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 also get to have your say on who wins our 2011 GOLD MoMo Award, bring your mobile!

With only 200 member tickets available, Book Now so you don’t miss out!

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

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: SMS Global

Our Event Sponsor: UK Trade & Investment

Our Annual Supporter: Kingston Development

Industry, Media & Promo Partners:
ASMEA
ADMA
AIMIA

Videography by: Viocorp & Simon Holt

Looking forward to celebrating an amazing year in Mobile with you!

Your Friendly Mobile Monday Melbourne Crew,
Ben Bickford (@benbickford),
Zac Jacobs (@zacjacobs), 
Norbert Herrmann (@norbertherrmann)

The MObile MOnday MOvember MOustache Season Has Started !!!

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

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

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. Each of our five Mobile Monday Australia chapters will participate.. so, please LIKE and SHARE news of our efforts as we ROCK OUR MO like only MoMo can!

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

SPREAD THE WORD & HELP IN OUR FUND RAISING EFFORT

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Your Friendly Mobile Monday Melbourne Crew:
Ben Bickford,  Zac Jacobs, and Norbert Herrmann

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 mobile & mapping.

PRESENTERS & DISCUSSION PANEL WILL INCLUDE:

1. The NAVTEQ Network for Developers™ (NN4D)

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

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

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.

DATE: Monday 17th October, 2011
TIME:  6:00pm drinks & networking, 6:30pm – 8:00pm Presentations & Panel Discussion
LOCATION: The Order of Melbourne – Level 2, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne
COST:  FREE although RSVP is Required as food & drinks will be provided thanks to NAVTEQ.

Mobile Monday Melbourne is typically held on the second Monday evening each month from February to November as a networking event for the Melbourne mobile industry and is organised by Ben Bickford,  Zac Jacobs, and Norbert Herrmann.

Mobile Monday Melbourne is a non for profit industry organisation and is part of Mobile Monday Australia. E-mail us to get in touch with project presentation requests, sponsorship offers and speaking engagements: info@MobileMondayMelbourne.com

Special Thanks To Our MAPPING & MOBILE Event Sponsor for MoMoOCT:

Special Thanks To Our MoMoAUS National Diamond Sponsor:

Please join us at Mobile Monday Melbourne on Sept 12th, 6:00pm for drinks and to enjoy …

Mobile Apps & The Challenge of Mobile Cross-Platform Development – RSVP Here

Including Presentations, Case Studies & Discussion Panel With Experts!

NEXT MoMo EVENT – DATE, TIME & LOCATION:

• DATE: Monday 12th September, 2011
• TIME: 6:00pm drinks & networking, 6:30pm – 8:00pm Presentations & Panel Discussion 
• LOCATION: The Order of Melbourne – Level 2, 401 Swanston Street, Melbourne (MAP) 
• COST: FREE although RSVP required as a FREE drink will be provided for first 25 people

PRESENTERS & DISCUSSION PANEL WILL INCLUDE:

Anton Sher, Director of Front Foot

Travis Dixon, Software Engineer at DiUS

FREE Finger Food & Drinks For MoMoSEP Kindly Sponsored By:

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

Looking forward to seeing you!

The Mobile Entrepreneur Edition & Pitch Competition

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!

• 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 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 banner above for more details.

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Looking forward to seeing you!

Your Friendly Mobile Monday Melbourne Crew

Ben Bickford,  Zac Jacobs, and Norbert Herrmann

Join us at Mobile Monday Melbourne on 11th of July from 6:00pm to explore …

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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Looking forward to seeing you!

Please RSVP and join us at Mobile Monday Melbourne on 20th of June from 6:00pm to explore Creating The Ultimate Mobile User Xperience (UX)

Our special guest for MoMoJUN is Oliver Weidlich of Ideal Interfaces and Mobile Experience. Oliver will entertain and educate us with the the good, the bad & the ugly of Mobile UX as key aspects to delivering great mobile experiences, together with best practice examples here and around the world. He will also look at the impact future mobile technologies are likely to have on how we use our mobile devices. And we’ll lastly poke fun at some UX’s only a mother could love.

