June 2009

Welcome to the 3rd edition of The Digital Pigeon™ - TDP is a quarterly collection of articles and interactive content sourced from both well established and emerging players in the digital technology, convergent media and early stage venture industry. please click here to provide feedback or submit a contribution for future editions.

19.06.09	Simon Baker, formerly of Realestate.com.au fame, stars in Back to the Start-up part 2 .
19.06.09	Shaky Times but not Shaky Attitudes: Sydney to Silicon Valley. By Tristen Langley, Investment Director, Southern Cross Ventures.
23.06.09	Justin Robinson, CEO of Lode.com.au talks about starting up a business with a quadruple bottom line .
23.06.09	Weapons of Mass Disruption. Jamie Pride talks SaaS in a disrupted market.
23.06.09	The Interactive Industry needs its own Identity. Simon Van Wyk is out of the Hothouse.
23.06.09	XMPP - Helping Build the Real Time Web: Cleartext CEO, David Banes leads the way with insights to the possibilities of XMPP in real time communication and social networking.
23.06.09	The Virtual Venture: Technologist, Entrepreneur and CEO of Netleverage Steven Hasani talks virtualisation.

ML MARKET SURVEY

A summary of the results of our 3rd Industry Survey. This time around we also incorporated some questions around the take up and perceptions of social media.

Thanks to everyone who participated in our survey, we had an increased number of participants (375) which indicates an ongoing interest in understanding how our market is travelling, as well as an interest in statistics around current trends such as social media. Click below or on the graph image for the full results

Full survey results

Welcome to Growth Town, SuV's welcome

A few weeks ago I was part of a group of entrepreneurs and executives that got together to talk about issues and obstacles confronting the Australian early stage technology market. The centre of the conversation revolved around support mechanisms for technology firms in Sydney and more broadly Australia, and how to create and foster more innovation and entrepreneurship... Click here for the full story

MitchelLake Secures Rights to distribute Jobvite

MitchelLake has secured a partnership with web 2.0 Recuritment platform Jobvite to distibute the product in Australia as part of MitchelLake Upstream Managed Recruitment. MitchelLake Managing Partner Phaedon Stough said "Jobvite sets the new industry standard by integrating web 2.0 and social media into recuitment process, referral and knowledge management."

Jobvite manages all aspects of hiring in an easy-to-use Web 2.0 recruiting application. It enables you to:

> Easily make referral hires through social networks

> Drive the entire talent acquisition process from posting to hire

Read what the New York Times says about Jobvite, and check out their 10-minute online product tour.

Click here to inquire about Jobvite

INTERIM TALENT PROFILES

Group Category Manager - Sydney Based
Position/Title

Global super brand seeks a seasoned consumer Category Manager to drive one of their key product categories. This is a highly attractive senior appointment with huge career development opportunity. Retail consumer device or FMCG experience ideal. Package circa 190-210k... weighted to experience. Click here to apply

Head of Digital - Great opportunity - Sydney based
Position/Title

An exciting and unique opportunity to head up the digital division of one of Australia's leading agencies. Reporting to the CEO, you will have full P&L responsibility for this highly profitable, award winning business. Package negotiable. Click here to find out more & apply

Greg speaks to Australian entrepreneur Ryan Junee who co-founded the start-up Omnisio in 2007 and a few months later sold it to Google for $15 Million...

Investment :: Mobile Services

Early stage B2 Consumber Mobile business with beta product and significant channel partner agreements in place seeking capital for market development. Click here for further information.

MitchelLake is now LIVE on Twitter!

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