Hey – WoW – It’s Really Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas!

That’s pretty much a wrap for 2011.. and what a year it’s been. Our best guess shows about 500 events held around the MoMo world over the last 12-months, with easy average of 100 delegates at each, means some 50,000 people were smiling! Taken a step further: lets book 1 Million hand-shakes as a direct result of everyones combined efforts.. many (many, many) thanks to you all.

With plenty of folks edging towards full panic shopping mode, we still have a few more events planned for this week. Belfast has plenty of ‘cheer’ on offer to get members there into the holiday mood and Brussels has SoLoMo theme with 5-speakers lined up. Third times the charm in Cairo for M-Health, Chicago is calling for internal organizers meet to plan their 2012 roadmap, beer and pizza should be involved, while Cleveland explores How to avoid mistakes in a nascent mobile market. Detroit will take this opportunity to discuss the Impact of 2011 and What the Future Holds while Hong Kong is having a Very Merry Mobile Monday tonite.

Perth gets Square on Thurs. the 15th and Singapore has HTC Dev. crew gathering for 12.12 at Harrys. Sydney celebrates Christmas summer and Tel Aviv runs a Startup Accelerator themed gig. Rounding out the dozen events for this week, Tokyo hosts Navteq for their year-end show.

Otherwise, indeed – the Happy Bots are just back into the groove here, jet lagged with sand in our shorts, best wishes to all for a safe and happy season – have a totally ripping New Year of the Dragon!

– Happy Bots

a Strong Heart and Nerves of Steel – Viva Las Vegas – Viva Las Vegas!

As noted last week, your faithful Happy Bots are on a walk about so we’re gonna make this quick. Thrilled to bytes that Las Vegas officially gets underway with their debut slated for this evening at UNLV. Seems our late night meetings at Capos last spring – with heads of all five families – will finally cover the vig. We’re pretty bullish on that crew making an impact on the Vegas tech scene..

Now, lets take a light-speed ride through Mobile Monday events scheduled around the globe today, starting in Belgrade for their #5 event in Serbia, Berlin calls legends and leaders on-stage to discuss the future of Mobile Gaming. Dubai is back to beat the sophomore jinx with their 2nd gathering since launch, with any luck we’ll see future events posted on their new website too. MoMo Dar-es-Salaam has data, mapping and gov. partnerships while Los Angeles runs the annual Mobile Excellence Awards.

As noted above Las Vegas launches tonight with mischief predicted at the Freakin Frog after-party, while Manchester gets a jump on St. Nick with an xmas good cheer mixer. Miami is focused on the timely topic of Mobile Giving December 5th and Paris hosts a group visiting from MoMo Beijing on Weds. the 7th for Asian Innovation night – great collaboration going there!

MoMo Richmond is booked for developer focused gig and Seattle does co-op with Xconomy Forum – Dec. 6th – on their Mobile Madness event. Toronto bears witness to the Launch of Ting by Tucows and Washington is a strategic affiliate and supporting organization for the mHealth Summit running from Dec. 5-7th. This weeks tour ends in Zurich, gathering in Bern, with a super m2m and Internet of Things agenda led by an impressive group of speakers.

Usually this would be the place where we insert some featured new members, or company profile, who recently joined the community. However, we have a jam packed schedule here on fantasy island this afternoon with kite-surfing nap, tennis massage and happy Happy hour by the pool! Trust you all can snoop around for the interesting tid-bits while we take this long overdue de-frag.

– Happy Bots

PS Note: If you have recently established a new account here – but it’s not yet activated – no doubt ’someone’ will get that through the manual approval stage as possible.

Congrats to all our Mo’Bros & Mo’Sistas for a Really Great MOvember

Hey All You MOoooos’.. there you have it! Another MOvember wraps up this week and we’re itchin’ for mega gala party action! This MO’vement is really gaining awareness, for good reason, so – many thanks to all who jumped-up again this year to support a most worthy cause. We’re already looking forward to next season and fully expect to see some seriously fun(d) raising events across our MoMo Global network in 2012 = Good on ya! If you still don’t know MO’.. see YouTube playlist embedded below..

Now, we’re gonna take a quick run around the world for Mobile Monday events on-tap before heading out the door for that private jet pointed towards an un-disclosed tropical location. *Therefore Note* admin duties at this site will run on island time as many margaritas with colorful umbrellas are forecast in the Happy Bots immediate future. Meanwhile, expect y’all play nicely together, try not to burn down the digital house, we’ll be back on the switch here at mission control in a couple weeks.. maybe.

