What’s New at Technomadia.com

We’re constantly tweeking our online life. Even if you visit our website at https://www.technomadia.com (as opposed to RSS or E-mail subscriptions), you may have missed some of our more recent additions. So, here’s some new stuff you might be interested in checking out:

Changes to our blog

• New Paint – We’ve finally had time to customize our awesome Thrilling Theme WordPress theme to be ours – with our own colors, tweaks and a new user icon, which we’re now also using on our primary Twitter account. It was fun to dive deep into CSS, PHP and Photoshop for an evening.
• Current Travel Status – Want to know where we currently are, what we’re up to and what our current view is?  Come visit any page of our blog and check out the sidebar about midway down.  We post via our new Travel Status Only Twitter account, our current location updated via Google Latitude and a snapshot of our current view.  You can also see our current best guestimate of our upcoming schedule via our Google Calendar.
• Featured Posts – On the right hand sidebar, we now default to displaying some of what we consider our signature blog posts. These are articles that we find get most often referenced in our conversations and linked to. You’ll find topics such as Living on NST – Nomadic Standard Time, Selecting a Home on Wheels, Temporary Neighbors – Not Guests, The Domestic Nomad and much more.  If you’re looking for inspiration, an overview of our philosophies or concrete advice on a nomadic lifestyle, this is a great list of our articles to start with.
• Answers to Common Excuses – We’re still slowly building our repository of our answers to commons excuses we hear as to why people don’t do the travel they want to do. You can quickly access the entire thread under our ‘Nomadic Lifestyle’ menu item, or under the ‘Excuses’ tab in our sidebar.
• Cost Log – We continue to update our monthly costs, which is always accessible by clicking ‘Costs‘ on the top menu of our site. We recently started keeping the costs in a Google Spreadsheet, and using their nifty embed feature to display it on the page.
• Technomadic Events – We keep a Google Caledar of potential events that would be of interest for us and other nomads to attend. We cross post this calendar under the ‘Events‘ link on our top menu.  If you’re looking for something to attend – check out this calendar.  We tend to keep geek conferences, Burning Man style regional events, RV rallys and other similar stuff there.  We’d love to crowdsource this project, so if you’re interested in collaborating contact us to be added as a contributor to the calendar.
• Tour of our Oliver Travel Trailer – We did some updates to the tour page of our little RV by adding some new previously unpublished pictures.

Other places to find us

We’ve been working on establishing ourselves on other places on the web, and now actively maintain multiple video, photo and social networks. Feel free to join us on any of the following:

Social Networking
Twitter – Social Networking: Technomadia
Twitter – Travel Status Only: TechnomadiaStat
Facebook Fan Page
Social Media
Flickr: Our Photo Album
Flickr: Our Current View Mobile Uploads
YouTube: Videos
TripFilms: Videos

In addition, Kiki has started her own Facebook Fan Page.  She’d love if you joined her there and followed her mischief hunting. She even has started to explore her artistic side.

Funding Experimentations

We’ve been pretty resolved to not be actively seeking out advertising revenue for our blog. We know we could likely monetize, and have followed a lot of Nomadic Matt’s advice in his eBook : Make Money with Your Travel Blog to increase our visibility, but we simply don’t want to flirt with getting trapped with writing for money. We want our posts to remain being about what we’re inspired to write about, and without feeling pressured to produce content just to generate revenue.  But that doesn’t mean we wouldn’t appreciate sponsorships and financial thanks from our readers.

We do have an Affiliate account with Amazon.com, and when we find products that we genuinely can recommend

We also just signed up with a new innovative crowdfunding venue, Kachingle. Basically, as a content consumer – you spend $5/month via PayPal, and then allocate which content providers you want to divide your contribution between. It’s a great way to voluntarily fund content you enjoy.

If you’re a Kachingler (it’s easy to sign up), you can Kachingle us on our sidebar – we’ll do a little dance every time 🙂  If you have a blog of your own, we encourage you to check it out as a way to monetize your content. The more Kachinglers, the better it is for all of us – and we’d love to Kachingle others in our blogosphere.

Recent Honors

We’re proud to once again be part of Lonely Planet’s Blogsherpa program for 2010. Whenever we post content about location, we get featured as part of their content.

TravelPod‘s TravelBlogSites.com come also informed us that we’re now one of the top 100 ranked Travel Blog sites on the internet. We’re honestly quite humbled by this. Check out their site for links to other great travel content!