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World Environment Day
2008-06-04 16:13:00 It’s World Environment Day tomorrow, and our home base Wellington, New Zealand is this years host country and city. You’d hope this was an everyday thing really in our lives, but for now having a day marked for it is a chance to have a wakeup call and remind ourselves and the people around us ...
Private Goals now available in PlanHQ
2008-06-04 10:18:00 We’ve made Plan HQ relatively open to your team by default, to encourage a culture of transparency and accountability, where everyone knows whats going on and gets on with making it happen. As more medium sized or larger small businesses come on board, we’ve continued to put in additional security so that managers can let all ... More About: Goals , Private
Managers and Staff Member Security Roles in PlanHQ
2008-06-04 09:55:00 We’ve simplified the security roles in Plan HQ so you can get your whole team involved and limit who sees what that when you add a team member you can make them either: Manager: Has unrestricted access. They can view and manage all the company data, including financials, others private goals and reports Staff Members: Restricted access - ... More About: Security , Managers
New Blog Design coming soon?
2008-06-03 06:46:00 We’ve been working on our blog strategy and design over the last while, as we get more of a focus on building communities, and 2 major things are going to happen. The first is getting a focus by cutting the blogs into 2; one for Plan HQ product and company related stuff, and the 2nd make ... More About: Design , Blog
Fitting in with Googles vision of the web office
2008-06-02 17:20:00 I’ve been fortunate enough to spend a little time over the past few days with Google Business Development Manager Tom Duterme, as he’s been chatting to and giving advice to a bunch of online companies at the XMedia Lab conference held in our home town in Silicon Welly and talking about what google looks for ... More About: Office , Vision , Plan , Googles
PlanHQ at Apple Developers Conference
2008-06-02 17:18:00 Jeremy is on his way to the Apple Developers conference for next week, which should be great fun for him, if you’re around the conference, drop him a line jeremy at planhq dot com. Although there’s still a few days to go, Steve Jobs won’t be announcing Plan HQ as Apple major partner, although I think if ... More About: Conference
Getting a deal signed sealed and delivered
2008-05-28 11:40:00 I just got a email and photo from my good friend Tom Stokell who’s been working hard for the last year in the UK to secure the first deal for his business, which helps get more people cycling to work by getting businesses to challenge each other in a cycling to work competition. The program ... More About: Signed , Deal
Building Communities
2008-05-22 16:39:00 You, your business, you’re part of a bigger eco-system. You rely on having good peers, mentors and advisors, you always need good people, you need networks, and you need to be heard and talked about. And you have a whole lot that can help others around you. So what is the fabric that weaves these needs ... More About: Building , Communities
PlanHQ in sync with ical, google calendar and your iphone
2008-05-22 13:13:00 If you live by your calendar being with you everywhere, then you’ll know how much you need your Business Management and Getting things done tools like Plan HQ to play with your other calendars; on your computer, on the web and on your phone. If you’re not already using it, get your PlanHQ plan pushing out ... More About: Google , Iphone , Google Calendar , Calendar
Koz at Railsconf 08 in Portland next week
2008-05-22 13:12:00 It’s that time of year again, and Plan HQ co-founder and CTO and Rails core team member Koz will be in Portland next week speaking at O’reilly Railsconf. If you’re in the Rails community you’ll know who Koz is, but if you’re looking at doing something with PlanHQ and in the area, then try and connect ... More About: Week
Sailing the world and generating power
2008-05-19 03:01:00 I had the pleasure this weekend of sailing around the Wellington Harbour with captain Glenn Andert and his partner Pamela in the learjet that he’s been sailing for the last 3 years around the pacific between home #1 in California and his new home with Pamela at #2 - New Zealand. (The bend in the windmill ... More About: Power , World , Inspiration , Sailing , The World
PlanHQ?s Method takes care of the madness
2008-05-19 01:09:00 An Article in Wellington’s Dominion Post talks about how Plan HQ helps teams work together on setting the businesses goals and making them happen. It’s possible they could have taken the picture of me at a worse moment… I think ; ) More About: Care , Madness , Method
Reports Update - Our Plan and Our Progress
2008-05-16 08:19:00 We’ve just made some updates to Plan HQ reporting to make it easier to see your overall business plan and your progress against this plan. Our Plan Tab The our Plan Tab is a simple view of your strategy, your goals and your financial forecast across your whole business, or for any particular area. Our Progress Tab The Our Progress ... More About: Update
PlanHQ on Business is Booming TV Show
2008-05-14 04:13:00 We did a small segment in a TV series in New Zealand last year called Business is Booming which gives advice and tells stories of small businesses. We’ve only just got this video of the 3 minute segment on where businesses go wrong with business plans and how Plan HQ gets you to achieve your plans ... More About: Show
Staying on top of Contacts
2008-05-10 14:18:00 I remember a time when it was easy to stay in touch with everyone I wanted to, if I met someone interesting, I stayed in contact and kept naturally kept the communication going. Can’t stay in touch with everyone But nowadays this just isn’t possible, and above is just one stack of cards from the past ... More About: Contacts
Track your progress, see what you?ve done
2008-05-08 03:56:00 When you’re managing your weekly priorities and getting things done, its good to look back over the week as it comes to an end, and over the last few weeks and see what you and your team have actually done. We’ve just added in simple progress tracking on team members, so you can look over ... More About: Track , Progress , Plan
Unscheduled Down Time
2008-05-07 01:07:00 Apologies to anyone who was effected by the unscheduled downtime that occurred earlier today. Our site host experienced an unexpected outage, causing Plan HQ 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 ... More About: Time
Managing Weekly Priorities as a Team
2008-05-06 02:21:00 We’re pretty big on managing our workload for the week ahead, and Plan HQ 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 ... More About: Getting Things Done , Team , Weekly
Some Piano?
2008-05-04 15:54:00 Teaching myself the Piano … early days, but here’s something little from the weekend - evening calm mp3 The home studio on the hill More About: Balance
PlanHQ Win Emerging Business of the year at Gold Awards
2008-05-02 05:44:00 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 ... More About: Business , Plan , Year
Managing Multiple Companies on PlanHQ
2008-05-01 06:00:00 If you’ve involved with, own or advising multiple companies, then you can get to all their plans in Plan HQ 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 ... More About: Companies
PlanHQ Finalist at Wellington Gold Awards
2008-05-01 04:53:00 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, Plan HQ is a finalist in the regions Business Gold awards, should be a great night, here’s our little 30 second finalist video whipped ... More About: Awards
I?m 29 today, 10% of the twenties to go
2008-04-24 07:41:00 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 ... More About: Today , Plan
Code names, Celebrations and Pavlova
2008-04-23 13:34:00 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 ... More About: Celebrations , Code , Names
Doing some simple sustainable office things?
2008-04-23 12:22:00 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 ... More About: Office , Simple , Things , Sustainable
The New PlanHQ is here?
2008-04-18 16:44:00 After a solid 2 months under the radar, and heaps of customer feedback, we’re really happy to launch the 3rd major release of Plan HQ. 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 ...
New PlanHQ Website and Focus
2008-04-18 07:33:00 We’ve been very busy for the last couple of months doing a major new release of our business plan software tool Plan HQ, 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, ... More About: Website , Focus
How to be an early riser
2008-04-18 05:41:00 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 ... More About: Energy , Early
Simple Regular Reporting
2008-04-08 07:41:00 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 ... More About: Regular , Simple , Plan
Major Enhancements to PlanHQ
More articles from this author:2008-04-08 07:18:00 We are excited to inform you that next week there will be some major enhancements to Plan HQ. 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 ... More About: Major 1, 2, 3 |
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