Natalie’s Blog

I am so excited to be attending the First Annual BIG Omaha Conference May 7-8.  Particularly to see Adriana Gascoigne the founder of Girls in Tech. Also getting to see Gary Vaynerchuck, who I found out about while watching The Streamys, so I know a little more about him than I do the rest of the speakers. Jason Fried of Basecamp is also going to be one of the speakers. I don’t know much of Basecamp or 37signals but the whole Basecamp thing looks pretty neat. I’m going to have to look a bit more into this later on.

Now, Micah Baldwin was one of the speakers that caught my eye.  This guy has ran six startup companies and sold five of them, with his current sole startup being Lijit. His blog, Learn to Duck, is jam packed with advice for anybody, startup or corporate.

skinnyCorp’s Chief Creative Officer, Jeffrey Kalmikoff, is another who I find could be very interesting.

I think Matt Mullenweg is going to be one of the better speakers since he is the founder and developer of Wordpress (Yay! Go Wordpress!).  He also takes some bad ass photos.

I am really looking forward to my first ever conference, it will surely be a great experience. I hope to be able to take away some much needed knowledge that I can use to better myself both personally and professionally. What I would really like to accomplish would be to use these skills that I will learn on a daily basis when communicating with customers via the phone, e-mail or Twitter. Never have I worked for a company that I was so dedicated to or took so seriously, and never have I worked for a company that was so dedicated to me and took me seriously. This conference will ensure that I am able to take Eye-Fi more serious than I currently am and will introduce me to the world of IT as I have never seen it before.

BigOmaha for the iPhone demo from ninthdivision on Vimeo.