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Tracking the Digital Nomad Trend

Small Business Labs

As you can see from the chart below, the use of the term "digital nomad" started to gain traction in the 2008-2009 time frame. The number of citations has accelerated since, with Google reporting more hits on this term this month (January 2015) than all of 2010. This is a lightweight, mobile office. And it feels great.

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IBM Cuts Telecommuting and the Paradox of Place

Small Business Labs

And by 2009, when remote work was still, for most, a novelty, 40% of IBM’s 386,000 global employees already worked at home. Yahoo rather famously did this several years ago and Google and Apple have always tried to limit telecommuting. Remote work] was a great strategy for the 90s and the 80s, but not for 2015.”

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12 documentaries and series that will give you an up-close look at climate change — and some solutions

Ideas.Ted

Currently available on Amazon, Google Play, PBS- Independent Lens , Vimeo and DVD). Thank You for the Rain is a film about Kisilu Musya, a Kenyan farmer whose efforts to deal with the local impacts of climate change ultimately lead him to the 2015 UN climate conference in Paris. Not currently available in the US).

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