thing thats really been driving a lot of thinking recently, is where do we fit in conversations?
Go with the flow
People are already having a tonne of conversations everyday, [...]
Simple Regular Reporting 2008-04-08 00:41:09 In our enhancements of the application we are replacing the document tab with a more detailed Reports tab, which is simpler to use and encourages more frequent evaluation of what you have achieved and where your plan is heading:
The new reporting tab will allow you to view your past progress as well as your [...] Read more:Simple
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Major Enhancements to PlanHQ 2008-04-08 00:18:10 We are excited to inform you that next week there will be some major enhancements to PlanHQ.
We are thrilled about the upgrades and hope that you will enjoy them too!
There are 3 major changes you can expect to see:
A brand new, simpler to use interface with a more consistent user experience and a greater [...] Read more:Major
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Make a Difference - Start a business 2008-04-07 23:45:50 There’s a lot of talk about making a difference nowadays, although I’m not sure too many people feel they know how to do anything significant beyond talking and maybe making a few small changes in their life, which is good, but I think there’s a really simple way to start on the path to something [...] Read more:Start
What I’ll do when I’ve ‘made it’ - Bigger things 2008-04-07 23:10:45 There’s so many ways to do something in the world that I feel I’ve had to touch but largely walk past until further notice… that further notice is having the time, ability and influence to be able to do something. I feel like I’m in stage 1 of life right now, quietly building up ability [...] Read more:things
New PlanHQ Website and Focus 2008-04-18 00:33:40 We’ve been very busy for the last couple of months doing a major new release of our business plan software tool PlanHQ, to make it even more simple and usable and really focused on making you achieve your goals.
We want you to achieve your plan, so the focus is on helping you get a plan, [...] Read more:Focus
How to be an early riser 2008-04-17 22:41:47 I’ve enjoyed the nights for much of my life, I’ve come up with some of my best ideas, started businesses, built my international network, designed things, made music, and generally done some of my best stuff in the quiet hours of the late evening and wee hours.
Often after a busy day getting things done, the [...]
The New PlanHQ is here… 2008-04-18 09:44:00 After a solid 2 months under the radar, and heaps of customer feedback, we’re really happy to launch the 3rd major release of PlanHQ. Launched last night, its a real credit to everyone in the team for pulling this off, we’ve worked close to get it right, and Amiria, Jeremy, Koz, Nik and Oli have [...]
I’m 29 today, 10% of the twenties to go 2008-04-24 00:41:19 Another great day to be alive, rock out of bed to the early sun, have a stretch, have a call with my mum, bike into our cool little office in the city, get some stuff done, chat to some customers, bike down to the beach for a late afternoon mid autumn swim, and the day [...]
Code names, Celebrations and Pavlova 2008-04-23 06:34:32 When you’ve got something big to do that will take some time, a code name can be perfect, then when you’re spending all those tireless hours and moments battling with getting things right, you can always just lean on the code name as a light hearted reminder that all is well. Our latest release was [...] Read more:Celebrations
Doing some simple sustainable office things… 2008-04-23 05:22:55 All the big guys are ‘getting into sustainability’ these days, but this is more often than not driven from the marketing department as a PR initiative.
I’m not cynical, its possibly better than nothing - sure, but does it actually mean any real change happens in behavior? Maybe sometimes, but I think in reality it can [...] Read more:office
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PlanHQ Win Emerging Business of the year at Gold Awards 2008-05-01 22:44:11 We had a great night last night at the Wellington Gold Awards
and are pretty happy to take out the emerging business of the year.
The big winner was KiwiBank, great to see New Zealands only major locally owned bank take out the supreme award, Kiwibank will be one of the pillars of the NZ economy [...] Read more:Business
Managing Multiple Companies on PlanHQ 2008-04-30 23:00:21 If you’ve involved with, own or advising multiple companies, then you can get to all their plans in PlanHQ with your same login, which some people, including me just love. If you want to manage multiple companies, just signup for a new plan using the same email address, or invite an existing PlanHQ user in [...] Read more:Multiple
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PlanHQ Finalist at Wellington Gold Awards 2008-04-30 21:53:48 We all work hard and pour heaps of energy into our businesses, so tonight’s a night of celebration for us and other businesses in Wellington
New Zealand where our main base is, PlanHQ is a finalist in the regions Business Gold awards, should be a great night, here’s our little 30 second finalist video whipped [...] Read more:Awards
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Some Piano… 2008-05-04 08:54:29 Teaching myself the Piano… early days, but here’s something little from the weekend - evening calm mp3
The home studio on the hill
Unscheduled Down Time 2008-05-06 18:07:18 Apologies to anyone who was effected by the unscheduled downtime that occurred earlier today. Our site host experienced an unexpected outage, causing PlanHQ to be down between 2:30 and 3:00 PST, with a possibility of 90mins of poor performance prior to this. We are sorry for any inconvenience this caused, and if you have any [...]
Managing Weekly Priorities as a Team 2008-05-05 19:21:02 We’re pretty big on managing our workload for the week ahead, and PlanHQ has been made to make this really easy to do it for yourself and together as a team. We’ve got heaps on, and every person is working on things towards achieving multiple goals across the business, so on Monday we get together [...] Read more:Weekly
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