Welcome to the debut edition of the first ever Digital Nomad Blog Carnival! The blog carnival works like this: writers from across the blogosphere can submit articles here for a chance to be featured. Each month, a different blog in the location independent community will host the latest carnival—the editor will review all the submissions and publish the cream of the crop in a monthly roundup post. It should be an effective way for members of the the community to get to know each other and get some well-deserved exposure.

We had quite a few submissions this month, so below are the best in each category. If you write something great this month about location independent and digital nomad life & business, please submit an article for next month’s edition which will be hosted at Get Paid to Write Online.

Tips for Location Independent Living

Jeanne D’Arc shares How To Travel The World as a Digital Nomad Family! posted at soultravelers3, saying, “We will soon be entering our 4th year as a digital nomadic family. 4 continents & 30 countries later, 86,000 miles later, we’ve learned a few things along the way. We want every family to know this is more enriching & affordable than most realize. We live large on $25K a year total.”

Steven K. Roberts shares First Steps to Technomadics posted at Nomadic Research Labs, saying, “I originally wrote this back in 1993, while inviting folks to join me on the Microship expedition. It was updated in 2004, and contains a number of timeless tips for getting decoupled from a fixed-based life and taking those first tentative steps as a nomadling.”

Lifestyle Designing

Cath Duncan shares How Location Independent Living Can Make You More Agile And Resilient posted at Mine Your Resources. “Whatever your reasons for being location independent, being location independent can help you to overcome the major obstacles to change, and help you to become more agile and resilient.”

Doing Business Abroad & Online

Thursday Bram shares 5 Warning Signs For Portable Business Ideas posted at Working Your Way Around The World. “Building your own business can be a good way to create an income that will support you while you travel. But finding the right business can be difficult.”

Robert Alan shares Can You Build A Solid Virtual Team? posted at Sell It on the Web, saying, “Tips on how to start an effective virtual team for your home office.”

LIP Careers

Sean Ogle shares Cruise Your Way To Location Independence posted at Sean Ogle, saying, “This article was written for those that are interested in going location independent, but may be too intimidated by the risk of jumping in 100%”

Technology & Gadgets for Digital Nomads

Sharon Hurley Hall shares The Portable Writer posted at Get Paid to Write Online, saying, “I no longer need to carry much with me to have an ultra portable writing business. Here are some of the items in my writing toolbox.”

Zoe Westhof shares Ingredients for Creativity On the Go posted at Essential Prose, saying, “Tips on cultivating the mindset for being creative while traveling or working abroad, and a list of tools to enable creativity on the go.”

Your Vagabonding/Travel Stories

Thursday Bram shares Interview: Nellie Huang posted at Working Your Way Around The World. “Nellie Huang, the blogger behind Wild Junket, has been all over the world — and written about most of it.”

Honorable Mentions

There were quite a few off-topic submissions unfortunately, so make sure you keep your submissions relevant to Location Independence folks! But there were several that talked about travel and business that were just too good to pass up, and I figured the LIP crowd would be interested:

• MoneyEnergy shares 10 Tips From Tim Ferriss, Guy Kawazaki and Keith Ferazzi on Lifeline Relationships and Mentoring posted at MoneyEnergy.
• Mark Sukhija shares 14 don’t miss things in Rome posted at MarksTravelNotes.com.
• Jason shares become an internet social media superstar! posted at jasonblogz.

That concludes this edition. Thanks to everyone who participated this month! Submit your blog article to the July edition of the Location Independent Blog Carnival using our carnival submission form.

photo credit: Stuck in Customs

Read the original article on Thrilling Heroics here: Digital Nomad Blog Carnival #1

I use Google Custom Search to quickly find helpful articles, tips and tricks, and to decrease the time it takes me to find answers or add references to my blog posts. Anytime I’m curious how to do something, like how to install a software application, how to improve my resume, or how to get the most out of a particular social networking site for instance, my custom-built Thrilling Blog Search Engine returns incredible results! For bloggers who like to hyperlink to external resources and articles as additional support when you write new blog posts, this can serve as a fantastic resource for you just like it has for me, so a while back I released my custom search engine as an open-source public tool for the blogosphere.

The first version of the Blog Search tool already crawled about 50 of the most authoritative, useful blogs on the web, and in the last several months I’ve added nearly 30 more sites for Round 2! See my resources page for the full listing of recommended sites—plus more—but here are the new additions I’ve added to the blog community search project, in no particular order:

28 More Awesome Blogs

• Write to Done—Unmissable articles on writing. Twice weekly.
• Skelliewag—a blog for people who build online projects; whether they’re blogs, websites, apps, videos, brands or businesses.
• Entrepreneur’s Journey—Down-To-Earth Advice For Bloggers and Internet Marketers from Yaro Starak
• Freelance Folder
• Mind/Averse—Devin Reams writes about business and technology
• Think Simple Now—Creativity, Clarity & Happiness
• Illuminated Mind—The less boring side of personal development
• Stepcase Lifehack
• Precision Change
• The Growing Life—Alternative productivity, anti-hacks for living. No longer updated but the archives have a ton of great, searchable content!
• Dumb Little Man—Tips for life.
• ReadWriteWeb
• Bargaineering—Engineering a richer life
• How’s the Wi-Fi?—Be a Digital Nomad and Work Anywhere in the World with Kareem Mayan
• Rands in Repose
• Sid Savara—Personal Development, Maximizing Productivity and Life Hacking
• Location Independent Living—Live and Work Anywhere You Choose
• Business Backpacker—A community for Location-Independent Entreprenuers
• Jun’s Startup Life—Become a Young Successful Entrepreneur and Live the Startup Life
• The Blog Herald
• Andy Drish—Marketing, millennials & technology
• Mixergy—Events and Interviews for Web Visionaries with Andrew Warner
• Quicksprout by Neil Patel
• WPCandy
• NetTuts
• Prevential—teaching you how to craft messages that work!

Thanks to all these authors for their continued, valuable content! Keep up the good work.

Try out the search engine. Seriously! It provides really useful results for all sorts of subjects from personal development to social media to finance. Link directly to the search engine page here and try a search for “resume,” “savings account,” or “LinkedIn” for example, or use the form below:

The Thrilling Blog Search Tool

• Add this custom search engine to your website
• Add a search widget to your Google Homepage

Get in touch if you’ve got a suggested site that will benefit other bloggers and readers, and please blog about the Thrilling Blog Search Tool to help spread the word!

Read the original article on Thrilling Heroics here: Round-Two Additions to the Thrilling Blog Search Engine