Website tips with Michelle Whitmore of Zeald.com In previous issues, we identified the two key success factors for a website being the number of visitors and thereafter, the percentage of visitors who 'convert' or take the desired action once there.... Read More

Virginia Iovine-Turner Cucina Amore www.cucinaamore.co.nz Bay of Plenty spring has arrived and what a glorious day we had. A great time to plan ahead for those summer barbecue late nights and fun at the beach. When I think of spring, salad comes... Read More

Write Space Literary news, views and reviews http://taurangawriters.org.nz This week's Write Space by Jenny Argante. In a favourite cartoon of mine, a radiologist X-rays a patient. 'No,” he says, 'there's definitely no book in you.”... Read More

Sideline Sid Sports correspondant & historian www.sunlive.co.nz Sideline Sid had a mixture of jubilation and absolute relief when the All Blacks broke a 24 year jinx to finally again win the Rugby World Cup on Sunday evening. In front of a sell-out... Read More

John Arts Abundant Living www.johnarts.co.nz One of my favourite cricketers is the Indian batsman Rahul Dravid. His nickname is 'The Wall'. His defence is so good he seems to be impenetrable, even to world class bowling. Our bodies likewise have... Read More

Philip Holland Financial Independence financialindependence What a right mess we are in the mighty Bay of Plenty. Between the slow and devastating Psa outbreak and the potential devastating effects of Rena, things are starting to look somewhat... Read More

Steve Bailey Federated Farmers Te Puke branch chairperson The devastating news that kiwifruit killing disease Pseudomonas syringae pv actinidiae (Psa) has spread from Te Puke to Tauranga, Waihi and Katikati highlights the need to deal with biosecurity... Read More

Mike Chapman NZKGI Chief Executive Kiwifruit growers voted 'yes' to funding NZ Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated's activities via a Commodity Levy for the next five years, with 87 per cent of the growers who voted saying yes to the proposed levy.... Read More

Brian Rogers Rogers Rabbits www.sunlive.co.nz The All Blacks go into their final against France this weekend knowing that one province has gone overboard with the 'Paint it Black” theme. Having our beaches and coastline smothered in black... Read More

News Hound Ady & Flo It's a big, wide world out there, as I'm finding out in my first few weeks on this planet. There are so many things to learn and remember. Like: Sit, come, stay, no, no, and no. I like the sound of 'good Flo” though.... Read More

Claire Rogers All about wine www.sunlive.co.nz It was a privilege to catch up with John Hancock from Trinity Hill. John is a legend in wine making, having made his first wine in 1972 in the Barossa Valley. The 2008 Gimblett Gravels Hawke's Bay,... Read More

Cr Bill Faulkner Faulkners Corner www.sunlive.co.nz Tauranga City Council and the regional and Western Bay councils continue to play an integral part in the consequences of the Rena shipwreck on Astrolabe Reef. Shipwreck is my term - it's unlikely... Read More