First of all I must thank both Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson of Silicon Prairie News for putting on such an awesome and inspiring conference. I believe BigOmaha 2010 was a huge hit and I am definitely going to BigOmaha 2011.  I loved most of the speakers that they were able to put together.

I laughed with David Hauser when he was recounting his experience with rebranding Grasshopper.

I actually cried when Scott Harrison of Charity Water was showing his presentation on the water crisis in Africa.

Was deeply offended with Melody McCloskey and her “Move” comment. I certainly have nothing against her ( never heard of her until BigOmaha ) but I give her props for being honest on how she felt about living in bigger communities.  I think time will tell if she is ultimately right or not about that, but boy she struck a nerve in almost everyone present. With such a divisive comment, I’m sure it did alot more harm than good and her message was actually lost on the crowd after that. Ramhatter actually met with Melody and she clarified her remarks a bit better. Props to him for taking the time to talk with her and get her side of the story.

Gary Vaynerchuk was awesome as usual. I did manage to buy Crushit on my iPad.. Now I’m pumped to crushit as well.

Met Jason Fried of 37 Signals in person ( really friendly ) and made a crappy comment to him about him being shorter in person than in a video. He was gracious enough not to brand me an idiot and just walk off.

Was emotionally moved by Tony Hsieh’s story and zappos.  If I would work for a another company as an employee.. it would at zappos for sure. Got an advanced copy of his book and I’m loving it so far. He was getting a bit emotional towards the end of his talk and you could get a sense of what this all means to him ( being happy ).

BigOmaha 2010 was a huge hit and I am looking forward to what the rest of 2010 has in store for me.