In my post yesterday about mobile web usage, I concluded with a rather throw-away remark about having a Mobile Web Day - partly a celebration of where we are already and partly to evangelize to non-users and the press that it’s big, useful and mainstream, already.
I reposted this over at the Oxford Forum and so far a few pretty high profile people (Tomi Ahonen and Flirtomatic’s Mark Curtis) have expressed some interest in the idea. The Oxford Forum is a free to join discussion forum about mobile, so sign up if you haven’t already or leave your thoughts in a comment below.
What I was thinking about was a spontaneous, decentralised grass-roots movement where people pledge some action on the day (yet to be decided). That might be committing to support it in their blog. Telling a friendly journalist. Giving a demo of a favourite service to a couple of people. Or give away their paid-for service free for a day. Every little bit helps and maybe some of us can do some big things too.
I also don’t want to own this - so I set it free into the community. Leave a comment and tell us what you think. Good idea or not? If we do it, how could you help?
Any sense combining this with Mobile Monday, or we are talking a different audience?
Good initiative. However, I’m a little uncomfortable with the term “Mobile Web”, as it makes you think it is something totally separate from _the_ Web. But then again, I guess we don’t have a better term. “Web-accessed-via-mobile day” doesn’t sound so punchy
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Honestly, I think that this would be a good idea. Though it would seem that the initial day/days of this would cater to a reall specific audience; but offering mobile-only offerings for the day, or something that truely caters to engaging the mobile web would be a neat way into making this something of note that more mainstream websites could see themselves doing.
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