We are thrilled to announce the debut of our sleek new Alliance Platform via the Mobile Monday .net grand central website! This effort targets our well-established network with engagement opportunities from major global supporters, using custom widgets for dynamic updating feeds wrapped in a smooth slider design, to deliver relevant and direct in page content offerings.

As noted on the top page when we re-launched here some 18-months ago:
While MoMo has traditionally meant face-to-face encounters, the need for digital interaction between stakeholders is increasingly clear. This platform is another step towards addressing the demand for members to connect with developments in the community, spanning over 100 locations worldwide.

That same principle holds true for the many sponsors of Mobile Monday events around the world over the years. “Building trusted physical connections with members is – and continues to be – the core of Mobile Monday” stated Jari Tammisto, CEO of Mobile Monday, “at the same time, our online network provides global 24/7 reach for all players and this solution enables another strong contact channel”.

It’s a great honor to feature IdeasProject, concept by Nokia, as our launch partner for this effort. The collaboration is significant in that Mobile Monday was also founded in Finland and we share an open approach to innovation through mutual exchange across all borders. According to Pia Erkinheimo, Head of Crowdsourcing at Nokia, “The philosophy of MoMo resonates well with IdeasProject. IdeasProject’s creation power is truly global with the reach to 204 countries and autonomous region. It’s idea crowdsourcing community based on voluntarism and open innovation. Ideas found from IdeasProject seek execution, while MoMo members get hands-on inspiration for their businesses.” Erkinheimo continued: “Ideas are the currency of the future. However, people are more important than ideas – and that’s what Mobile Monday is all about – people.”

Naturally there are positive discussions with several potential partners to join this campaign and of course we look forward to expressions of interest from others who would be keen to participate. The global website has gained impressive traction and we have an attractive kit, with friendly pricing and full stats reporting, available to bonafide requests for review.

“Bringing the Mobile Community Together” has long been our central stated mission, we look forward to bolt-on more value added options here in 2012. As ever, your kind support & continued feedback is most welcome.. Smile it’s (always) Monday!

Bakcell, The First Mobile Operator of Azerbaijan, is pleased to be a partner of the international conference titled “Business incubators’ activity and support of youth mobile entrepreneurship: The world experience and perspectives for development of this field in Azerbaijan” on December 13-16, 2011. The conference aims at sharing international experience on establishment of youth business incubators in Azerbaijan in order to support youth entrepreneurship in correspondence with the State Program ” Azerbaijani youth in 2011-2015”.

The conference, which is a part of Mobile Monday Baku project, is organized by the Ministry of Youth and Sport of Azerbaijan Republic and the Caspian Investment Centre (CIC) with the financial support of Bakcell and Alcatel-Lucent.

“Bakcell is interested in development of mobile social networking, as well as youth employment and entrepreneurship in Azerbaijan. In partnership with JAA Azerbaijan and Alcatel-Lucent, we have a great experience in supporting young students to develop their practical skills in telecom industry. Our joint program titled “Introduction to Mobile Telecommunications Business”, provided more than 150 undergraduate students the work-readiness and business ethics skills through the industry-specific practical training and internship program at Bakcell and Alcatel-Lucent”, Mr. Richard Shearer, Bakcell CEO said.

Representatives of MoMo in Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Montenegro, Ukraine, Belarus and other countries will join the conference. The conference is also supported by InfoDev project of the World Bank, ECAbit (European and Central Asian Business Incubators and Technology Parks Network), and Mobile Monday Global Network.

“The International Conference of Youth Business Incubators serves as a great opportunity for Azerbaijani youth to learn from international experiences that can lead them to create local, regional, and global successes. It also makes Azerbaijan a centre for international interest and I look very much forward to meeting and supporting the local talents to succeed”, Mr. Jari Tammisto, CEO and President, Mobile Monday Global, says.

Within the conference the first MoMo Baku event is organized with the participation of representatives of local ICT companies, young developers and bloggers, and MoMo representatives from various countries.

