Business and entrepreneurship events

• Nightowls Coworking, Oct 2
• InternetPreneur StartUp Group, Oct 3
• Silicon Beach Drinks, Oct 4
• Empowered Women in Business, Oct 4
• Social Media Breakfast, Oct 5 & 12
• Accelerating Innovation, Oct 9
• Domain Internetworking Night, Oct 10
• Limited WIP Society, Oct 11
• Crowdfunding For Social Impact, Oct 12
• International Day Of Failure, Oct 13
• $100 Startup: Chris Guillibeau, Oct 13
• CPX Exchange, Oct 16
• When Social Media Is Anti-Social, Oct 17
• Startup Grind With Xero, Oct 18
• ProductCamp 2012, Oct 20
• InnoFuture, Oct 25
• Get Clear on Your Business Idea, Oct 27
• ADMA Fushion, Oct 30
• Business Academy Live, Nov 16

Must-reads, link love

• Event Review: Quantified Self Dinner
• Interview: Scott Brewer, Art Processors
• Instagram vs. Twitter in Daily Mobile Users
• 20 Things Learned in 20 Years
• Fast Exercises To Find Your Purpose And Passion For Work
• What a Community Manager is Not
• 5 Ways to Strengthen Your Friendships
• The Future Of Working From Home
• Event Review: Privacy and CryptoParty
• Rachel Botsman: Trust is The New Currency
• What Motivates Us to Get Up Every Day
• Stop Claiming You’re Profitable
• How Color Was Doomed From The Start
• This Is Your Brain On The Internet
• Creativity Predicts A Longer Life
• Meeting A Troll...
• MySpace's Back

Featured job: Lead Developer, Lexer

Lexer is a young technology business who is proudly obsessed with data – especially the social and behavioural kind. Join them as a lead develper. More details here.

Cool jobs

• Communications & Media Officer, Moonee Valley City Council
• Front End Ninja, Searchwords.com
• Online Content Creator, Hooroo.com
• Editor (Asia-Pacific), Mr & Mrs Smith
• Photography Manager, Kikki. K
• Feature your job in The Fetch!

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Featured event: Pause Digital Festival 2012

Pause Digital Festival combines 14 screenings, 6 specialised industry workshops, a premiere international speaker event and more, making Melbourne the place to be. 8-11 Nov – get your tickets now!

Digital and tech events

• Python Meetup, tonight
• ALM Community Meeting, Oct 3
• Java & JVM Users Group, Oct 3
• Functional Users Group, Oct 4
• SEO Melbourne, Oct 4
• CommunityFinder Mobile MapHack, Oct 6
• Drupal Core Dev Meetup, Oct 6
• Raspberry Jam, Oct 6
• Search Meetup, Oct 9
• Agile Business Analysts, Oct 9
• Dribbble Sausage Sizzzle, Oct 11
• YBF 1st Birthday, Oct 17
• Web Directions, Oct 18-19 (code: FETCH)
• Girl Geek Dinner, Oct 20
• Blogger Relations Breakfast, Oct 19
• Melbourne Mobile, Oct 22
• AWS User Group, Oct 31
• YOW! Developer Conference, Nov 29-30

Featured event: Web Directions

Australia's web industry conference returns with two full days of world class presentations, parties, and more. Use code 'FETCH' to get $100 off your ticket and we'll see you there!

Creative, design, change and culture events

• Melbourne Conversations, tonight & 15
• Mass Meditation, Oct 2
• Sustainability Drinks, Oct 3
• From Prim to Poledance, Oct 3
• Create Design Awards, Oct 5
• Craft Like Crazy!, Oct 6
• Trampoline Day, Oct 7
• NED: Ideas You'll Never Have, Oct 9-13
• Not Just One Thing: Art, Science And Schizophrenia, Oct 10-12
• Universities Challenged, Oct 11
• Collaboratory Meetup, Oct 15
• Premier's Literary Awards Dinner, Oct 16
• The Stuff Of Nightmares, Oct 16
• Is There A Dating Culture?, Oct 17
• What Does It Mean to Be Aussie, Oct 17
• Open House Architecture Tour, Oct 20
• Game Masters Exhibition, until Oct 28
• Co-Creative Communities Forum, Nov 8-9
• Pause Digital Festival, Nov 8-11

Local profile: Steve Vallas

This fortnight, Matt Scrafton interviews Steve Vallas – one of Melbourne's first venues to embrace and actively use social media (especially in the wee hours of the morning!) and reach out to the local community.