The Mobile Monday Melbourne team & Mobile Monday Australia together with our major sponsors BlackBerry & Multimedia Victoria are excited to invite you to the 2011 Annual Mobile Industry Awards.

Join us for a fabulous night of food and drinks as we celebrate together at the lavish and exotic Spice Market bar and cocktail lounge.
In addition to some great door prizes and BlackBerry giveaways, you’ll also get the chance to have your say in who wins our 2011 GOLD MoMo Award, so bring your mobile!

Please note that Spice Market has a strict dress code.
No runners and no faded/torn denim. Collared shirt, leather dress shoes required.

With only 200 member tickets available across our 1,500+ Victorian members and over 5,000 nationally, please book now so you so you don’t miss out!

Special thanks to our event Sponsors & Supporters …

Our National Mobile Monday Australia Sponsor: BlackBerry

Our Annual Mobile Monday Melbourne Sponsor: Multimedia Victoria

Our Annual Supporter & Event Sponsor: SMSGlobal

Our Event Sponsor: UK Trade & Investment

Our Annual Supporter: Kingston Development

Industry, Media & Promo Partners:
ASMEA
ADMA
AIMIA

Videography by: Viocorp & Simon Holt

Photography by: TBA

With only 200 member tickets available, book now so you so you don’t miss out!

So What Is “MOvember”? … [CLICK ON VIDEO BELOW]

Mobile Monday Australia are proud to support our national team effort to raise awareness and funds in a fun way to help address serious Men’s health issues in relation to prostate cancer and depression initiatives.

So please LIKE and SHARE news of our efforts as we ROCK OUR MO like only MoMo can! …

Each of our five Mobile Monday Australia chapters will participate …

And this year you can keep track of our team fundraising effort via the “MOvember MObile App” …

So come and join the “Mobile Monday Australia” – MOvember team and help us grow awareness and funds in a fun way to help address the serious issue of Men’s health during the month formerly known as “November”.

JOIN OUR TEAM

https://www.movember.com/au/register/details/team_id/280122

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SPREAD THE WORD & HELP IN OUR FUND RAISING EFFORT

http://mobro.co/MobileMondayAustralia

Expand to the UK with UKTI’s GoUK competition
Around 80 Australian and New Zealand businesses expand their business presence in the UK each year, most of these with the help of UKTI, the British Government’s trade and development arm. UKTI offers personalised, professional help with everything businesses need to succeed in the UK including advice on visas, company location, tax issues, employment, banking and much more. But none of them get quite the helping hand that the Go UK competition provides.

Win Business-Blass Return Flights To The UK As Part Of A $25,000 Package Of Business Support
Three lucky Australian winners and one New Zealand winner will get return business class flights to the UK provided by British Airways as part of a business-support package worth $25,000 to help make sure their UK business will be a success.

For more information about the offering from UKTI and contact details, please see the attached presentation …

UKTI + Mobile Monday Australia = $25,000 GoUK Package & Competition

CLICK Here To Enter The Competition

GoUK Package & Competition Brought To You By:

And GoUK Sponsors:

British Airways

Kevin Beare & Co.

AMac Limited

Developing for iOS – Technical Stream for Developers
A course for experienced desktop or web-top developers with a working knowledge of OOP. No previous expertise in Objective-C required. We provide a state of the art Mac Lab with 24″ iMacs and Xcode 4 — you don’t even need to own a Mac.

Date: Thu 10 – Sat 12 November 2011 9:00am – 4:30pm
Duration: 3-day Course
Price: Normal price $1950 incl GST
Early-bird booking $1550 incl GST (book before Oct 21st)

Suitable For: CTOs, CIOs, IT Directors, IT Managers, Development Managers, Programmers, Developers, IT Training Managers, e-Business Entrepreneurs
Acquire the knowledge and materials for building stable and production ready “data centric mobile applications”. This means iOS native UIKit components, retrieving data from local data stores or networked service and publishing to the Apple App Store.

