Business and entrepreneurship events

• Global Entrepreneurship Week, Nov 12–18
• League of Extraordinary Women, Nov 13
• Inside the Minds Of Entrepreneurs, Nov 15
• Social Media Breakfast, Nov 16 & 23
• ASSOB: How To Raise Funds, Nov 21
• Product Anonymous, Nov 22
• iStrategy Conference, Nov 22–23
• Glugging and Geeking at GoGo, Nov 23
• Knowledge Week, Nov 26–Dec 1
• Knowledge Week Speed Teaching, Nov 27
• Travel Massive Industry Meetup, Nov 27
• NetSquared Camp, Nov 29
• TEDxMelbourneWomen, Dec 2

Must-reads, link love

• How to Negotiate a Year-End Raise
• Why Startup Founders are Always Unhappy
• Start Something Small
• Commuting? Have You Done The Math?
• Why You Should Take Your 20s Seriously
• What Will Advertising Look Like in 2020?
• T2E: Time to Excellence
• Reaching Product-Market Fit
• Airbnb for Boats Launches
• 10 New Startups On The Event Block
• Foursquare Takes on Yelp
• The Power Of Many, Not One
• Online Celebrity Employee? Now What?
• Cost of YouTube Streaming Gangnam Style
• True Solitude in a Wired World?
• Hunting For A Mate Teaches Great Design
• Mindfulness = Become a Better Leader
• Highs and Lows Of Side Projects

Featured event: Writing For Hollywood

Feature film writer John Collee (Master and Commander, Happy Feet) shares what working in Hollywood has taught him in this AFTRS OPEN Seminar (Dec 2, ACMI, $195) http://goo.gl/nMcE6

Local profile: Jen Frahm

This week Jacqueline Shields chats with Jennifer Frahm – founder of Conversations of Change, change manager and communications pro, author, Bricoleur and eternal optimist.

Featured event: An Introduction to Television

Want to work in the TV industry but not sure what roles suit you? This one-day AFTRS OPEN Seminar explains the different TV production models and jobs available (ACMI, Nov 24, $125) http://goo.gl/FJE1f

Digital and tech events

• YOW! Night, tonight
• gsummitX 2012 Meetup, Nov 13
• Drupal Meetup, Nov 13
• Agile Business Analysts, Nov 13
• Java & JVM Users, Nov 13
• Digital Conversations, Nov 14
• Wordpress Meetup, Nov 14
• CocoaHeads Meetup, Nov 15
• Adobe Developers, Nov 15
• Games For Change Festival, Nov 15-16
• Users of R Network Meetup, Nov 20
• Digital Collective Drinks, Nov 22
• AIMIA V21 Digital Summit, Nov 23
• Rails Girls: Ruby On Rails Training, Nov 23
• Sensis API Hackathon, Nov 24-25
• RiAus: Women In Science, Nov 26
• AWS User Group, Nov 28
• UX Bookclub, Nov 28
• Joomla Community, Nov 28
• Ruby Conference 2013, Feb 20-23

Featured event: YOW! '12

Australia's Software Developer Conference hits Melbourne on Dec 6 and 7. For developers by developers, this event brings international keynotes and experts. Check out the just-released program and book here.

Creative, design, change and culture events

• Clothing Exchange, tonight
• NEXT Melbourne 2012, Nov 14
• Shareable Australia Launch, Nov 14
• Worldwide Music Expo, Nov 15-18
• Travelling With Intent, Nov 16
• Sustainably: Designing 2050, Nov 21
• NonfictionNow Conf 2012, Nov 22-24
• Sustaining Creative, Nov 23-25
• Knowledge Cities in Digital World, Nov 26
• SLV: Design & Thinking, Nov 27
• Lego: Pop Up Play Pit, Nov 27
• Creative Performance Exchange, Nov 27
• Transformative Scenario Planning, Nov 28
• Creative Innovation, Nov 28–30
• Design Files Open House, Nov 29

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