Fruitbowl - Fresh Ideas from Hawke's Bay

Young and aspiring basketballers will have a chance to get up close and personal with some of their heroes from the Bay Hawks at a special summer camp in Napier at the end of this month. Everard Bartlett, Haylen Tahau and Jamil “JT” Terrell will be three of the Bay Hawks among coaches at a basketball camp, organised by Basketball Hawke’s Bay, at the Pettigrew Green Arena in Taradale from ...Read more

Unison Networks is calling on Hawke’s Bay schools to band together with their neighbouring businesses and other organisations to help create demand for connecting to the region’s ultra fast fibre route. Unison Fibre’s business development manager Nigel Purdy said Hawke’s Bay’s schools are a priority and over 30 schools will have Unison fibre running past their doorstep or within a ...Read more

Is anyone interested in doing a workshop on iMovie one night? With Flip cams and most new digital cameras doing HD movies I’d like to learn a bit more about how to edit movies on iMovie so I can bore the rel’s with our christmas vids. Anyone out there an iMovie wiz and wanting to share your mad skillz? Let me know if there’s any interest and we’ll organize ...Read more

We have a fantastic group of people coming into the Bay in February, with some of NZ’s leading tech entrepreneurs – including Sam Morgan.  It’s a real coup to get Andy Lark here who is acknowledged as one of the leading tech marketers in the world. The format is designed to share experience and build relationships so it will be a valuable networking opportunity and I think ...Read more

The dangerous activities of jetskiers at Clive River will not be tolerated by Hawke’s Bay Regional Council, says Harbourmaster Charlie Rycroft who is concerned that a serious accident may occur. He has had reports of jetskiers doing donuts in front of, or very close to, wakeboarders and skiers on Clive River. Last Sunday (29 November) a jetski collided with a powerboat towing a wakeboarder. ...Read more

This is great news for HBHS and Airnet is looking forward to connecting them with fibre… http://www.hawkesbay.co.nz/index.php/200912027617/News/Local-News/Hastings-Boys-High-only-Hawke-s-Bay-school-to-get-broadband.html ...Read more

Our local twittress just put up this presentation on Social Media. Good 101 for blogging and twitter in a corporate environment. ...Read more

A couple of times a week I get asked to catch up for a coffee to talk about a business and things like raising money, getting started offshore, finding good people and those sort of things. I just don’t have time these days to do much of that and in 20 minutes we’re not going to cover much ground. So for the last few years I’ve been wanting to do my own event and spend a day ...Read more