More Information – Download the course brochure

Register Now – Registration is essential, limited spaces available

From Idea to App Store – Strategic Stream
Level up your mobile capabilities and be confident executing winning app strategies. Understand the strategic and operational possibilities of your app project. Develop commercially effective app concepts and successfully navigate the fast changing App Store landscape. The course is targeted to business & technical managers, business analysts, educators, e-business professionals and entrepreneurs.

Date: Fri 25 November 2011 9:00am – 4:30pm
Duration: 1-day Course
Price: Normal price $850 incl GST
Early-bird booking $550 incl GST (book before Oct 21st)

Suitable For: Senior and middle managers, graphic designers and illustrators, web developers, other digital media and creative professionals, e-business entrepreneurs, mobile software project owners/sponsors.
Level up your understanding and capabilities for developing and executing mobile app strategies. Understand strategic and operational implications of your app project, develop effective app concepts and successfully navigate the fast changing App store landscape. This course is scoped for business managers, technical managers, business analysts and entrepreneurs.

More Information – Download the course brochure

Register Now – Registration is essential, limited spaces available

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MAPPING & MOBILE

We have an exciting action packed event with NAVTEQ – Network 4 Developers (NN4D) sponsoring the nights theme on MAPPING & MOBILE.

Join us for drinks and nibbles as we set course through the unchartered waters of location based services in mobile, as we are guided by our adventurous presenters who have been there, done that and got the t-shirt to prove what is possible with MAPPING & MOBILE.

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Next MoMo Event – DATE, TIME, LOCATION & REGISTRATION:

• DATE: Monday 17th October, 2011
• TIME: 6:00pm for networking & drinks, 6.30pm – 8.00pm for Presentations & Panel Discussion.
• LOCATION: The Order of Melbourne – Level 2, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne (MAP)
• COST: FREE although RSVP and registration is required for this event as finger food & drinks will be supplied.

SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS FOR PROVIDING FINGER FOOD & DRINKS FOR THIS EVENT:

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PRESENTERS & DISCUSSION PANEL WILL INCLUDE:

1. The NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D) – http://www.NN4D.com/

Presenter: Mark Whitmore, NAVTEQ

NAVTEQ is the leading global provider of location content in the form of maps, traffic and places data that enables navigation, location-based services and mobile advertising around the world. NAVTEQ’s advanced visual content, LocationPoint™ Advertising platform and NAVTEQ Traffic™ portfolio are among the premier products customers and developers can use to differentiate their locationofferings.

The NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D) empowers application developers with the knowledge and resources needed to create the hottest, most differentiated location-based products. Access technical resources, support and business development services to build and market location apps for web, mobile, automotive, GIS and enterprise markets worldwide. Join NN4D for free at www.NN4D.com.

Case Study: Location based developer platform & building mobile apps on them

2. Jeppesen – http://jeppesen.com/

Presenter: David Healy, Technical Team Leader, Journey Planning at Jeppesen

Jeppesen Journey Planner is a hosted web service providing public transport journey planning through an API. It is currently supporting journey planning for over 30 regions around the world (including Sydney). The presentation will focus onhow the API can add value for mapping applications.

Case Study: Building a location based mobile app

3. Roamz – http://www.roamz.com/

Presenter: Heather Ann Snodgrass, Head of Marketing & Communications at Roamz

Roamz is a location-based application that helps you find out interesting things happening at places around you. With so much noise on the social web, Roamz guides you to the serendipitous moments that the locals find out about.Roamz is like having your best friend in your pocket showing you places and activities that you are actually interested in. The more you use Roamz the smarter it gets, so no matter where you are you’ll always be a local.

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OTHER MOBILE INDUSTRY NEWS & EVENTS:

Planet Of The Apps 2011, 27th-28th Oct in Sydney

Planet of the Apps 2011, 27th-28th October at the Sydney Exhibition & Convention Centre, is Australia’s leading conference dedicated to Mobile Apps.

Planet of the Apps brings together global and local leaders to showcase the best the world of mobile apps has to offer, including special Developer Sessions such as one being run by BlackBerry.

Through innovative case studies, presentations and panel discussions attendees will learn how to leverage the power of mobile apps for communication, collaboration and entertainment.

