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3 Reasons to Choose Your Community
This week I had the opportunity to speak at TEDxFargo. It was the best talk I’ve ever given, focused on three reasons to choose your community. The video will eventually be available (and we’ll share...
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Welcome! Start here.
New to 9 Clouds? Just starting with digital technology, marketing a business or growing a community? Welcome! You’ve come to the right place. At 9 Clouds we provide our fellow “digital homesteaders”...
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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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Creating a Leading Community
Choose to be a Leading Community A community is home to people of all walks of life. Because of this, community developing usually focuses on providing a little bit of something for everyone. The risk...
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9 Ways to Cure Email Addiction – A Not-To-Do List
Most of us freely admit that we are addicted to email or Facebook or Twitter or [insert digital tool here]. In truth, we’re not addicted to the tool but the biological feeling it gives us. Email is a...
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Everything I Need to Know About Marketing I Learned from the Lutheran Church
Growing up in the Midwest is growing up in line for potluck. As many a Garrison Keilor Lake Wobegon episodes note, pitching in by cooking a casserole is an essential part of community. Recently I had a...
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Civic Headhunters
Key individuals change a community. What if cities hired civic headhunters to recruit interesting change-makers? The Power of an Individual in a Company Large organizations and companies in technical...
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5 Ways to Avoid Task Switching
Multitasking is a myth of the digital age. We are inundated with notifications, screens and messages, so we like to think we are better than generations past at multitasking. The truth is, when we...
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Lessons from Iceland: Take Moonshots
The past few days I’ve explored the land of fire and ice: Iceland. This tiny country of 320,00 inhabitants is extreme in every sense of the word. Huge (and active) volcanoes, waterfalls, hot springs,...
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Inbound Civic Development
This week is the Inbound marketing conference. In the marketing world, inbound marketing is attracting customers to your business instead of interrupting them with ads or other outbound marketing...
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Choose Your Enemy
Choosing an enemy of your business or community helps unify your efforts into a movement and quickly attract supporters and repels detractors. Who is your enemy? Creating Code and Enemies At this...
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The Reward of Giving
I received a humbling honor this week, reminding me of the importance of recognition. Recognition not only feels good for the recipient, it motivates and unifies the team around you. Take time to...
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3 Reasons to Choose Your Community
This week I had the opportunity to speak at TEDxFargo. It was the best talk I’ve ever given, focused on three reasons to choose your community. The video will eventually be available (and we’ll share...
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Welcome! Start here.
New to 9 Clouds? Just starting with digital technology, marketing a business or growing a community? Welcome! You’ve come to the right place. At 9 Clouds we provide our fellow “digital homesteaders”...
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Creating a Leading Community
Choose to be a Leading Community A community is home to people of all walks of life. Because of this, community developing usually focuses on providing a little bit of something for everyone. The risk...
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9 Ways to Cure Email Addiction – A Not-To-Do List
Most of us freely admit that we are addicted to email or Facebook or Twitter or [insert digital tool here]. In truth, we’re not addicted to the tool but the biological feeling it gives us. Email is a...
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Everything I Need to Know About Marketing I Learned from the Lutheran Church
Growing up in the Midwest is growing up in line for potluck. As many a Garrison Keilor Lake Wobegon episodes note, pitching in by cooking a casserole is an essential part of community. Recently I had a...
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Civic Headhunters
Key individuals change a community. What if cities hired civic headhunters to recruit interesting change-makers? The Power of an Individual in a Company Large organizations and companies in technical...
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5 Ways to Avoid Task Switching
Multitasking is a myth of the digital age. We are inundated with notifications, screens and messages, so we like to think we are better than generations past at multitasking. The truth is, when we...
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