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Why Social Media Doesn’t Work
Your boss has asked you. Your parents have asked you. You maybe have even asked yourself: Why the hell are we doing this digital stuff? While it’s easy to cite digital marketing efforts as the “future”...
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[whitepaper] Auditing Your Digital Presence
January is the month of resolutions. This year, instead of vowing to do more, what if you promised to do less? To work not hard, but smart? Auditing Your Digital Presence Whitepaper That’s what today’s...
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4 Ways Facebook Graph Search Will Change Your Life (and marketing)
Launch of Graph Search Recently Facebook announced a major change to their platform that will affect all billion people using Facebook: Facebook Graph Search. Facebook Graph Search is a new way to...
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The one marketing technique 97.4% of people do wrong
The most powerful and far-reaching marketing technique in your toolkit is the one thing 97.4% of marketers do wrong. Email. YES! Good, old boring email which has long been one of the easiest ways to...
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[whitepaper] 4 Ways Marketers Can Use Facebook Graph Search
It’s happening. Facebook is changing again. It’s true. As society groans at a new interface change, this Facebook change is truly the greatest shake-up since the creation of business pages. As...
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[Whitepaper] What a Machete Attack Can Teach You About Storytelling
I learned the power of storytelling with a machete against my kidney. In the summer of 2006 I was conducting fieldwork in Nicaragua for my master’s degree in Peace and Conflict Transformation....
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Reasons my Son’s Parents Ought to Think Twice
The exploding popularity of the blog “Reasons my Son is Crying” has forced us to ask: What are the rights of children on the Internet? Should their parents be able to use their image online? As you...
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12 Apps and 4 Tech Trends Changing Healthcare
15 years ago, if I would have told you that you would hold the entirety of human knowledge in your hand, accessible anywhere at any time, you wouldn’t believe me. If I would have told you the number of...
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10 Ways to Win Big Omaha (or your next conference)
As a business owner and entrepreneur I always love going to conferences. I meet new people, I learn about new technology, and go home feeling inspired. But then what? After the glow of an event, it’s...
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[Whitepaper] Guide to Pinterest and Best Pinterest Strategies
Just a few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the largest conference I’ve seen outside of South by Southwest: The National Stationery Show. It literally took me 20 minutes to walk from the...
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Our Birthday Gift: 9 Clouds Academy
9 Clouds is Four Years Old! Four year ago, my brother John and I asked a crazy question: Can we help businesses thrive in South Dakota and other rural areas by teaching them how to use digital...
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Building Rural Communities with Micro-Awesomeness (Episode 1)
Welcome to Digital Homesteading Today we’re excited to share a big announcement: Digital Homesteading (the podcast) is now available! That’s right. In addition to sharing posts here on our blog that...
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Email Deliverability – Do Gmail Tabs Help or Hurt?
Importance of Email As long time readers will know, we preach the importance of email. Email attracts more purchases, donations, reads and comments than any social media platform. People still feel the...
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Enabling Ideapreneurs with Carla White
Carla White originally thought she would write a quick ebook over the weekend. Months later she published her first ebook: Ideas to Apps. Years later the publishing houses took notice and asked her to...
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Chris Guillebeau’s Micro-Business Revolution
Meet Chris Guillebeau Chris Guillebeau has inspired travelers and entrepreneurs by pursuing and fulfilling his mission of visiting every country in the world. During his journeys he built a business...
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Saying Yes to Fear and the Perpetual Vacation with Marcella Chamorro
Yes to Fear We often think of fear as an indication to be wary. To take care. What if we thought of fear a whole new way and actually said yes to whatever scares us? Meet Marcella Chamorro That’s what...
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How to Revive A Rural Community
How do you revive a community? In today’s episode, we look at how one community of 8000 that lost its main manufacturing employer decided not to quietly fade away. Instead of a brain drain, they have...
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Using Focus to Own an Industry with John Meyer
How can a rural business work with large clients around the world? In a word: focus. My brother and brofounder John Meyer joins us today to talk about focusing on your “superpower”, the one thing you...
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How to Create Good Ideas
A multitude of voices improves ideas and creates honest and actionable feedback. Build your ideas at the Innovation Expo September 17th. Power in Numbers in Nairobi This week I had the opportunity to...
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Developing Local Solutions to Solve Global Problems with Erik Hersman
Solve Local Problems Erik Hersman, also know as White African after his tech blog and twitter handle of the same name, creates local solutions based on existing technology. His organization Ushahidi...
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