Business events

• Breakfast with Selina Scoble, 31 Jan
• AIM: Present Powerfully, 2 Feb
• Business Chicks Networking, 7 Feb
• Importance of Change Readiness in the Total Change Process, 9 Feb
• Portable Present Product Design, 14 Feb
• Entrepreneurs Round Table, 20 Feb
• Women in Focus: Business Outlook 2012, 21 Feb

Digital events

• JVM Group (RabbitMQ), today
• Interactive Minds: Planning your digital marketing in 2012, 1 Feb
• SEO Meetup, 2 Feb
• Brisbane Web Tech, 7 Feb
• ad:tech Young Guns Comp, 10 Feb
• Brisbane Web Design Meetup, 23 Feb
• Ruby on Rails Meetup, 27 Feb
• Andy Clarke Web Workshop, 28 Feb
• Web Directions meetup, 28 Feb

Featured event: hack:Brisbane

Hack:Brisbane is offering a $10K prize for the development of an app or website using newly released Brisbane City Council data. You can enter here or check out the submissions. Entries close 16 March.

The Pros and Cons of Being a Bike Commuter

In this fortnight's guest post, Lara McPherson dicusses commuting and highlights everything from helmet hair to health, and city gridlock.

Cool jobs

• Account/BDM, iReckon
• Sales Manager, Surfing Life Magazine
• Interactive Specialist, BCM Partnership

Creative events

• Paper Girl BNE, 4 Feb
• Youth Arts QLD Photo Comp, 10 Feb
• Digital SLR Courses, Feb - Mar
• Spirit Youth Awards Written Word, 3 Feb
• Brisbane Book Club Meetup, 20 Feb
• SLQ Edge's 50 free workshops, 25 Feb
• The Australian Ballet Informative Talk, 24 Mar

Must reads, link-love

• The Creative Personality
• Why digital intent matters
• Working Alone Together
• Companies as Communities
• StartupRage comics
• Penguin Books opens up The Monthly Catch
• Young Aust. Journalist of the Year entries
• Provocative ideas by women in media
• Yin and Yang of Corporate Innovation
• xkcd comic on the use of 'sustainable'
• Global startup competition launches to find the world’s next Jobs or Zuckerberg
• The Success of Travel and Social Media

Fetchee winners!

We recently asked you to tweet us to win a double pass to Portable Presents Product Design. Congrats @DamonKlotz for #winning.

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