Business and entrepreneurship events

• Lean Coffee Meetup, Sep 4
• Strategic Foresight, Sep 4
• Nightowls Coworking, Sep 4
• Ideas & Society Program, Sep 5
• Silicon Beach Drinks, Sep 6
• Coworking at RMIT, Sep 6
• Social Media Breakfast, Sep 7, 21
• Art of Business Development, Sep 10
• Marketing Women VIC, Sep 11
• Young Professionals Melbourne, Sep 11
• GeoRabble Melbourne, Sep 12
• HeadStart Monthly, Sep 13
• How to Raise Seed Capital, Sep 19
• Tools on Limited Budget, Sep 19
• Building Your Personal Brand, Sep 20
• Inside the Minds of Entrepreneurs, Sep 20
• Startup Grind: First Event, Sep 21
• Essentials of Startup Law, Sept 24
• League of Extraordinary Women, Sep 25
• Travel Massive Meetup, Sep 26
• Lean Marketing for Startups, Sep 26
• Innovation in Automotive, Oct 16

Featured event: Access Inner Wisdom & Explore New Pathways

Explore your burning questions. Access your emotional and spiritual wisdom from the presence of horses and nature. A unique experiential inquiry. Discover more here.

Must-reads, link love

• Event Review: Opportunities for Startups
• How White [Male] Is The New Internet?
• Being Real Builds Trust
• In Defence of TED
• The Myth of Doing “That One Thing”
• The Hip Suburbs in Australia
• Moleskine Goes From Analog To Digital
• Your Playing Field is Tiny
• 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady
• Networking Means Making Real Friends
• 6 Things I Do to Be Consistently Happy
• What Happens to Stolen Bicycles?
• Artist Takes Every Drug Known to Man, Draws Self Portraits After Each Use

Local profile: Danny Almagor

We chat to E&Y’s 2012 Social Entrepreneur of the Year and the chief instigator at Small Giants about social enterprise, B Corporations and humanitarian engineers. More here.

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Digital and tech events

• SEO Pre-SMX Meetup, tonight
• Python User Group, tonight
• Linux User Group, Sep 4
• PC Users Group, Sep 5
• Java Meetup, Sep 5
• Hack Night for Humanity, Sep 5
• HealthTech Group, Sep 5
• UX Designer & Dev Network, Sep 5
• Functional User Group, Sep 6
• Facebook Advertising, Sep 11
• Agile Business Analysts, Sep 11
• Infrastructure Coders, Sep 11
• MelbJS/YOW! Night, Sep 12
• NetSquared Meetup, Sep 18
• Programming Fundamentals, Sep 20
• CryptoParty, Sep 22
• Girl Geek Dinner, Sep 26
• Joomla User Group, Sep 26
• Ruby Meetup, Sep 27
• YOW! Workshops, Nov 27-28
• YOW! Developer Conference, Nov 29-30

Join us for dinner!

We're kicking off a dinner series and to celebrate, we're coming together for an evening of great food, company and conversation. We'll discuss Melb. happenings as well as the emerging area of quantified self. Attendance is limited to 10 spots @ $45pp. Grab a seat here. 

Creative, design, change and culture events

• CPX Meetup, Sep 4
• Break, Burn or Ban the Box, Sep 4
• Melbourne Writers' Social, Sep 4
• Sustainability Drinks, Sep 5
• Get Down and Yarn, Sep 5
• Future of The Left, Sept 5
• AGDA Folio Night, Sept 6
• Preloved Fashion Market, Sep 9
• Melbourne Media Makers, Sep 11
• Conversation with Marion Potts, Sept 11
• Swarm Conference, Sept 13-14
• Experimenta, Sep 14 - Nov 11
• Steampunk!, Sep 18
• The Most Beautiful Equation, Sep 18
• Fast Broadband Australia Lecture, Sep 20
• Paper Making Workshop, Sep 22
• Intelligence Squared Debates, Sep 25
• Sex, Drugs & Helvetica, Sep 28
• 3D Paper Art & Sculpture, Sep 30
• Trampoline Day Unconference, Oct 7
• A Question of Identity, Oct 17

Cool jobs

• Multi-Platform Producer, Arts Centre
• Social Media Strategist, Melbourne Water
• Senior Communications Advisor, RACV
• Customer Communications Officer, V/Line
• Fundraising and Public Relations Media Coordinator, Oxfam
• Feature your job in The Fetch!