Business events

• Reinvigorating Trad. Industries, tonight
• StartUp Brisbane, tonight
• Releaf Business Networking Drinks, 8 Dec
• ADMA QLD Xmas Lunch, 8 Dec
• Jelly Coworking at the Edge, 14 Dec
• Upstarta Brisbane, 24 Jan

Digital events

• Intro to NoSQL & Neo4j, tonight
• Final Python meetup of 2011, tonight
• SEO Meetup - EOY Roundup, 8 Dec
• Brisbane GPU Users Meetup, 12 Dec
• Brisbane JavaScript Meetup, 12 Dec
• Tech Heads Christmas Drinks, 15 Dec

Cool jobs

• Content Maker, ABC Radio National
• Video Editor, BCM
• Want to feature your job? Email Kate.

Featured event: hack:Brisbane

Brisbane City Council has launched hack:Brisbane, which offers a $10K prize for the development of an app or website using newly released BCC data (under a CC license). You can enter here or check out the submissions. Entries close 16 March 2012.

Creative events

• Pecha Kucha, tonight
• Dorkbot, tonight
• Matisse: Drawing Life, 3 Dec - 4 March
• Brisbane Book Club Meetup, 15 Dec

Must reads, link-love

• Listening: The Forgotten Half of Communication
• The Case Against Curation
• Sample Social Media Policies
• The Business of Content
• Food Blogging: Tips from some of the best
• The Four Paradoxes of Great Performance
• The myth that Australians work longer hours than anyone else
• Why Women Fail at Salary Negotiations
• Regrets of the Dying
• Brogan: You're not as busy as you think
• AdAge: The Trouble With Titles
  iPhone Photography Awards Open
• Brainpicker: Digital Parasites and the Fight for the Business of Culture

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If you have an event, meetup, coworking space, news or anything you'd like to share with The Fetch readers, please email or tweet us. Our next send date is 16 January 2012.