http://www.digitalnomads.com The Digital Nomads Blog Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:29:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Drew Jones, SHIFT It has been ten years since David Berreby published his seminal Strategy & Business article on digital nomads- The Hunter Gatherers of the Knowledge Economy: The Anthropology of Today’s Cyberforagers.  In the article Berreby draws on the controversial field of evolutionary psychology to point out that hominids have spent ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/11/the-anthropology-of-digital-nomads?nucrss=1 Thanks for following along in this global series.  The last part I would like to share with you are some of the Global Tools I use to keep this all going smoothly.  If it weren't for the following tools, I would not be able to live the fun nomadic life ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/11/global-tools-and-downloads?nucrss=1 Right, put your pens downs, stop typing, hang up the phone, get off the jargon merry-go-round and take a deep breath. Are you calm now? Good. Now – if you’re in any way related to the IT world, (which I guess you will be reading this), then you’ll know how much ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/10/remote-working-the-cloud-is-the-answer-but-is-it-secure?nucrss=1 Ok everyone... If you've been following so far, we've gone through The Benefits of Going Global, Taking Your Business Online, Building a Global Audience Part I & Part II... now that we've covered some of the basics, let's look at how to apply them.  The best advice I can give ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/10/global-tips-and-tricks?nucrss=1   I recently spent a couple weeks in the U.S., working and exploring, away from my life in Belgium, trying to grasp a sense of what makes the Silicon Valley the birthplace of the most innovative technology our world has ever seen. Why do new technologies pop up so quickly? And, ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/10/the-us-101-effect?nucrss=1 Steve Rubel is on day two of a week-long business trip, and he's doing it without the aid (burden?) of a laptop PC. From his bio, Steve is "Director of Insights for Edelman Digital, ...responsible for keeping Edelman and its clients in the vanguard." I, for one, am not sure I could swing it, ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/09/a-digital-nomads-journey-a-week-in-the-clouds-sans-laptop?nucrss=1 Isn't regular-old reality enough? Why must we augment our reality? It seemed like only a matter of time before the buzzy new smartphone features would be brought together to help Digital Nomads (that means you too, Mom) make the days go by more smoothly. Augmented reality is among the buzziest of ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/09/augmented-reality-for-digital-nomads?nucrss=1 Thanks so much for following along in this series.  Last week we talked about one of the best tools to reach out to your audience:  blogging.  The second part of going global is to increase your audience through Social Media and Networking.  Staying in front of your audience in different ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/09/building-a-global-audience-part-ii?nucrss=1 With businesses currently downsizing significantly, many smart, capable people have been suddenly released from the preplanned, functionally discrete environment of corporate life. They have been unplugged from the balance sheet and turned out into the world, with their only possession being their highly valuable intellectual assets. To try to make ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/08/digital-nomadism-%e2%80%93-a-curriculum?nucrss=1 Despite my relatively ordinary life, I’ve been lucky enough to have befriended a great many people of stunning talent and productivity. Many are writers, some are artists, some just spend most of their time doing really interesting things. I used to think: Wouldn’t it be great if I create an organization ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/08/a-group-less-ordinary?nucrss=1 The major focus that changes when you head off into the sunset is that you need to build a global audience.  If you have been following this blog series, you have already read The Benefits of Going Global, and Taking Your Business Online.  In this post, we will be focusing ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/08/building-a-global-audience-part-i?nucrss=1 It was just over one year ago that Dell launched the Digital Nomads community. It's been a great year and our community of nomads has grown tremendously. Our roster of bloggers has grown to several dozen, all individuals like you that have interesting observations and tips for living a digitally ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/08/one-year-of-digital-nomads?nucrss=1 Your head may be swimming with ideas of The Benefits of Going Global...but just how do you do it, and how can you get started, NOW?? I'm a dive-in-head-first kind of a gal, so I took to the road and then figured everything out.  The benefit to you is that I ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/08/taking-your-business-online?nucrss=1 There is always a lot of hype around the ability to 'Go Global' and creating a business where you can work from anywhere.  Of course there is!  Many people consider this the pinnacle of success and personal freedom.  It could be seen as the best opportunity in the world, the ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/08/the-benefits-of-going-global?nucrss=1 In a Web 2.0 world, should identity be part of the Obama administration’s “new New Deal” for the United States of America? I think it should.Infrastructure is a favored investment when federal spending is needed to prime the economic pump. In the ‘30s under the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.), we ... http://www.digitalnomads.com/2009/08/license-plates-for-the-internet-digital-security-for-personal-identity?nucrss=1