Where Do You Work? I Work Everywhere.

It used to be a common and simple question to ask “where do you work?” — but not anymore.

These days “where” you work really has little significance to “what” you do. Increasingly, each of us faces no boundaries, whether they are geographic, physical or time-related. It’s life in the connected era and, quite frankly, it’s a lot more fun.

Today’s laptop is often our place of business and the location might be the local Starbucks or Peet’s coffee shop, your work space at the office or even your family room at home or hotel (“Processing” your hotel room and travel gadgets). Our mobile devices define how efficiently we can work. Bandwidth trumps office space. Conference rooms aren’t where we get most of our work done. For me, I often can’t get anything done in the office because of distractions — I’m far more efficient getting away from the office and wireless access allows me to do that.

We’re all becoming digital nomads. And nomads want to know how to use their technology in the most productive way every day. So, we decided to create a site dedicated to Digital Nomads — a community where you can network with others, learn and share ideas, and hear from some of the best who are doing exactly what you do.

When we set out to create this site, we came across lots of different experts that were offering different perspectives on the nomadic life. Earlier this month, Steve Rubel discussed digital nomads in a post on the recession. Many of you probably already know Luis Suarez, a remote knowledge worker with IBM who increasingly uses social networks in lieu of e-mail and blogs from The Canary Islands. Last November, Chris Brogan wrote a blog post on planning for a digital nomadic life with tips of what one needed to do in advance of “going nomad”. And then, there are all sorts of media outlets and books that have been written on the topic including Web Worker Daily, 43 Folders and many others. Our intent was not to duplicate the great work being done there but to provide one place where all of that information was aggregated so you can find the latest and coolest insights.

There are many types of nomads, ranging from the café nomad to the jet-set nomad and we all share one goal — our desire to be connected when we want to have conversations or do work. The Rise of the Digital Nomad

We want to be connected, both to the world and to individuals. We want our devices connected everywhere we go. We’re no longer huddled in a conference room or tethered to our Ethernet connection under our desk at home.

A long time ago, we were hunters and gatherers. Today, we actually do the same thing, but instead we are hunting for information and data, and gathering knowledge. We seek relationships, extended families, connect with friends we lost touch with, meet people in nations and cultures all over the world and decide which communities are right for us. It is this phenomenon that makes social networking so explosive and cool. We tweet on Twitter, we share our digital journey on Plurk. We are on Facebook, Orkut, Hi5, Bebo and LinkedIn, to name just a few. We're on Instagram (here's a complete guide to using Instagram direct messages).

So here we go. We’ve designed this site for you. It’s your community. We’ve established a Digital Nomads group on Facebook where you can learn of upcoming ‘nomadic’ events. For those of you looking to network, you’ll want to join the Digital Nomads group on LinkedIn. Occasionally, we’ll throw out nomadic questions to the community there. You’ll also see here what we think is a first-ever in the industry: a crowd-sourced whitepaper on issues related to digital nomads. I encourage you to register on this site and add your thoughts to that whitepaper and see what your peers and colleagues have to say.

For our customers, you’ll see along the right-hand side links to Digital Nomad categories we have created on Dell Community Forums and Dell’s IdeaStorm. You’ll also see on this site, a link to our Digital Nomads del.icio.us account where you can share best practice resources for others. If you’ve got digital photographs, we encourage you to upload those to our photo gallery. Right now, you’ll see photos of our new Latitude products to get us started.

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Tell us what you want to discuss. Offer your own blog posts. Add your insights to the community. And tell us what is missing so we can make this the site that is most helpful to Digital Nomads. I can tell you that we won’t huddle in a conference room to decide what to do next. We’ll simply listen to you wherever we are at that moment and make the calls on what we can do together.

So, You Want to Become a Nomad, eh? Let the conversations begin.