Some of the organisations speaking include Hipstamatic (USA), Yahoo!7, Ogilvy (UK), Fairfax Media, Telegraph Media Group (UK), Smirnoff, Optus, VHA and more!

Mobile Monday members click here now to SAVE 50% on tickets when booking with a credit card online.

Note: This 50% discount offer is only available until the 14th of October and is limited to the first 50 Mobile Monday respondents.

BlackBerry will be a Gold Sponsor at the upcoming Planet of the Apps Conference at the Sydney Convention Centre on the Oct 27-28th.

As part of our sponsorship attendees will hear from Sarim Aziz, Team Lead, Developer Relations, Blackberry – Research in Motion speak on ‘Super Apps’: Taking it to the next level and join in the panel discussions on ‘Who owns the user experience?’ and ‘How to engage and re-engage consumers’.

BlackBerry are also hosting a FREE developer workshop on Friday 28 October 2011 from 2:30PM-4:30PM.

Attend this workshop to explore the exciting development possibilities of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for PlayBook. Learn how to use CSS3, HTML5 and JavaScript WebWorks APIs to transform your existing web assets into a BlackBerry Super App! We’ll then show you how to take your BlackBerry WebWorks application from the BlackBerry Smartphone over to BlackBerry Playbook, leveraging common integration methods and how to implement must have application features.

To register for the FREE BlackBerry workshop, please click here

Mobile Monday – 2011 Mobile Industry Awards on Nov 28th

Following up on the successful launch of our annual Mobile Monday – Mobile Industry Awards event in December 2010, keep a look out for nominations for the Mobile Monday – 2011 Mobile Industry Awards very soon with finalists & winners announced at our end of year party on November 28th, 2011.

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Special thanks to our Mobile Monday Melbourne and national Mobile Monday Australia sponsor …

Looking forward to seeing you!

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Mobile Apps And The Challenge of Cross-Platform Development

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Next MoMo Event – DATE, TIME, LOCATION & REGISTRATION:

• DATE: Monday 12th September, 2011
• TIME: 6:00pm for networking & drinks, 6.30pm – 8.00pm for Presentations & Panel Discussion.
• LOCATION: The Order of Melbourne – Level 2, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne (MAP)
• COST: FREE although RSVP and registration below is required for this event.

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PRESENTERS & DISCUSSION PANEL WILL INCLUDE:

• Anton Sher, Director of FrontFoot

Anton Sher, Front Foot

Anton Sher has over ten years experience in the mobile industry, starting at the conception of 3G and specialising in the real commercialisation of mobile products for carriers, publishers, and enterprise.
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• Travis Dixon – Software Engineer at DiUS

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After hacking away for a few years on his nexus one side projects, Travis Dixon has decided to bring some value from his 7 years in enterprise development across to the mobile space. Travis has worked on projects for a range of clients including Sensis, Country Fire Authority and Jemena
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SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS FOR PROVIDING FOOD & DRINK FOR THIS EVENT:

• DiUS

DiUS is an Australian software engineering company specialising in the development of business systems using contemporary practices and technologies that maximise value for the project owner and speed to market.

• FrontFoot

FrontFoot is a leading digital solutions company that specialises in delivering multi-channel sites and applications for smartphones, feature phones and tablet devices. Their client list includes Telstra, Vodafone, KPMG, Zurich Financial Services, Tabcorp, and Sportsbet.

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RSVP NOW FOR A FREE SPONSORED DRINK WHILE NETWORKING:

A free drink will be provided this month for the first 25 people to arrive after 6:00pm, so arrive early for networking over drinks and please RSVP, SHARE, LIKE & TWEET to help us get the word out and grow our talented Mobile community:

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OTHER MOBILE INDUSTRY EVENTS:

Following up on the successful launch of our annual Mobile Monday – Mobile Industry Awards event in December 2010, keep a look out for nominations for the 2011 Mobile Monday – Mobile Industry Awards very soon!

