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[podcast] Developing With What You Have with Pamela Slim
Communities often have exactly what they need to develop but just need a connection or a push. In this episode of Digital Homestead (the podcast), Pamela Slim explores community development, working...
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[podcast] Changing the Arc of a Small Town with Becky McCray
Becky McCray oozes small town. She runs a small cattle ranch, the local liquor store, writes about Small Biz Survival and even helps with rural tourism. Obviously when it was time to learn what makes...
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The Mic is Flipped: Scott on VoiceAmerica
For the first time, the mic is flipped! I had the pleasure of speaking with Angela Sharpe, the host of A Sharpe Outlook on the VoiceAmerica. In our interview Angela asked all the right questions and...
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How to Get a Job in the Digital Age
Finding a job, interviewing and mastering the follow up requires special skills in the digital age. In this brofounder edition of Digital Homesteading, my brother John (of the responsive infographic...
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[podcast] How to Travel the World on Motorcycle
Travel creates knowledge according to our guest today, Manuel Marabese. Manuel changed his career path from philosophy to motorcycle guiding for tourists in his pursuit of knowledge. In today’s episode...
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5 Ways to Use Pinterest Place Pins for Business
Pinterest is a beloved visual bookmarking site that is an amazing way to generate traffic to your website. This week, Pinterest announced a new feature that opens up the door for marketing...
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Feeding Your Ecosystem like Whale Poop
This essay was originally shared with subscribers to the 9 Clouds newsletter. Sign up to receive an essay every Saturday about building your business and community. The world survives on whale poop....
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[Book] Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide
[Here's the short version. We published a book called Navigating Social Media: A Field Guide. It's our best work and you should download it for free as a PDF or buy it as a Kindle, paperback or...
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Be Mandela, the Troublemaker
This week the world lost its moral compass and chief troublemaker, Nelson Mandela. Through struggle, patience and perseverence, Mandela left a breathtaking body of work. He helped unite a factious...
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Choose Your Word for 2014
What is your word for 2014? As the last page of the calendar hangs on the wall, it is nearly time for a new beginning in 2014. The end of the year is one of my favorite times at work because there is a...
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Set Business Goals for 2014 – Annual Review (2 of 3)
What will 2014 be like for your business? 2014 is the year of LEGACY for me. Every year I conduct an annual review and look ahead to the upcoming year for both the business and my personal life. You...
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Live a Well-Rounded Life in 2014 – Annual Review (3 of 3)
Set your 2014 personal goals in today’s post. This is the final of three posts on conducting an annual review. Learn how to get started in our initial post and how to set business goals in our second...
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5 Digital Marketing Trends in 2014
I Want a Big Check Do you remember seeing Ed McMahon showing up at a door with balloons and a huge check? The prize patrol for Publishing Clearinghouse was seared in my memory as a child of the 80′s. I...
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How to Keep Employees – Joy’s Law
This week I was asked to give a talk on how to keep employees, especially the so-called “Millenials” generation (people who turned 18 in 2000 or later). This request forced me to reflect on what makes...
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Lead a Cause – Lessons from Hiroo Onoda
Lead a cause and lift others on your shoulders. We want to stand for something in our work and lives, but how do you lead a cause? How do you know if you are championing the right cause? Inevitably...
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5 Ways to Create Rituals From Habits
Mindfully transform habits into rituals like great creators before you. All of us have habits in our daily routine. Maybe its checking our email before starting work or making coffee before talking to...
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Falling in a Black Hole – Here’s What Happens
Testing Spaghettification To improve your work, projects and ideas you need to share them. In the world of physics, this is happening today as physicists debate spaghettification (what happens to you...
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5 Ways to Grow Globally by Thinking Locally
To build globally, you need to think locally. You can live anywhere and work everywhere thanks to the technology that connects us to information, resources, collaborators and customers around the...
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Context Collapse Under the Midnight Sun
Embrace the Collapse of Context Merging your personal and professional lives with your passion unifies your life around a cause. With a singular focus, everything you do professionally and personally...
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Relationships in the Digital Age
How do you make a real relationship in the digital age? Whether you’re marketing, trying to grow a community or just meet someone, it is difficult to distinguish between a social connection and a...
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