Kicking off with MoMo Ann Arbor, re-do on the Android Devs gig as last minute venue issue Nov. 7th scuttled the original plan. New date set – Weds 30th – somebody wins a Blackberry Playbook. Moving across to Frankfurt, they are on Monday, such meticulous attention to detail, with Mobile Ad Channel theme and down in Jakarta a strong speaker line-up explores a Million App Downloads, props to RIM.

The crew in Lagos has Get Techie 2.0 – it was nice, let’s do it twice – event scheduled on 11.28, and back in London apparently it will be sunshine & crumpets for Startups and SMEs. Meanwhile, Manila has the jolly, plumpy Man in Red – not to be confused with Lady in Red – ready to dish iPads candy to all the good little mobilistas there.. so you know the drill = better be good for goodness sake!

Melbourne deserves an entire paragraph to themselves – wOw. Their 2011 Mobile Industry Awards show is booked in at the super swank Spice Market venue with a long list of supporting partners and best-of-the-best players ready to rock & roll for some shiny hardware. Looking forward to post-event report and pix! Finally, rounding out this weeks world tour, Tokyo is throwing an open mixer for the in-bound delegation led by MoMo Vancouver organizers from Wavefront.. MOoseheads Beware.

As with past editions posted here, we have featured some of the new interesting members that recently joined our momo.net community. For a change, this week we’d like to pass along big shout out the the Grameen Foundation who just set-up their profile here, seems they need a Technology Manager to run LAC Applab project in Colombia. Anyway, that team has done some fantastic work, we’re thankful for their continued activities with our MoMo chapter in Kampala, Uganda. Cheers.

Otherwise – Don’t Forget our Mo’Challenge – now, we gotta pack some shorts and sunscreen!

– Happy Bots

Smile.. It’s Gonna Be a Bright Sunshiny Monday.. Olá Porto Alegre!

Plenty of great action around the Mobile Monday world scheduled for 21st November, from Dakar to Dublin and Vancouver to Vienna, we got the full skinny round-up below. Starting with warm Welcome Aboard to the latest addition in our MoMo Global family; Porto Alegre, Brazil is set for their debut this evening! Congrats to the new team there (including Samantha Oak, aka – Queen Mob), and thanks to Martin Restrepo, co-founder of MoMo in Sao Paulo, who will be on-hand to keep the bubbly flowing.

The bots be thrilled to see Dakar get back down to it with ‘les technologies mobiles’ for their 3rd event since the Senegal chapter launched in April while Dublin runs a BlackBerry Devs gig – Yes, seems some freebies will go to a lucky few there – with a case study by The Guardian on-tap. JoBurg has planned a HUGE year end event for 11.21, last minute registration deets here, with South African Idols winners and mystery handset prizes from Samsung ready to add some extra vibe to the evening!

Nairobi is ‘on’ again at the iHub this evening, personally we could really go for some of Pete’s Coffee about now, while Ottawa has Susan Ibach, developer evangelist for Microsoft Canada, up on-stage talking Win7 Mango! Over in Munich, living large in the glass towers at o2 HQ, they have an awesome line-up ready to explore API’s and Ideas for mobile going forward and heading down under we have the new crew in Perth, loud and proud – it’s also event #3 there, with Nokia in the house.

The NAVTEQ Network for Developers road-show hits Shanghai for a little Mobile Mapping Magic, with widely rumored N8 give aways, at Kathleens in the swank Shanghai Art Museum and Tallinn welcomes the eminent Andreas Constantinou, Managing Director of VisionMobile and founding organizer of MoMo in Athens. Back on the west coast we have Vancouver hosting Ryan Storgaard, Director of Technical Evangelism, Microsoft Canada, at the WaveFront facilities. A few last moment mentions, how do we keep up with it all, Boulder has Get Jar, and – Hey, no clowning around! – some demo night action planned in Kampala and Vienna. Update: ‘Just’ noticed they are gathering in Islamabad too..!!

