If you are in the North-West of England and have nothing to do or, rather, nothing really, really important to do, you may want to drop in for our latest Mobile Monday Manchester edition, which takes place tonight starting at 6pm at the BBC in the brand-spanking new MediaCityUK.
The topic of the night will be “Second Screen” and we will have people from all corners of that: speakers from the Beep itself, companies providing infrastructure and service as well as creative agencies that deliver on these screens.
More info here. To join us, please sign up here (there is only standing room left though…).
Tonight (11 July), Mobile Monday Manchester opens its doors at Dukes 92, 18-20 Castle Street, Manchester, M3 4LZ (map). Our topic of the night will be Mobile Apps vs Mobile Web. We’ll put two teams against each other with short presentations making the case for apps and the web respectively, followed by a panel discussion.
As of last night, we had already had more than 120 registrations, so hurry if you want to come along. Registration is still open here.
And we’re off!
The first ever gathering of mobile Mancunians (and those from close by) will take place on Monday, 6th June 2011 in downton Manchester. This is not a “proper” MoMo; it is more of a kick-off event to gather our forces and get going.
We will meet at Dukes 92 (address: 18 – 20 Castle Street, Manchester, M3 4LZ; Google Maps) at 6pm.
If you would like to come (and we all hope you will!), please confirm on LinkedIn here (it allows us to try and figure out the numbers of those attending). And if you want to follow what’s going on in this respect more, check this out:
- Website (albeit a fledgeling one)
This is a shout-out to everyone in the North-West (of England, that is) who might be interested in a Mobile Monday chapter in Manchester (MoMoMa – doesn’t sound too bad, does it?).
We are looking to bring the wholesome mobile goodness that MoMo events deliver in more than 100 chapters around the world to Manchester, too. Manchester is the UK’s second-largest media hub. With the move of large parts of the BBC to their new home in MediaCityUK, this will be boosted even more. With ITV, MEN Media, Sony, Warner Games (Travelers’ Tales) and a huge number of production houses as well as mobile game studios and publishers (Chillingo, Connect 2 Media, Matmi to name a few) all up in and around the Manchester/Liverpool axis, there is huge potential! Add to that some of the most proactive universities and educational institutions in the space (in Liverpool, Manchester and up in Lancashire), we have too much talent to let it go wasted. Let us then take up the challenge and make it happen!
If you are interested in
- participating
- organising
- hosting
- sponsoring
- listening
- speaking
- contributing
- sitting on the fence
- networking
- collaborating
- etc, etc, etc
please do get in touch with us. I am helping out a little on this. The effort is being spearheaded by the good folks from Mobile Monday London, and there mainly by Helen Keegan (@technokitten).
Helen has also set up a LinkedIn Group, which I would urge you to join. Finally, you can also get in touch through this blog.
Go, my weathered Northeners, let’s show them 
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