Oliver Weidlich draws on a background in psychology, experience in customer research, and understanding of mobile technology to identify key issues for client business strategy and to recommend & design solutions. He has consulted to clients such as; Westpac, ABC, Three, Optus, Citrix and Hothouse. Earlier this year Oliver was recognised with the AIMIA Outstanding Contribution award for his work in the local mobile industry including; co-founder and co-host of Mobile Monday Sydney and key driver for the Australian Mobile Phone Lifestyle Index, a research project looking at how Australia’s use their mobile phones conducted annually over the last 6 years.

MoMo Event Date, Time & Location:

• Date: Monday 20th June, 2011
• Time: 6:00pm (for a 6.30pm punctual start) – 8.00pm, Optional dinner out afterwards too!
• Location: Three Degrees Bar (Upstairs Bar) – QV Building, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne (MAP)
• Cost: FREE although RSVP is required for this event on our website

Additional presenter requests welcome via Email:  INFO (AT) Mobile Monday Melbourne (DOT) COM

Please join us at Mobile Monday Melbourne on Monday 16th of May from 6:00pm for a review of the highly engaging developments in Augmented Reality … Register in Advance Here

Let us show you some of the mind boggling apps and campaigns leveraging Augmented Reality (“AR”) and answer some of your key questions, including:

Happy New Year to all our Mobile Monday Melbourne peeps!

It is going to be a HUGE year in mobile in 2011 and we look forward to sharing the exciting developments online and in person together with the research and insights we gather for you from the world’s best and biggest industry events (e.g. 2011 GSMA and Mobile World Congress in Feb).

As we still bask in the afterglow of our annual Mobile Industry Awards in Dec 2010, we are excited to share two videos with you …

1. Mobile Monday Melbourne – 2010 Mobile Industry Awards (Nominations & Winners – SUMMARY VIDEO SOON)
2. 2010 Global Mobile Year In Review Video — AMAZING STATS !!!

Highlights of the 2010 Global Mobile Year in Review …

Massive increase in apps downloaded

• FIVE BILLION apps downloaded — up from 300 million in 2009

Whopping expansion of location-based services

• FIVE MILLION Foursquare users — up from 200,000 users in 2009

Surge in mobile social media platforms

• 200 MILLION mobile Facebook Users
• 100 MILLION YouTube videos played on mobile devices everyday

Ongoing explosion in data traffic

• 3,000 PERCENT growth in one carrier’s data traffic since 2008
• 3,339: average number of texts sent per month by US teens.

Unprecedented competition and choice

• 96 PERCENT of mobile users can choose from 3 or more providers
• 92 PERCENT of mobile users are satisfied with their provider
• 4 CENTS: average voice rate per minute in the US
• 77 MILLION: number of smartphones shipped in the Autumn of 2010 in US.

Make sure you also “Subscribe FREE For Updates” or click the tab above and update your details to receive our mobile industry news coverage, mobile industry articles and event invites on a regular basis.

Best wishes for 2011!

Ben Bickford

(Mobile Monday Melbourne – Editor-In-Chief Online)

… together with your Mobile Monday Melbourne Crew …  Zac Jacobs, Norbert Herrmann and Andrea Georgiou

P.s. We are researching topics for 2011 and welcome your suggestions via Facebook, Twitter or email!

The MoMo Melbourne team is thrilled to announce the winners of our 2010 Mobile Industry Awards

1. Mobile Company of the Year

>> SMS Global

2. Consumer App of the Year

>> Deck of Secrets

3. Enterprise App of the Year

>> Bamboo – Deloitte

4. Rookie/Startup of the Year

>> Voxel Agents

5. Mobile Campaign of the Year

>> Big Mobile – ANZ Bank

6. Export/Innovation of the Year

>> SMS Global

Well Done and thanks to the 200+ people who attended our Awards event, our international guests, our event sponsors and the industry for voting.

In addition to our event sponsors, we would like to give a special thanks to …

1. BlackBerry for giving away 3 x BlackBerry Bold Mobile Phones in a business card and ticket draw at the end of the night,

2. Phil Kingston of Kingston Group for providing door prizes of his book “The War For Eyeballs“,

3. Nick & Nick from Viocorp and Simon Holt for capturing our fun event on video, and

4. Our magnificent photographer from GJN Photography for capturing the magic photos of our lavish event at Spice Market

Thank you all for a huge year for our industry in 2010 and best wishes for an even bigger year together in 2011!

Your Mobile Monday Melbourne Crew …

Ben Bickford, Zac Jacobs, Norbert Herrmann and Andrea Georgiou