I’m really pleased to announce that AIMIA will be holding their Mobile Industry Group meeting in Melbourne this month. We miss out on a bit down here, and it’s great to have a chance to be involved in mobile industry activity without having to jump on a plane!

The AIMIA Mobile Industry Group is launching the updated AIMIA Mobile Advertising Guidelines on June 10, 2009 in Sydney. The launch event is from 9.30 – 12.00 on the 10th at the KPMG Auditorium and includes presentations on Mobile Advertising from…

When I first started Mobilist and this blog I wasn’t sure the idea would take off, but (nearly) 2 years later I am happy to report that – well – it has! It’s now time to up the stakes and create a new, more professional home on the web. So welcome to the brand new Mobilista, full of all sorts of mobile industry goodness for Australia!

I enjoyed ad:tech and was delighted to be invited to speak on a panel with Oliver (Ideal Interfaces), Anton (FrontFoot) and Justin (Google). We had a good chat and got some debate going about the mobile marketing eco-system in Australia and what’s holding it back.

I’m hoping to use this blog as a starting point to create a community around the Mobile Advertising industry in Australia. I plan to leave the ‘industry association’ stuff to the experts but I think we can all benefit from an ongoing conversation in a more informal way.

There’s been a bit of talk lately about how we can work together to build the Mobile Advertising industry in Australia. I think there is definitely a place for formal Industry Associations, but i also believe there is much that can be achieved with ‘informal’ associations.