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Special thanks to our Mobile Monday Melbourne and national Mobile Monday Australia sponsor …

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As part of our sponsorship attendees will hear from Sarim Aziz, Team Lead, Developer Relations, Blackberry – Research in Motion speak on ‘Super Apps’: Taking it to the next level and join in the panel discussions on ‘Who owns the user experience?’ and ‘How to engage and re-engage consumers’.

BlackBerry are also hosting a FREE developer workshop on Friday 28 October 2011 from 2:30PM-4:30PM.

Attend this workshop to explore the exciting development possibilities of the BlackBerry WebWorks SDK for PlayBook. Learn how to use CSS3, HTML5 and JavaScript WebWorks APIs to transform your existing web assets into a BlackBerry Super App! We’ll then show you how to take your BlackBerry WebWorks application from the BlackBerry Smartphone over to BlackBerry Playbook, leveraging common integration methods and how to implement must have application features.

To register for the FREE BlackBerry workshop, please click here

Got A Great Idea For An App To Develop? … CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO … Then Read Below About Our Developer Challenge with $$$ PRIZES!

If you are considering entering the BlackBerry Developer Challenge or even interested to see how quickly it can be to take an idea and have it developed, …

>>> CHECK OUT THIS VIDEO < <<

… from Jordan Knight who got global attention for this video and his development … NOTE: He is not a “blackberry” developer and had never developed on their platform prior.

MoMoNEWS: BlackBerry Renews Sponsorship & Launches a Developer Challenge with $$$ PRIZES!

Mobile Monday Melbourne is proud to announce that BlackBerry have extended and stepped up their annual sponsorship to our Diamond level, providing Mobile Monday Australia with funds for our national sponsorship and many new initiatives for you, our members, in the months and year ahead.

This new BlackBerry Diamond level sponsorship of Mobile Monday Australia will cover all 5 Chapters including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide & our newest MoMo … Perth, meaning more mobile events for our members to attend in more cities across Australia!

BlackBerry Developer Challenge (Ends Nov 30th, 2011)

To celebrate our new Mobile Monday Australia sponsorship with BlackBerry, we are holding a Developer Challenge for BlackBerry® Messenger with serious PRIZE MONEY!

Win prizes for developing the coolest application that connects people from within a mobile or tablet application.

Leverage RIM’s Blackberry Messenger (BBM) Social Platform APIs that are available for either Webworks or Java development platforms.

• FIRST PRIZE – Increased to AUD$8,000!!!
• SECOND PRIZE – AUD$4,000
• THIRD PRIZE – A BlackBerry PlayBook & Torch Smartphone

Terms & Conditions:

• Entries close 30th November
• Winners announced at the October Mobile Monday Sydney event
• Judging panel Mobile Monday Board, RIM Leadership Team
• Register interest with an email to nkennedy@rim.com with a one page summary of your application.
• Applications must be submitted to the RIM App World Storefront before 30th of November

SPREAD THE NEWS WITH FRIENDS & DEVELOPERS …

BlackBerry’s national endorsement of Mobile Monday is a testament to their endeavours to work closely with the local Australian mobile community by partnering with Australia’s leading mobile industry networking event, Mobile Monday.

Develop with BBM – BlackBerry® Messenger is an instant messaging app just for BlackBerry smartphone owners. With an active user base of over 45 million, BBM™ has become one of the largest mobile-centric communities in the industry. Over 2 million new users join the BBM community each month. The BBM community is very active, with over 70% of users using it daily and over 100 billion BBM messages sent every month.

Increased engagement and app stickiness: add an addicting social element to your apps by allowing users to connect with old and new friends

Increased discoverability: with over 45 million users worldwide, word about your application can travel fast in the BBM community

Increased monetization: developing apps with BBM functionality will increase engagement, discoverability and virality—all key factors for increasing revenues and profits

BBM Social Platform – Enables developers to build a whole new class of consumer and enterprise apps that leverage the power of social interactions.