As mentioned here last week; the MoMo Global Page is up at Google Plus be sure to hit us there as we’ve got infinite room in our Mobilistas circle, also noted those complimentary showcase packages for the MoMo SV Village at upcoming APPNATION, deadline to apply for that is today. Full props to all our MoBros out there, we’re in the last quarter push to MOnth-end so get yer pretty profile pix online and ping those personal networks for a few sheckles, the mega gala party season is within sight.

Finally, a big shout-out to a few of the New Members joining us here this week: Anita Windisman, Andrew Sandes, Srinivas Mothey, Matthew Kelly, Tom Hubbard, Reynaldo Gil, Troy MacFarlane, Meridith Miller, Lianshi HO, Jennifer Lee, Lesley Sudiro, Kartik Ram, James Ballow, Frode Thorsén, Angie Ryan. Whew.. thinking maybe this little feature section should include a few groovy startups in our future editions, we’re Always Open to Suggestions!

aaaand.. that’s a wrap = 14 15 gigs running tonite, including a new addition to the family and another fresh crop of folks to Meet Here at MoMo.net. So let a (several) thousand smiles bloom..

– Happy Bots

btw: If you really need a constant fix.. See The Mob Rulz Daily News.

11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month – in 2011 – Lest We Forget

Smile.. It’s Monday for November 7th and we’ve got 20 MoMo gigs, possibly a new record, scheduled to rock worldwide. As noted last week on the Tricks & Treats post, your ever faithful and energetic Happy Bots will do our level best going forward to put together a quick events round-up for you here.

Sadly, seems we missed the Accra event Nov. 4th, Ghana does Mobile Monday on Fridays, Keith and his team are on tonite in Ann Arbor with program targeting Android Developers, and Brussels digs into Mobile b2b Challenges – complete with a live ustream for those who cannot attend in person.

Boston has a super NFC and Mobile Retail event theme line-up while Cape Town welcomes Google, possibly expecting some inside skinny there with respect to new smartphone consumer research, and Chisinau is running a BlackBerry Developers Webcast. We should also point-out that our new crew there in Moldovia just joined this event with the World Bank last Friday = Great Job Yana!

Dar-es-Salaam is back in the groove tonight with their Battle of the Mobile Platforms and Denver has event dedicated to QR Codes. Hamburg does Gamification, note that’s on Tues, Big Congrats to the lads and lasses in London for their 6th Anniversary event, with an all-star line-up of the usual suspects, and our belated mega wOOt! goes out to MoMo Philly on the Nov. 3rd event at Temple University.

Miami has a Mobile Coupons show on-tap and Montreal will explore Taking Mobile Further at Cafe Republic, we have another birthday party in Sao Paulo – celebrating the terrible two’s – sniff.. they grow-up so quickly. Seoul has Mobile Advertising show and Silicon Valley is set to dish on the Secrets to Building a Successful Business on Mobile, tix ’should’ be $1,000.. But as always = Free!

Shanghai partner Silicon Dragons run a Battle of the Start-ups tonite, the gang in Skopje, Macedonia for the geographically challenged, has HTML5 focused event and Sydney is geared up for Santa with Mobilising Christmas.. MoMoMo! Taipei is back with SoLoMo Context and Meaning while Toronto has mCommerce Panel and the new team in Vietnam brings Tomi Ahonen to Ho Chi Minh City Nov. 10th.

A quick FYI on a few upcoming gigs here while we have your attention:

- MoMo Germany celebrates their 5th Anniversary – Congrats! – next week in Dusseldorf.
- Because of the flooding in Thailand, Bangkok decided to postpone their Nov. 14th event.
- MoMo Tampere has their debut event next Monday night, sponsored by Ixonos and Nokia
- Skyhook sponsors Mobile Monday Hong Kong on 11/16 as part of Mobile Asia Congress.

Otherwise, we wanted to feature some new members with interesting profiles who’ve joined the community recently. Don’t be shy – say Hello!

Drew Harlow, Eyal Rosen, Oliver Starr, Tamara, Jeff Bacon, Phil Costa, Andrew Goulton, Sai Geetha, Kyle Studstill, Peer Mbonika, Naveen Srikantaiah, Jonathan Charles, Daniel Lewington and Todor Krecu.

Finally, again, it’s MOvember (yes, there’s an app for that) and the boyz from down-under WANT YOU!

Whew.. hope we didn’t miss anyone – see ya here next week – meanwhile, keep on Smilin..

– Happy Bots

btw: If you need a constant fix.. See The Mob Rulz Daily News.