Opera Campus Crew Blog

Following the recent releases of Opera Mobile 10 beta and Opera Mini 5 beta, we are launching the Mobile Browsing World Series! This follows on from the Opera 10 World Series, which focused on the landmark release of our latest desktop browser.

The World Series will be a series of Opera events focusing on Opera's mobile browsers, held by Crew members across the globe at times that are most suitable for them and their campus. The Mobile Browsing World Series is a great opportunity if you are looking for a new kind of activity, or if mobile browsing is more popular with students in your country/area than desktop browsing. Even though these products are in beta, you can still spread the word about them.

Activities
There are a range of activities you can do as part of the Mobile Browsing World Series
• Arrange a presentation: Arrange a presentation about our mobile browsers. You may even like have as your topic 'Mobile Internet for Beginners', and perhaps focus on first-year students (here is a slideset and example agenda for that kind of presentation).
• Hold a Demo Day: Hold a Demo Day focusing on demonstrating Opera Mini and/or Opera Mobile.
Conduct interviews: Hold interviews or do surveys with students about their experience with mobile browsing, and use it an opportunity to tell them more about Opera and answer any questions or concerns about mobile browsing. Use our interview guide as a starting point, and you can customise it with questions based on information you would like to find out.
• Distribute Opera Mini comics: Help new users understand how they can use Opera Mini by showing situations where Mini comes in handy, through our Opera Mini comic strips. You could leave one on each chair in a cafeteria or computer lab, or walk around handing them out so you can add a personal touch and answer any extra questions. Check out these posts about members in Indonesia and the Philippines handing out the Opera Mini comics.
• Hang up Opera Mini posters: We have updated the Opera Mini posters (in English, Indonesian and Russian) to include the new features introduced in Opera Mini 5 beta. We will shortly add a poster targeting BlackBerry users.

Other Resources
• Opera Mini 5 beta demo video
• Opera Mobile 10 beta demo video
• Developer's introduction to Opera Mini 5 beta
• Developer's introduction to Opera Mobile 10 beta

We hope you will participate in the Mobile Browsing World Series! If you have other suggestions for activities that can be part of the Series, please add them in the comments below.