Note that, originating in Helsinki Finland, in 2000, MobileMonday (MoMo) is an open community platform of key mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential people fostering cooperation and business opportunities through live networking events. Baku is the 123rd city joining Mobile Monday. The main objectives of MoMo in Azerbaijan will be to foster innovation within the mobile sector of Azerbaijan through presenting technology innovations from the local and world mobile marketplace and implementing new projects and applications of modern technologies. One Monday of every month an informal meeting of the representatives of mobile operators, ICT companies and young specialists on mobile technologies will be organized to share ideas and discuss innovative visions, trends, studies and forecasts from the mobile marketplace and the ways of starting new projects using mobile technologies. Via: APA

Thank you for your interest in MoMo Las Vegas! We look forward to your attendance at our inaugural launch meeting on the UNLV campus in Las Vegas. Details and Registration Here.

Date: Monday, December 5, 2011
Time: 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Venue: UNLV CB Complex Room A110

Opening Welcome to students, faculty and Las Vegas mobile community

Event Moderators: David and Jennifer Gosse of Tracky

Dr Andrew Hardin, Director, UNLV Center for ntrepreneurship, Lee Business School
Overview of UNLV entrepreneurship activities both on campus and in the community.

David C Williams, Co-Founder, Mobile Monday Las Vegas & .CEO of Explorateur Ventures, Ltd
Introduction to Mobile Monday Las Vegas and overview of MoMo global organization.

Las Vegas Mobile Presentations

Featured application – real-time “garage sale” via Rumgr

Featured application – mobile voting via Wedgi.es

Las Vegas Guest Speakers

Felix Danciu of the Elmcore Group and Mobilized Solutions

Sunny Tara, Founder of Prana Technologies – will present demo of docBeat, a disruptive, innovative healthcare sector solution that fundamentally changes how physicians connect so they can better coordinate care.

Michael Terpin, CEO, Social Radius – Specializing in social media outreach, social media content creation and socially-based traffic building, lead generation and search optimization.

Kevin Fong, GSR Ventures – Twenty years’ experience in Silicon Valley venture capital community, including as Managing Director of the Mayfield Fund. Over $1 billion in returns to investors; invested in over 54 companies, nine of which went public and fifteen were acquired. Responsible for starting first international fund in China, GSR Ventures; now on its third fund with over $600M in capital focused on early-stage tech investing in China.

Adjourn to a UNLV favorite establishment, the venerable Freakin’ Frog, for post-event libations and socializing… Happy Holidays and best wishes for success in 2012!

Mobile Monday Las Vegas 2012 chapter note
Representative from Zappos Mobile to discuss ATT Mobile Hackathon Sunday 8 January 2012

It reserves the agenda for Monday, 21 of November of 2011, 19h30, when the first meeting of the MobileMonday Porto Alegre happens, in the Barbarella Bakery, Street Dinarte Ribeiro, 56, Mills of Wind.

It enters the guests for the chat, Martin general managing Restrepo and co-founder of the MobileMonday São Paulo (MoMoSP) and director of educational technology of the Editacuja are confirmed Publishing company, and Michel Lent strategical vice-president of the Pontomobi/RBS Group.

SUBJECT

The event has as Porto Alegre subject and the Mobile Market; the plurality of this environment and as it is the performance and contribution for the growth of this market.

A little of the founders of the MoMoPoA: Samantha Oak CEO of the Queen Mob, Altino Advising Pavan Partner of the Group Watermelon (Purebros Brazil, Purebros Italy, BeWireless) and Endeavour Group, Rodrigo Schmidt Partner of the Agency wcomm, and Alexander Silveira (Coordinating of the Mobile area of Group RBS).

APPNATION is pleased to offer select companies of MoMo Silicon Valley a complimentary, full conference demo package for APPNATOIN III which comes up November 30 – December 1, 2011 at the San Francisco Design Center (Concourse). Each MoMo SV participant will be featured in The MoMo SV Village– a special interactive area within the APPNATION III exhibition — designed exclusively for early stage developers seeking exceptional exposure to the entire app ecosystem.

