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Crowdsourcing the Search for Malaysia Flight 370
It’s been a strange and potentially tragic week as Malaysia Air flight 370 disappeared seemingly without a trace on March 8th. Since then, numerous efforts have tried to locate the plane. The navies of...
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Don’t Wait for a Flood – Embrace the Networked Age
A New Age In our daily lives we pay little attention to where we fit in the broad strokes of history. A painter in Florence in the 14th century didn’t think they were starting the Renaissance Age. They...
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Here is the Best Community on Earth
As Marc Winn sees it, you have three choices: Choose a community you want to live in Make your own community Transform your community to the community you want to live in Winn chose the latter,...
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Life After Tampons
Our better self lies within us. Hemingway had to pick up a pen. Prefontaine had to take a run. Costeau had to learn to SCUBA. We can mold ourselves, our business and our community through repetition,...
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3 Ways to Build an Audience with Time
Unlike money, time has absolute value. Use yours to build your tribe. Simon Sinek argues in his recent book, Leaders Eat Last, that money has a redeemable value. You spend it, waste it and you make...
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How to Save a Community
You can react to culture or act to create culture. Standing at the foot of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, you can’t help but look in awe at the vision and dedication of generations in building...
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Why the FCC Hates South Dakota
From Destination to Brain Drain When my great-great grandparents homesteaded in South Dakota, it was a land of opportunity for them. Every family had their piece of land, a shovel and usually a large...
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What Makes a Community Great
Digital Homesteading – Season 2 We’re back! After a few month hiatus, we’re excited to start Season 2 of the Digital Homesteading Podcast. This season we’ll not only be streaming on iTunes and your...
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6 Lessons from Marketing the Moon
In 1961 President Kennedy proclaimed an audacious goal; the United States will put a man on the moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Stating the goal wasn’t enough. First, NASA had to sell the...
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Net Neutrality and Rural Communities
A few weeks ago we wrote about the importance of having an equal playing field for rural communities. The thrust of the argument is that for the first time we have the opportunity to build businesses...
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Overcoming a Fear of Death
Fear of dying is not a fear of death but fear of a life not lived. Shockingly 2 out of 3 people reading this are afraid of death according to the National Institute of Mental Health. In fact, people...
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Two Marketing Lessons from Pirates
An Iconic World We live in a world flooded with iconography. Everywhere you look there are logos attempting to convey a meaning or help you remember a message. Despite all the examples in our modern...
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Three Reasons Great Ideas are Stopped
There are three reasons good ideas are stopped: direct opposition, cultural opposition and structural opposition. Direct opposition is when someone tells you that you can’t do it or actively works to...
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Fill a Room, Not a List
Building a list has long been a focus for businesses. Whether the Sears Roebuck catalogue, Publisher’s Clearing House, United Way or the local Chamber of Commerce, the idea has always been: the more...
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How to Start
Sir Isaac Newton teaches that an object in motion stays in motion. An object at rest stays at rest. To bring our ideas to life the most important step is to start and create motion. How do we begin and...
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The Creative Capital of South Dakota
Success communities and businesses create audacious goals. Make a goal for your community to be a creative capital. Brookings is the Creative Capital of South Dakota Recently a small group of engaged...
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5 Lessons from 5 Years of 9 Clouds
Five years ago my brother and I sent in our papers and officially started 9 Clouds. Today our business has grown from two dudes in an empty office to a team of nearly 20 amazing employees working to...
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Imagination Differentiation [Podcast]
Unique experience provides an opportunity for one-of-a-kind creation. As businesses and communities we should focus on local problems. When looking at local problems, we have an “imagination...
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LeBron Just Saved Your City
Place matters The environment where we grow up influences our ideas, imagination and relationships. Our home communities are the launching pad from which we explore the world, most often leaving to...
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How to Launch – 2 Tools and 4 Steps
If a Tree Falls in a Forest… Making the decision to create a product, start a business, host an event or share an idea is a heroic act. Few of us use the platforms available to actually create....
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