BIG Omaha cuts price in half for first 99 students

Talk about a discount, folks.

BIG Omaha promises to be a fabulous event. Just look at the lineup of speakers. It’s not often that even one of these thinkers and doers comes to Nebraska. The organizers behind the first-ever BIG Omaha are pulling them in all at once for the event on May 7-8.

Not bad.

What’s better, though, is they’re making students quite a deal: $99 registration for the first 99 to register.

That’s half-off the current registration price of $199.

Look at the schedule.

• Entrepreneurs like Gary Vaynerchuk who draw huge crowds at South By Southwest Interactive will be there.
• Heck, one of the speakers, Matt Mullenweg, founded the company that produces the open-source software that runs my site.
• Love Threadless tees? Yep, they’ve got people coming.
• Think Basecamp’s simplicity is genius? 37Signals’ Jason Fried will be in town.
• That’s just the beginning, though. There’s not a weak spot to be found in their schedule.

The bottom line

If nothing else, ask yourself this: How could this conference not be an awesome opportunity when they managed to work cows into the logo for an event targeting entrepreneurs, creatives and innovators?

A lesson for all you event planners out there: If a cow is in your logo, I’m there.

You should be, too.

Register today to ensure you’re among the first 99 students.

Douglas Rushkoff blows the roof off what you thought you knew

First off, don’t judge this video by its neon title slide. I promise it’s amazingly good and is unlike probably anything else you’ve run across lately on your RSS reader.

The official blurb about this keynote address:

Professor Douglas Rushkoff, Professor of Communications, NYU, provides insights into latest research on the transformative nature of the internet on the economic and social dynamics of consumers and users, and their commercial implications – vital information for regulators, industry and investors as they seek to remain relevant in this new ecology.

My translation:

Everything you think you know about how the Internet, economy and media intersect is wrong. Rushkoff explains what’s really going on.

(via Joey Baker over at CoPress)

It’s a long video and is pretty intense, but I assure you it’s well worth your time and brain strain.