APPNATION is the first conference to focus entirely on the business of apps and their transformative impact on consumer and enterprise technology, devices, gaming, commerce, media and social interaction. This is your chance to showcase your app in front of thousands of digital marketers, advertisers and agencies; mobile carriers and device manufacturers; technology product and service providers; and angel and venture investors.

Mobile Monday SV Showcase Package (Complimentary)

• Tabletop demo pod with custom name placard in the MOMO SV VILLAGE at APPNATION III (includes electricity and wireless)
• One (1) All-Access, Full Conference Pass ($995 value) to attend APPNATION III (includes access to expo floor, all keynotes and breakouts)
• One (1) pass to the official APPNATION party and after party
• Opportunity to attend “office hours” with leading investors and industry executives

Application deadline: Nov 21st.

To apply for a spot, fill out the application at http://goo.gl/6jBy1 by Nov 21st. Space is limited to 10 companies per demo day. Winners will be notified during the week of Nov 21st.

Later this week, developers, entrepreneurs and investors will meet to talk about the future of mobile app development in light of a notable Temple University grant that is focused on just that.

Mobile Monday Mid-Atlantic, the local event organization focused on mobile issues — which has been ramping up its attention to app development as of late — will kick-off the 2011 Mobile Application Forum and Bootcamp this Thursday afternoon. [Full Disclosure: Technically Philly is a media sponsor of this event].

“[Mobile Monday] has always been very business focused. We’re aiming to get wider and encompass the development community and the app ecosystem,” says Chuck Sacco, Mobile Monday’s president and chair.

“Our aim is to help any businesses that are trying to make decisions about mobile. What should they be doing? Where should they invest resources?”

To coordinate, the organization is working closely with Fox School of Business early-stage venture forum program Mid-Atlantic Diamond Ventures and Temple’s new Urban Apps and Maps Studio, the $700,000 grant project we covered last month.

The event will focus on product roadmaps, costs issues, funding hurdles and more, and will feature representatives from Comcast Interactive Media, Bentley Systems, Yorn, Dell Boomi, and Ben Franklin Technology Partners, among others.

Though Mobile Monday has hosted development workshops like this in the past, Sacco says because there’s been a lot of growth from the mobile development community, there will be plenty of takeaways from Thursday’s event.

“They’ve now got a year or two of solid experience behind them. You see many more examples, a lot more traction. It’s matured to that next level,” he says. Via: Technically Philly

The frenetic 54-hour Startup Weekend Manila event in Taguig City, Philippines was book-ended Monday night by a Mobile Monday Manila meeting at the Calle Scirocco restaurant and nightclub in Makati City. [Congrats to our very own Christian Besler And Charo Nuguid who did a fantastic job on both of these events!]

There is no shortage of people in the Manila area – and increasingly, no shortage of tech ideas. Monday’s event featured talks from some of the teams who were on display over the week-end.

Monday’s event featured talks from some of the teams who were on display over the week-end. The 100 or so developers on hand Monday night also listened to pitches from Microsoft and RIM.

Norbert Aquende, a Microsoft Windows Phone MVP, said there would be 185 billion smartphone apps downloaded in Asia alone over the next five years, and that Microsoft intended to offer developers a vibrant ecosystem with Win7.

The Philippines is the social-media capital of the world, as measured by per capita texting and SM usage. This is no surprise given the tight bonds that unite families and friends here.

He was followed by Johan Kremer from RIM Singapore, who touted statistics that found Blackberry developers have been the most successful in the industry and that the company intended this to continue. He also made note of the company’s big Asian developer’s conference, to be held in Bangkok in December.

The country’s English-speaking dimension, a propensity for quick action (think of Manny Pacquiao throwing a few lightning combos and you get the idea), and a wacky sense of humor that underlies this reserved culture have likely found no better friend than the emerging smartphone app market. Building apps is not easy, but doesn’t require massive resources – a good idea, some creativity and humor, a good designer, and a few good code demons can be all you need. Plenty of all of all that here. Full article via Sys-Con Media