Business events

• School for Social Entrepns. Info, tonight
• AIIA VIC: Exporters Club, 6 Dec
• Melbourne Sustainability Drinks, 7 Dec
• Director’s Briefing: Cloud Computing, 7 Dec
• AIMIA Christmas Drinks, 7 Dec
• AMI Christmas Networking, 14 Dec
• KMLF Annual Review, 14 Dec
• JCI Melbourne Xmas Party, 14 Dec

Featured job: community manager

Powerful guestlist and nightlife marketing tool, MyGuestList is looking for an experienced and enthusiastic community manager to lead all social and marketing activities. Check out more here and apply at jobs@myguestlist.com.au.

Must-reads, link love

• 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 Viewpoint: The Trouble With Titles
• Global photography from People & Planet
• iPhone Photography Awards Open
• Brianpicker: Digital Parasites and the Fight for the Business of Culture

Cool jobs

• Campaigns Manager, AYCC
• Digital Designer, Ginger
• Senior Program Coordinator, NGV
• Web Designer, Telstra
• Communications Assistant, Melbourne City Mission

Melbourne local profile

Find out what The Monthly's CEO, Rebecca Costello thinks are the most significant issues of 2011 in our final interview of the year. 

Digital events

• Python Monthly Meetup, tonight
• Community HackerSpace, 6, 13 Dec
• Digital Democracy Meetup, 7 Dec
• Melbourne Cocoaheads, 8, 27 Dec
• Community Blogging Xmas Event, 9 Dec
• Social Media Breakfast, 9, 16 Dec
• Startup Weekend/YB Xmas Party, 9 Dec
• Agile Business Analysts’ Meetup, 13 Dec
• WordPress Meetup, 14 Dec
• Jelly Coworking Meetup, 16, 30 Dec
• Big Data Analytics Meetup, 19 Dec
• Railscamp X, 13-16 Jan
• AdaCamp Melbourne, 14 Jan

Creative events

• ArtAbility, 5-12 Dec
• Melbourne Writers Social, 6 Dec
• Politics, Journalism & 24/7 News, 7 Dec
• Hub Melbourne Christmas Party, 8 Dec
• PL4YLUNCH Gaming Meetup, 9 Dec
• Collabmelb Unreasonable People, 13 Dec
• Rooftop Cinema: Romeo + Juliet, 13 Dec
• Southside Xmas Markets, 11, 18 Dec
• Society of Editors Xmas Dinner, 14 Dec
• Green Renters' Xmas Party, 15 Dec
• Cocktails with Creatives, 17 Dec
• Austhetic ABC Pool entries due, 31 Dec 
• Wheeler Centre Gala 2012, 11 Feb
• Mental Health 2.0 Unconference, 2 Mar

Innovation workshop giveaway

We're giving a $600 ticket away to the one-day interactive workshop Preparing For The Innovation Economy (PDF) this Friday 9 December. Simple tweet @thefetchmelb with why you'd love the ticket by EOD today and the best response will get to attend!

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