Mobile Monday Ottawa

We are taking applications for the first Mobile Monday App Showcase to be held on February 27th, 2012.

If you are an Ottawa-based company building mobile apps and want to start showing them off to the community, apply now.

The deadline for application is Sunday, February 19 at midnight. We will only be choosing 5 apps this time around.

Apply now for the Mobile Monday Ottawa App Show, it will only take 60 seconds.

The next MoMoOttawa is set for January 23, 6pm-9pm at a NEW LOCATION:

OCRI
80 Aberdeen Street, Ottawa, Ontario – right off of Preston

This month we get up in your UI with Scott Plewes:

The 5 things you must always do in mobile UI to keep users happy
What are the 5 most important things that need to be done in order to attract and keep your mobile application on the front screen of a users device? Join Scott Plewes, Vice President of User Experience Design at Macadamian, as he highlights the growing UI influence on the apps consumers use and keep.

About Scott

Scott Plewes is an expert in user experience design, user research, and incorporating the voice of the customer into product design and has worked in both the public and private sector. His experience design skills cover the spectrum from desktop, web, and mobile user interface design through to command line interface and telephony interface design.

Scott joined Macadamian through the merger with Maskery, one of Canada’s leading user experience design consultancies, where he was a founding partner. He holds a Master’s degree in Science from Queen’s University and prior to Maskery, was a 9 year member of Nortel’s Usability Design Group.

See you guys there!

Monday, November 21. 6-8PM at the Mercury Grove World Headquarters

The mobile OS battle has not been won and Microsoft is right in the thick of it. Bring your questions as we get set for a great session with Susan Ibach, developer evangelist for Microsoft Canada, who will guide us through Mango and introduce us to developing and testing Windows Phone applications.

See you guys there!

August 22: Mobile Drinks at the Irish Village (starts at 6pm)

Come join us for a mobile social at the Heart and Crown in the Byward Market for drinks and conversation. No formal agenda, just a great group of entusiastic mobilists connecting to grow the industry in Ottawa.

Bring your announcements!
If you are launching a product or looking to hire bring your announcements. Throughout the evening we’ll be calling on you to help promote what you are doing.

July 18: Mobile Drinks at the Irish Village (starts at 6pm)

Come join us for a mobile social at the Heart and Crown in the Byward Market for drinks and conversation. No formal agenda, just a great group of entusiastic mobilists connecting to grow the industry in Ottawa.

Bring your announcements!
If you are launching a product or looking to hire bring your announcements. Throughout the evening we’ll be calling on you to help promote what you are doing.

Thank you all for coming out to the first EVER Mobile Monday Ottawa event on June 20th – it was a great first step in our quest to put Ottawa on the world map for mobile expertise.

Special thanks to Paul Dumais, Mike Iles and pinch panelist Jeff Bacon for their insightful contributions. Also, huge thanks to Macadamian for supplying the beverages for the event.

Mobile Monday Ottawa #2

We don’t have a topic yet, nor a location but we have a date! Book it for July 18th, 2011.

More to come!

FINALLY! Ottawa has its own Mobile Monday Chapter

The first ever Mobile Monday Ottawa event is happening this June 20th and will happen every 3rd Monday of every month going forward.

The first event will take a look at the state of Mobile in Ottawa and features a good mix small entrepreneurial companies and some large established players but all veterans of this great industry.

The State of Mobile in Ottawa

Technology is back in Ottawa and has shifted from the large screen to the one we carry in our pockets but what is really going on here? Are people making money? Is this just a passing technology faze or is the mantra “mobile first” real? What is the impact of this industry going to be on our economy?

These questions and a whole lot more will be answered as we FINALLY kick off Mobile Monday Ottawa with this great panel:

Paul Dumais of Smarter Apps
Patrick Carriere of MXI
Michael Iles, IBM Business Analytics (formerly Cognos)

Moderated by Rob Woodbridge, Mobile Consultant & UNTETHER.tv founder

Hope to see you there!