The BBM Platform exposes a comprehensive suite of APIs to securely integrate with and benefit from the BBM social graph BBM data and functionality are exposed to developers Contact list, group membership, user profile Chat, file and data transfer, invitations

CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED:
http://us.blackberry.com/developers/blackberrymessenger/

INFORMATION ON APPWORLD STOREFRONT:
http://us.blackberry.com/developers/appworld/distribution.jsp

DOUBLE YOUR CHANCES TO WIN … Enter your app into the Global Developer Challenge
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http://us.blackberry.com/developers/dev_challenge.jsp

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The Mobile Monday – Mobile Entrepreneur Edition

The Mobile Entrepreneur Edition & Pitch Competition

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Next MoMo Event – DATE, TIME & LOCATION:

• DATE: Monday 15th August, 2011
• TIME: 6:00pm for networking & drinks, 6.30pm – 8.00pm for Presentations & Panel Discussion.
• LOCATION: The Order of Melbourne – Level 2, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne (MAP)
• COST: FREE although RSVP is required for this event as food & drinks will be sponsored this month.
• RSVP:

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PRESENTERS & DISCUSSION PANEL WILL INCLUDE:

• PRESENTERS – To Be Announced
• PRIZES – Already Secured For Top 2 Winning Mobile Business Ideas!
• MOBILE VOTING – MoMo Audience Will Get To Vote On The Winners Using Their Mobile!

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RSVP NOW FOR A FREE SPONSORED DRINK WHILE NETWORKING:

A free drink will be provided this month for the first 25 people to arrive after 6:00pm, so arrive early for networking over drinks and please RSVP, SHARE, LIKE & TWEET to help us get the word out and grow our talented Mobile community:

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OTHER MOBILE INDUSTRY NEWS:

Following up on the successful launch of our annual Mobile Monday – Mobile Industry Awards event in December 2010, this year marks the launch of a second and worthy new independent and commercial awards event called the “Australian Mobile Awards” and we encourage you to take a look.

Mobile Monday Melbourne members get a special 10% award nomination discount by using the discount code “MA2011″. Click on the following banner for more details …

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The New Marketing Frontier In Your Customer’s Hands

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Next MoMo Event – DATE, TIME & LOCATION:

• DATE: Monday 11th July, 2011
• TIME: 6:00pm for networking & drinks, 6.30pm – 8.00pm for Presentations & Panel Discussion.
• LOCATION: Sensis Auditorium, Level 3, QV Bldg, 222 Lonsdale St (MAP)
• COST: FREE although RSVP is required for this event as food & drinks are sponsored this month.
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PRESENTERS & DISCUSSION PANEL WILL INCLUDE:

• Andrew O’Shea – Vodafone – Product Manager for Mobile Advertising & API
• Ben Mulcahy – Big Mobile – Business Development Manager
• Katie Chang – Starcom MediaVest – Group Digital Media Planner

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SPONSORED DRINKS FOR MOMOJUL, THANKS TO BIG MOBILE:

As a free drink will be provided this month for the first 50 people to arrive after 6:00pm, arrive early for networking over drinks and please RSVP, SHARE, LIKE & TWEET to help us get the word out and grow our talented Mobile community:

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OTHER MOBILE INDUSTRY NEWS:

Following up on the successful launch of our annual Mobile Monday – Mobile Industry Awards event in December 2010, this year marks the launch of a second and worthy new independent and commercial awards event called the “Australian Mobile Awards” and we encourage you to take a look.

Mobile Monday Melbourne members get a special 10% award nomination discount by using the discount code “MA2011″. Click on the following banner for more details …

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The Augmented Reality experts for our MoMoMAY Presentations & Discussion Panel Included:

Special thanks to the team from Viocorp for filming, editing and hosting our video footage, Simon Holt for his brilliant camera skills, and our valued volunteer video and photography team from RMIT Film School (Liane Li and Shu Shu Zheng).

PLEASE CLICK ON THE VIDEO BELOW TO START VIEWING …

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After our Mobile Monday AR event, we are all even more excited about this Augmented Reality technology and its promising future for delivering outstanding experiences on your mobile or tablet PC that are out of this world!

Enjoy the video, share your feedback below and we look forward to seeing you at our next MoMo event!