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 
!
This week is still all about Casual Connect Europe but then it is off to Barcelona for the annual mobile fest that is Mobile World Congress. I will be there from Sunday night onwards and you should earmark a couple of things (where you will likely be able to meet me, too):
Mobile Sunday has fast become a tradition amongst the mobile bloggerati and it is now being frequented by more and more industry folks. The list of attendees (which funnily still has me with an ancient affiliation that I haven’t held in years) reads well. Check it out and come by for a gentle kickstart into the week!
Next up is the Mobile Premier Awards, the global competition of Mobile Monday-nominated high-flyers where I had the great pleasure and honour to judge upon. The award night is on Monday.
On Wednesday, we have Swedish Beers (Facebook Event page) in Barcelona, which already had 254 confirmed guests (as per FB) the last time I checked.
And on Thursday, Caroline Lewko’s WIP Jam, the developer world’s leading and most beloved un-conference, opens its doors, an event I really look forward to. There’s a party for that, too, of course…
If you would like to get in touch, drop me a line through the contact form.
On 15 February, one of the most exciting showcases of mobile innovation of the year will be on display in Barcelona: the Mobile Premier Awards in Innovation. The awards are the largest start-up competition in the mobile sector and they are a unique grass-roots discovery tool: each chapter of the global community of Mobile Monday chooses one candidate. 49 candidates have been chosen (have a look further down). An international jury (I am flattered and proud to be a member) selects 20 finalists who will pitch in Barcelona at the Palau de la Musica on the afternoon of the first day of the Mobile World Congress.
It is a wonderful display of the innovation and creative power the mobile industry has to offer and I invite you to have a good look at the candidates.
If you are in Barcelona that week (and who isn’t?), you should make sure to book your ticket for the event here.
I hope to see you in Barcelona to celebrate innovation in mobile!
To stay in touch with everything around the awards, follow them on Twitter (@mobilepremier), become a fan on Facbook,
And, once your in Barcelona, you should not miss Mobile Sunday Barcelona 2010, which has fast become an unofficial kick-off event to MWC for mobile bloggers. It is on on Sunday, 14 Feb, from 7pm CET onwards.
Here’s a list of the 49 candidates (with links here):
- MobileMonday Austria – Mobilizy
- MobileMonday Barcelona – fonYou
- MobileMonday Belfast – SpeechStorm
- MobileMonday Bergen – ComCom
- MobileMonday Berlin – spendino
- MobileMonday Bogota – RedSalvavidas
- MobileMonday Brussels – Getyoo
- MobileMonday Buenos Aires – Beepoint
- MobileMonday Caracas – Consorcio Si-SMS
- MobileMonday Chennai – mobiSiteGalore
- MobileMonday Copenhagen – Cepa Mobility
- MobileMonday Dallas – Wave Integrated Marketing Solutions
- MobileMonday Dublin – Locle
- MobileMonday Dusseldorf – Yoose
- MobileMonday Edinburgh – Mobile Acuity
- MobileMonday Estonia – TaxiPal
- MobileMonday Frankfurt – match2blue
- MobileMonday Hamburg – apprupt
- MobileMonday Hungary – InfomatiX
- MobileMonday Jakarta – dotus indonesia
- MobileMonday Kuala Lumpur – CWorks Mobile
- MobileMonday Lithuania – SendFlow
- MobileMonday London – Audioboo
- MobileMonday Madrid – Tooio
- MobileMonday Malmö – Color Monkey
- MobileMonday Medellin – Wanbee
- MobileMonday Melbourne – Callernizer
- MobileMonday Mexico – Binbit
- MobileMonday Mid-Atlantic – Amphetamobile
- MobileMonday Milan – Soundtrckr
- MobileMonday Mumbai – Umundo
- MobileMonday Munich – Aloqa
- MobileMonday New Delhi – Voicetap Technologies
- MobileMonday New York – PercentMobile
- MobileMonday Oslo – Bipper Communication
- MobileMonday Paris – Presselite
- MobileMonday Rest of EMEA – Layar
- MobileMonday Rio de Janeiro – iMusica
- MobileMonday Rome – Mobnotes
- MobileMonday Sao Paulo – Atope
- MobileMonday Shanghai – mInfo
- MobileMonday Silicon Valley – CloudMade
- MobileMonday Singapore – Just Mobile
- MobileMonday Slovenia – Visionect
- MobileMonday Sofia – Bianor
- MobileMonday Stockholm – MoSync
- MobileMonday Tel Aviv – waze
- MobileMonday Toronto – Fonolo
- MobileMonday Vancouver – Sort Shots
